“I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.”
Lou grew up in Follansbee, West Virginia, and East Liverpool, Ohio. At St. Aloysius Grade School the students marched out to the Notre Dame Victory March, and in fourth grade his Uncle Junior handed him his first football uniform.
Read his storyIn 1966, out of work with a third child on the way, Lou wrote down everything he wanted to achieve before he died: dinner at the White House, the Johnny Carson show, a national championship, a hole-in-one, a jump out of an airplane.
The list that changed his life
The Holtz Foundation carries Lou’s work forward through scholarships and other giving. A donation helps his example keep reaching people.
Donate to the Holtz FoundationThe Lou Holtz Upper Ohio Valley Hall of Fame in East Liverpool, Ohio, honors the people of the valley he grew up in.
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