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...choice was easy. Football has been Shaughnessy's lodestar since the day he went out for the Minnesota team in 1911. For 18 years before he succeeded Amos Alonzo Stagg at Chicago, he coached football at Tulane and Loyola of the South, put both colleges on the football map. Last winter, when Stanford asked him to come coach, Clark Shaughnessy said...
...snappy covers, plugging slogans like "Give a Bible for Christmas."Once, when religious-minded students at the University of Chicago handed out 2,000 copies of St. John's Gospel at a football game, later found most of them strewn on the field, McLaughlin phoned Coach Stagg, got permission to print on the back cover: "This book will help you win in the game of life. Alonzo Stagg." Next Saturday 3,000 copies were distributed. Only one was picked up afterwards on the field...
...circuit of universities like Chicago, which last season purified its football team out of existence. One man who sincerely hopes that may not happen is 47-year-old Clark D. Shaughnessy, coach of great Tulane teams for a dozen years, Chicago's coach (succeeding great Amos Alonzo Stagg) for the last seven. Last week Clark Shaughnessy was appointed coach of Stanford, replacing Claude ("Tiny") Thornhill, whom Stanford dropped after its disastrous last-place 1939 Pacific Conference season...
Seven years ago Coach Stagg was ousted when he reached three score and ten (Chicago's faculty retirement age). Young University President Robert Maynard Hutchins, a newcomer, had radical ideas about football. It received less attention than anthropology, no more than chess. In neolithic days Chicago became the dummy of the Big Ten. For three years it has failed to win a football game from any of its Conference opponents. This year the once mighty Maroons won two of eight games (against minor-league Oberlin and Wabash), had 308 points scored against them...
...great blow," moaned 77-year-old Amos Alonzo Stagg, now coach at the little College of the Pacific. "I'm foolish enough to believe the action wouldn't have happened had I been there...