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  ESPN - Former 49ers head coach Bill Walsh dies - NFL
Walsh did a stint at Stanford before beginning his pro coaching career as an assistant with the AFL's Oakland Raiders in 1966, forging a friendship with Al Davis that endured through decades of rivalry.
Walsh joined the Cincinnati Bengals in 1968 to work for legendary coach Paul Brown, who gradually gave complete control of the Bengals' offense to his assistant.
Walsh also is widely credited with inventing or popularizing many of the modern basics of coaching, from the laminated sheets of plays held by coaches on almost every sideline, to the practice of scripting the first 15 offensive plays of a game.
sports.espn.go.com /nfl/news/story?id=2954719   (1707 words)

  
 Coach Bill Walsh
Bill Walsh, the Hall of Fame football coach and visionary who guided the San Francisco 49ers to three Super Bowl titles and impacted hundreds of student-athletes during his tenure as head coach at Stanford, has died of leukemia at his Woodside home with his family by his side.
Walsh apologized publicly and privately to UW officials, but the next time the Cardinal football team flew to Seattle for a game, the media was there to greet Walsh.
Walsh is survived by his wife Geri, of Woodside, son Craig, of Redwood City, daughter Elizabeth, of San Francisco, sister Maureen of Mission Viejo, CA and two grandchildren, Samantha and Nathan.
www.coachwalsh.com   (2101 words)

  
  Speakers Platform Speakers Bureau: Bill Walsh, Keynote Speaker On: Athletics / Sports, Motivation, Leadership, Team ...
Bill Walsh, the man who took over a losing San Francisco 49ers team in 1979 and built it into the most successful NFL franchise over the last two decades, provides his knowledge, experience and eye for talent to the 49ers as a Consultant.
Bill Walsh became one of only 14 coaches in the history of professional football to be elected to the Hall of Fame, when he was enshrined in 1993.
Bill Walsh's first collegiate head coaching job came at Stanford in 1977, where he directed the Cardinal to a 17-7 record and captured wins in the Bluebonnet and Sun Bowls during his two-year tenure.
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 Bill Walsh's 'genius' changed face of football - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Walsh didn't want it to be publicized that in 1967 he had left the Oakland Raiders coaching staff to be head coach and general manager of a struggling, irrelevant semipro franchise, the San Jose Apaches.
Walsh was named NFL coach of the year in 1981 and 1984.
Walsh was diagnosed with leukemia in 2004 and had months of treatment and blood transfusions.
www.usatoday.com /sports/football/nfl/2007-07-30-bill-walsh-obit_N.htm?csp=34   (1968 words)

  
  Stanford News: Staff News
Bill Walsh was remembered for his ingenuity and vision, as well as his sense of humor, during a service for him August 9 at Memorial Church.
Bill Walsh, Hall of Fame football coach, is dead at 75
Bill Walsh, who guided the San Francisco 49ers to three Super Bowl titles and inspired hundreds of student-athletes during his tenure as head football coach at Stanford, died of leukemia on July 30 at his Woodside home with his family by his side.
news-service.stanford.edu /news/staff   (719 words)

  
  49ers Paradise Bill Walsh Biography
Walsh's impact on the 49ers and the NFL is unparalleled.
Bill Walsh could be the single most influential person to the game, and he will forever be remembered as the father to the 49ers.
Walsh the mastermind of the 49ers offensive schemes knew exactly what skills each position required to be a success and used the draft to get the players he wanted.
www.49ersparadise.com /biographies/walsh.shtml   (1567 words)

  
 Bill Walsh - ArmchairGM - Sports Wiki, Sports Blog, Sports Resource, Sports Community, Sports 2.0
Bill Walsh (born November 30, 1931) is a former American football head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and Stanford University.
Walsh would also return to the 49ers, serving as Vice President and General Manager from 1999 to 2001 and was a special consultant to the team for three years afterwards.
Bill Walsh is also the author of several books, is active as a motivational speaker, and taught classes at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
www.armchairgm.com /index.php?title=Bill_Walsh   (887 words)

