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...Stockton, Calif., Amos Alonzo Stagg, football's lean and slippered pantaloon, sat down to his 89th birthday dinner (half cup of pea soup, two ears of corn, peaches and milk-"Never any fuss about birthdays at our house") and made plans for his 62nd year of coaching. This fall he will return to Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa., where he has been co-coach with his son Amos Alonzo Jr., 52, for the past four years...
...great names connected with the Harvard-Yale series are legend. For Harvard--Haughton, Wood, Ticknor, Casey, Brickley, Horwoon; for Yale--Booth, Seymour, Frank, Kelley, Stagg. Moreover, many changes in football rules and strategy are associated with this rivalry...
...Palm Springs, Calif, last week, football's eldest statesman had a few words to say. White-haired Amos Alonzo Stagg, who began coaching when Knute Rockne was a two-year-old boy in Norway, had forgotten more about the game than some of the younger coaches present ever knew. He originated such things as the end-around play, the fake kickoff and the tackling dummy-and at 86, is still going strong as coach at Susquehanna University. Said Stagg at a National Collegiate Athletic Association rules committee meeting, where free substitution was the main topic...
Amos Alonzo Stagg, hale & hearty at 86, took charge of the opening football practice at Susquehanna University, began his 59th year as a college football coach...
...Americans have cavorted on the gridiron when Crimson and Blue met in the past. An incomplete list of them includes "the grand old man of football", Amos Alonzo Stagg, Clint Frank for Yale, George Ticknor, Wood, and Chub Peabody for Harvard. But any member of the backfield is apt to look like an All-American when the Bulldog and Old Jawa come to grips. For both teams, the season is not complete without that...