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<span class="vitstoryheadline">Stram gets Texan post</span>
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<span class="vitstorydeck">'Scoop' spoils Hunt's surprise party</span>
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<span class="vitstorydate">11:33 PM CDT on Monday, July 4, 2005</span>
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<span class="vitstorybyline">By CHARLES BURTON / The Dallas Morning News</span>
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      <i>This story appeared in the December 21, 1959 editions of </i>The 
      Dallas Morning News.
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      Lamar Hunt has reached into the college ranks for a producer of dazzling 
      pro-style offenses to coach his Dallas Texans.
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    <div style="clear: right; width: 200px; float: right; margin-left: 10px" class="biblockmore"><a class="bilabel">Cowboys/NFL</a><div class="biblockheads">

<p><strong>Hank Stram (1923-2005)</strong></p>

<p><A HREF="/sharedcontent/dws/spt/football/nfl/stories/070505dnsponflstram.73df88c3.html">
Hall of Fame coach Stram dead at 82</a></p>

<p><strong>From the archives:</strong><br>
&#8226; <A HREF="/sharedcontent/dws/spt/football/nfl/stories/070505dnspostramhire.7465c226.html">Hired in Dallas</a> (12/21/59)<br>
&#8226; <A HREF="/sharedcontent/dws/spt/football/nfl/stories/070505dnspotexansdebut.743e8c80.html">
Texans' debut</a> (9/11/60)<br>
&#8226; <A HREF="/sharedcontent/dws/spt/football/nfl/stories/070505dnspoafltexanswin.74d44d91.html">
AFL champs</a> (12/24/62)<br>

<p style="border-bottom: 0 none #999;">From Pro Football Hall of Fame official site:<br>
&#8226; <A HREF="http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?player_id=205" target="_blank">
Profile</a> | <a href="http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/release.jsp?release_id=988" target="_blank">Enshrinement speech</a></p>

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      His choice is Henry (Hank) Stram, personable 35-year-old Purdue 
      graduate, who has built a string of spectacular attacks at his alma 
      mater, at Southern Methodist, Notre Dame and University of Miami.
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      &quot;He has been highly recommended to me by many wise football people,&quot; 
      Hunt said Sunday in announcing his selection. &quot;I have considered many 
      coaches, and I talked to Stram as early as last September down in Miami.&quot;

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      Hunt said Stram's three assistants, who have not yet been chosen, will 
      include at least two with National Football League experience, 
      particularly in teaching defensive play.
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      Stram, who is resigning his Miami post to accept the challenge of the 
      new American Professional Football League will come here next Tuesday 
      for a press reception. It had been planned as a surprise party by Hunt, 
      but word of Stram's hiring leaked out in Miami Saturday and the story 
      was carried as a rumor in Sunday's editions of the Miami Herald and News.
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      &quot;I am delighted at this opportunity,&quot; Stram told The Dallas News by 
      telephone from Florida.
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      &quot;I think the American League is a wonderful thing. It is an exciting 
      challenge, and I cannot imagine a finer gentleman to work for than Lamar 
      Hunt. And you know how I feel about Dallas.&quot;
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      <img alt="DMN FILE" src="/sharedcontent/dws/img/07-05/0705stram.jpg" title="Lamar Hunt (left) hired Hank Stram to coach the AFL's Dallas Texans in 1960." width="200" onclick="return clickedImage(this);" onmouseover=" this.style.cursor='hand'">
      

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        Lamar Hunt (left) hired Hank Stram to coach the AFL's Dallas Texans in 
        1960.
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      Stram has been a Texan at heart ever since he was assigned to various 
      military installations in the state during World War II. He still owns 
      the home at 7614 Northaven Road that he purchased while tutoring SMU's 
      backfield for Woody Woodard. He was strongly considered for the head 
      coaching job when Woodard resigned.
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      Stram was in complete charge of offense for the Miami Hurricanes this 
      season, and his attack was built around quarterback Fran Curci, a 
      148-pound quarterback. The team, bearing the Stram trademark of widely 
      flanked ends, slot halfbacks and carying line splits, won six of 10 
      games. Virtually the same material was available as that on the Miami 
      squad of the previous year. It won two of eight games.
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      The ex-Purdue halfback developed such forward passers as All-American 
      Len Dawson at his alma mater and George Izo of Notre Dame. Though he has 
      had no professional football experience, the ex-SMU aid turned down a 
      bid to tutor the Philadelphia Eagles backfield in order to accept a job 
      at Notre Dame.
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