  
  Famed coach Bill Walsh battling leukemia - Boston.com
Bill Walsh, the Hall of Fame coach who built an NFL dynasty with the San Francisco 49ers and revolutionized the sport with his West Coast offense, disclosed Friday that he has leukemia.
Walsh said the cancer first was diagnosed in 2004, but he feels better since a series of blood transfusions in the past month.
Walsh was 47 when he first became an NFL head coach, and he spent just 10 seasons on the sideline.
www.boston.com /sports/football/articles/2006/11/11/famed_coach_bill_walsh_battling_leukemia   (630 words)

  
 Seahawks | Bill Walsh, 1931-2007 | Coach was called "The Genius" | Seattle Times Newspaper
Bill Walsh, known in football circles as "The Genius" for coaching the San Francisco 49ers to three NFL championships and designing the "West Coast offense" that has attracted countless devotees in the college and pro ranks, died at his Woodside, Calif., home Monday morning.
Walsh had been in failing health for several months, according to officials at Stanford, where he coached for five seasons (1977 to 1978 and 1992 through 1994) and served as special assistant to the athletic director from early 2004 until his death.
Walsh's tenure with the 49ers, said, "This is just a tremendous loss for all of us, especially to the [San Francisco] Bay Area because of what he meant to the 49ers.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/seahawks/2003813728_walsh31.html   (930 words)

  
 Leukemia grips former coach Bill Walsh - The Money Times   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Walsh disclosed Friday that he has leukemia and has experienced symptoms from the illness for two years.
Walsh had gone through a series of blood transfusions in the past month and he admitted that he felt better after that.
Walsh was 47 when he first became an NFL head coach, and he spent just 10 seasons on the sideline.
www.themoneytimes.com /articles/20061111/leukemia_grips_former_coach_bill_walsh-id-102103.html   (0 words)

  
 Member - Pro Football Hall of Fame
Bill Walsh got his first job as a head coach in the pros at the age of 47 in 1979 when the San Francisco 49ers named him head coach and general manager.
But Walsh was up to the challenge and in just three years provided the 49ers with their first-ever National Football League championship with a 26-21 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl XVI.
Walsh was named the NFL Coach of the Year in 1981 and and NFC Coach of the Year in 1984.
www.profootballhof.com /hof/member.jsp?player_id=224   (411 words)

  
 Former 49er head coach Bill Walsh dies
Walsh, who had led Stanford to two bowl victories in two seasons as head coach, took a 49ers team that had finished 2-14 in 1978 and built a Super Bowl champion in three years.
Walsh showed his zany side two weeks later in Pontiac, Mich. Arriving before the team, he borrowed a bellman's uniform at the hotel and collected the players' bags at the curb, even holding out his hand for tips.
Walsh and his players were stunned by the reception they received when they returned to San Francisco.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/30/BAG57LR8OK21.DTL   (3673 words)

  
 ESPN - Kreidler: Walsh a treasure in Bay Area - ESPN
That was Walsh in and around San Francisco, and he created almost all of that aura in one compact decade of NFL coaching.
It was that relationship, with the brash young owner hiring the utterly self-confident coach -- a hiring settled over a bottle of wine at a landmark San Francisco hotel -- that altered the fortunes of a franchise for nearly a quarter century.
By then, though, Walsh had cobbled together the basic components of what became known as the West Coast offense (interesting, since Walsh first began toying with it while an assistant with the Cincinnati Bengals in the late '60s).
sports.espn.go.com /espn/columns/story?columnist=kreidler_mark&id=2954718   (1211 words)

  
 Sports Publishing LLC - Sports books, biographies, autographs, and more...
Bill Parcells recalled "One of the guys who made the NFL what it is".
When the legendary former San Francisco 49ers coach passed away on July 30, 2007, at age 75, he was fondly remembered across the nation as one of the great innovators of the game of football.
A Pro Football Hall of Famer and a two-time NFL Coach of the Year, Walsh led the 49ers to 102 wins and three Super Bowl titles in 10 seasons as head coach in the 1980's.
www.sportspublishingllc.com   (451 words)

