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...squash court below the west stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, 42 scientists stared intently at a strange pile of graphite bricks. The time was 9:45 on a morning just ten years ago. Italian-born Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi gave the signal for the experiment to begin. A cadmium control rod was slowly drawn from position. Geiger counters clicked. Control lights flashed. The pen in an automatic recording device moved over graph paper in a rising curve. At 3:45 Dr. Fermi calmly announced: "The reaction is self-sustaining; the curve is exponential." A chain reaction...
...send his son, Alonzo Jr., into the game to try an end run. Stagg refused, and Chicago lost the game, 21-18. Afterwards, Crisler asked Stagg why he had refused. Stagg pointed to an obscure footnote in the rule book: "The committee deprecates the use of a substitute to convey information." Alonzo Jr. had lost his chance to become a football immortal (he never even won his letter) because Old Man Stagg refused to wink at the rule book...
...coaching job at California's little (1,314 students) College of the Pacific, and his 1939 team upended big California, 6-0. Meanwhile, Chicago was losing by 61-0 scores. That was the year that once-mighty Chicago, which had won 241 games (107 losses) for Old Man Stagg, finally gave up football...
...Time to Reform. In 1946, when Stagg was 84, College of the Pacific retired him once again. Again he refused to quit. He went East to Susquehanna, where he became coach of the offense. Defensive coach: Amos Alonzo Stagg Jr. But every spring, Stagg hops back to California for spring practice at College of the Pacific, where he assists Athletic Director Paul Stagg, another...
...Last week, chipper and tanned, Old Man Stagg spryly demonstrated a few football plays on the thick, velvety turf of Chicago's Stagg Field. He was there as guest of honor at a celebration of his goth birthday (actual date...