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| | Father of the Packers Lambeau's team was gift to Green Bay, state, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Lambeau, a star athlete at Green Bay East High School, guided the Packers to six world championships (1929-'31, 1936, 1939 and 1944) and was one of just six NFL coaches to win 200 games (212-106-21,.656 winning percentage with Green Bay) in league history. |
 | | The charismatic and volatile Lambeau, so nicknamed because of his natural curly jet-fl hair, put up $50 of his own money to buy back the NFL franchise for $250 in 1922 after financial problems and illegal use of collegiate players forced the team to be forfeited. |
 | | Lambeau's success put Green Bay, Wis. on the map in the 1930s, and in the process he became a national celebrity, a status that he embraced in a fast-paced lifestyle that featured three marriages and divorces and hob-nobbing with Hollywood legends such as Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. |
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