Elbert foules biography of christopher
Elbert Foules played 5 seasons for the Eagles....
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"Our head coach, Marion Campbell, was a great defensive mind.
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And my defensive (backs) coach, Fred Bruney, had a lot of patience with us. And what happened was, a couple of guys got hurt, and I got a chance to get in. And once I got in, I was playing so well, they just left me in there," says Foules, who collected four interceptions.
"You see, they didn't have a lot of confidence in me, initially, coming from a little, small school like I did.
But when I got that opportunity, everything just went well."
Unfortunately for Campbell, it wasn't well enough. He was let go with one game remaining in 1985.
Football legend Elbert Foules still giving back to Greenville Delta Democrat-Times May 29, Greenville's hometown hero, Elbert Foules.Bruney became the interim head coach for the season finale in Minnesota, and guided the Eagles to a 37-35 win over the Vikings. The Eagles then hired Buddy Ryan, who had been the defensive coordinator of the newly crowned Super Bowl XX Champion Chicago Bears.
"Coach Campbell and Coach Bruney had taken me under their wings.
We were all like a family," F