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...Worcester's stalling tactics baffled the Stahlmen, and Paul Stagg's quintet pulled away again. Cecil Walton, Schmit, and Kuykendall broke through the Crimson defense to sew up the victory as time...
Died. Keene Fitzpatrick, 79, famed Princeton track coach (1910-32); after a long illness; in Princeton, N.J. When he was just beginning his coaching career, at Yale, he gave later-famed coach Amos Alonzo Stagg a primer course in the art of the fast breakaway; later, at Michigan, he coached Christian Gauss, who became Princeton's dean...
Amos Alonzo Stagg, silver-haired, 81-year-old coach at the College of the Pacific, got 78% of the votes cast by the Football Writers' Association for the game's "man of the year." His Navy trainees had polished off all but two of their nine tough opponents. At the same time (20-odd years after his team-producing heyday at the University of Chicago), 128 coaches on a New York World-Telegram panel hailed him as their outstanding colleague...
...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...
...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...