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Show BYU names grid assistants; Fabris new man Assistant coaches have been named under Tom Hudspeth, Brigham Young University s new head football coach. Newest addition to the football foot-ball staff at BYU is Frank Fabris, football coach and ahtletic director at Rossville High School in Rossville, Georgia. A ten-year veteran in the coaching ranks, Fabris was a teammate of Hudspeth's at University of Tulsa. Assistant coaches being retained re-tained are Chris Apostol, La-Vell La-Vell Edwards and Earl Lindley. A fourth member of the staff, BYU's baseball coach Glenn Tuckett, will serve as freshman football coach and head scout for the varsity. Hudspeth designated the following fol-lowing staff assignments for the coming football season: Fabris, offensive line coach; Lindley, offensive backfield coach; Apostol, defensive back-field back-field coach; and Edwards, defensive de-fensive line coach. Coach Fabris, the only newcomer new-comer to BYU's football staff, will come to Provo from Rossville Ross-ville High School where he has been coaching for the past six years. During ten years of football coaching in Georgia his teams compiled a record of 82 victories, vic-tories, 15 losses and three ties. He set a coaching record in Georgia, winning the regional championship for five consecutive consecu-tive seasons. Last year he was named coach of Georgia's Northern All-Star team. Of the assistant coaches retained, re-tained, Chris Apostol has the longest tenure at BYU. He came to BYU from a very successful suc-cessful career at Ogden High School. Last year he coached the freshmen to a 3-1 season record. Earl Lindley, who has been on the varsity football staff since 1961, came to BYU from the Canadian Football League, where he spent three years as a regular with the Edmonton Eskimos. LaVell Edwards joined the varsity football staff in the spring of 1962, coming to BYU from Granite High School in Salt Lake City. Coach Glen Tuckett came to BYU in 1959 as coach of the Cougar's baseball team. Besides Be-sides serving as baseball coach, he coached the Cougar frosh footballers for two seasons and also served as head scout for the football team. |