City Dedicating Street to Former Resident, Coaching Icon Vince Lombardi

Vince Lombardi's indelible legacy will be memorialized in his former hometown of Englewood, NJ, where he got his coaching start teaching high school students the meaning of victory in the 1940s.

Englewood's City Council on June 11 will ceremonially dedicate Mountain View Road, the street where Lombardi once resided, as "Vince Lombardi Way." (The official name will remain Mountan View Road.)

The legendary Packers coach began his career as a teacher and assistant coach at St. Cecilia's High School in Englewood. He became head coach in 1942 and was said to have fielded the nation's best high school team just a year later.

Lombardi spent most of his eight Englewood years living on Mountain View Road before he departed in 1947 for a coaching job at Fordham University, his alma mater. The rest, of course, is history.

The Englewood street dedication on Tuesday, June 11 is largely thanks to the efforts of Tenafly resident Sam Bruno, a graduate of St. Cecilia's (the school closed in 1986) who for years has lobbied the city to formally recognize Lombardi's accomplishments.

The event will be held at the corner of Mountain View Road and West Hudson Avenue at 6:30 p.m.

June 11 also happens to be Lombardi's birthday, and ESPN2 will be featuring the documentary "Lombardi's Legacy" at 8:30 p.m.