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DIED. HANK STRAM, 82, innovative football coach and winner of more games than anyone in the history of the American Football League (AFL); of complications from diabetes; in Covington, La. He took the Kansas City Chiefs to the first Super Bowl, where the upstart AFL champs were trounced by the mighty Green Bay Packers. Three years later, he led the Chiefs to an upset victory over the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IV, helping to cement the legitimacy of the fledgling...
...Look at Kassulke running around," Kansas City Chiefs Coach Hank Stram gloated in a famous film of the runaway. "It looks like a Chinese fire drill. "About 3½ years later, a motorcycle accident paralyzed Karl Kassulke's legs. Recalling only that the Chiefs had an intricate offense, he says, "Certain memories have been lost, but I've got my normal thinking back," and he has been "fending very well in a wheelchair." Able to drive a special car, Kassulke, 44, works for Broken Wing, a Christian outreach to the handicapped. He teaches the various transferring techniques, such as from wheelchair...
Sports Quiz--True or False: Both George Allen (head coach of the Washington Redskins and L.A. Rams) and Hank Stram (New Orleans Saints and K.C. Chiefs) once actively sought the position of head football coach at Harvard College...
...Although Stram was not seriously considered for the post eventually given to John Yovicsin (then head coach of Gettysburg College), all information indicates that Allen was among the finalists under consideration by Harvard athletic Director Thomas D. Bolles. His resume boasted impeccable credentials as both a football textbook author and head coach at Whittier College in California. Indeed, his folder (the contents of which cannot be divulged) is one of the thickest among the scores of applicants for the prestigious...
...city's radios and television sets that Sunday afternoon. The Chiefs' victory that year was won amid a gambling investigation during which the name of Quarterback Lenny Dawson arose. President Richard Nixon made two of his famous locker-room calls to buck up Dawson and Coach Hank Stram...