Word: stagg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Youth is again under indictment, and must this time bow its head to the charges of no less an authority than Amos Alonzo Stagg, director of athletics at the University of Chicago. There is little doubt, in the opinion of Mr. Stagg, that modern youth has been allowed to grow up softer than a punctured balloon tire. He would put the blame on such Innocent appearing things as late hours, rich foods, and indulgence in other luxuries of life which he believes have combined to enervate the present generation...
...TIME of Nov. 17, mention was made on the Sport page of one ''Childe Harold Grange" who "to a dark tower came, at Stagg Field, Chicago." Browning, to be sure, mentions in one of his poems a certain Childe Roland who came to a dark tower; but no Childe Harold ever went near a dark tower, to my knowledge. There was a Childe Harold, mentioned by Lord Byron, who . . . wends through many a pleasant place, Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase...
...next most notable Conference events were: Northwestern's first Big Ten success in two years, 17 to 7, from Indiana; a 13-to-0 Michigan onslaught in Minnesota. Chicago, despite gloomy prognostications by her "Old Man," Coach Alonzo Stagg, managed to cope with Purdue, 19 to 6. The Conference championship rested, virtually, between Illinois and Chicago, with the odds on Illinois and Red Grange...
...Stagg Field, Chicago, there was carnage. All unwitting, a team from Indiana strayed in and fell prey to the fierce Chicago backfield, the potent Chicago line. When all was over, folk said Chicago is fiercer this year than any conference eleven-except Illinois. The score, which could have been worse: Chicago 23, Indiana...
...colleges took their tone from that old one which scored the most touchdowns. They sent for Yale coaches. Men like Stagg and Williams taught more than football. They taught a standard for young manhood...