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...said that while several coaches, notably Alonzo Stagg, Glenn Warner, and George Halas, has made distinct contributions to gridiron strategy these would not have been possible if the material had not been there...
...Headache. Perhaps the luckiest college, football-wise, is California's College of the Pacific. Its head coach, Grand Old Amos Alonzo Stagg, is a firm and vigorous 80 (see cut) and not likely to quit as long as he can hear the thump of foot on football. Among the first-rate coaches who have flocked to the Navy's Preflight Training Schools are: Minnesota's Bernie Bierman (Iowa Preflight), Fordham's Jim Crowley (North Carolina Preflight), Southern Methodist's Matty Bell (Georgia Preflight), Southern California's Sam Barry (St. Mary's Preflight...
Typical British Paramount product is the recently released ten-minute news review of 1941, in which a blistering backward glance at some recent British historical weaknesses and blunders turns into a rousing shout for a new order. Says Cummins' commentator John Stagg, to shots of Chungking bombings: "We know that Chungking has been bombed hundreds of times, for lack of the defending planes we might easily have spared. To purchase a few months' respite, we even descended to the final ignominy of closing the last avenue to China-the Burma Road. . . . The old economic system must...
...late Dr. Williams, a shaggy-browed, sot-in-his-ways New Englander, who loved his old checkered cap more than he did the limelight, is less famed than his coaching contemporaries: Chicago's Amos Alonzo Stagg (his friend and football teammate in their turtleneck days at Yale) and Michigan's Fielding H. Yost (his archrival for 20 years). But the good doctor, who practiced gynecology nine months of the year during his coaching days at Minnesota, conceived many football maneuvers-notably the Minnesota Shift, forerunner of all quick shifts-that played an important part in the development...
...been in a constant intellectual furor. Students staged a running debate in the Daily Maroon on the topic: Facts v. Ideas; professors posted arguments on bulletin boards. So preoccupied with intellectual matters is Chicago that when the university dropped out of intercollegiate football last year and abandoned big Stagg Field to schoolboys, students and alumni uttered scarcely a whimper...