Word: alonzo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan for the 76th N. E. A. convention and incidental sight-seeing were embarrassed by even bolder talk than usual. Before the meeting began, a teacher tossed a firecracker at the American Legion (see col. 2). At an opening session, New York University's short, blunt Professor Alonzo Franklin Myers proposed that U. S. teachers discuss with their pupils, as study materials on dictatorship, the recent testimony of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague on suppressing opponents' speeches. Wriggling under such naming of names, the N. E. A. delegates became even more uncomfortable (though some cheered) when...
After peering and prying into hundreds of Civilian Conservation Corps mouths, Dentist Edgar Alonzo Waterman of Portland, Ore. last week opened his own and spoke a large mouthful. Said Dentist Waterman: The best U. S. teeth come from Arkansas and Tennessee, the worst from New Jersey, New York and New England...
...just the man Michigan wanted, however. He knew his way about the Big Ten, having spent eight years as assistant to Chicago's famed Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg and two years as head coach at Minnesota before going to Princeton in 1932. He had rescued Princeton football from temporary ignominy, developed two undefeated, untied teams (1933 and 1935). To make the position attractive enough, Michigan last week offered Crisler not only its coaching job but a professorship (Physical Education) and the post of assistant to Athletic Director Yost, now 67 and almost ready to retire. With the guarantee...
...first year at Springfield College (Mass.) where his father Amos Alonzo Stagg made his coaching debut 47 years ago. Coach Paul Stagg saw his team trounced by Harvard...
...illustrious Amos Alonzo Stagg, "Grand Old Man of Football," whose Springeld team met Harvard for the first time in 1891, young Stagg faces his first severe test today. He is tackling a task this season which a less courageous young man would shun like poison ivy. Coming from Moravian College, a small Pennsylvania school, the 28-year old mentor stepped into a job formerly held by Jack Rothacher, rated by experts as one of the finest small college coaches in New England. He stepped in at a time when veterans were low and the schedule tough...