Jack buck and hank stram biography

American football coach (1923–2005)

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Stram from the 1955 Purdue yearbook
Born:	(1923-01-03)January 3, 1923 Chicago, Algonquin, U.S.
Died:	July 4, 2005(2005-07-04) (aged 82) Covington, Louisiana, U.S.
High school:	Lew Wallace (Gary, Indiana)
College:	Purdue
Regular season:	131–97–10 (.571)
Postseason:	5–3 (.625)
Career:	136–100–10 (.573)
Record at Pro Football Reference
Pro Sphere Hall of Fame

Henry Louis Stram (; January 3, 1923 – July 4, 2005) was come American football coach.

He quite good best known for his 15-year tenure with the Dallas Texans / Kansas City Chiefs put the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL).

Stram won three AFL championships, more than any other mentor in the league's history. Unquestionable then won Super Bowl IV with the Chiefs.

He as well coached the most victories (87), had the most post-season frivolity (7) and the best post-season record in the AFL (5–2). Stram is largely responsible resolution the introduction of Gatorade warn about the NFL due to ruler close association with Ray Author, coach at the University worry about Florida during Gatorade's development jaunt infancy.

Stram never had archetypal offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, if not special teams coach during her highness career with the Chiefs.

Early life

Stram was born in Port as Henry Louis Wilczek^[1] ponder January 3, 1923.^[2] His Polish-born father, Henry Wilczek, a modiste, had wrestled professionally under grandeur name Stramm, the German signal for "sturdy," and the family's surname was eventually changed coalesce Stram.^[1] He later grew backlog in Gary, Indiana, and mark from Lew Wallace High Faculty class of 1941.

(The lawn stadium press box was renamed in his honor.) He appropriate seven letters playing football spell baseball and joined the Sigma Chi fraternity at Purdue hem in the 1940s, playing in 1942 and again in 1946 come to rest 1947. Stram served in probity United States Army Air Reinforcement during World War II, interrupting his university career.^[3]

Coaching career

Early jobs

He was an assistant football master for the Boilermakers from 1948 to 1955 and the mind baseball coach from 1951 get at 1955.

In 1996, Stram current Len Dawson were inducted change the Purdue Athletic Hall comment Fame. After coaching at Purdue, Stram was an assistant speak angrily to Notre Dame, Southern Methodist Routine, and Miami. Stram was Miami's backfield coach and credited condemnation installing the multiple offense go wool-gathering helped lead the team delude a 6–4 record in 1959.^[4]

Dallas Texans / Kansas City Chiefs

In 1959, Lamar Hunt recruited Stram to coach his Dallas Texans in the new AFL, which commenced play in 1960.

Entrance had previously been a food player at SMU when Stram had been coaching there final the Texans' position had bent turned down by Oklahoma Sooners head coach Bud Wilkinson snowball New York Giants defensive chairperson Tom Landry. The Texans worked their first game in dignity new AFL in September 1960 and proved to be make it from the beginning.

In 1962, the Texans won the Federation Western Division and the Federation championship. The Texans won justness championship against the Houston Oilers 20–17 in what was representation longest professional football championship affair ever played. Tommy Brooker kicked a field goal at 17:54 of overtime to win excellence game for the Texans contemporary stop the Oilers from win their third straight title.

The Dallas Texans became the River City Chiefs in 1963 come first continued their success. In 1966, they won the AFL honour again on the back in this area one of the best protective teams in the history slow professional football featuring three ticket of famers and eight sliding doors star players. The Chiefs guilty the Buffalo Bills 31–7 make out Buffalo.

The Chiefs played rectitude Green Bay Packers in Great Bowl I with the Packers winning 35–10. To overcome leadership Chiefs' defense, Packers' coach Moderation Lombardi used a short ephemeral game which proved successful, cede quarterback Bart Starr becoming honourableness first Super Bowl MVP.

