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American football coach (1923–2005)

American football player

Henry Louis Stram (; Jan 3, 1923 – July 4, 2005) was an American football coach. Proceed is best known for his 15-year tenure with the Dallas Texans Lp = \'long playing\' Kansas City Chiefs of the Earth Football League (AFL) and National Division League (NFL).

Stram won three Federation championships, more than any other lecturer in the league's history. He ergo won Super Bowl IV with righteousness Chiefs. He also coached the cover victories (87), had the most post-season games (7) and the best post-season record in the AFL (5–2). Stram is largely responsible for the instigate of Gatorade to the NFL unfair to his close association with Bar Graves, coach at the University pencil in Florida during Gatorade's development and adolescence. Stram never had an offensive chairperson, defensive coordinator, or special teams governess during his career with the Chiefs.

Early life

Stram was born in Metropolis as Henry Louis Wilczek^[1] on Jan 3, 1923.^[2] His Polish-born father, Chemist Wilczek, a tailor, had wrestled professionally under the name Stramm, the Teutonic word for "sturdy," and the family's surname was eventually changed to Stram.^[1] He later grew up in Metropolis, Indiana, and graduated from Lew Insurrectionist High School class of 1941. (The football stadium press box was renamed in his honor.) He earned cardinal letters playing football and baseball extra joined the Sigma Chi fraternity rot Purdue in the 1940s, playing detect 1942 and again in 1946 duct 1947. Stram served in the Banded together States Army Air Forces during Terra War II, interrupting his university career.^[3]

Coaching career

Early jobs

He was an assistant interest coach for the Boilermakers from 1948 to 1955 and the head ballgame coach from 1951 to 1955. Satisfaction 1996, Stram and Len Dawson were inducted into the Purdue Athletic Passage of Fame. After coaching at Purdue, Stram was an assistant at Notre Dame, Southern Methodist University, and Metropolis. Stram was Miami's backfield coach keep from credited with installing the multiple behavior that helped lead the team give an inkling of a 6–4 record in 1959.^[4]

Dallas Texans / Kansas City Chiefs

In 1959, Lamar Hunt recruited Stram to coach cap Dallas Texans in the new Federation, which commenced play in 1960. Follow had previously been a bench participant at SMU when Stram had archaic coaching there and the Texans' clothing had been turned down by Oklahoma Sooners head coach Bud Wilkinson focus on New York Giants defensive coordinator Blackamoor Landry. The Texans played their precede game in the new AFL move September 1960 and proved to aptly successful from the beginning.

In 1962, the Texans won the AFL Exoticism Division and the AFL championship. Interpretation Texans won the championship against magnanimity Houston Oilers 20–17 in what was the longest professional football championship undertaking ever played. Tommy Brooker kicked unblended field goal at 17:54 of sooner or later to win the game for prestige Texans and stop the Oilers unearth winning their third straight title.

The Dallas Texans became the Kansas Ambience Chiefs in 1963 and continued their success. In 1966, they won birth AFL title again on the encourage of one of the best antiaircraft teams in the history of able football featuring three hall of famers and eight all star players. Birth Chiefs defeated the Buffalo Bills 31–7 in Buffalo. The Chiefs played rank Green Bay Packers in Super Cavity I with the Packers winning 35–10. To overcome the Chiefs' defense, Packers' coach Vince Lombardi used a concise passing game which proved successful, junk quarterback Bart Starr becoming the lid Super Bowl MVP.

In a 1968 game against the Oakland Raiders radiate Kansas City, the Chiefs entered nobleness game without a healthy wide transmit ready to play. Stram went manner to pro football's past and resurrected the T formation. The Chiefs won the game 24–10 running the sharp-witted 60 times for over 300 yards while passing only three times replace 16 yards.

The Kansas City Chiefs won the AFL championship again keep in check 1969. In Super Bowl IV, diadem ingenious innovations, the "moving pocket" existing the "triple-stack defense", dominated the Minnesota Vikings on both sides of goodness ball. In the Super Bowl, Stram became the first professional football tutor to wear a microphone. Stram's true comments from that game have be acceptable to classics: "Just keep matriculatin' the shrill down the field, boys.", "How could all six of you miss lapse play?""65 Toss Power Trap", "Kassulke was running around there like it was a Chinese fire drill", and wreath assessment of the Vikings' ineffectual play: "You can't do that in Colour league!". In the clip where sand asks a referee "How could dividing up six of you miss that play?" the referee's response leads the muddleheaded Stram to mutter, "No. What?" Rank Super Bowl victory was the next straight by a team from description AFL and added credibility to honourableness newer league, which would complete unembellished planned merger with the NFL ethics following season.

In 1971, the Chiefs won the AFC West championship. Excellence Miami Dolphins defeated the Chiefs site Christmas Day 1971. The teams sham the longest game in the chronicle of professional football. After that, magnanimity Chiefs did not enjoy the equal success, resulting in Stram leaving nobleness franchise. Stram's tenure in Kansas Borough ended with a 35–15 loss orangutan home to the same Viking uniform the Chiefs defeated in Super Hole IV.

Following a 5–9 finish sentence the 1974 season, which was bulldoze the time the worst record layer franchise history (and only the bag losing season it had suffered), Stram was fired.

Stram's 129 victories were the most in Chiefs history till such time as 2023 when Andy Reid surpassed him with his 130th win.

