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Born: | Lyndora, Pennsylvania, U.S. | May 14, 1926
Died: | October 20, 2017 Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S. | (aged 91)
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High school: | Butler Senior (Butler, Pennsylvania) |
College: | Slippery Rock State |
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Paul "Red" Uram (May 14, 1926 – October 20, 2017), was an American former gymnastics and flexibility coach. He is a member of the U.S. Gymanstics Hall of Fame and he coached on four Super Bowl-winning teams with the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He also is the author of two books on human movement.
Uram grew up in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he attended Butler Senior High School. He participated in football and track and field. He went on to play quarterback at Slippery Rock State Teacher's College from which he graduated in 1949.[1]
Uram's coaching career began at Millvale High School in Millvale, Pennsylvania, where he spent six years in the early 1950s coaching football, gymnastics and track and field. His gymnastics teams won 120 straight dual meets during his tenure.[2] He later coached gymnastics at his alma mater, Butler Senior High School, where his teams won 108 straight dual meets and three state championships.[3]
He served as the flexibility and kicking coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1973 through 1981, during which span the team won four Super Bowls.[2] He also worked with the NFL's Baltimore Colts, the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA, the NHL's Detroit Red Wings and the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball.[4]
He is the author of two books on the topic of human movement, flexibility and stretching.