SPORTS PEOPLE; Too Rough in Tulsa (original) (raw)
Sports|SPORTS PEOPLE; Too Rough in Tulsa
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SPORTS PEOPLE
Nov. 17, 1983
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His Tulsa Roughnecks won the North American Soccer League's championship and he was named the league's coach of the year, but the club's threatened financial collapse and its dramatic rescue by fan donations proved too much for Terry Hennessey . Yesterday, he announced his resignation and said that he was moving to Australia. Steve Earle , the assistant coach, was named his replacement.
''I love Tulsa,'' said Hennessey, whose son, Dean , plays semipro soccer in Australia, ''but it has been a hard time here for me and my family. The last four weeks have been very taxing - winning the Soccer Bowl, then being a hair away from folding, then seeing the public come forward to keep the club alive.'' After the Roughnecks beat the Toronto Blizzard for the championship Oct. 1, a fund-raising campaign by a local radio station to help meet the club's 40,000payrollbroughtin40,000 payroll brought in 40,000payrollbroughtin65,000 in 12 hours.
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