George Young

George Young (September 22, 1930 - December 8, 2001) was an American football executive. He was named NFL Executive of the Year five times. George Bernard Young was born on September 22, 1930, in Baltimore, Maryland. Young grew up street-smart in Baltimore's 10th Ward in a tough Irish-Catholic neighborhood, living over a bakery that was run by his mother's side of the family, just across the street from his father's bar. He was an outstanding football player at Calvert Hall College, a Catholic high school in Maryland just north of Baltimore. He attended Bucknell University where he was a starting defensive tackle for three seasons, team captain in 1951, and a member of the Phi Lambda Theta Fraternity, which today is the Chi Phi...