  
 Bill Walsh on LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
Bill Walsh is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
Disambiguation notice: Bill Walsh is actually two authors, Bill Walsh (language) the author of Lapsing Into a Comma and Elephants of Style, and Bill Walsh (football) the author of everything else here.
Bill Walsh (language) is a LibraryThing author, but the other Bill Walsh (football) is not.
www.librarything.com /author/walshbill   (0 words)

  
 Reaction to the death of Bill Walsh - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
• Bill was blessed with one of the greatest gifts you can have, which is the ability to see the future potential of another human being.
• "Bill Walsh was one of the greatest coaches in the history of this game.
• "Bill was an innovator, a motivator and ultimately one of the most dynamic coaches in NFL history.
www.usatoday.com /sports/football/nfl/2007-07-30-walsh-reaction_N.htm?csp=34   (0 words)

  
 The 49er-Haters Society (NHS)
Walsh honored by fl coaches alliance: It was a joke when Terrell Owens compared himself to Rosa Parks, but the ridiculous amount of praise Bill Walsh is getting in the arena of racial progress in the NFL might be eclipsing even that insanity.
Now Walsh has received an award from the Fritz Pollard Alliance -- so it's high time that the truth of what exactly Walsh and the 49ers have done (or haven't done) to promote racial diversity needs to be examined, sans the media's usual bias.
Donahue fired for Walsh's incompetence: Most of the current sorry state of the 49ers can be traced directly to Bill Walsh, most notably his failure to groom his hand-picked successor, Terry Donahue.
www.49erhaters.com   (2546 words)

  
 FOXNews.com - Hall of Fame Football Coach Bill Walsh Battling Leukemia - Local News | News Articles | National News | ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Hall of Fame football coach Bill Walsh, who built an NFL dynasty with the San Francisco 49ers and revolutionized the sport with his West Coast offense, disclosed Friday that he has leukemia.
Walsh said the cancer first was diagnosed in 2004, but he feels better since a series of blood transfusions in the past month.
Walsh also coached Stanford during two terms over five seasons, and was the school's interim athletic director until Bob Bowlsby was hired in April.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,228757,00.html   (0 words)

  
 FOX Sports on MSN - Sports News, Standings, Stats and more
Bill Walsh won three Super Bowls with the 49ers, but our NFL Czar says he should be most remembered as an innovator.
Bill Walsh groomed legends like Young and Rice, not to mention Super Bowl-winning coaches.
Bill Walsh won three Super Bowls with the 49ers and coached several Hall of Fame players, but he should be most remembered as an innovator.
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 Marketing and Public Relations - M&O
Bill Walsh General Motors dealerships are multi-year winners of the prestigious GM Mark of Excellence awards.
The Bill Walsh Team (www.billwalsh.com) has also held the top rank in customer satisfaction, in GM service departments, every month since 2001.
Located in Ottawa, Illinois, one of the fastest growing areas of the state at the intersection of I-39 and I-80, the Bill Walsh Automotive Group is located an hour and a half southwest of the Chicago-land area.
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 Bill Walsh battling leukemia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Walsh said the cancer first was diagnosed in 2004, but he feels better since a series of blood transfusions in the past month.
Walsh was 47 when he first became an NFL head coach, and he spent just 10 seasons on the sideline.
Walsh also coached Stanford during two terms over five seasons, and was the school's interim athletic director until Bob Bowlsby was hired in April.
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 Bill Walsh Speaker - Book Motivational Celebrity Speaker Bill Walsh and Other Corporate Entertainment   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bill Walsh, the man who took over a losing San Francisco 49ers team in 1979 and built it into the most successful NFL franchise over the last two decades, provides his knowledge, experience and eye for talent to the 49ers as a Consultant.
Bill Walsh was at the helm of one of the greatest success stories in the history of professional sports.
Bill Walsh became one of only 14 coaches in the history of professional football to be elected to the Hall of Fame, when he was enshrined in 1993.
www.allamericanspeakers.com /speakerbio/Bill_Walsh.php   (1081 words)

