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Samuel Insull did not press his stocks on opera singers quite so urgently as he did on his shirt-sleeved workers and scrubwomen. But the performers in his $20,000,000 opera house regarded him as a financial wizard who could do no wrong. The News found that the once high-priced Rosa Raisa had lost all that she had, was in straitened circumstances along with such investors as Conductor Giorgio Polacco & wife (Soprano Edith Mason), Conductors Emil Cooper. Egon Pollak. Roberto Moranzoni, Baritone Cesare Formichi, Stage Manager Otto Erhardt...
...suppose he has 'em. Many of the important devices for which the Roeblings hold patents are the work of his brain and Washington Roebling once told me "Young Ferd is the best engineer the family ever turned out." He is reputed to be a sort of financial wizard. He has two promising sons, one already in the mill and the other a senior at Princeton. They have carried on pretty well for four generations...
...unusual "triple wingback" offense, designed by Coach De Ormond ("Tuss") McLaughry to flank both tackles and one end. Colgate, coached by Andy Kerr, a wiry, witty little Scot who was Glenn Warner's predecessor at Stanford (and who, many experts think, teaches Warner football better than Wizard Warner), has an amazingly complicated attack, based not on power but on a multiplicity of spinners, reverses, lateral passes. Colgate's most noticeable linemen are Captain Bob ("Kewpie") Smith, a 172-lb. left guard and Left End Anderson, a graceful and adroit pass-catcher who often finds four men assigned...
With football's post-War inflation, foothall coaches reached their present pinnacle of importance. There are now some 3,000 well-paid, highly respected football coaches in the U. S. The principal disadvantage in the profession of football wizard is its uncertainty. If a team stops winning its games consistently, its coach stops receiving a wizard's salary. There are a few football coaches in the U. S. who have overcome this handicap sufficiently to make their reputations for wizardry, like Howard Jones's, secure...
Amos Alonzo Stagg, 70, of Chicago is the oldest football wizard in the U. S. He has coached 41 Chicago teams. He invented the shift, which Knute Rockne later improved and popularized. When he went to Yale he planned to enter the ministry. His interest in football defeated his interest in theology in 1889, when Yale made 698 points to 0 for its opponents. Amos Alonzo Stagg played end, made Walter Camp's first All-American. He went to Chicago to be Director of Athletics at $2,500 a year in 1892. Last month Chicago's trustees voted...