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Jan 3, 2003 · General Published on : 1/3/2003. Hall of Fame coach Sid Gillman passed away early Friday morning at his home in California. Gillman, who recently had been in poor health, was 91. "We at the Pro Football Hall of Fame were saddened by the news of the passing of our friend and Hall of Fame member Sid Gillman," commented Executive Director John ...
Head coach Sid Gillman of the San Diego Chargers watches his team in a 20-7 loss to the Buffalo Bills in the 1964 AFL Championship Game on December 26, 1964 at War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo, New ...
Jul 3, 2003 · Sid Gillman. b. October 26, 1911 - d. July 3, 2003. Sid Gillman is considered by many to be the “Father of the Modern Passing Game.”. His principles and ideas were ahead of their time and are still widely used from the high school level to the NFL. Before Gillman became a coaching legend, like most others, he was an assistant coach.
Jan 4, 2003 · Sid Gillman, the innovative football coach who created the modern passing game and was one of the original proponents of the Super Bowl, died Friday. He was 91. Gillman, whose principles of ...
Feb 3, 2011 · At the end of a disappointing 1959 season, the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams—general-managed by a young comer named Pete Rozelle—fired Coach Sid Gillman, making him the logical choice, in 1960, to ...
Oct 26, 2019 · Sidney Gillman was an American football player, coach and executive. Gillman's insistence on stretching the football field by throwing deep downfield passes, instead of short passes to running backs or wide receivers at the sides of the line of scrimmage, was instrumental in making football into the modern game that it is today. He was inducted as a coach into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in ...
Jan 4, 2003 · He was 91. ''Sid Gillman was the father of modern-day passing,'' said Al Davis, the prominent pro football figure who served as Gillman's first offensive coach with the Chargers of the American ...
