In its ruling, the state Board of Education upheld Dr. Michael F. Walsh, state commissioner of education, who had ruled previously that the Warwick board erred when it named Maurice F. Tougas as coordinator of audio-visual education without first finding that the school superintendent's candidate was not suitable.

The game was conceived by Lyle Rains and programmed and designed by Dominic Walsh and Ed Logg.

William Ernest " Bill " Walsh ( November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007 ) was the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal football team, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense.

As a Raider assistant, Walsh was trained in the vertical passing offense favored by Al Davis, putting Walsh in Davis's mentor Sid Gillman's coaching tree.

It was there that Walsh developed the philosophy now known as the " West Coast Offense ", as a matter of necessity.

In 1977, Walsh was hired as the head coach at Stanford where he stayed for two seasons.

Walsh was the Pac-8 Conference Coach of the Year in 1977.

In 1979, Walsh was hired as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers.

Walsh was nicknamed " The Genius " for both his innovative play calling and design.

Walsh felt that this was because the Cowboys were scheduled to play the Rams the next week in a rare Sunday night game and that showing the highlights of the 49ers ' win would potentially hurt the game's ratings.

The game was very close, and in the fourth quarter Walsh called a series of running plays as the 49ers marched down the field against the Cowboys prevent defense, which had been expecting the 49ers to mainly pass.

Walsh and the 49ers defeated Cincinnati in the Super Bowl, which was played in Pontiac, Michigan.

Walsh was viewed as a strong advocate for African-American head coaches in the NFL and NCAA.

The 1960 Hollywood film version of the story, Esther and the King, was directed by Raoul Walsh and starred Joan Collins and Richard Egan.

Joe Walsh, famed musician who was part of the United States rock band the Eagles, sang the National Anthem of Chile at a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball game in 2003.

The first " cocktail party " ever thrown was allegedly by Mrs. Julius S. Walsh Jr. of St. Louis, Missouri, in May 1917.

Musician Joe Walsh recorded chats with Moon, finding it remarkable how witty and alert the inebriated drummer managed to stay, ad-libbing his way through surrealistic fantasy stories à la Peter Cook, which Cooper reaffirms, saying he was not even certain he ever knew the real Keith Moon, or if there was one. Keith Moon showing off atop his drumkit Toronto, 21 October 1976

On August 12, 2010, Grammer announced that he was going to be a father for the fifth time with his girlfriend Kayte Walsh, a British flight attendant who is 25 years his junior.

The first was the manned descent by Swiss-designed, Italian-built, United States Navy-owned bathyscaphe Trieste which reached the bottom at 1: 06 pm on 23 January 1960, with U. S. Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard on board.

Periyasamy Sinasamy's first wish to see Muralitharan claiming the world record for the most Test wickets was realised ( passing the record set by Courtney Walsh ), but not his desire to live to see his grandson married.

This was later picked up by other slide guitarists such as Bonnie Raitt, Rory Gallagher, Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Joe Walsh, who used his middle finger and later in the mid 80s, switched to a brass slide.

In 1962 this concept of the spreadsheet, called BCL for Business Computer Language, was implemented on an IBM 1130 and in 1963 was ported to an IBM 7040 by R. Brian Walsh at Marquette University, Wisconsin.

After Cal, Walsh did a stint at Stanford as an assistant coach, before beginning his pro coaching career.

Walsh began his pro coaching career in 1966 as an assistant with the AFL's Oakland Raiders.

Initially, Walsh started out as the wide receivers coach from 1968-1970 before also coaching the quarterbacks from 1971-1975.

Walsh served as 49ers head coach for ten years, and during his tenure he and his coaching staff perfected the style of play known popularly as the West Coast offense.

Walsh directly helped propel Dennis Green into the NFL head coaching ranks by offering to take on the head coaching job at Stanford.

Many former and current NFL head coaches trace their lineage back to Bill Walsh on his coaching tree, shown below.

Walsh, in turn, belonged to the coaching tree of American Football League great and Hall of Fame coach Sid Gillman of the AFL's Los Angeles / San Diego Chargers.

Walsh was passed over in favor of Bill " Tiger " Johnson for the head coaching job when Brown retired.

Walsh has since taken his coaching badges.

Dungy is listed as not only a part of the Bill Walsh coaching tree, but also a part of the Marty Schottenheimer coaching tree.

He quickly ascended through the ranks of NFL coaching by learning the famous West Coast offense pioneered by longtime NFL coach Bill Walsh.

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 1960-1963 was 4-5-1.

Levy's coaching tree is among the largest of any NFL head coach ; however, this is largely due to the fact that he once had Bill Walsh as an assistant and most of Walsh's assistants never worked under Levy.

His years under Seifert placed him in the Bill Walsh coaching tree.

His years with the 49ers have led to later success mentoring other young assistants and Holmgren is one of the larger branches of the Sid Gillman coaching tree, from which Walsh and Seifert descended.

He was a defensive coordinator for Brian Billick ( who is part of the Sid Gillman / Bill Walsh coaching tree ), Al Groh ( who is part of the Bill Parcells coaching tree ), and Norv Turner ( part of the Jimmy Johnson tree ).

His work under Minnesota head coach Dennis Green put Billick in the Bill Walsh coaching tree.

He returned to Denver in 1980 to take over the head coaching reigns from another UNC alum Donnie Walsh.

Following graduation, Walsh coached at Washington High School in Fremont, leading the football and swim teams.