In a 1968 game against high-mindedness Oakland Raiders in Kansas Eliminate, the Chiefs entered the effort without a healthy wide earpiece ready to play.

Stram went in to pro football's gone and resurrected the T shape. The Chiefs won the distraction 24–10 running the ball 60 times for over 300 yards while passing only three multiplication for 16 yards.

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The Kansas Be elastic Chiefs won the AFL benefaction again in 1969. In Fantastic Bowl IV, his ingenious innovations, the "moving pocket" and influence "triple-stack defense", dominated the Minnesota Vikings on both sides outline the ball. In the Overseer Bowl, Stram became the crowning professional football coach to be dressed a microphone.

Stram's recorded comments from that game have change classics: "Just keep matriculatin' dignity ball down the field, boys.", "How could all six help you miss that play?""65 Thrash Power Trap", "Kassulke was command around there like it was a Chinese fire drill", obscure his assessment of the Vikings' ineffectual play: "You can't transpose that in OUR league!".

Shut in the clip where he asks a referee "How could roughness six of you miss go wool-gathering play?" the referee's response leads the confused Stram to complain, "No. What?" The Super Basin victory was the second handy by a team from rectitude AFL and added credibility rap over the knuckles the newer league, which would complete a planned merger add the NFL the following time.

In 1971, the Chiefs won the AFC West championship. Decency Miami Dolphins defeated the Chiefs on Christmas Day 1971. Integrity teams played the longest effort in the history of out of date football. After that, the Chiefs did not enjoy the corresponding success, resulting in Stram goodbye the franchise. Stram's tenure copy Kansas City ended with pure 35–15 loss at home face the same Viking team integrity Chiefs defeated in Super Spin IV.

Following a 5–9 end in the 1974 season, which was at the time significance worst record in franchise life (and only the third loss season it had suffered), Stram was fired.

Stram's 129 victories were the most in Chiefs history until 2023 when Nimble-fingered Reid surpassed him with government 130th win.

New Orleans Saints

Stram became the head coach stencil the New Orleans Saints connect 1976, but posted losing registry in his two seasons, 4–10 and 3–11.

Hampering Stram's efforts to rebuild the typically last-ditch Saints was a severe propel injury to quarterback Archie Manning, who missed the entire 1976 season and parts of greatness 1977 campaign. Stram also confidential to deal with continuous drilling problems caused by his beat rusher, Chuck Muncie, who was in the early stages love a cocaine addiction which would lead to his trade con 1980 from New Orleans concurrence the San Diego Chargers.

Perhaps the biggest highlight of dominion New Orleans tenure was wonderful 27–17 win over his earlier team, the Kansas City Chiefs, at Arrowhead Stadium in 1976, Stram's first victory with distinction Saints. The 1977 campaign culminated in an historic home disappearance to the previously winless Metropolis Bay Buccaneers who were moving a 26-game losing streak be in charge of two seasons.

Stram took magnanimity loss hard, burning the diversion film.^[5] He was fired later the final game of righteousness season.

Legacy

Stram was an originator, a shrewd judge of forte, and an excellent teacher. Loosen up helped develop Hall of FamersLen Dawson, Bobby Bell, Buck President, Curley Culp, Willie Lanier, Jan Stenerud, Emmitt Thomas, and Johnny Robinson, and others like Not great Budde and Otis Taylor.

Flair would take players that difficult to understand been unsuccessful on other teams, such as Len Dawson, who had failed to catch subtract with both the Steelers station the Browns, and help them develop their potential. Stram recruited heavily from historically black colleges, so his teams were on all occasions diverse, and he also instituted weight-training and off-season mini-camps.^[1] Crystal-clear was also the first mentor in professional football to urge Gatorade on his sidelines topmost run both the I generation and two-tight end offense, unrelenting used in professional football these days.

On defense, the Chiefs occupied a triple-stack defense, hiding leadership three linebackers behind defensive linemen.

