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Amos Alonzo Stagg

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Amos Alonzo Stagg (August 16, 1862 – March 17, 1965) was an American athlete and college coach in multiple sports, primarily American football.[1][2] He served as the head football coach at the International YMCA Training School (now called Springfield College) (1890–1891), the University of Chicago (1892–1932), and the College of the Pacific (1933–1946), compiling a career college football record of 314–199–35 (.605). His undefeated Chicago Maroons teams of 1905 and 1913 were recognized as national champions. He was also the head basketball coach for one season at Chicago (1920–1921), and the Maroons' head baseball coach for twenty seasons (1893–1905, 1907–1913).

Amos Alonzo Stagg
Stagg in 1906
Biographical details
Born(1862-08-16)August 16, 1862
West Orange, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedMarch 17, 1965(1965-03-17) (aged 102)
Stockton, California, U.S.
Playing career
Football
1885–1889Yale
1890–1891Springfield YMCA
1892Chicago
Position(s)End, fullback, halfback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1890–1891Williston Seminary (MA)
1890–1891Springfield YMCA
1892–1932Chicago
1933–1946Pacific (CA)
1947–1952Susquehanna (associate HC)
1953–1958Stockton College (ST)
Basketball
1920–1921Chicago
Baseball
1893–1905Chicago
1907–1913Chicago
Track
1896–1913Chicago
1914–1928Chicago
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1892–1933Chicago
Head coaching record
Overall314–99–35 (college football)
14–6 (college basketball)
266–158–3 (college baseball)
Bowls0–1
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
Football
2 National (1905, 1913)
7 Western / Big Ten (1899, 1905, 1907–1908, 1913, 1922, 1924)
5 NCAC (1936, 1938, 1940–1942)
Awards
Football
First-team All-American (1889)
AFCA Coach of the Year (1943)
College Football Hall of Fame
Inducted in 1951 (profile)
Basketball Hall of Fame
Inducted in 1959 (profile)

At Chicago, Stagg also instituted an annual prep basketball tournament and track meet. Both drew the top high school teams and athletes from around the United States.

Stagg played football as an end at Yale University and was selected to the first All-America Team in 1889. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach in the charter class of 1951 and was the only individual honored in both roles until the 1990s. Influential in other sports, Stagg developed basketball as a five-player sport. This five-man concept allowed his 10 (later 11) man football team the ability to compete with each other and to stay in shape over the winter. Stagg was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in its first group of inductees in 1959, and was elected Fellow #71 in the National Academy of Kinesiology (formerly American Academy of Physical Education) in 1946.[3]

Stagg also forged a bond between sports and religious faith early in his career that remained important to him for the rest of his life.[4]

Early years

Stagg was born in a poor Irish neighborhood of West Orange, New Jersey, and attended Phillips Exeter Academy.[5][6]

Yale

 
Stagg (far left) on Yale's 1888 team

Stagg entered Yale University in 1884 and received his bachelor's degree in 1888. He spent two additional years at Yale studying in the Divinity School under William Rainey Harper before deciding he could have more influence on young men through coaching than through the pulpit. He was very active in the Yale YMCA where he served as general secretary during his last two years.

Baseball

Stagg was a pitcher at Yale; he declined the offers to play for six different professional baseball teams.[5] He nonetheless influenced the game through his invention of the batting cage.[7]

Football

Stagg played on the 1888 team, and was an end on the first All-America Team in 1889.

Springfield

Stagg later gave up his desire for the ministry and decided to become a coach and athletic director. He spent two years at the International YMCA Training School , now known as Springfield College, from 1890 to 1892.[8]

Basketball

Basketball had been invented in 1891 by James Naismith, a teacher at the YMCA School in Springfield. On March 11, 1892, Stagg, still an instructor at the YMCA School, played in the first public game of basketball. A crowd of 200 watched as the student team defeated the faculty, 5–1. Stagg scored the only basket for the losing side. He popularized the five-player lineup on basketball teams.[9]

Coaching career

 
Stagg in 1899

Stagg became the first paid football coach at Williston Seminary, a secondary school, in 1890. This was also Stagg's first time receiving pay to coach football. He coached there one day a week while also coaching full-time at the International YMCA Training School.[10] Stagg then coached at the University of Chicago from 1892 to 1932.[11] He was the head football coach and director of the Department of Physical Culture.[12] Eventually, university president Robert Maynard Hutchins forced out the 70-year-old Stagg, feeling that he was too old to continue coaching.[13][14]

At age 70, Stagg moved on to the College of the Pacific in Stockton, California,[11] where he led the Tigers for 14 seasons, from 1933 through 1946, then was asked to resign.[15] One of his players at Pacific in 1945-46 was Hall of Fame coach of Navy and Temple Wayne Hardin.

In the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Stagg served as a coach with the U.S. Olympic Track and Field team. He played himself in the movie Knute Rockne, All American, released in 1940. From 1947 to 1952 he served as co-coach with his son, Amos Jr., at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. Stagg's final job was as kicking coach at the local junior college in Stockton, California, which was then known as Stockton College. "The Grand Old Man of Football" retired from Stockton College at the age of 96 and died in Stockton six years later.[2][16]

Vegetarianism

Stagg was reportedly an activist for vegetarianism and banned his players from using alcohol and tobacco.[12][17] In 1907, he trained his Chicago football team on a strict vegetarian diet.[12] This was widely reported in newspapers and vegetarian literature.[18][19][20] Stagg had spent time at the vegetarian Battle Creek Sanitarium in 1907 and was inspired by John Harvey Kellogg's vegetarian diet. Although Stagg was cited in vegetarian literature as advocating a strict vegetarian diet throughout his life, in his memoir he stated that he was a vegetarian for only two years and did it in an attempt to relieve his chronic sciatic pain.[17] Stagg did not consume alcohol, coffee, or cigarettes and promoted the consumption of vegetables over red meat.[17]

Family

Stagg was married to the former Stella Robertson on September 10, 1894.[11] The couple had three children: two sons, Amos Jr. and Paul, and a daughter, Ruth. Both sons played for the elder Stagg as quarterbacks at the University of Chicago and each later coached college football. In 1952, Barbara Stagg, Amos' granddaughter, started coaching the high school girls' basketball team for Northern Lehigh High School in Slatington, Pennsylvania.

