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This profusely illustrated book offers an informative history of college football--the great teams, stars, plays, and coaches of its 103 years. The story focuses particularly on the strategists whose genius shaped the game. Among the all-time great coaches included here are Pop Warner, Hurry-Up Yost, Alonzo Stagg, Knute Rockne, and Woody Hayes, to name but a few. Here, too, are the players--men like Jim Thorpe, George Gipp, Red Grange, Tom Harmon, and Johnny Lujack. Kaye places the story in the context of its times, finding both heroes and victims, but concentrating always on how the masterminds...
Hall of Famers Knute Rockne and Amos Alonzo Stagg didn't start their long reigns as football mentors until after they reached...
...world's first nuclear chain reaction, according to all the history books, was man-made and occurred in a closely guarded makeshift laboratory under Stagg Field at the University of Chicago on Dec. 2, 1942. Last week a former high commissioner of the French Atomic Energy Commission took issue with that belief. Addressing a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, Physicist Francis Perrin argued that nature, not man, produced the first chain reaction, and that it occurred in an African uranium deposit perhaps 1.7 billion years...
That locker-room homily on football was delivered not by Knute Rockne or Alonzo Stagg, but by the next President of the U.S. Perhaps because it applies equally well to his political career, Richard Nixon has never lost interest in the sport that inspired it. He often garnishes his speeches with stories of his football days at Whittier College-he was not very good-and turns to the newspaper sports page right after skimming the political columnists. After one campaign appearance in Miami, he relaxed by tossing a football around on the airport apron at 3 a.m. Last week-even...
...support from the Goldwater wing (and won the blessing of Barry), not because he belonged to the party's right wing, but because he was acceptable to it. Many of the stauncher conservatives preferred Reagan, but they realized that the California governor was not a viable national candidate. Tom Stagg Jr., national committeeman from Louisiana, acknowledged: "We've had our shot at a candidate who totally met our qualifications, and that candidate got six states. We've had our druthers. Now shall...