Word: alonzo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alonzo Stagg's College of the Pacific team (which lost its glowing chance fortnight ago of representing the West Coast in the Rose Bowl) now loses six regulars and four substitutes, all Marines...
Cotton-haired, devout, 81-year-old Amos Alonzo Stagg was being carried off the field last week on the shoulders of his football team. His College of the Pacific team had just toppled a collection of All-Americas and professionals from Del Monte Pre-Flight, 16-to-7, in one of the season's biggest upsets. Not since Alonzo Stagg pitched Yale's baseball team to a 6-to-5 victory over Harvard 57 years ago had he beamed so broadly. His College of the Pacific looked like the strongest on the Pacific Coast, perhaps his best team...
...Pacific gets by Southern California this week, it should end the season undefeated and the Coast's contender for the national championship title, for which Army, Navy and Notre Dame (also a Navy school) are contending spectacularly. It would also give Alonzo Stagg his first crack at coaching a Rose Bowl team...
...Alonzo Stagg's old custom when he won a game was to let things go, celebrate by eating a quart of ice cream. With the wartime shortage he has had to run in a substitute-a dish of fresh figs...
...When Chicago was futilely pounding at the center of the Princeton line with only two yards to go in the 1922 game, an assistant coach suggested to Stagg that he substitute his son to make an end run. He refused, Chicago lost by three points, and Alonzo Jr. never won his letter. Later Stagg justified himself by pointing to a footnote in the rule book: "The [rules] committee deprecates the use of a substitute to convey information...