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When Amos Alonzo Stagg first started to coach football at the University of Chicago, not one of the school's buildings had been finished. Jim Corbett had just won the heavyweight championship from John L. Sullivan; Knute Rockne was a four-year-old youngster in Norway; and it was eight years before the founding of baseball's American League. At Chicago only 13 men turned up for football practice, so Coach Stagg, a Walter Camp All-America end at Yale (class of '88), joined the fun and played on the team himself...
...years as Chicago's football coach, "Old Man Stagg," as he is still affectionately called, was always ready to join the fun-provided it was good, clean fun. He never allowed his players to swear on the field or in the locker room. He was a training-table model for his athletes because he never smoked or drank-not even coffee or tea. Always trying to improve the game, Coach Stagg devised one innovation after another-e.g., the tackling dummy (made from an old mattress), spread formation, tackle back shift and end-around plays...
...Time to Retire. Stagg made other contributions to the game that do not show up in record books or statistics. In 1922, when Chicago was playing Princeton's "Team of Destiny" (Fullback Charley Caldwell, now Princeton's coach; Quarterback John Gorman; End Howard ["Howdy"] Gray), the Chicago offense was stopped cold on the Tiger two-yard line. After Chicago tried unsuccessfully to batter its way through center, Stagg's assistant, "Fritz" Crisler (later a Princeton coach, 1932-37), suggested that...
Coaches and officials have contributed to "undesirable trends" in the game of football, the N.C.A.A. Rules Committee declared yesterday. A resolution sponsored by Amos Alonso Stagg called upon them to teach and enforce the spirit as well as the letter of the regulations...
...Stagg joined his old instructor, Hooton, in 1946. Since then he has been able to interview the one-third of the 2,361 subjects of his study who are still alive. In addition, he has spent thousands of hours looking over alumni records, class reports, biographical works, and University archives. Results of his findings will appear in scientific publications and book form next year...