  
 Remembering Bill Walsh
Bill prided himself on his love for the game and comforting solace that he found through his ball and putter in the midst of whistling a tune..The game will miss his class and sportsmanship on the course.
Walsh is in right now....you can rest assured that he has a putter and ball nearby....whistling a familiar tune.
Bill's positive attitude and demeanor through good rounds and bad will continue to be a shining example for all players even after his passing.
www.angelfire.com /nc2/opieville/billwalshtribute.html   (1636 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Bill Walsh: Finding the Winning Edge: Books: Bill Walsh,James A. Peterson,Brian Billick   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bill Walsh, head coach of the San Francisco 49ers during the great Montana years, provides an inside look at his tenure with a team that will be remembered as one of the era's most dominating professional sports organizations.
Walsh took over a team in trouble and transformed it into a force to be reckoned with.
In his book, Bill Walsh goes through football from A to Z. Everything, and I mean everything that you would ever want to know about football, from offensive and defensive philosophy to the role of the "head of football relations" to what to tell a team after a disappointing season is covered.
www.amazon.ca /Bill-Walsh-Finding-Winning-Edge/dp/1571671722   (892 words)

  
 Roth Talent Associates: Bill Walsh
Bill Walsh is clearly one of the greatest coaches in NFL history.
After a stellar NFL career, Coach Walsh was rewarded by becoming one of only 14 coaches in the history of professional football to be elected to the NFL Hall of Fame.
Walsh’s impact on the coaching industry is apparent by the rise of former assistants, players and people who have come under his influence.
www.rothtalent.com /speakers/slist/walsh   (394 words)

  
 Putt-Putt Regretfully Relays the Death of Bill Walsh, PPA Pro
Bill, 77, was a participant in the Professional Putters Association since 1974, playing as both an Amateur and Regional Pro throughout the years.
Bill is survived by his wife Mary Walsh and his daughter Ginger Long, and grandchild Elisah Long of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Bill was the recipient of the 1998 Sportsmanship Award in the North Carolina State Tournament Program.
www.proputters.com /history/obituaries/bill_walsh.htm   (303 words)

  
 Bill Walsh   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Without a doubt, Bill Walsh is clearly one of the greatest coaches in NFL history.
Walsh earned his third Super Bowl title in his last season as head coach, by defeating the Cincinnati Bengals in the 1989 Super Bowl.
Coach Walsh has also served as a broadcaster for NFL telecasts on NBC, as a consultant to the NFL and as a corporate speaker.
www.lecturenow.com /People/BillWalsh.htm   (268 words)

  
 The Ireland Funds : News : People - Bill Walsh
Bill is currently co-chair of the Dean’s Academy Board of Harvard Law School, a member of the Board of Trustees of Fordham University and Chairman of the Board of the Neurosurgical Research Institute and on the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution.
Bill Walsh: Since we possess a surplus of this world’s goods, philanthropy provides the opportunity to become engaged in those causes that we, our children, our grandchildren and our company’s executives want to invest time and thought in.
Bill Walsh: Yes, the key to the success of that campaign was the quality of the voluntary leadership in the United States, and the identification, management and follow-through of worthwhile projects throughout Ireland.
www.irlfunds.org /news/people/walsh_04w.asp   (1069 words)

  
 Bill Walsh - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bill Walsh got his first job as a head coach in the pros at the age of 47 in 1979 when the San Francisco 49ers named him head coach and general manager.
Bill Walsh (football coach), a former American football head coach...
Bill Walsh is also the author of several books, is active as a motivational speaker...
movies.aol.com /celebrity/bill-walsh/115872/main   (155 words)

  
 Dan Patrick:Bill Walsh is the Draft Man
Walsh canvassed the league and discovered that nobody was really interested in Montana.
But the Bill Walsh draft to talk about, remember and study is 1986.
Walsh will miss the excitement of draft day, of hunkering down and whipping up a surprising deal that gives him some extra picks.
espn.go.com /talent/danpatrick/s/2001/0420/1176277.html   (521 words)

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