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Hero
fought in the civil war -
Date of Birth
Amos Alonzo stag was born on August 16, 1862 in west orange new jersey -
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good skills
Amos Alonzo Stagg’s skill and success as a college pitcher impressed the talent scouts of various major league baseball teams. In his senior year, six big league baseball teams offered him a contract. The New York Nationals, later called the Giants, offered Stagg $4,200 for one season of play. He refused all of the professional team contracts. He did so for a number of reasons. -
Playing career
Playing at Yale University, where he was a divinity student, and a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity and the secret Skull and Bones society, he was an end on the first All-America team, selected in 1889. -
leading
He coached from 1892 to 1932 at the University of Chicago and from 1933 to 1946 at the College (now University) of the Pacific, introducing such innovations as the huddle and the shift. -
Planning
When he coached the universtity of chicago he developed numerous basic tactics for the game (including the man in motion and the lateral pass), as well as some equipment. -
Leadership
Amos Alonzo Stagg directing football practice, Stagg Field. A former collegiate athlete himself, Stagg never failed to command the respect and loyalty of his young players. The "Old Man's" praise was as deeply coveted as his disapproval was feared. -
best coach
In 1943, at the age of 81, he was named college coach of the year, and he remained active in coaching until the age of 98. He is the only person selected for the College Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach. -
Date of death
Died on March 17, 1965 in Stockton, California at the ange of 102 -
Orginization
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
