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...never really gone, neither in Britain nor in the U.S. It may have been overshadowed in the past few years by a wave of such experimental groups as the Jefferson Airplane, The Doors and The Cream, not to mention the Beatles. But, as Chicago Disk Jockey Jim Stagg says, "basic rock, straight rock, has always been around and part...
...rapid calculations on a three-inch slide rule, then turned to the 41 scientists gathered with him on a balcony. "The reaction," announced Fermi, "is self-sustaining." In celebration, the scientists broke out a bottle of Chianti and drank it from paper cups. Thus, in a squash court on Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, the promise of an atomic age was born 25 years ago last week...
...Jersey cobbler, Stagg stood 5 ft. 6 in. tall and weighed barely 160 Ibs. when he played end for Yale in 1889 and was named to Walter Camp's first All-America Team. But his real sport then was baseball. Playing both as an undergraduate and graduate student, Stagg pitched Yale to five straight Big Three championships, was offered $4,500 to play for the New York Giants. He turned it down because ballparks had saloons in them and he was studying for the Presbyterian ministry. When a friend told him that he would never be a good public...
...forward pass was illegal, and the basic notion was the wedge - heads down, backs stiff, muscles tense, and PUSH! Stagg made it fun to watch and infinitely more fun to play. He dreamed up the huddle, the direct pass from center, the shift, the man in motion, the unbalanced line, the onside kick, the delayed buck, the sleeper play, the Statue of Liberty. In 1906, the year the forward pass was legalized, he had 64 pass plays in his playbook - and Chicago lost only one game, to Minnesota, 4-2. He coached at Chicago for 41 years, fielded four unbeaten...
...Chicago workout, there are no men playing - just jackasses grazing." Stagg's demands affected everyone. It was typical, one day in back' a Chicago touchdown because 1909, when he ordered officials to call the ballcarrier, unnoticed by them, had stepped out of bounds. "I would like to be thought of," he explained, "as an honest man." He was-so much so that he was twice asked to referee games in which his own team was playing...