Coached DBs, IIRC. Could be wrong, but I think he replaced Evashevski as Iowa's head coach, got fired and Lombardi hired him.
RIP Jerry Burns
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Jerome Monahan 'Jerry' Burns
He will be truly missed and will be fondly remembered for enjoying a round of golf in his beloved Jamaica.
The Strib obit.
RIP
Obituary for Jerome Monahan 'Jerry' Burns
He will be truly missed and will be fondly remembered for enjoying a round of golf in his beloved Jamaica.
The Strib obit.
RIP
Obituary for Jerome Monahan 'Jerry' Burns
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Pat Reusse from 2020. Colum about Sid but he mentioned Burnsie.
Burns Hired Holtz at Iowa, dunno if that was Holtz's first college coaching job. Grad assistant.
I got to know Jerry Burns much better as the Vikings head coach, and in the decades since, and Burnsie is in the top handful of favorites that I’ve encountered in sports.
Hartman had known Burns for a quarter-century by 1981, and climbing over those chairs to defend a man who already was a great friend was praiseworthy rather than hilarious.
The roots of that Burns friendship added more perspective on Sid’s career that ended with a column published on the morning of his death:
Here was a working sportswriter who went back to the late ’40s and ’50s, when Big Ten football was the center of our universe, and to get every piece of info, be it a boulder or a pebble, Sid found contacts on all teams.
When Evashevski came to the Twin Cities, first as the Iowa coach from 1951 to 1959, and then as athletic director, Sid would pick up “Evy” at the airport. He met Burns and Lou Holtz as Iowa assistants. He met George Steinbrenner as a rich kid serving as an assistant coach at Purdue.
Sid Hartman was networking before anybody coined the term
I add this because of the coaching tree mentioned earlier.
Burns Hired Holtz at Iowa, dunno if that was Holtz's first college coaching job. Grad assistant.
I got to know Jerry Burns much better as the Vikings head coach, and in the decades since, and Burnsie is in the top handful of favorites that I’ve encountered in sports.
Hartman had known Burns for a quarter-century by 1981, and climbing over those chairs to defend a man who already was a great friend was praiseworthy rather than hilarious.
The roots of that Burns friendship added more perspective on Sid’s career that ended with a column published on the morning of his death:
Here was a working sportswriter who went back to the late ’40s and ’50s, when Big Ten football was the center of our universe, and to get every piece of info, be it a boulder or a pebble, Sid found contacts on all teams.
When Evashevski came to the Twin Cities, first as the Iowa coach from 1951 to 1959, and then as athletic director, Sid would pick up “Evy” at the airport. He met Burns and Lou Holtz as Iowa assistants. He met George Steinbrenner as a rich kid serving as an assistant coach at Purdue.
Sid Hartman was networking before anybody coined the term
I add this because of the coaching tree mentioned earlier.
