Amos Alonzo Stagg Chicago Signed Cut PSA/DNA Slabbed Size: 2.5"x3.5" Amos Alonzo Stagg (August 16, 1862 - March 17, 1965) was an American collegiate coach in multiple sports, primarily football, and an overall athletic pioneer. He was born in West Orange, New Jersey, and attended Phillips Exeter Academy. Played at Yale, member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, the secret Skull and Bones society, he was an end on the first All-America team, selected in 1889. Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach in the charter class of 1951. March 11, 1892, Stagg played in the first public game of basketball at the Springfield (Mass.) YMCA. A crowd of 200 watched as the student team crushed the faculty, 5-1. Stagg scored the only basket for the losing side. Coach at the University of Chicago (1892-1932) Under Staggs guidance, Chicago emerged as one of the nations most formidable football powers during the first quarter of the 20th century Coach at the College of the Pacific (1932-46) after he was forced to retire from Chicago at the age of 70. Developed the man in motion and the lateral pass. Invented the first tackle dummy. Stagg played himself in the movie Knute Rockne, All American released in 1940. From 1947 to 1952 he served as a co-head coach with his son at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. In 1924, he served as a coach with the U.S. Olympic Track and Field team in Paris. Known as the "grand old man" of college football, Stagg died in Stockton, California, at 102 years old. Legendary Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne said of Stagg, All football comes from Stagg.
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