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...crackers in college, never earned more than $8,500 a year, never took a loan. He was precious, persnickety, sometimes naive. He refused to recruit players or give athletic scholarships. "I would rather lose every game than win one by unfair means," he said. Over the years Amos Alonzo Stagg won a fantastic 310 games - and invented just about everything there is to football today...
Died. Stella Stagg, 89, wife of Football Patriarch Amos Alonzo Stagg, 101, who married Stagg in his second year as the University of Chicago's coach, herself became a leading female authority on the game by attending his every scrimmage and chalk talk, diagramming his plays and exercising an uncanny eye for ferreting out the opposition's weaknesses; of cancer; in Stockton, Calif...
...makeshift laboratory beneath Chicago's Stagg Stadium, Eugene Rabinowitch heard the tick of the future...
...President Franklin D. Roosevelt suggesting that "it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power would be generated." He was present at the University of Chicago's secrecy-shrouded squash court under the Stagg Field stands when the first nuclear reactor went critical on Dec. 2, 1942. He was responsible for the design of the great plutonium reactors at Hanford, Wash...
...whole university is no longer a place for on-the-field training. The football schedule has been cut and athletic scholarships shrunk. Says Athletic Director Paul Stagg, Alonzo's son: "I'm riding a very thin line at present...