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| | Current Biography Excerpts: Football |
 | | Probably the only coach in college football who has traded quips with Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, Holtz is equally popular on the corporate lecture circuit, where he spices his high-priced speeches on motivational techniques with his trademark jokes and whimsical banter. |
 | | Many football fans were shocked when, in one of his first moves as the team's owner, he abruptly ousted Tom Landry, the only coach in Cowboy history, in favor of Jimmy Johnson, a brash college coach who had been Jones's teammate at the University of Arkansas in the early 1960s. |
 | | The football coaching record for most games won, professional as well as collegiate, is held by Eddie Robinson of Grambling State University, with more than 340, or better than 70 percent of his career schedule. |
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