His name adorns American football’s ultimate prize thanks to his outstanding record as a coach with the Green Bay Packers, but Vince Lombardi was also a humanitarian ahead of his time. A five-time champion and tactical innovator but also a promoter of gay rights and torch-bearer for racial equality, Lombardi’s legacy goes far beyond the gridiron.

Fifty years on from his death at the age of just 57 on 3 September 1970, the storied coach could have taught the world of today a thing or two about more than just football. After all, teaching was very much his thing.