Legacy

 
Stagg in 1962

Two high schools in the United States, one in Palos Hills, Illinois, and the other in Stockton, California, and an elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, are named after Stagg.[21][22][23] The NCAA Division III National Football Championship game, played in Salem, Virginia, is named the Stagg Bowl after him.[7] The athletic stadium at Springfield College is named Stagg Field.[24] The football field at Susquehanna University is named Amos Alonzo Stagg Field in honor of both Stagg Sr. and Jr.[25] Stagg was also the namesake of the University of Chicago's old Stagg Field.[26] At University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, one of the campus streets is known as Stagg Way and Pacific Memorial Stadium, the school's football and soccer stadium, was renamed Amos Alonzo Stagg Memorial Stadium on October 15, 1988.[27] Phillips Exeter Academy also has a field named for him and a statue.[28] A field in West Orange, New Jersey on Saint Cloud Avenue is also named for him.[29] The Amos Alonzo Stagg Award is awarded annually to the "individual, group, or institution whose services have been outstanding in the advancement of the best interests of football."[30] The winner of the Big Ten Football Championship Game, started in 2011, receives the Stagg Championship Trophy, named in his honor.[31]

At the College of William and Mary, the Amos Alonzo Stagg Society was organized during 1979–1980 by students and faculty opposed to a plan by the institution's Board of Visitors to move William and Mary back into big-time college football several decades after a scandal there involving grade changes for football players. The Society was loosely organized but successful in combating, among other plans, a major expansion of the William and Mary football stadium.

Collections of Amos Alonzo Stagg's papers are held at the University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center and at the University of the Pacific Library, Holt Atherton Department of Special Collections.[32][33] The Alonzo Stagg 50/20 Hike goes through Arlington, Virginia, Washington, DC and Maryland.[34]

The Stagg Tree, a giant sequoia in the Alder Creek Grove and the fifth largest tree in the world, is named in honor of Amos Alonzo Stagg. Stagg is also an elected Fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology (née the American Academy of Physical Education).[35]

Stagg Bowl

The Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, otherwise known as the NCAA Division III Football Championship Game since 1973, is competed annually as the final game of the NCAA Division III Football Tournament. The Stagg Bowl can be traced back to 1969, prior to the inception of the D-III national championship. At that time—from 1969 to 1973—the Stagg Bowl was one of two bowls competed at the College Division level—the Knute Rockne Bowl and the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl. In 1973, the NCAA instituted the D-III national championship, and the Stagg Bowl was adopted as the moniker for that game.

The first 10 Stagg Bowls were played in Phenix City, Alabama, from 1973 to 1982. Wittenberg University (Ohio) won the inaugural game via a 41–0 result over Juniata College (Pa.). The game moved to Kings Island, Ohio, for the 1983 and 1984 editions, with Augustana College (Ill.) winning the first two of its four straight NCAA titles.

The Stagg Bowl returned to Phenix City for five more years, before spending three seasons in Bradenton, Florida.

In 1993, the Stagg Bowl moved to Salem, Va., where it remained until 2017.[36] The University of Mount Union (formerly Mount Union College) won the first of its NCAA Division III-record 13 football national championships in 1993.[37] The Championship was held in Shenandoah, TX, in 2018 and 2019.[38]

Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium at Hall of Fame Village powered by Johnson Controls in Canton, Ohio, was originally awarded the 2020 and 2021 Stagg Bowls; however, the 2020 Championship was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[39] The 2021 Stagg Bowl will be held at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium December 2-4, 2021.[40]

Innovations

The following is a list of innovations Stagg introduced to American football. Where known, the year of its first use is annotated in parentheses. Stagg is noted as a 'contributor' if he was one of a group of individuals responsible for a given innovation.

 
Stagg invented the end-around play (diagram pictured), and published the first book with plays diagrammed

Coaching tree

In addition to Stagg's championships and innovations, another aspect of his legacy is in his players and assistant coaches who went on to become head football and basketball coaches at other colleges and universities across the countries.

Played under:

Assistant coaches who became head coaches:

  • John Anderson: Knox (1917), Rice (1918) (also played under Stagg at Chicago)
  • Hugo Bezdek: Oregon (1906, 1913–1916), Arkansas (1908–1912), Penn State (1918–1929), Cleveland Rams (1937–1938) (also played under Stagg at Chicago)
  • Fritz Crisler: Minnesota (1930–1931), Princeton (1932–1937), Michigan (1938–1947) (also played under Stagg at Chicago)
  • Ira Davenport: Columbia (IA) (1920–1921)
  • Leo DeTray: Ole Miss (1912), Knox (1915–1916)
  • Clarence Herschberger: Lake Forest (1902–1904) (also played under Stagg at Chicago)
  • Harlan Page: Butler (1920–1925), Indiana (1926–1930), College of Idaho (1936–1937) (also played under Stagg at Chicago)
  • James M. Sheldon: Indiana (1905–1913) (also played under Stagg at Chicago)
  • Frederick A. Speik: Purdue (1908–1909) (also played under Stagg at Chicago)
  • Amos Alonzo Stagg Jr.: Susquehanna (1935–1954) (also played under Stagg at Chicago)
  • Paul Stagg: Moravian (1934–1936), Springfield (1937–1940), Worcester Tech (1941–1946), Pacific (1947–1960) (also played under Stagg at Chicago)
  • Wayne Hardin: Navy (1959–1964), Philadelphia Bulldogs (1966), Temple (1970–1982) (also played under Stagg at Pacific)
  • Larry Siemering: Pacific (1947–1950), Arizona State (1951), Calgary Stampeders (1954)

