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...first assistant and offensive coordinator under head coach Alva Kelly, after three years as an assistant coach at Brown. He served as a coach for the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League from 1962 to 1970, when the team won the Eastern Divison CFL championship...
Although he logged much playing time during the CFL's short, four-game exhibition season, Stoeckel had more than his inexperience and small stature going against him. "Unlike in the States, the Canadians keep only two quarterbacks, and they don't have a taxi squad, so they had no room for me," says Stoeckel. "But I was still a little shocked when they...
...reassurances from his Canadian coach that he still had the ability to play professional ball. Although he says he "never entertained the thought" he could play in the NFL with his size, the 5 ft. 11 inch rollout-style quarterback won't quit his dream of returning to the CFL or possibly the World Football League, next year...
...these types of battles aren't limited to politics among hockey teams. Basketball has developed into a two-bloc system, and, recently, football has become a tri-polar set-up on the NFL, CFL and the lesser WFL (Very similar to the U.S., Soviet Union, China big three line-up). Among these last three there has been a constant battle to recruit and sign-up college talent which closely resembles the scramble among superpowers to enlist lesser nations on their sides, often through devious alliances...
Since being cut Crone has been at home in Meriden. Conn., where he has contacted NFL and Canadian Football League teams in hopes of playing somewhere this season. Although the CFL season has already started, several teams need quarterbacking help and Harvard Coach Joe Restic may help Crone to find a home with one of them. Restic was the coach of the CFL Hamilton Tiger Cats before coming to Harvard and certainly will recommend Crone highly to his former cohorts. In addition, the Atlanta Falcons told Crone last week that Ottawa (CFL) was calling around the NFL in search...