Thomas Lieb
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| Sport(s) | Football, ice hockey, track & field |
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| Biographical details | |
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October 28, 1899 Faribault, Minnesota |
| Died | April 30, 1962 (aged 62) Los Angeles, California |
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| 1919–1922 | Notre Dame |
| Position(s) | Tackle |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1923–1925 | Notre Dame (Asst.) |
| 1926–1928 | Wisconsin (Asst./Line) |
| 1929 | Notre Dame (Asst.) |
| 1930–1938 | Loyola Los Angeles |
| 1940–1945 | Florida |
| 1946–1950 | Alabama (Asst./Line) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 67–59–5 (football) |
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| Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||
| Weight | 98 kg (216 lb) | |||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||
| Event(s) | Discus throw | |||||||||
| Club | Illinois Athletic Club | |||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 47.61 (1924) | |||||||||
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Thomas John Lieb (October 28, 1899 – April 30, 1962) was an American Olympic track and field athlete, an All-American college football player and a multi-sport collegiate coach. Lieb was a Minnesota native and an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame, where he played college football. He was best known as the head coach of the Loyola Marymount University and University of Florida football teams.
Tom Lieb was born in Faribault, Minnesota in 1899. In high school, Lieb excelled at baseball, football, hockey, and track and field. He attended the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, where he lettered in all four sports and twice received All-American football honors. During the 1922 season, Lieb broke his leg in the game against Purdue. While doing his graduate studies at the university, he coached the Notre Dame hockey and track & field teams, and also coached the linemen for the Fighting Irish football team under head coach Knute Rockne.
Lieb was a two-time National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) national collegiate champion in the discus in 1922 and 1923, and the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) national open champion in 1923 and 1924. He is widely credited with introducing the modern spin delivery that is still used today. At the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France, Lieb competed for the United States in the discus throw and won the bronze medal, but did not equal the distance of his qualifying throw. Several weeks after the Olympics ended, Lieb broke the discus world record with a throw of 47.61 meters (156 feet 2½ inches).
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