Bill Walsh, the Paul Brown protege who defined coaching success in the 1980s with three Super Bowl victories, Monday termed his mentor one of football`s legends.”He was the founder, the master ...

Perhaps there is no greater coaching influence in Cincinnati, or across all of professional football, outside of Paul Brown than one of his original assistant coaches with the Bengals – Bill Walsh.

Bill Walsh planted the ultimate coaching tree By Nancy Gay July 30, 2007 2007-07-30 15:25:22 PDT -- There had been NFL coaching trees before, but there has never been one quite like the one Bill ...

Bill Walsh's legacy as a football man was always outsized, ... and the coaching tree that led back to Davis and Paul Brown, and forward to Brian Billick, Mike Holmgren and Tony Dungy.

Paul Brown decided not to offer Bill Walsh a head coaching job, and he may never have gotten one in the NFL if Eddie DeBartolo hadn't been willing to bet his career on a hunch.

[Brown] just didn’t want to lose him, and we never got the chance to interview Bill Walsh." Walsh told the Los Angeles Times in 2006 that Brown had worked against him that way for years.

Book: Bill Walsh endured difficult childhood en route to success with 49ers Pro Football Hall of Famer was disappointed by father, and later by father figure Paul Brown ...

Bill Walsh, the imaginative and ... where he was quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator under coach Paul Brown from 1968-75. Walsh borrowed on the principles of Sid Gillman, ...

Connections are everywhere now. You can see them, zagging from Bill Walsh to all around the NFL. Men hoisting Super Bowl trophies. Men spouting change. They are members of the loyal army, preaching… ...

It's the year of 1969 and the Cincinnati Bengals are heading to a 3-0 record under head coach Paul Brown and quarterbacks coach / play-caller Bill Walsh. Walsh's offense is directed by a ...