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Wayne Fontes
American football player and coach (born 1940)
American football player
Wayne Howard Joseph Fontes (; born February 17, 1940) is a former American football coach and college and professional football player who was the head coach of the National Football League (NFL)'s Detroit Lions from 1988 to 1996.
Wayne fontes biography
He is the longest tenured head coach in team history. His 67 wins and 71 losses are each the most for a head coach in team history.
Background and early career
Fontes was born in the fishing community of New Bedford, Massachusetts.
According to the 1930 US Census, his mother, Matilda Fontes, was born in Wareham, Massachusetts.
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His father, Caetano Fontes, was Portuguese, born in Cape Verde, a Portuguese colony at the time.[1] Fontes grew up in Canton, Ohio where he played football, basketball, and baseball at McKinley High School.
He attended Michigan State University where he was an All-Big Ten defensive back. He graduated from MSU in 1962.
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