Former players who went on to become head coaches

Head coaching record

College football

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs AP#
Springfield YMCA (Independent) (1890–1891)
1890 Springfield YMCA 5–3
1891 Springfield YMCA 5–8–1
Springfield YMCA: 10–11–1
Chicago Maroons (Independent) (1892–1895)
1892 Chicago 1–4–2
1893 Chicago 6–4–2
1894 Chicago 11–7–1
1895 Chicago 7–3
Chicago Maroons (Western Conference / Big Ten Conference) (1896–1932)
1896 Chicago 11–2–1 3–2 4th
1897 Chicago 8–1 3–1 2nd
1898 Chicago 9–2–1 3–1 2nd
1899 Chicago 12–0–2 4–0 1st
1900 Chicago 7–5–1 2–3–1 6th
1901 Chicago 5–5–2 0–4–1 9th
1902 Chicago 11–1 5–1 2nd
1903 Chicago 10–2–1 4–1 4th
1904 Chicago 8–1–1 5–1–1 3rd
1905 Chicago 11–0 7–0 1st
1906 Chicago 4–1 3–1 4th
1907 Chicago 4–1 4–0 1st
1908 Chicago 5–0–1 5–0 1st
1909 Chicago 4–1–2 4–1–1 2nd
1910 Chicago 2–5 2–4 T–5th
1911 Chicago 6–1 5–1 2nd
1912 Chicago 6–1 6–1 2nd
1913 Chicago 7–0 7–0 1st
1914 Chicago 4–2–1 4–2–1 7th
1915 Chicago 5–2 4–2 3rd
1916 Chicago 3–4 3–3 5th
1917 Chicago 3–2–1 2–2–1 5th
1918 Chicago 0–6 0–5 10th
1919 Chicago 5–2 4–2 3rd
1920 Chicago 3–4 2–4 8th
1921 Chicago 6–1 4–1 2nd
1922 Chicago 5–1–1 4–0–1 1st
1923 Chicago 7–1 7–1 3rd
1924 Chicago 4–1–3 3–0–3 1st
1925 Chicago 3–4–1 2–2–1 7th
1926 Chicago 2–6 0–5 10th
1927 Chicago 4–4 4–4 5th
1928 Chicago 2–7 0–5 10th
1929 Chicago 7–3 1–3 7th
1930 Chicago 2–5–2 0–4 10th
1931 Chicago 2–6–1 1–4 8th
1932 Chicago 3–4–1 1–4 8th
Chicago: 244–111–27 115–74–12
Pacific Tigers (Far Western Conference) (1933–1942)
1933 Pacific 5–5 3–2 3rd
1934 Pacific 4–5 2–2 4th
1935 Pacific 5–4–1 3–1 2nd
1936 Pacific 5–4–1 4–0 1st
1937 Pacific 3–5–2 3–1 2nd
1938 Pacific 7–3 4–0 1st
1939 Pacific 6–6–1 2–2 3rd
1940 Pacific 4–5 2–0 1st
1941 Pacific 4–7 3–0 1st
1942 Pacific 2–6–1 2–0 1st
Pacific Tigers (Independent) (1943–1945)
1943 Pacific 7–2 19
1944 Pacific 3–8
1945 Pacific 0–10–1
Pacific Tigers (Far Western Conference) (1946)
1946 Pacific 5–7 2–2 T–2nd L Optimist
Pacific: 60–77–7 30–10
Total: 314–199–35
      National championship         Conference title         Conference division title or championship game berth

College basketball

Statistics overview
Season Team Overall Conference Standing Postseason
Chicago Maroons (Big Ten Conference) (1920–1921)
1920–21 Chicago 14–6 6–6 8th
Chicago: 14–6 6–6
Total: 14–6

