![]() In 1987, his first full season with the Bills, the team returned to respectability with a 7–8 record and were in the playoff hunt throughout most of the season. He finished the season with a 2–5 record. Midway through the 1986 season, following a two-year hiatus from coaching and one season as the head coach of the Chicago Blitz of the USFL, Levy returned to the NFL as head coach of the Buffalo Bills. He coached the Chiefs for five seasons with steady improvement each year, but was fired at the end of the strike-shortened 1982 season with a 3–6 record. ![]() Levy returned to the NFL in 1978 as head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs. He coached Montreal to three CFL Grey Cup appearances and two championships, and won the Annis Stukus Trophy (Coach of the Year) in 1974. Levy then served as the head coach of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League for five seasons. in 1971, where he served as the Washington Redskins' special teams coach for two seasons. Levy began his professional football coaching career in 1969 as kicking teams coach for the Philadelphia Eagles before joining George Allen's staff as a special teams coach for the Los Angeles Rams in 1970. He finished his college coaching career with a five-year stint as head coach at the College of William & Mary where he twice earned Southern Conference Coach of the Year honors. Despite selecting a young Bill Walsh as a coaching assistant, Levy's best record during his four-season tenure as head coach at Cal from 1960 to 1963 was 4–5–1. ![]() He interviewed with the University of California, Berkeley on February 2, 1960, and was announced as the new head coach of the Cal Bears on February 5, 1960. In two seasons as head coach, he guided the Lobos to a 14–6 record and earned Skyline Conference Coach of the Year honors in 1958. In 1954, he joined the coaching staff at the University of New Mexico and was named head coach in 1958. Two years later, Levy returned to Coe College as an assistant football coach (1953–1954) and in his second stint as a head coach, he also won a championship-this time in basketball with future NBA Coach Bill Fitch as one of his players. Louis Country Day School, coaching football and basketball, the latter in which he coached to a championship. He was admitted to Harvard University for graduate studies in 1951, earning a master's degree in English history. He was also a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He obtained a degree in English literature, was granted membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and was twice voted student council president. There he earned varsity letters in football, track, and basketball. Marv was a master psychologist at knowing what buttons to push. It either got us mad at our opponents or mad at ourselves. But what he said had an effect on us, one way or another. He wasn't a believer in Knute Rockne, ' Win one for the Gipper' speeches. Marv always a knack for always finding the right thing to say. Steve Tasker, who played for Levy on the Bills, said Referring to the Super Bowl, he said "This is not a must-win World War II was a must-win". Though he was known to use historical examples to inspire his teams, Levy corrected those who used war and combat metaphors to describe football games by telling them that he actually fought in a war and that football and war were in no way comparable. Following graduation, he enlisted in the Army Air Forces and spent the remainder of World War II in the military Levy was discharged from the army shortly after the war ended. He graduated from South Shore High School in Chicago in 1943. Levy's family emigrated from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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