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...Just a Game. By 1933 Stagg was 70 and up for mandatory retirement. Double A Stagg was football's Grand Old Man. Only Connie Mack, 80-year-old manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, compared with him then (as he does now) in disregard of age. Both hate liquor and tobacco. Both have infinite faith in their players. Both recognize that baseball and football are only games-something few coaches admit-and refuse to flail their breasts or their players when they hit a losing streak...
...Stagg had still not had his fill of football. He took his second lifetime job, coaching at Pacific. As at Chicago, his wife was his chief scout. In ten years, with poor material, he won less than half his games. Pacific sometimes grumbled that the Old Man was aging and should gracefully retire. But Stagg stubbornly continued to teach his boys to play...
When the Navy sent football men to Pacific, Stagg was deluged with three veterans for each position, including an ex-St. Mary's passing ace named Johnny Podesto. Stagg drilled home his system, called a "6-dinger," which he invented at Yale in 1889. He explained his nomenclature: the quarterback is the "on back," the full the "off," the halfs the "rear" and "wing," depending on which leads the play. He thought he might win a few games. Last week's victory was the fifth straight...
...Pacific gets by Southern California this week, it should end the season undefeated and the Coast's contender for the national championship title, for which Army, Navy and Notre Dame (also a Navy school) are contending spectacularly. It would also give Alonzo Stagg his first crack at coaching a Rose Bowl team...
...Alonzo Stagg's old custom when he won a game was to let things go, celebrate by eating a quart of ice cream. With the wartime shortage he has had to run in a substitute-a dish of fresh figs...