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Football Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg gave to Chicago's new Jackson Park Museum' of Science & Industry the electric buggy which for years carried him about the University of Chicago field when he was suffering from sciatica...
Amos Alonzo Stagg, 70, of Chicago is the oldest football wizard in the U. S. He has coached 41 Chicago teams. He invented the shift, which Knute Rockne later improved and popularized. When he went to Yale he planned to enter the ministry. His interest in football defeated his interest in theology in 1889, when Yale made 698 points to 0 for its opponents. Amos Alonzo Stagg played end, made Walter Camp's first All-American. He went to Chicago to be Director of Athletics at $2,500 a year in 1892. Last month Chicago's trustees voted...
Chicago's 70-year-old coach, Amos Alonzo Stagg, disgruntled by a university ruling that he must retire at the end of the season, said he was "frankly, not content to do it." He predicted for himself 15 more years of active coaching, then watched Chicago score three times in the last period to beat Knox...
Amos Alonzo Stagg, Yale's first Ail-American end, went back to New Haven with his 41st Chicago team, which had started its season by beating Monmouth 41 to O. A prodigious skimming pass, Zimmer to Sahlin, from midfield to the goal line, gave Chicago its second-period touchdown, gave Yale, held scoreless by Bates the week before, its second tie for the season...
...Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg's 41st Chicago squad beat Monmouth College by the right score?...