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 Head
coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers
for 23 seasons from 1969 until 1991.
The Noll-led Steelers developed from
a miserable 1-13 season in Noll's
first campaign to the highest level
ever attained by an National
Football League team to date...
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He won four Super
Bowl championships in a six-year
period starting with a 16-6 win over
Minnesota in Super Bowl IX and
culminating with a 31-19 win over
the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl
XIV. Pittsburgh also defeated Dallas
twice in classic struggles, 21-17 in
Super Bowl X and 35-31 in Super Bowl
XIII. Noll took over a Pittsburgh
team that had never won a
championship of any kind in almost
40 years of National Football League
play.
Through shrewd drafts
and strong guidance, Noll helped
team owner Art Rooney and the
Steelers shed their “lovable losers”
image. He quickly established a
building program with an emphasis on
the annual college draft to realize
the ultimate goal of an NFL
championship.
The rebuilding
program bore fruit much more quickly
than could have been expected. His
fourth team in 1972 finished with an
11-3-0 record and the AFC Central
Division title. The Steelers lost
the 1972 AFC championship to the
undefeated Miami Dolphins 21-17.
Altogether, Noll's
team won nine AFC Central Division
championships and they had winning
records in 15 of his last 20 seasons
with the Steelers. He retired with
an impressive 209-156-1 record in
all games, including a 16-8-0
post-season record.
Noll, a graduate of the University
of Dayton, played seven seasons as a
messenger guard and a linebacker for
the Cleveland Browns from 1953 to
1959. He was an assistant coach with
the Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers
and the Baltimore Colts for nine
years before accepting his first and
only head-coaching job with the
Steelers in 1969.
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