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 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Bill Walsh, the groundbreaking football coach who won three Super Bowls and perfected the ingenious schemes that became known as the West Coast offense during a Hall of Fame career with the San Francisco 49ers, has died. He was 75. Walsh died at his Woodside home Monday morning following a long battle with leukemia. "This is just a tremendous loss for all of us, especially to the Bay Area because of what he meant to the 49ers," said Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana, the player most closely linked to Walsh's tenure with the team. "For me personally, outside of my dad he was probably the most influential person in my life. I am going to miss him." Walsh didn't become an NFL head coach until 47, and he spent just 10 seasons on the San Francisco sideline. But he left an indelible mark on the United States' most popular sport, building the once-woebegone 49ers into the most successful team of the 1980s with his innovative offensive strategies and teaching techniques. The soft-spoken native Californian also produced a legion of coaching disciples that's still growing today. Many of his former assistants went on to lead their own teams, handing down Walsh's methods and schemes to dozens more coaches in a tree with innumerable branches. ADVERTISEMENT "The essence of Bill Walsh was that he was an extraordinary teacher," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. "If you gave him a blackboard and a piece of chalk, he would become a whirlwind of wisdom. He taught all of us not only about football but also about life and how it takes teamwork for any of us to succeed as individuals." Walsh went 102-63-1 with the 49ers, winning 10 of his 14 postseason games along with six division titles. He was named the NFL's coach of the year in 1981 and 1984. Few men did more to shape the look of football into the 21st century. His cerebral nature and often-brilliant stratagems earned him the nickname "The Genius" well before his election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993. Walsh twice served as the 49ers' general manager, and George Seifert led San Francisco to two more Super Bowl titles after Walsh left the sideline. Walsh also coached Stanford during two terms over five seasons. Even a short list of Walsh's adherents is stunning. Seifert, Mike Holmgren, Dennis Green, Sam Wyche, Ray Rhodes and Bruce Coslet all became NFL head coaches after serving on Walsh's San Francisco staffs, and Tony Dungy played for him. Most of his former assistants passed on Walsh's structures and strategies to a new generation of coaches, including Mike Shanahan, Jon Gruden, Brian Billick, Andy Reid, Pete Carroll, Gary Kubiak, Steve Mariucci and Jeff Fisher. Walsh created the Minority Coaching Fellowship program in 1987, helping minority coaches to get a foothold in a previously lily-white profession. Marvin Lewis and Tyrone Willingham are among the coaches who went through the program, later adopted as a league-wide initiative. Walsh was diagnosed with leukemia in 2004 and underwent months of treatment and blood transfusions. He publicly disclosed his illness in November 2006. Fellow Hall of Fame coach Marv Levy, who hired Walsh to his first college coaching job, last spoke to him about six weeks ago on the telephone. "I asked him how he was doing, and he said he had come off a certain type of a treatment and he felt much more energy," Levy said. "But he told me then, he said, 'Marv, I don't have long.' He said it honestly. He was vibrant. Understood it. And yet, I was sad to hear it." AP - Jul 30, 3:46 pm EDT More Photos Born William Ernest Walsh on Nov. 30, 1931 in Los Angeles, he was a self-described "average" end and a sometime boxer at San Jose State in 1952-53. Walsh, whose family moved to the Bay Area when he was a teenager, married his college sweetheart, Geri Nardini, in 1954 and started his coaching career at Washington High School in Fremont, leading the football and swim teams. Walsh was coaching in Fremont when he interviewed for an assistant coaching position with Levy, who had just been hired as the head coach at California. "I was very impressed, individually, by his knowledge, by his intelligence, by his personality and hired him," Levy said. After Cal, he did a stint at Stanford before beginning his pro coaching career as an assistant with the AFL's Oakland Raiders in 1966, forging a friendship with Al Davis that endured through decades of rivalry. Walsh joined the Cincinnati Bengals in 1968 to work for legendary coach Paul Brown, who gradually gave complete control of the Bengals' offense to his assistant. Walsh built a scheme based on the teachings of Davis, Brown and Sid Gillman -- and Walsh's own innovations, which included everything from short dropbacks and novel receiving routes to constant repetition of every play in practice. Though it originated in Cincinnati, it became known many years later as the West Coast offense -- a name Walsh never liked or repeated, but which eventually grew to encompass his offensive philosophy and the many tweaks added by Holmgren, Shanahan and other coaches. Much of the NFL eventually ran a version of the West Coast in the 1990s, with its fundamental belief that the passing game can set up an effective running attack, rather than the opposite conventional wisdom. Walsh also is widely credited with inventing or popularizing many of the modern basics of coaching, from the laminated sheets of plays held by coaches on almost every sideline, to the practice of scripting the first 15 offensive plays of a game. After a bitter falling-out with Brown in 1976, Walsh left for stints with the San Diego Chargers and Stanford before the 49ers chose him to rebuild the franchise in 1979. The long-suffering 49ers went 2-14 before Walsh's arrival. They repeated the record in his first season. Walsh doubted his abilities to turn around such a miserable situation -- but earlier in 1979, the 49ers drafted quarterback Joe Montana from Notre Dame. Walsh turned over the starting job to Montana in 1980, when the 49ers improved to 6-10 -- and improbably, San Francisco won its first championship in 1981, just two years after winning two games. Championships followed in the postseasons of 1984 and 1988 as Walsh built a consistent winner and became an icon with his inventive offense and thinking-man's approach to the game. He also showed considerable acumen in personnel, adding Ronnie Lott, Charles Haley, Roger Craig and Rice to his rosters after he was named the 49ers' general manager in 1982 and the president in 1985. Walsh left the 49ers with a profound case of burnout after his third Super Bowl victory in January 1989, though he later regretted not coaching longer. He spent three years as a broadcaster with NBC before returning to Stanford for three seasons. He then took charge of the 49ers' front office in 1999, helping to rebuild the roster over three seasons. But Walsh gradually cut ties with the 49ers after his hand-picked successor as GM, Terry Donahue, took over in 2001. He is survived by his wife, Geri, and two children, Craig and Elizabeth. Walsh's son, Steve, an ABC News reporter, died of leukemia at age 46 in 2002. ...