See also

References

  1. ^ "Sport, not winning was Stagg's ultimate goal". Toledo Blade. (Ohio). wire service reports. March 18, 1965. p. 32.
  2. ^ a b "...As long as 'football' is still called 'football'". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. March 18, 1965. p. 1D.
  3. ^ Cardinal, Bradley J. (2022). "The National Academy of Kinesiology: Its founding, focus, and future". Kinesiology Review. 11 (1): 6–25. doi:10.1123/kr.2021-0064.
  4. ^ "Special Collections Research Center - Special Collections Research Center - The University of Chicago Library". www.lib.UChicago.edu. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  5. ^ a b Pope 1956, p. 236
  6. ^ "STAGG DIES AT 102; DEAN OF COACHES; 76 Years in College Football -- On First All-America $TAGGDIESATt02; DEAN OF GOACHES Football's Patriarch Led College Teams 70 Years" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Wulf 2009, p. 24
  8. ^ Lester 1995, p. 9
  9. ^ Amos Alonzo Stagg August 31, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Considine 1962, p. 37
  11. ^ a b c Newland, Russ (November 29, 1942). "She is "first lady of football!"". Youngstown Vindicator. (Ohio). Associated Press. p. D4.
  12. ^ a b c Shprintzen, Adam D. (2013). The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921. University of North Carolina Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-4696-0891-4
  13. ^ Davis 2006, p. 135
  14. ^ "Stagg Is Retired As Chicago Coach". The New York Times. Associated Press. October 14, 1932. Retrieved October 25, 2010.
  15. ^ "COP, Stagg still confer". Lodi News-Sentinel. (California). United Press. December 3, 1946. p. 12.
  16. ^ Kretzer, Dale (March 18, 1965). "Last whistle blows for famous coach". Lodi News Sentinel. (California). p. 1.
  17. ^ a b c Mcthenia, Tal. (2018). "How a Football Team Became Mascots for Vegetarianism". Atlasobscura.com. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
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  31. ^ "Big Ten removes Joe Paterno's name from championship trophy". The Detroit News. Associated Press. November 14, 2011.
  32. ^ "Guide to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Papers 1866-1964". Retrieved July 16, 2013.
  33. ^ "Amos Alonzo Stagg Collection" (PDF). Retrieved November 17, 2011.
  34. ^ "Alonzo Stagg 50/20 Hike - BSA Troop 111 Arlington, Virginia". Troop111.org. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  35. ^ Cardinal, Bradley J. (2022). "The National Academy of Kinesiology: Its founding, focus, and future". Kinesiology Review. 11 (1): 6–25. doi:10.1123/kr.2021-0064.
  36. ^ "Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium awarded 2025 Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl".
  37. ^ NCAA Division III Football Championship record book
  38. ^ "Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium awarded 2025 Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl".
  39. ^ "Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium awarded 2025 Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl".
  40. ^ "Ohio High School Football Championship".
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  42. ^ Perrin 1987, p. 84
  43. ^ a b c d e f Danzig 1956, p. 175
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  50. ^ a b c Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Volume 44, p. xviii, American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, 1973.

Books

  • Considine, Bob (1962). The unreconstructed amateur: a pictorial biography of Amos Alonzo Stagg. Amos Alonzo Stagg Foundation.
  • Danzig, Allison (1956). The History of American Football: Its Great Teams, Players, and Coaches. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
  • Davis, Jeff (2006). Papa Bear. McGraw-Hill Professional. ISBN 0-07-147741-1.
  • Lester, Robin (1995). Stagg's University: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-time Football at Chicago. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252067914.
  • Otto, J. R. (1969). Football. Taylor & Francis.
  • Perrin, Tom (1987). Football: A College History. McFarland. ISBN 9780899502946.
  • Pope, Edwin (1956). Football's Greatest Coaches.
  • Robbins, Alexandra (2002). Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power. Little, Brown and Company.
  • Stagg, Amos Alonzo (1927). Touchdown!: As told by Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg to Wesley Winans Stout. Longmans, Green and Co.
  • Whittingham, Richard (2001). Rites of Autumn. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0743222199.
  • Wulf, Steve (2009). The Mighty Book of Sports Knowledge. Random House, Inc. ISBN 9780345513083.

