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SPRINGFIELD, MASS., October 1--Coach Paul Stagg will send his Springfield College Maroons into the Harvard game tomorrow in fine physical condition and in fighting spirit. "With an extra week's practice the team has developed a smoothness lacking in last week's game," he said today...
...Cadet Stagg's desire to get off the Ranger was something easily comprehensible to the whole Pacific Fleet. He had just won the puzzler's equivalent of first prize in the Irish-sweepstakes, had beaten 2,000,000 other hopefuls for the $100,000 first prize in Old Gold cigarette's famed rebus puzzle contest (TIME, May 24). News of the award and names of 200 out of 1,000 other prize winners were published last week in 350 U. S. newspapers by P. Lorillard Co. Inc. over three months after the last Old Gold rebus appeared...
...They expected Stanford, whom the Trojans had already vanquished in a dual meet and in the Pacific Coast Conference championships, to take second place. They expected to see Johnny Woodruff, long-striding University of Pittsburgh Negro, break the N.C.A.A. record for the half-mile. They expected old Amos Alonzo Stagg, now coaching football at the College of the Pacific, to officiate as head referee at the meet he inaugurated in Chicago 16 years ago. In particular, the 15,000 track fans had come expecting to see Southern California's Bill Sefton and Earle Meadows tie for an all-time...
Invited to a temperance dinner in Chicago in 1933, Northwestern's President Walter Dill Scott was unable to attend. Northwestern's Athletic Director Kenneth L. Wilson went in his place, which was between Chicago's famed Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg and Methodist Bishop Ernest Lynn Waldorf. Bishop Waldorf, who played baseball at Syracuse University, amiably made conversation by saying that his son was a football coach in Oklahoma. Back in his office, Director Wilson, who was looking for a successor to Northwestern's Coach Dick Hanley, looked up the record of the bishop...
Other Republican first-stringers: Thomas (The Clansman) Dixon, Clarence Buddington Kelland, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Branch Rickey, Alice Marble...