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...Stagg Field, Chicago, there was carnage. All unwitting, a team from Indiana strayed in and fell prey to the fierce Chicago backfield, the potent Chicago line. When all was over, folk said Chicago is fiercer this year than any conference eleven-except Illinois. The score, which could have been worse: Chicago 23, Indiana...
...colleges took their tone from that old one which scored the most touchdowns. They sent for Yale coaches. Men like Stagg and Williams taught more than football. They taught a standard for young manhood...
Other standing committees which will report are the Central Board of Officials and Rules Committees on basketball, track, soccer, and other lesser sports. Special committees will report on the coming international athletic meet, the question of relations with the American Olympic Association, and other kindred topics. Mr. A. A. Stagg, director of the N. C. A. A. track meet, will outline this year's plans. This meet incidentally will have an added importance this year because the three place-winners in each event will be eligible for the final Olympic tryouts to be held at the Harvard Stadium June...
...Alonzo Stagg, famous coach at Chicago University, asks friends of college football to combat the forces staging professional games. He fears that American Rugby will become contaminated by the spirit of professional play and does not conceal a belief that the touts and gamblers of other sports will be diverted to football for a seasonal livelihood. He cites instances of amateurs being induced to enter professional games under an assumed name...
...long as football requires the utmost of its men, even throwing a tiring and wounded player into a situation where he must toss away the last of his vitality in one superb rush, the game cannot reach its highest pitch as a professional sport. Coach Stagg is right in opposing questionable tactics in playing the game, but one doubts if professional football is so powerful a menace as he fears. N. Y. WORKI