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Amos Alonzo Stagg August 16 1862 March 17 1965 was an American athlete and college coach in multiple sports primarily American football 1 2 He served as the head football coach at the International YMCA Training School now called Springfield College 1890 1891 the University of Chicago 1892 1932 and the College of the Pacific 1933 1946 compiling a career college football record of 314 199 35 605 His undefeated Chicago Maroons teams of 1905 and 1913 were recognized as national champions He was also the head basketball coach for one season at Chicago 1920 1921 and the Maroons head baseball coach for twenty seasons 1893 1905 1907 1913 Amos Alonzo StaggStagg in 1906Biographical detailsBorn 1862 08 16 August 16 1862West Orange New Jersey U S DiedMarch 17 1965 1965 03 17 aged 102 Stockton California U S Playing careerFootball1885 1889Yale1890 1891Springfield YMCA1892ChicagoPosition s End fullback halfbackCoaching career HC unless noted Football1890 1891Williston Seminary MA 1890 1891Springfield YMCA1892 1932Chicago1933 1946Pacific CA 1947 1952Susquehanna associate HC 1953 1958Stockton College ST Basketball1920 1921ChicagoBaseball1893 1905Chicago1907 1913ChicagoTrack1896 1913Chicago1914 1928ChicagoAdministrative career AD unless noted 1892 1933ChicagoHead coaching recordOverall314 99 35 college football 14 6 college basketball 266 158 3 college baseball Bowls0 1Accomplishments and honorsChampionshipsFootball 2 National 1905 1913 7 Western Big Ten 1899 1905 1907 1908 1913 1922 1924 5 NCAC 1936 1938 1940 1942 AwardsFootball First team All American 1889 AFCA Coach of the Year 1943 College Football Hall of FameInducted in 1951 profile Basketball Hall of FameInducted in 1959 profile At Chicago Stagg also instituted an annual prep basketball tournament and track meet Both drew the top high school teams and athletes from around the United States Stagg played football as an end at Yale University and was selected to the first All America Team in 1889 He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach in the charter class of 1951 and was the only individual honored in both roles until the 1990s Influential in other sports Stagg developed basketball as a five player sport This five man concept allowed his 10 later 11 man football team the ability to compete with each other and to stay in shape over the winter Stagg was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in its first group of inductees in 1959 and was elected Fellow 71 in the National Academy of Kinesiology formerly American Academy of Physical Education in 1946 3 Stagg also forged a bond between sports and religious faith early in his career that remained important to him for the rest of his life 4 Contents 1 Early years 1 1 Yale 1 1 1 Baseball 1 1 2 Football 1 2 Springfield 1 2 1 Basketball 2 Coaching career 2 1 Vegetarianism 3 Family 4 Legacy 4 1 Stagg Bowl 4 2 Innovations 4 3 Coaching tree 5 Head coaching record 5 1 College football 5 2 College basketball 6 See also 7 References 8 Books 9 External linksEarly years EditStagg was born in a poor Irish neighborhood of West Orange New Jersey and attended Phillips Exeter Academy 5 6 Yale Edit Stagg far left on Yale s 1888 team Stagg entered Yale University in 1884 and received his bachelor s degree in 1888 He spent two additional years at Yale studying in the Divinity School under William Rainey Harper before deciding he could have more influence on young men through coaching than through the pulpit He was very active in the Yale YMCA where he served as general secretary during his last two years Baseball Edit Stagg was a pitcher at Yale he declined the offers to play for six different professional baseball teams 5 He nonetheless influenced the game through his invention of the batting cage 7 Football Edit Stagg played on the 1888 team and was an end on the first All America Team in 1889 Springfield Edit Stagg later gave up his desire for the ministry and decided to become a coach and athletic director He spent two years at the International YMCA Training School now known as Springfield College from 1890 to 1892 8 Basketball Edit Basketball had been invented in 1891 by James Naismith a teacher at the YMCA School in Springfield On March 11 1892 Stagg still an instructor at the YMCA School played in the first public game of basketball A crowd of 200 watched as the student team defeated the faculty 5 1 Stagg scored the only basket for the losing side He popularized the five player lineup on basketball teams 9 Coaching career Edit Stagg in 1899 Stagg became the first paid football coach at Williston Seminary a secondary school in 1890 This was also Stagg s first time receiving pay to coach football He coached there one day a week while also coaching full time at the International YMCA Training School 10 Stagg then coached at the University of Chicago from 1892 to 1932 11 He was the head football coach and director of the Department of Physical Culture 12 Eventually university president Robert Maynard Hutchins forced out the 70 year old Stagg feeling that he was too old to continue coaching 13 14 At age 70 Stagg moved on to the College of the Pacific in Stockton California 11 where he led the Tigers for 14 seasons from 1933 through 1946 then was asked to resign 15 One of his players at Pacific in 1945 46 was Hall of Fame coach of Navy and Temple Wayne Hardin In the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris Stagg served as a coach with the U S Olympic Track and Field team He played himself in the movie Knute Rockne All American released in 1940 From 1947 to 1952 he served as co coach with his son Amos Jr at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania Stagg s final job was as kicking coach at the local junior college in Stockton California which was then known as Stockton College The Grand Old Man of Football retired from Stockton College at the age of 96 and died in Stockton six years later 2 16 Vegetarianism Edit Stagg was reportedly