Hank Stram
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Position (s): Head Coach |
Jersey number (s): - |
| born on January 3, 1923 in Chicago , Illinois | |
| died on July 4, 2005 in Covington , Louisiana | |
| Career information | |
| Active : 1960 - 1977 | |
| College : Purdue | |
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| Career statistics | |
| Victory-defeat-draw | 131-97-10 |
| games won | 57.5% |
| Games | 238 |
| Coaching stats at pro-football-reference.com | |
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| Pro Football Hall of Fame | |
Henry Louis Stram (born January 3, 1923 in Chicago , Illinois - † July 4, 2005 in Covington , Louisiana ) was an American American football player and coach. He also worked as a baseball coach.
Youth / college
Stram was born the son of a father from Poland . He had a sister. His father, a professional wrestler , later changed his last name to Stram. After the family moved to Gary , Indiana , he attended high school and played football and baseball there. In 1942, Stram received a scholarship from Purdue University in West Lafayette , Indiana, where he played as a running back for the Purdue Boilermakers . He was also a player in their baseball team. After a year he was signed up to the US Army , but he was not sent to Europe or Asia during World War II . In 1946 and 1947 he was able to continue his playing career as a college football player or baseball player, but was never committed to a professional team afterwards.
Trainer
College football
From 1948 to 1955 Stram was Assistant Coach at the Boilermakers. At this point, he also met a young talent, quarterback Len Dawson . Both remained friends of Stram until the end of his life. Together they celebrated great success in later years. Until 1959, Stram worked as an assistant coach at other colleges, including the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and most recently at the University of Miami .
College baseball
From 1951 to 1955, Stram was also the coach of the Purdue baseball team. During this time, however, the Boilermakers lost more games than they could win - 58 of 113 games. Stram stopped pursuing his baseball career and focused on football.
Football coach in the professional leagues
In 1959 the American Football League was founded. Stram was signed by a new team whose team owner Lamar Hunt had met him as a player at Southern Methodist University, the Dallas Texans . The Texans began playing in 1960, but moved to Kansas City in 1963 and were renamed Chiefs. In 1962, Stram managed to tie his friend Len Dawson, who had previously worked as a reservist with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns , to the Texans / Chiefs. The Chiefs' great rise began. In the year of Dawson's commitment, Stram and his team won the AFL Championship Game (NFL and AFL then went their separate ways) against the Houston Oilers at 20:17.
In 1963 the Texans were renamed Kansas City Chiefs after moving from Dallas to Kansas City. In 1966 the team succeeded in another championship, they were able to beat the Buffalo Bills with 31: 7, but had to face the NFL representative, the Green Bay Packers under their coach Vince Lombardi with their quarterback Bart Starr at 35 in the AFL-NFL World Championship Game : Give 10 beaten. The game was later renamed Super Bowl I and the trophy was named after Vince Lombardi.
In 1969, the Chiefs beat the Oakland Raiders 17: 7 in the AFL Championship Game and moved into Super Bowl IV , which they won against the Minnesota Vikings in 1970 23: 7. Dawson became the game's MVP . After the AFL and NFL merged in 1970, Stram remained coach of the Chiefs. But he could no longer connect to earlier successes, in 1971 he failed in the play-offs at the Miami Dolphins , 1972–1974 the team did not get beyond the regular season . 1974 Stram left the Chiefs to coach the New Orleans Saints with quarterback Archie Manning from 1976 to 1977 without much success .
Stram was a gifted motivational talent, an outstanding talent scout and a coach who was able to bring young players to the top of the league, as happened with his friend Len Dawson, but also with players like Jan Stenerud and Willie Lanier . Strams teams won 131 games, lost 97 games and drew 10 times.
Honors
Stram was voted AFL Trainer of the Year by the press in 1968 . He is a member of the Purdue Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame and, since 2003, the Pro Football Hall of Fame .
After the career
Stram worked after 1977 as a football analyst for television and as a radio presenter . Stram, who had a heart condition, died in Covington of complications from diabetes . Stram left a wife and six children. He is buried in the Pinecrest Memorial Gardens in Covington.
Web links
- Hank Stram in the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Coach statistics for Hank Stram
- Grave site and short biography of Stram
swell
- Jens Plassmann: NFL - American Football. The game, the stars, the stories (= Rororo 9445 rororo Sport ). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-499-19445-7 .
- Jürgen Kalwa: Fascination American Football. Copress Sport, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7679-0462-4 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Annual statistics of the Texans 1962
- ↑ Endgame statistics 1962
- ↑ Annual statistics of the Chiefs 1966
- ↑ Endgame statistics 1966
- ↑ Super Bowl I statistics
- ↑ Annual statistics of the Chiefs 1969
- ↑ Endgame statistics 1969
- ↑ Super Bowl IV statistics
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Stram, Hank |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stram, Henry Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American football / baseball player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 2005 |
| Place of death | Covington , Louisiana |