“I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.”

American college football coach

Lou Holtz is an American college football coach. He led programs at William & Mary, North Carolina State, Arkansas, Minnesota, Notre Dame, and South Carolina, with a career college head coaching record of 249 wins, 132 losses, and 7 ties. His career stretched from 1969 to 2004, with a brief stint as head coach of the New York Jets in 1976. He is best known for his long run in college football and for the steady record he built across several major programs.