Mr Football Amos Alonzo Stagg
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Mr Football Amos Alonzo Stagg
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Author : Ellis Lucia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
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Amos Alonzo Stagg
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Author : David E. Sumner
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-10-13
Amos Alonzo Stagg written by David E. Sumner and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-13 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965) grew up one of eight children in a poor New Jersey family, graduated high school at 21 and worked his way through Yale. His goal was to become a Presbyterian minister, but he dropped out of Yale Divinity School because he felt he could have more influence on young men through coaching. He was hired as the first football coach at University of Chicago after its founding in 1892. Under Stagg's leadership, Chicago emerged as one of the nation's most formidable football teams during the early 20th century, winning seven Big Ten championships and two national championships. After Chicago forced him to retire at 70, Stagg found another coaching position at College of the Pacific, where he was forced to retire at 84. He found another job and never fully retired from coaching until he was 98. His marriage to his wife Stella--his de facto assistant coach--lasted almost 70 years. Sports Illustrated wrote of him, "If any single individual can be said to have created today's game, Stagg is the man. He either invented outright or pioneered every aspect of the modern game from...the huddle, shift and tackling dummy to such refinements as the T-formation strategy." This biography tells the story of his life and many innovations, which made him one of the great pioneers of college football.
Amos Alonzo Stagg College Football S Man In Motion
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Author : Jennifer Taylor Hall
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2019
Amos Alonzo Stagg College Football S Man In Motion written by Jennifer Taylor Hall and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
Inside the life of Amos Alonzo Stagg, a man who not only witnessed great change, but was responsible for much of it in college football. The arc of Amos Alonzo Stagg's life spanned the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. His career flourished on the Chicago Midway and found an encore on California's Pacific coast and in Pennsylvania's Susquehanna Valley. Stagg pioneered use of the tackling dummy, the huddle, the forward pass, the shift, the man-in-motion, the quick kick and the short punt. He developed the raw talent of young men with little or no athletic background long before the age of scholarship athletes, and his championship teams at the University of Chicago established the school's national reputation before it became famous for producing Nobel laureates. He helped shape the modern Olympic Games, and the coaching tree he nurtured continues to bear fruit in football programs across the country. Author Jennifer Taylor Hall traces the remarkable life of the Grand Old Man of Football.
Amos Alonzo Stagg
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Author : David E. Sumner
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-09-27
Amos Alonzo Stagg written by David E. Sumner and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-27 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965) grew up one of eight children in a poor New Jersey family, graduated high school at 21 and worked his way through Yale. His goal was to become a Presbyterian minister, but he dropped out of Yale Divinity School because he felt he could have more influence on young men through coaching. He was hired as the first football coach at University of Chicago after its founding in 1892. Under Stagg's leadership, Chicago emerged as one of the nation's most formidable football teams during the early 20th century, winning seven Big Ten championships and two national championships. After Chicago forced him to retire at 70, Stagg found another coaching position at College of the Pacific, where he was forced to retire at 84. He found another job and never fully retired from coaching until he was 98. His marriage to his wife Stella--his de facto assistant coach--lasted almost 70 years. Sports Illustrated wrote of him, "If any single individual can be said to have created today's game, Stagg is the man. He either invented outright or pioneered every aspect of the modern game from...the huddle, shift and tackling dummy to such refinements as the T-formation strategy." This biography tells the story of his life and many innovations, which made him one of the great pioneers of college football.
The Unreconstructed Amateur
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Author : Bob Considine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
The Unreconstructed Amateur written by Bob Considine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with categories.
Touchdown
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Author : Amos Alonzo Stagg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927
Touchdown written by Amos Alonzo Stagg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with Football categories.
This is the story of football as told by Amos Alonzo Stagg, one of the innovators in the development of college football. Stagg served as head football coach at University of Chicago from 1892 to 1932. During his tenure, he compiled a record of 242-112-27 and led the Maroons to seven Big Ten Conference championships. Among the innovations credited to Stagg are the tackling dummy, the huddle, the reverse and man in motion plays, the lateral pass, uniform numbers, and awarding varsity letters.
Chicago Portraits
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Author : June Skinner Sawyers
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2012-03-31
Chicago Portraits written by June Skinner Sawyers and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The famous, the infamous, and the unjustly forgotten—all receive their due in this biographical dictionary of the people who have made Chicago one of the world’s great cities. Here are the life stories—provided in short, entertaining capsules—of Chicago’s cultural giants as well as the industrialists, architects, and politicians who literally gave shape to the city. Jane Addams, Al Capone, Willie Dixon, Harriet Monroe, Louis Sullivan, Bill Veeck, Harold Washington, and new additions Saul Bellow, Harry Caray, Del Close, Ann Landers, Walter Payton, Koko Taylor, and Studs Terkel—Chicago Portraits tells you why their names are inseparable from the city they called home.
Stagg S University
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Author : Robin Lester
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1999
Stagg S University written by Robin Lester and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
For this first case study of college football by a social historian, Lester has brought life to the story of a university football program that had an unusual beginning, a glorious middle, and a unique and inglorious conclusion. The nation's first tenured coach and the most creative and entrepreneurial of all college coaches from the 1890s to the 1920s, Amos Alonzo Stagg headed a program marked by creation of the lettermans club and by the dominant use of the forward pass, of jersey numbers, and of the collegiate modern T formation. Stagg, who had been an all-American football player at Yale University, joined the company of nine former college or seminary presidents and academic notables including John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, and Albert Michelson when he was named associate professor of physical culture and coach of the football team at the University of Chicago in 1892. Within fifteen years the charismatic Stagg had developed a program so powerful that more Americans knew of it than of the physics experiments of Michelson, who in 1907 became the first U.S. citizen to win the Nobel Prize. The logical commercial trail established by Stagg and University President William Rainey Harper helped change football into a mass entertainment industry on American campuses. This fascinating look at the birth of bigtime college sport shows how today s gridiron glory and scandal were prefigured in Chicago s football industry of the early twentieth century, presided over by the brilliant, combative, saintly, but very human Amos Alonzo Stagg.
Pass Receiving In Early Pro Football
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Author : Jerry Roberts
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-12-31
Pass Receiving In Early Pro Football written by Jerry Roberts and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-31 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Big television contracts in the 1960s created the Super Bowl, as well as the 1970 merger of the National Football League with the pass-oriented American Football League. Since then, professional football has been America's most popular televised team sport, developing into a wide-open passing game by the 21st century. Handling the completion side of the aerial game, receivers are not often as celebrated as quarterbacks or coaches, even in the era of San Francisco 49er Jerry Rice's supremacy. This book provides a history of pro pass receiving and its influence on the game prior to the televised era. The author studies pro football's formative and mid-20th century years, highlighting the players who pulled pigskins from flight, like the legendary Don Hutson, Gibby Welch, Johnny Blood, Ray Flaherty, Crazy Legs Hirsch, Mac Speedie, Choo Choo Roberts and many others.
Historical Dictionary Of Football
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Author : John Grasso
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2013-06-13
Historical Dictionary Of Football written by John Grasso and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-13 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Gridiron football or American football or just plain football is the most popular sport in the United States in the 21st century. Although attempts have been made to develop the sport outside North America, it is still predominantly a North American sport with similar games (but significant rules differences) played in the United States and Canada. The Historical Dictionary of Football covers the history of American football through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on both amateur (collegiate) and professional players, coaches, teams and executives from all eras. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the sport of football.