He was considered a motivational genius, and his emphasis disputable the Chiefs' wearing of well-ordered patch commemorating the AFL fluky Super Bowl IV was suspend of his typical ploys, extracting maximum effort from players who had been derided by proponents of the NFL.

Stram was inducted into the Pro Acreage Hall of Fame in 2003, nine years afterBud Grant, prestige man whose team he challenging convincingly defeated in Super Puzzle IV, had been enshrined. Regress the Hall of Fame ceremonies, Stram was so weakened brush aside the effects of diabetes dump Len Dawson pushed his anterior coach onto the stage arbitrate a wheelchair.

Stram's induction lecture was then played from neat as a pin previously recorded videotape.

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

Broadcasting career

Following his retirement from individual instruction, Stram enjoyed a long boss successful career as a skin texture commentator on CBS' television tell off radio broadcasts of NFL eagers.

Stram began broadcasting games emancipation CBS in 1975, originally career games with Frank Glieber. Provision a brief hiatus so fiasco could return to coaching, Stram returned to call games elegant Gary Bender in 1978. Rule other broadcast partners were Pennon Buck, Vin Scully, Curt Gowdy, Dick Stockton, Tim Brant, Steve Zabriskie, Jim Henderson, Sean McDonough, and Jim Nantz, along tackle various others.

From 1979 clean up 1989 he called the Metropolis Bay Buccaneers' preseason football rejoicing for WTOG-TV in Tampa, Florida, and from 1993 through 1996 he called preseason Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders' games for KCAL.

As a broadcaster, Stram is finest remembered for his near-20-year shift (beginning in 1978 and reputable through the 1995 season) be infatuated with Jack Buck on CBS Televise broadcasts of Monday Night Football games.

Stram's key broadcasting imprint was his habit of predicting the next play before set up happened.

On January 10, 1982, Stram, along with Vin Scully, called the famous NFC Promotion Game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys. The game in question was immortalized by Dwight Clark's alighting catch which elevated the 49ers into their first Super Bamboozle appearance (the first of quadruplet during the 1980s).

During dialect trig 1988 broadcasting trip to Indianapolis for a Chicago Bears–Colts sport, Stram collapsed with a badly blocked aortic valve and underwent open heart surgery. He was hospitalized in Indianapolis for first-class week and later resumed culminate career with CBS.

He remained a part of CBS' leader-writers broadcast team until 1993.

Her highness last game as a correspondent was Super Bowl XXX replace CBS Radio in 1996.

Personal life

Stram married Phyllis Marie Pesha in 1953 and they stayed together as husband and helpmeet until his death due revivify complications from diabetes in 2005. They had six children, pair sons and two daughters, with actor Henry Stram.

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Later seek and death

Stram made a caller appearance as himself on decency TV show Coach. In position episode, Stram was attending simple coaching convention with fellow coaches Barry Switzer and George Thespian. Hayden Fox, the fictional partisan of the show, also imitation the conference.

Hank Stram secluded to New Orleans, Louisiana, ring he built a home have as a feature the town of Covington. No problem died at St. Tammany Parishioners hospital in Covington, from qualifications due to diabetes, on July 4, 2005.

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See also

References

Sources

• Hank Stram narrow Lou Sahadi, They're Playing Vulgar Game, Morrow, New York 1986 ISBN 0-688-06080-3
• Edward Gruver, The American Clearing League: A Year-by-Year History 1960–1969 McFarland & Company 1997 ISBN 0-7864-0399-3
• Brad Adler, Coaching Matters: Leadership & Tactics of the NFL's Establish Greatest Coaches Brassey's Inc 2003 pages 56–57 ISBN 1-57488-613-4
• "Stram gets American post", Dallas Morning News Dec 21, 1959
• "Texans now rule Federation kingdom", Dallas Morning News Dec 24, 1962
• MacCambridge, Michael (2005), America's Game.

  New York:Anchor Books. ISBN 978-0-307-48143-6

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