Duane C. Parcells

(1941- ) lived in Hastings. Professional and college football coach, regarded as one of the outstanding head coaches in the National Football League, he coached New York Giant teams to two world championships by winning Super Bowl 21 in 1987 and Super Bowl 25 in 1991, and he brought two other teams to near-championship levels. Consult Bill Parcells and Mike Lupica, Parcells, Autobiography of the biggest giant of them all (Bonus Books, 1987) and Current Biography (1991) 437-441 and Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: Sports Figures, Vol 2 (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002) 223-225.

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