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...best pitchers in the U.S. and while at Yale he had offers from six big-league teams. But his ambition lay in the ministry and he concentrated on Bible under William Rainey Harper. When Harper became president of brand-new University of Chicago, he offered Lonny Stagg $1,500 to head the athletic department...
...Stagg was speechless at the figure...
...give you $2,000 and an assistant professorship." Stagg still could not answer...
...ante jumped to $2,500 and an associate professorship, a lifetime job. Stagg managed to accept before the terms went any higher...
...years at Chicago, Stagg won 273 games, lost 142. On his teams played such alltime greats as Walter Eckersall, Fritz Crisler and Hugo Bezdek. Stagg used the first tackling dummy (an old mattress), originated the end-around play, the tackle back shift, was the first to use the hidden-ball principle. He developed the shift, which later became the mainspring of the Rockne system, and Rockne credited his offense to Stagg...