Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INSTANT REPLAY: THE GREEN BAY DIARY OF JERRY KRAMER. A succinct answer to that over-asked question: What has happened to the Packers this year? Simple. Vince Lombardi is no longer coach. The Grand Old Martinet of pro football raged, cussed, threatened and coaxed his athletes into winning every Sunday, and Kramer, his all-pro right guard, makes a perceptive witness to his antics...
Head Coach Joel Kramer, injured seriously in a bone-jarring collision in the second quarter, returned two minutes later to spark the defensive backfield. He got support from former All-State Wisconsin soccer player Scott Jacobs who picked off two errant Eli passes. Pete Lennon, Tom Southwick, Jim Kitch, Chuch Hagen, and Barry Simon kept the pressure on the passer all day long...
Scared of Daddy. Kramer taped a diary last season, and Instant Replay is more or less the result. He shows that all was not beating and moaning in Lombardi's bedlam. "Tomorrow, I imagine, Coach Lombardi'll pat him on the head, rub his back, scratch his ears, and everybody'll feel a little better," he writes of one player. At other times, Coach leads his bulls in song. All very sincere, all very calculated. What makes the diary interesting is that the author knows exactly what is being done to him, chooses it, and even...
...Kramer has mixed feelings about the value of this perverse group therapy. Professionals talk a lot about the money, as if that were motive enough. But Kramer knows better. What justifies it for him finally is the comradeship and sense of celebration when the pounding stops-the feeling Victorian families must have had at Christmastime. The charade ends with Daddy happy for the moment, and a new trophy on the shelf: an unprecedented third world championship mounted on a field of broken collarbones. This psychic manipulation complements the military planning of the Packer High Command. Kramer starts on Tuesday...
Crimson head coach Joel Kramer does not foresee any problems tomorrow. "It's really your basic game of good clean, no-holds-barred touch football," he said. "And if we can keep our fuzzy-headed quarterback John Short from throwing too many interceptions, we'll be in fat city," he said. The game starts...