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...paleolithic age of football, Chicago was a fearsome name. Under Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, co-founder of the Big Ten Conference in 1896, the Maroons won more undisputed Conference championships than any of their nine rivals, went down in football history as the only team to beat Fielding H. Yost's early-century, point-a-minute monsters during their five-year reign of terror...
Also Rons. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and Chicago looked last week like the Little Five of the Big Ten. Feeblest is Chicago. Once - in the star-spangled days of Amos Alonzo Stagg - the Maroons shared honors with Michigan as the top team in the Midwest. But in the last decade, under the regime of President Robert M. Hutchins, football has been de-emphasized, its teams play like scrubs (154 points have been scored against them in four games this season) and its alumni bow their heads on Saturday nights. "We are a big joke in the eyes of the American...
...Mills had no secret formula. Everything he worked out could be discovered by an alert coach. He had what most of them lack--real enthusiasm for punting. Of course control has always been sought. Stagg, Yost, Percy Haughton of Harvard, all were aware of the importance of kicking. Mills' contribution was scientific. What he was after and what he perfected was the return-proof kick," Murray claims...
...followed this with graduate work at Wisconsin and University of Chicago, where he coached football under Amos Alonzo Stagg. A Ph.D. thesis on Illinois school finance in 1924 started Floyd Reeves toward national renown. He made 400 surveys of school systems and colleges, became the No. 1 U. S. expert on college administration, directed a survey of University of Chicago, where he is still a professor, that shaped the Hutchins plan...
Centre of a sentimental homecoming celebration, Alonzo Stagg may have pondered the changes that have taken place in U. S. football since he was named on Walter Camp's first All-America in 1889, may have moaned over the low estate of the East's Big Three and his alma mater, Yale, in particular (beaten by Princeton last week...