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After World War II, with his idea on the go like a Susquehanna flood, Stotz asked U.S. Rubber Co. if it would make a rubber-cleated shoe for his Little Leaguers. The company not only agreed to turn out the shoe (the Little League now gives approval to any manufacturer meeting its specifications), but also to underwrite most of the Little League's central expenses as "enlightened public relations." This year, U.S. Rubber donated about $150,000 toward operating the league's 25-staffer headquarters in Williamsport and footing World Series players' traveling expenses. Other league activities...
...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...
Blough, 48, was born in Riverside, Pa., went to Susquehanna University and Yale Law School. He left private law practice in Manhattan in 1939 to serve as a counsel for Big Steel during a Government investigation. As secretary of U.S. Steel's operating subsidiary, he learned production; as Fairless' alter ego on many trips to Washington, he helped shape policy. This week Vice Chairman Blough was helping Lawyer John W. Davis plead Big Steel's case in the Supreme Court against presidential seizure...
...football's lean and slippered pantaloon, sat down to his 89th birthday dinner (half cup of pea soup, two ears of corn, peaches and milk-"Never any fuss about birthdays at our house") and made plans for his 62nd year of coaching. This fall he will return to Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa., where he has been co-coach with his son Amos Alonzo Jr., 52, for the past four years...
...Race-track French. Havre de Grace (Harbor of Grace) got its name during the American Revolution, when the Marquis de Lafayette decided that the setting, at the mouth of the Susquehanna, reminded him of France's Le Havre...