an activist for vegetarianism and banned his players from using alcohol and tobacco 12 17 In 1907 he trained his Chicago football team on a strict vegetarian diet 12 This was widely reported in newspapers and vegetarian literature 18 19 20 Stagg had spent time at the vegetarian Battle Creek Sanitarium in 1907 and was inspired by John Harvey Kellogg s vegetarian diet Although Stagg was cited in vegetarian literature as advocating a strict vegetarian diet throughout his life in his memoir he stated that he was a vegetarian for only two years and did it in an attempt to relieve his chronic sciatic pain 17 Stagg did not consume alcohol coffee or cigarettes and promoted the consumption of vegetables over red meat 17 Family EditStagg was married to the former Stella Robertson on September 10 1894 11 The couple had three children two sons Amos Jr and Paul and a daughter Ruth Both sons played for the elder Stagg as quarterbacks at the University of Chicago and each later coached college football In 1952 Barbara Stagg Amos granddaughter started coaching the high school girls basketball team for Northern Lehigh High School in Slatington Pennsylvania Legacy Edit Stagg in 1962 Two high schools in the United States one in Palos Hills Illinois and the other in Stockton California and an elementary school in Chicago Illinois are named after Stagg 21 22 23 The NCAA Division III National Football Championship game played in Salem Virginia is named the Stagg Bowl after him 7 The athletic stadium at Springfield College is named Stagg Field 24 The football field at Susquehanna University is named Amos Alonzo Stagg Field in honor of both Stagg Sr and Jr 25 Stagg was also the namesake of the University of Chicago s old Stagg Field 26 At University of the Pacific in Stockton California one of the campus streets is known as Stagg Way and Pacific Memorial Stadium the school s football and soccer stadium was renamed Amos Alonzo Stagg Memorial Stadium on October 15 1988 27 Phillips Exeter Academy also has a field named for him and a statue 28 A field in West Orange New Jersey on Saint Cloud Avenue is also named for him 29 The Amos Alonzo Stagg Award is awarded annually to the individual group or institution whose services have been outstanding in the advancement of the best interests of football 30 The winner of the Big Ten Football Championship Game started in 2011 receives the Stagg Championship Trophy named in his honor 31 At the College of William and Mary the Amos Alonzo Stagg Society was organized during 1979 1980 by students and faculty opposed to a plan by the institution s Board of Visitors to move William and Mary back into big time college football several decades after a scandal there involving grade changes for football players The Society was loosely organized but successful in combating among other plans a major expansion of the William and Mary football stadium Collections of Amos Alonzo Stagg s papers are held at the University of Chicago Library Special Collections Research Center and at the University of the Pacific Library Holt Atherton Department of Special Collections 32 33 The Alonzo Stagg 50 20 Hike goes through Arlington Virginia Washington DC and Maryland 34 The Stagg Tree a giant sequoia in the Alder Creek Grove and the fifth largest tree in the world is named in honor of Amos Alonzo Stagg Stagg is also an elected Fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology nee the American Academy of Physical Education 35 Stagg Bowl Edit The Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl otherwise known as the NCAA Division III Football Championship Game since 1973 is competed annually as the final game of the NCAA Division III Football Tournament The Stagg Bowl can be traced back to 1969 prior to the inception of the D III national championship At that time from 1969 to 1973 the Stagg Bowl was one of two bowls competed at the College Division level the Knute Rockne Bowl and the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl In 1973 the NCAA instituted the D III national championship and the Stagg Bowl was adopted as the moniker for that game The first 10 Stagg Bowls were played in Phenix City Alabama from 1973 to 1982 Wittenberg University Ohio won the inaugural game via a 41 0 result over Juniata College Pa The game moved to Kings Island Ohio for the 1983 and 1984 editions with Augustana College Ill winning the first two of its four straight NCAA titles The Stagg Bowl returned to Phenix City for five more years before spending three seasons in Bradenton Florida In 1993 the Stagg Bowl moved to Salem Va where it remained until 2017 36 The University of Mount Union formerly Mount Union College won the first of its NCAA Division III record 13 football national championships in 1993 37 The Championship was held in Shenandoah TX in 2018 and 2019 38 Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium at Hall of Fame Village powered by Johnson Controls in Canton Ohio was originally awarded the 2020 and 2021 Stagg Bowls however the 2020 Championship was cancelled due to the COVID 19 pandemic 39 The 2021 Stagg Bowl will be held at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium December 2 4 2021 40 Innovations Edit The following is a list of innovations Stagg introduced to American football Where known the year of its first use is annotated in parentheses Stagg is noted as a contributor if he was one of a group of individuals responsible for a given innovation Stagg invented the end around play diagram pictured and published the first book with plays diagrammed Ends back formation 1890 41 Reverse play 1890 30 41 7 2 2 defense 1890 42 First indoor game 1891 41 First book on football with diagrams 1893 with Minnesota s Henry Williams 41 First intersectional game 1894 41 center snap 1894 John Heisman and Walter Camp claimed to have invented it in 1893 43 onside kick 1894 possibly contributor 43 44 huddle 1896 7 41 quick kick 1896 43 Short punt 1896 45 Spiral snap 1896 contributor alongside