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...trouble, it seems, was that Pete thought TIME too often and too favorably mentions the University of Chicago, where Pete played football under Alonzo Stagg-before Dr. Robert M. Hutchins took Chicago out of the Big Ten. Pete's wife wasn't too upset because, as she wrote, "I sat out too many games in pouring rain and wrung water from my purple velvet hat in our courting days...
Amos Alonzo Stagg . . . . . Doctor of Public Service
...football's biggest weekend. All Saturday morning, rain fell on Columbus. But it stopped by noon, and on the stadium's dry turf Ohio State came back in the fourth quarter to whip Michigan, 21-7. Not since Chicago, coached by Amos Alonzo Stagg, turned the trick in 1913 had a Big Ten team won seven straight conference games; the Buckeyes were Big Ten champs and Rose Bowl-bound. All evening Columbus echoed to California Here I Come...
...Last of his long-lived teammates: Amos Alonzo Stagg, now 91, who retired from head coaching (College of the Pacific) at 84, now coaches part time at Stockton (Calif.) Junior College...
...seed growth has come from immigration, mainly from Baptist-heavy Texas, drawn by oil booms, defense centers (notably Los Alamos) and tourist folders. But an incalculable amount is the result of the Baptists' aggressive evangelism. Sparkplug of this go-getting gospeling is up-and-doing Dr. Harry P. Stagg, 55, a minister who came to New Mexico from Louisiana in 1930, and has been executive secretary of the New Mexico Baptists for the past 15 years. Rotarian Stagg has pushed mission work and evangelistic camp meetings, to harvest a bumper crop of conversions from ranchers and cowboys, Indians...