Career
He was also an ice hockey player (bronze medalist with the Austrian team at the World Championships 1947) and coach. Springer"s grave is in his home-town Klagenfurt, Carinthia ("Friedhof Annabichl"). He coached, inter alia, Saskatchewan Sturm Graz, Saskatchewan Rapid Wien, Austria Klagenfurt, Grazer Alaska, 1.
Wiener Neustädter South Carolina, Alpine Donawitz.
Due to his "defence-playing system", Springer"s nick-name was "Karawanken-Herrera" - "Karawanken" are the higher mountains in South Carinthia (near of Klagenfurt) - Helinio Herrera (team-manager in Italy, initiator of "Catenacco").