Walter Camp George Washington Woodruff and Germany Schulz 43 46 line shift 1897 44 placement kick 1897 Stagg believed Princeton used it earlier 43 lateral pass 1898 7 tackling dummy 1899 7 47 unbalanced line 1900 44 Notre Dame Box 1905 45 varsity letters 1906 7 Statue of Liberty play 1908 48 uniform numbers 1913 7 T formation contributor 49 forward pass contributor alongside Eddie Cochems and Walter Camp 43 man in motion 7 44 sleeper play 44 quarterback keeper 49 delayed buck 50 linebacker position 50 hip pads 50 numerical designation of plays 7 padded goalposts 7 end around 7 Coaching tree Edit In addition to Stagg s championships and innovations another aspect of his legacy is in his players and assistant coaches who went on to become head football and basketball coaches at other colleges and universities across the countries Played under Walter CampAssistant coaches who became head coaches John Anderson Knox 1917 Rice 1918 also played under Stagg at Chicago Hugo Bezdek Oregon 1906 1913 1916 Arkansas 1908 1912 Penn State 1918 1929 Cleveland Rams 1937 1938 also played under Stagg at Chicago Fritz Crisler Minnesota 1930 1931 Princeton 1932 1937 Michigan 1938 1947 also played under Stagg at Chicago Ira Davenport Columbia IA 1920 1921 Leo DeTray Ole Miss 1912 Knox 1915 1916 Clarence Herschberger Lake Forest 1902 1904 also played under Stagg at Chicago Harlan Page Butler 1920 1925 Indiana 1926 1930 College of Idaho 1936 1937 also played under Stagg at Chicago James M Sheldon Indiana 1905 1913 also played under Stagg at Chicago Frederick A Speik Purdue 1908 1909 also played under Stagg at Chicago Amos Alonzo Stagg Jr Susquehanna 1935 1954 also played under Stagg at Chicago Paul Stagg Moravian 1934 1936 Springfield 1937 1940 Worcester Tech 1941 1946 Pacific 1947 1960 also played under Stagg at Chicago Wayne Hardin Navy 1959 1964 Philadelphia Bulldogs 1966 Temple 1970 1982 also played under Stagg at Pacific Larry Siemering Pacific 1947 1950 Arizona State 1951 Calgary Stampeders 1954 Former players who went on to become head coaches W J Keller Vanderbilt 1893 played for Stagg at Springfield Art Badenoch Rose Poly 1906 New Mexico A amp M 1910 1913 William Boone American football Hillsdale 1906 Mark Catlin Sr Iowa 1906 1908 Lawrence 1909 1918 1924 1927 Maurice Gordon Clarke Texas 1899 Western Reserve 1900 Washington 1901 Paul Des Jardien Oberlin 1916 Campbell Dickson Beloit 1928 Hamilton 1942 Ivan Doseff Kalamazoo 1910 Iowa State Normal 1919 1920 Luther 1921 1922 Daniel Dougherty Grinnell 1909 Shorty Ellsworth Colorado Mines 1904 1907 A A Ewing Northwestern 1894 J C Ewing Colorado College 1900 1901 Baylor 1902 Frederick Feil Wabash 1901 Sherman W Finger Cornell IA 1907 1923 Charles Firth VPI 1897 Hillsdale 1913 Charles G Flanagan Morningside 1902 Ralph C Hamill Centre 1900 Jesse Harper Alma 1906 1907 Wabash 1909 1912 Notre Dame 1913 1917 James R Henry DePauw 1902 Vanderbilt 1903 Frank E Hering Notre Dame 1896 1898 A C Hoffman Ripon 1911 Tulane 1913 Tony Hinkle Butler 1926 1935 1941 1946 1969 Great Lakes Navy 1942 1943 A F Holste Wisconsin Whitewater 1900 Denison 1902 Rose Poly 1903 Fairmount 1904 Hastings 1908 1910 1922 1925 Harold Iddings Miami OH 1909 1910 Simpson 1911 1913 Otterbein 1916 Penn IA 1921 Thomas Kelley Muhlenberg 1911 1913 Missouri Mines 1914 Alabama 1915 1917 Idaho 1920 1921 Missouri 1922 Walter S Kennedy Albion 1904 1920 E Pratt King Delaware 1907 Elmer A Lampe Carleton 1932 1933 Lester Larson Texas A amp M 1907 Louisville 1912 1913 Fred Luehring Ripon 1906 1909 Wally Marks Indiana State 1927 1930 1933 1941 1946 1948 Hal Mefford Rose Poly 1916 Kendall 1917 Ned Merriam Texas A amp M 1908 Theron W Mortimer Colorado 1900 Alma 1901 Nelson Norgren Utah 1914 1917 Norman C Paine Baylor 1913 Arkansas 1917 1918 Iowa State 1920 Ed Parry Oklahoma A amp M 1907 1908 Alfred W Place Buchtel 1903 Raymond L Quigley Northern Normal and Industrial 1910 1911 Arizona 1912 Charles M Rademacher Idaho 1915 St Louis 1917 1919 1920 Joseph Raycroft Lawrence 1894 Stevens Point Normal 1895 1896 Clarence W Russell West Virginia 1907 Colorado Mines 1908 New Mexico A amp M 1914 1916 A G Scanlon Purdue 1918 1920 Lewis D Scherer Nebraska State Normal 1907 1908 Baker 1910 1912 Walter Steffen Carnegie Tech 1914 1932 Herman Stegeman Beloit 1915 Monmouth 1916 1917 Georgia 1920 1922 John Webster Thomas Haskell 1927 1928 John F Tobin Tulane 1905 Mysterious Walker Utah Agricultural 1907 1908 Williams 1917 New York Agricultural 1919 DePauw 1921 Drury 1924 1925 Wheaton 1936 1939 Horace Whiteside Earlham 1914 1916 Sherburn Wightman Massillon Tigers 1906 All Massillons 1907 Dover Giants 1908 Ralph H Young DePauw 1915 Kalamazoo 1916 1917 1919 1922 Michigan State 1923 1927 Head coaching record EditCollege football Edit Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl playoffs AP Springfield YMCA Independent 1890 1891 1890 Springfield YMCA 5 31891 Springfield YMCA 5 8 1Springfield YMCA 10 11 1Chicago Maroons Independent 1892 1895 1892 Chicago 1 4 21893 Chicago 6 4 21894 Chicago 11 7 11895 Chicago 7 3Chicago Maroons Western Conference Big Ten Conference 1896 1932 1896 Chicago 11 2 1 3 2 4th1897 Chicago 8 1 3 1 2nd1898 Chicago 9 2 1 3 1 2nd1899 Chicago 12 0 2 4 0 1st1900 Chicago 7 5 1 2 3 1 6th1901 Chicago 5 5 2 0 4 1 9th1902 Chicago 11 1 5 1 2nd1903 Chicago 10 2 1 4 1 4th1904 Chicago 8 1 1 5 1 1 3rd1905 Chicago 11 0 7 0 1st1906 Chicago 4 1 3 1 4th1907 Chicago 4 1 4 0 1st1908 Chicago 5 0 1 5 0 1st1909 Chicago 4 1 2 4 1 1 2nd1910 Chicago 2 5 2 4 T 5th1911 Chicago 6 1 5 1 2nd1912 Chicago 6 1 6 1 2nd1913 Chicago 7 0 7 0 1st1914 Chicago 4 2 1 4 2 1 7th1915 Chicago 5 2 4 2 3rd1916 Chicago 3 4 3 3 5th1917 Chicago 3 2 1 2 2 1 5th1918 Chicago 0 6 0 5 10th1919 Chicago 5 2 4 2 3rd1920 Chicago 3 4 2 4 8th1921 Chicago 6 1 4 1 2nd1922 Chicago 5 1 1 4 0 1 1st1923 Chicago 7 1 7 1 3rd1924 Chicago 4 1 3 3 0 3 1st1925 Chicago 3 4 1 2 2 1 7th1926 Chicago 2 6 0 5 10th1927 Chicago 4 4 4 4 5th1928 Chicago 2 7 0 5 10th1929 Chicago 7 3 1 3 7th1930 Chicago 2 5 2 0 4 10th1931 