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...years ago Amos Alonzo Stagg reached three score and ten, was told that he was through as faculty member, athletic director and football coach at the University of Chicago.* For 41 years he had taught football there, was credited with such innovations as the tackling dummy (his first was an old mattress), and numerals for players' jerseys, had contributed more to the technique of the game than any other man in the country. He was the "Grand Old Man" of football...
...Grand Old Man Stagg was not through. Instead of accepting a $10,000-a-year sinecure as Chicago's representative in Big Ten Councils, he got a job as football coach at the little College of the Pacific. Last week 76-year-old Alonzo Stagg, still spry and ruddy in his 49th year of coaching, came back to Chicago, sat on a hard bench in the stadium that is named after him and, with mixed emotions, watched his smart little Pacific team trounce the Maroons...
...just the man Michigan wanted, however. He knew his way about the Big Ten, having spent eight years as assistant to Chicago's famed Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg and two years as head coach at Minnesota before going to Princeton in 1932. He had rescued Princeton football from temporary ignominy, developed two undefeated, untied teams (1933 and 1935). To make the position attractive enough, Michigan last week offered Crisler not only its coaching job but a professorship (Physical Education) and the post of assistant to Athletic Director Yost, now 67 and almost ready to retire. With the guarantee...
...first year at Springfield College (Mass.) where his father Amos Alonzo Stagg made his coaching debut 47 years ago. Coach Paul Stagg saw his team trounced by Harvard...
...illustrious Amos Alonzo Stagg, "Grand Old Man of Football," whose Springeld team met Harvard for the first time in 1891, young Stagg faces his first severe test today. He is tackling a task this season which a less courageous young man would shun like poison ivy. Coming from Moravian College, a small Pennsylvania school, the 28-year old mentor stepped into a job formerly held by Jack Rothacher, rated by experts as one of the finest small college coaches in New England. He stepped in at a time when veterans were low and the schedule tough...