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Go Stagg!
It's not quite tailgating season, but UChiBLOGo editors and Phoenix phanatix (hat tip to the Chicago Maroon's Tim Murphy, AB'09) are gearing up for this autumn's sweep of touchdowns thanks to new buzz about the Maroons' most famous coach: Amos Alonzo Stagg.
Today Sporting News ranked the football pioneer 40th on its list of the 50 greatest coaches of all time, and earlier this month Sports Illustrated writer Stewart Mandel dedicated a column to his picks for all-time coaching legends. Of Stagg—the leader of the original "Monsters of the Midway" during Chicago's football heyday—and Pop Warner, Mandel writes: "As the sport's unofficial founding fathers, they're unquestionably legends."
We dug through our archives for Stagg stories and trolled the Web for fun UChicago football write-ups and photos to satisfy your pigskin fever. Here's to "the old man" and a winning fall season!
RELATED READING:
- "Marooned!" (Chicago Magazine, Oct. 2006)
- "Legends of the Fall" (University of Chicago Magazine, Oct. 2005)
- "Chicago's Starting Team (University of Chicago Magazine, Oct. 2003)
- "Amos Alonzo Stagg, Physical Culture and Athletics: 1862-1965" (University of Chicago Centennial Catalogues)
- "'College Football Is an Infernal Nuisance'" (Sports Illustrated, Oct. 18, 1954)
RELATED VIDEOS:
- Video of a 1903 game between the University of Chicago and University of Michigan
- Video of a 2008 game between the University of Chicago and Denison University
RELATED LINKS:
- History and artwork from "The Chicago Game, 1893-1905"
- Stagg profile at the National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame
- Stagg biography at the Athletics Department's history Web site
- Stagg photographs at the Yale University digital images database
- Stagg imagery from the archives of the Library of Congress
- Stagg portrait, as painted by Bernard Safran for Time magazine's cover (Oct. 20, 1958)
July 30, 2009