Word: stagg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amos Alonzo Stagg, University of Chicago coach, had a birthday, learned the significance of numbers. There are 11 men on a football team; 44 years ago he first donned moleskins at Yale; he was 66 last week...
Alonzo A. Stagg's University of Chicago squad opened unevenly, losing to Oklahoma...
Some of the most interesting asquisitions are "Treasury of Sacred Song" by J. E. Palgrave: "A New England Boyhood" by E. W. Hale; "Punch" 1927, a bound collection of that magazine: "Torrocks Jaunts" by P. S. Surteas; and "Touchdown" by Coach. Alonzo Stagg, an account of the present University of Chicago mentor's experience with the game of football...
Amos Alonzo Stagg, football coach of the University of Chicago: "During a practice scrimmage between my Varsity and freshman teams, I, aged 64, failed to skip out of the way of a crashing line play, was bowled over and buried at the bottom of a pile of some 20 kicking, thrashing athletes. When this pile was removed, there I lay, senseless. Water soon restored me and up I leaped to berate the Varsity for failing to check the freshmen's attack. . . . On Saturday, the Varsity lost to Illinois...
...fears that the venerable A. A. Stagg has piled up year by year came home to him like a nightmare and his big Maroon team crumpled before eleven uneasy, shifting boys from Purdue. Score: Purdue, 6; Chicago...