AceHistoryDesk – Today in History – On September 16, 1960, college football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965), then ninety-eight years old, announced his retirement after seventy years on the field. Stagg’s career coincided with the evolution of the game from an amalgam of soccer and rugby into American football as we know it. Stagg also coached track, baseball, and basketball.

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Amos Alonzo Staggnone

Born and raised in West Orange, New Jersey, Stagg played football and baseball for Yale University.

He attended Yale as a divinity student and graduated in 1888. In 1890, he began his career as a football coach at the Young Men’s Christian Association Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts (now Springfield College), where he also was a graduate student and faculty member.

Prior to the television age, football was a college sport. A master strategist, Stagg is credited with many innovations in the game of football—from formations and plays to equipment and uniforms.

His innovations include the lateral pass, tackling dummy, fake punt, quick-kick, and backfield shift, as well as padded goal posts and uniform numbers. The “Grand Old Man of the Midway” also helped organize the Big Ten Conference (then known as the Western Conference) and served on the first rules committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Stagg retired as coach of the University of Chicago Maroons in 1932 when he reached the mandatory retirement age of seventy. He remained an active college coach until 1960 when he stepped down from his position as an advisory coach—a volunteer job that he held for seven years—at Stockton Junior College. He was elected a charter member of the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 as both a player and a coach and was enshrined as a contributor to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959.

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