 On the 25 anniversary of his sons brutal sexual assault and dismemberment John Walsh got to have the Adam Walsh Law signed into Federal law. On Fox News John Walsh said, "This now means that their will now be a sex offender registry in every State, even the liberal States that don`t want to have sex offender registries. Mandatory collection of DNA of sex offenders in even the liberal states that are against collection of DNA. It will solve thousands of cold cases of rape and molestations and 500 new Marshals on the street and 55 new FBI agents." It has been a 3 year fight in Congress but now it is law. With in the first few The law has already caught one child sex offender who fled from CA. and was caught in LA. because States are sharing information. He was caught with Child porn and was up to his old ways. It is now a federal beef for sex offenders to flee across State lines instead of a just misdemeanor. Registries are no good if they are not shared with the public and other law enforcement agencies. Some States refused to do exactly that and gave rights to the offenders over the victims. ?id=1206 Yes CA is very progressive in this field but still could not share with other States what they knew, now they can. If you lived in Vermont or Mass and certain other states you would have been unable to look up the information you wanted in SF with out having a name already, going to the sheriffs office, and proving cause to know that information on that individual. ...

 My name is Dylan Walsh. I lost contact with my father, David Walsh. The last known address i have of him is in Warwickshire(dont know how to spell that), England. I live in South Africa and have no way of finding him. The police are no help. Can you help? I am offering a reward for information. Thank you Dylan and Lara Walsh Son and daughter of David Walsh ...

 Kate Walsh just got engaged (congrats to her!) but I have been noticing she has been wearing looser fitting clothing. Has anyone else noticed? What would happen to the storyline of Addison not being able to get pregnant if Kate Walsh does. Whose baby would it be? Maybe she wants to leave Seattle with a BANG!! so she sleeps with Derek, Mark and Alex, then she runs off and finds out she is preggers! Anyone else have any ideas on how to work it into the storyline if it happens. ...

 I am an AVID Grey's Anatomy fan and it says on the website that there is a song that was played on one of the episodes that is called "Your Song" by Kate Walsh??? Is this the same Kate Walsh or am I mistaken? ...

 does anyone have a website where i could find kate walsh guitar tabs? for "your song"? i know lots of online guitar websites, so please be specific and make sure "Your Song" by kate walsh is actually there. thanks =] ...

 Can anybody name some of Joe Walsh's biggest hits (most famous songs)? I'm trying to think of one & I can't remember the name or how it goes for that matter, all I remember is is that it's by Joe Walsh, lol. It's driving me crazy. ...

 My friend told me that Louis Walsh is Married to the Vocal coach Yvie Burnett who was on his team during the 2nd and 3rd series of the X factor. She says that they were together at the national television awards last year and were very affectionate with each other, and they have also been photographed at other events!!!. Apparently Louis Walsh keeps his marriage and family life very private and away from the cameras etc which you can't blame him. Does anyone know if it's true??? ...

 why cant credit be given to a team when its a team effort---- fact is, walsh stunk at stanford after he left the 49ers. carmen policy and dwight clark have done little in cleveland in the past ten years. lott, montana, rice all finished their careers elsewhere being quite productive for their respective teams. to credit walsh as the person responsible for the 49ers success is quite inaccurate. ...

 hello i am final year student as a part of my cdma system development i want to generate walsh code but i dont know how to generate walsh code. i searched a lot over internet but i could not find the solution. so please help me on this topic ...