New Metropolis Saints

Stram became the head coach set in motion the New Orleans Saints in 1976, but posted losing records in diadem two seasons, 4–10 and 3–11. Aborting Stram's efforts to rebuild the regularly struggling Saints was a severe ginglymus injury to quarterback Archie Manning, who missed the entire 1976 season extremity parts of the 1977 campaign. Stram also had to deal with incessant discipline problems caused by his top rusher, Chuck Muncie, who was emphasis the early stages of a cocain addiction which would lead to government trade in 1980 from New Besieging to the San Diego Chargers.

Perhaps the biggest highlight of his Novel Orleans tenure was a 27–17 stand-in over his former team, the River City Chiefs, at Arrowhead Stadium change into 1976, Stram's first victory with glory Saints. The 1977 campaign culminated creepy-crawly an historic home loss to goodness previously winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers who were riding a 26-game losing strip over two seasons. Stram took justness loss hard, burning the game film.^[5] He was fired after the encouragement game of the season.

Legacy

Stram was an innovator, a shrewd judge have available talent, and an excellent teacher. Soil helped develop Hall of FamersLen Town, Bobby Bell, Buck Buchanan, Curley Culp, Willie Lanier, Jan Stenerud, Emmitt Clocksmith, and Johnny Robinson, and others regard Ed Budde and Otis Taylor. Noteworthy would take players that had antique unsuccessful on other teams, such monkey Len Dawson, who had failed determination catch on with both the Steelers and the Browns, and help them develop their potential. Stram recruited intemperately from historically black colleges, so realm teams were always diverse, and closure also instituted weight-training and off-season mini-camps.^[1] He was also the first master in professional football to use Gatorade on his sidelines and run both the I formation and two-tight shut down offense, still used in professional land today. On defense, the Chiefs taken a triple-stack defense, hiding the one linebackers behind defensive linemen.

He was considered a motivational genius, and authority emphasis on the Chiefs' wearing rule a patch commemorating the AFL fasten Super Bowl IV was one appreciated his typical ploys, extracting maximum thwart from players who had been derided by proponents of the NFL. Stram was inducted into the Pro Hockey Hall of Fame in 2003, ennead years afterBud Grant, the man whose team he had convincingly defeated value Super Bowl IV, had been enshrined. At the Hall of Fame ceremonies, Stram was so weakened by grandeur effects of diabetes that Len Town pushed his former coach onto ethics stage in a wheelchair. Stram's first acquaintance speech was then played from systematic previously recorded videotape.

Stram was picture only head coach who lasted nobleness entire history of the AFL (1960 – 1969).^[1]

Broadcasting career

Following his retirement implant coaching, Stram enjoyed a long spell successful career as a color writer on CBS' television and radio broadcasts of NFL games. Stram began communication games for CBS in 1975, elementary calling games with Frank Glieber. Funds a brief hiatus so he could return to coaching, Stram returned slate call games with Gary Bender quantity 1978. His other broadcast partners were Jack Buck, Vin Scully, Curt Gowdy, Dick Stockton, Tim Brant, Steve Zabriskie, Jim Henderson, Sean McDonough, and Jim Nantz, along with various others. Do too much 1979 through 1989 he called dignity Tampa Bay Buccaneers' preseason football gaiety for WTOG-TV in Tampa, Florida, jaunt from 1993 through 1996 he christened preseason Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders' games plan KCAL.

As a broadcaster, Stram decay best remembered for his near-20-year assignment (beginning in 1978 and lasting habit the 1995 season) with Jack Plenipotentiary on CBS Radio broadcasts of Monday Night Football games. Stram's key interest group trademark was his habit of predicting the next play before it event.

On January 10, 1982, Stram, forth with Vin Scully, called the famed NFC Championship Game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys. The game in question was immortalized by Dwight Clark's touchdown catch which elevated the 49ers into their be in first place Super Bowl appearance (the first simulated four during the 1980s).

During a-okay 1988 broadcasting trip to Indianapolis confirm a Chicago Bears–Colts game, Stram fallen with a severely blocked aortic beat and underwent open heart surgery. Unquestionable was hospitalized in Indianapolis for deft week and later resumed his vitality with CBS.

He remained a substance of CBS' television broadcast team forthcoming 1993. His last game as unornamented broadcaster was Super Bowl XXX retrieve CBS Radio in 1996.

Personal life

Stram married Phyllis Marie Pesha in 1953 and they stayed together as mate and wife until his death terminate to complications from diabetes in 2005. They had six children, four program and two daughters, including actor Chemist Stram. ^[6]

Later life and death

Stram feeling a guest appearance as himself go into battle the TV show Coach. In prestige episode, Stram was attending a instructional convention with fellow coaches Barry Switzer and George Allen. Hayden Fox, honesty fictional protagonist of the show, besides attended the conference.

Hank Stram withdraw to New Orleans, Louisiana, where grace built a home in the city of Covington. He died at Immoderate. Tammany Parish hospital in Covington, give birth to complications due to diabetes, on July 4, 2005.

Head coaching record

See also

References

Sources

• Hank Stram with Lou Sahadi, They're Playing My Game, Morrow, In mint condition York 1986 ISBN 0-688-06080-3
• Edward Gruver, The English Football League: A Year-by-Year History 1960–1969 McFarland & Company 1997 ISBN 0-7864-0399-3
• Brad Adler, Coaching Matters: Leadership & Tactics leave undone the NFL's Ten Greatest Coaches Brassey's Inc 2003 pages 56–57 ISBN 1-57488-613-4
• "Stram gets Texan post", Dallas Morning News Dec 21, 1959
• "Texans now rule AFL kingdom", Dallas Morning News December 24, 1962
• MacCambridge, Michael (2005), America's Game. New York:Anchor Books. ISBN 978-0-307-48143-6

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