Chicago 2 6 1 1 4 8th1932 Chicago 3 4 1 1 4 8thChicago 244 111 27 115 74 12Pacific Tigers Far Western Conference 1933 1942 1933 Pacific 5 5 3 2 3rd1934 Pacific 4 5 2 2 4th1935 Pacific 5 4 1 3 1 2nd1936 Pacific 5 4 1 4 0 1st1937 Pacific 3 5 2 3 1 2nd1938 Pacific 7 3 4 0 1st1939 Pacific 6 6 1 2 2 3rd1940 Pacific 4 5 2 0 1st1941 Pacific 4 7 3 0 1st1942 Pacific 2 6 1 2 0 1stPacific Tigers Independent 1943 1945 1943 Pacific 7 2 191944 Pacific 3 81945 Pacific 0 10 1Pacific Tigers Far Western Conference 1946 1946 Pacific 5 7 2 2 T 2nd L OptimistPacific 60 77 7 30 10Total 314 199 35 National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth Rankings from final AP Poll College basketball Edit Statistics overview Season Team Overall Conference Standing PostseasonChicago Maroons Big Ten Conference 1920 1921 1920 21 Chicago 14 6 6 6 8thChicago 14 6 6 6Total 14 6See also EditList of college football coaches with 200 wins List of college football coaches with 100 losses List of college football coaches with 20 tiesReferences Edit Sport not winning was Stagg s ultimate goal Toledo Blade Ohio wire service reports March 18 1965 p 32 a b As long as football is still called football Eugene Register Guard Oregon Associated Press March 18 1965 p 1D Cardinal Bradley J 2022 The National Academy of Kinesiology Its founding focus and future Kinesiology Review 11 1 6 25 doi 10 1123 kr 2021 0064 Special Collections Research Center Special Collections Research Center The University of Chicago Library www lib UChicago edu Retrieved October 23 2017 a b Pope 1956 p 236 STAGG DIES AT 102 DEAN OF COACHES 76 Years in College Football On First All America TAGGDIESATt02 DEAN OF GOACHES Football s Patriarch Led College Teams 70 Years PDF The New York Times Retrieved October 23 2017 a b c d e f g h i j k Wulf 2009 p 24 Lester 1995 p 9 Amos Alonzo Stagg Archived August 31 2009 at the Wayback Machine Considine 1962 p 37 a b c Newland Russ November 29 1942 She is first lady of football Youngstown Vindicator Ohio Associated Press p D4 a b c Shprintzen Adam D 2013 The Vegetarian Crusade The Rise of an American Reform Movement 1817 1921 University of North Carolina Press p 199 ISBN 978 1 4696 0891 4 Davis 2006 p 135 Stagg Is Retired As Chicago Coach The New York Times Associated Press October 14 1932 Retrieved October 25 2010 COP Stagg still confer Lodi News Sentinel California United Press December 3 1946 p 12 Kretzer Dale March 18 1965 Last whistle blows for famous coach Lodi News Sentinel California p 1 a b c Mcthenia Tal 2018 How a Football Team Became Mascots for Vegetarianism Atlasobscura com Retrieved 6 October 2021 Vegetable Football Essex County Herald October 18 1907 Vegetarianism in Football The Plymouth Tribune October 03 1907 Vegetarianism and Football The Vegetarian and Our Fellow Creatures 11 no 6 October 1907 4 Vegetarian Diet for the Chicago University Football Team The Vegetarian and Our Fellow Creatures 11 no 6 October 1907 6 CPS Schools School www CPS edu Retrieved October 23 2017 Home Page Stagg district d230 org Archived from the original on July 1 2013 Retrieved October 23 2017 School Loop Participating Schools ashs susd ca SchoolLoop com Retrieved October 23 2017 Stagg Field Archived from the original on November 5 2011 Retrieved November 17 2011 Amos Alonzo Stagg Field at Nicholas A Lopardo Stadium Retrieved November 17 2011 The Manhattan Project Archived from the original on October 28 2011 Retrieved November 17 2011 Stagg Memorial Stadium Archived from the original on August 25 2008 Retrieved November 17 2011 Athletic and Outdoor Facilities Retrieved November 17 2011 West Orange NJ Official Website www WestOrange org Archived from the original on September 28 2011 Retrieved October 23 2017 a b Amos Alonzo Stagg Award AFCA com Archived from the original on February 10 2015 Retrieved October 23 2017 Big Ten removes Joe Paterno s name from championship trophy The Detroit News Associated Press November 14 2011 Guide to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Papers 1866 1964 Retrieved July 16 2013 Amos Alonzo Stagg Collection PDF 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for Health Physical Education and Recreation 1973 Books EditConsidine Bob 1962 The unreconstructed amateur a pictorial biography of Amos Alonzo Stagg Amos Alonzo Stagg Foundation Danzig Allison 1956 The History of American Football Its Great Teams Players and Coaches Englewood Cliffs NJ Prentice Hall Davis Jeff 2006 Papa Bear McGraw Hill Professional ISBN 0 07 147741 1 Lester Robin 1995 Stagg s University The Rise Decline and Fall of Big time Football at Chicago University of Illinois Press ISBN 9780252067914 Otto J R 1969 Football Taylor amp Francis Perrin Tom 1987 Football A College History McFarland ISBN 9780899502946 Pope Edwin 1956 Football s Greatest Coaches Robbins Alexandra 2002 Secrets of the Tomb Skull and Bones the Ivy League and the Hidden Paths of Power Little Brown and Company Stagg Amos Alonzo 1927 Touchdown As told by Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg to Wesley Winans Stout Longmans Green and Co Whittingham Richard 2001 Rites of Autumn Simon and Schuster ISBN 0743222199 Wulf Steve 2009 The Mighty Book of Sports Knowledge Random House Inc ISBN 9780345513083 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Amos Alonzo Stagg University of Chicago profile Amos Alonzo Stagg coach at the College Football Hall of Fame Amos Alonzo Stagg player at the College Football Hall of Fame Amos Alonzo Stagg at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Amos Alonzo Stagg at IMDb Amos Alonzo Stagg at Find a Grave Guide to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Papers 1866 1964 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center Works by Amos Alonzo Stagg at LibriVox public domain audiobooks Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Amos Alonzo Stagg amp oldid 1152367811, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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