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| Date of birth | January 5, 1932 |
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| Place of birth | Cleveland, Ohio |
| Position(s) |
Head Coach Guard Linebacker |
| College | Dayton |
| NFL Draft | 1953 / Round 20/ Pick 239 |
| Awards |
1972 UPI AFC Coach of the Year 1989 Maxwell Football Club NFL Coach of the Year |
| Honors | NFL 1980s All-Decade Team |
| Career record |
209-156-1 (Including Postseason) |
| Super Bowl wins |
Super Bowl XIV Super Bowl XIII Super Bowl X Super Bowl IX |
| Championships won |
1979 AFC Championship 1978 AFC Championship 1975 AFC Championship 1974 AFC Championship |
| Stats | |
| Playing stats | DatabaseFootball |
| Coaching stats | Pro Football Reference |
| Coaching stats | DatabaseFootball |
| Team(s) as a player | |
| 1953-1959 | Cleveland Browns |
| Team(s) as a coach/administrator | |
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1960-1961 1962-1965 1966-1968 1969-1991 |
AFL L.A./San Diego Chargers (Defensive Line) San Diego Chargers (Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Backfield) Baltimore Colts (Def. Coordinator/Def. Backfield) Pittsburgh Steelers (Head Coach) |
| Pro Football Hall of Fame, 1993 | |
Charles Henry "Chuck" Noll (born January 5, 1932) is a former professional American football player and coach, and a member of the Sid Gillman coaching tree. He served most notably as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League from 1969 to 1991. Noll has more Super Bowl wins (4) than any other head coach in NFL history, and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993.
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Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Noll attended Benedictine High School where he played running back and tackle, winning All-State honors. He won a football scholarship to the University of Dayton. Noll was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in 1953, where he played until his retirement in 1959 at the age of 27.
Noll was an assistant coach for the American Football League's San Diego Chargers and the NFL Baltimore Colts before becoming the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers' head coach. He was the defensive coordinator of the Baltimore Colts (under head coach Don Shula) during their 13–1 season in 1968, in which the team set an NFL record of fewest points allowed (144). The 1968 Colts won the NFL championship by stomping the Cleveland Browns 34–0 in Cleveland, but the heavily favored Colts were shocked by the upstart AFL champion New York Jets, 16–7, in Super Bowl III at the Orange Bowl in Miami.
Noll was named the 14th head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers on January 27, 1969, after Penn State coach Joe Paterno turned down an offer for the position. Noll implemented a defensive system in Pittsburgh that became the legendary "Steel Curtain" defense. His coaching style earned him the nickname of The Emperor Chaz by sports announcer Myron Cope.[1] Noll is the only head coach to win four Super Bowls, coaching the Steelers to victory in Super Bowl IX (1975), Super Bowl X (1976), Super Bowl XIII (1979), and Super Bowl XIV (1980).
The key to Noll's coaching success during this unprecedented run was the Steelers' skill in selecting outstanding players in the NFL college player draft. Noll's first round one pick was Joe Greene, a defensive tackle from North Texas State, who went on to become a perennial All-Pro and anchor the defensive line. During the next few years, the Steelers drafted quarterback Terry Bradshaw (Louisiana Tech) and running back Franco Harris (Penn State) as round one picks. In the 1974 draft, Noll and the Steelers achieved a level of drafting success never seen before or since, when they selected four future Hall of Fame players with their first five picks: wide receivers Lynn Swann and