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What made this scene unique among thousands of similar spectacles on U.S. playing fields was the identity of the kicking coach: Amos Alonzo Stagg, who celebrated his 96th birthday on Aug. 16. It was extraordinary enough that Stagg, who was born seven years before college football (Princeton-Rutgers, 1869), had lived so long and punctuated his life with a series of brilliant firsts in several sports. But more remarkable yet was the state of his mind and body after almost a century of enormous activity...
Like a Youngster of 70. Despite a normal number of illnesses, and a back sprain that has caused discomfort off and on for more than half a century, Stagg is well enough preserved, both mentally and physically, to function as effectively as many a man 25 years his junior...
With millions in the U.S. heading for ages of fourscore years and more, Stagg's age and continuing activity pose a vital question for modern medicine: What is the secret of living healthily, happily and usefully in old age? How has Stagg done it? In fields unrelated to physical fitness, how has the same goal been achieved by other productive oldsters, such as ex-President Herbert Hoover (84), Senator Theodore Francis Green (91), and Manhattan Lawyer Charles C. Burlingham...
...Spartan Stuff. To prepare for the oldsters whose sheer numbers will revolutionize not only the practice of medicine but also the world's social, political and economic structure, gerontologists turn both to their test tubes and to individuals like Amos Alonzo Stagg. From him and the men on nearby rungs of time's ladder they hope to learn what are the common denominators in longevity-and, more especially, in useful longevity. For they subscribe to the motto: "Not just to add years to life, but to add life to years...
Nonagenarian Stagg's life, though far from typical, may contain clues, for the observant gerontologist, to the secret of a long and useful existence. The first factor in Stagg's favor-though not to the same degree as in the case of some of his near peers-is heredity. Stagg's father, a cobbler who lived in West Orange, N.J., lived to be 73, his mother...