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Question for the oldtimers re a former coach

I am older than crap, but not that old....However, I do believe that Hank Stram was an assistant football coach at The U in the late 50's....

On a related note, during the same time frame, Hank Stram's Toupee was a member of the University of Miami Cheerleading Squad....
 
He was an assistant coach in 1959z the following year he was hired for the new AFL team the Dallas Texans which moved to Kansas City and become the Chiefs.
 
I had never realized that he had been a coach here, the second SB winning coach with Canes ties.
 
Became HC of KC chiefs of old AFL. Lost Super Bowl l to Packers but later won one. He was also the HC of chiefs for the Christmas Day game against the Fins, which was the longest game for years. Multiple OTs. Fins won on FG.
 
Gatorhater said:
Became HC of KC chiefs of old AFL. Lost Super Bowl l to Packers but later won one. He was also the HC of chiefs for the Christmas Day game against the Fins, which was the longest game for years. Multiple OTs. Fins won on FG.
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FG by Garo Yepremian! Watched the game on TV with my brother and parents. I considered it, if not the greatest, at least one of the top three games in Miami Dolphins history. Everyone in Miami was watching the game, as the Miami streets were completely void of traffic.
 
Seen old pics of that old dude....................isn't he the one with the newspaper in hand, smacking it back and forth on the sidelines?........
 
If you go to Hank Stram’s Wikipedia page you’ll see that he is listed as a coach at the U In 1959
 
SpikeUM said:

Category:Miami Hurricanes football coaches - Wikipedia

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Has anyone ever heard of Hank Stram being one of our assistant football coaches in 1959?


p.s. Yes it the offseason
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I just posted this in another thread within the last week.

Yes. My recollection is that he spent one season--1959--developing Fran Curci into a second team A-A. The interesting thing that I also had not remembered from that season was that Fran was named A-A, not as a QB by Associated Press, but a RB.

Behind Fran at fullback, was DaytonaCane's late husband, Doug Davis.

Ahead of both of them was Jim Otto future great center for the Oakland Raiders, and greatest all-time center for the old American Football League.

Stram, as I recall, left UM to go to the new AFL team, the Dallas Texans. That team moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs. He coached them in the Super Bowl.

If you had read my post, you would have learned that Stram also coached at FSU from '55-'57, I believe.

I saw the Texans play the also new AFL team the Houston Oilers in a preseason exhibition in the Orange Bowl. They still had bleachers in the East end zone.
 
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