Show WHO'S r rs NEWS s rr t THIS THISBy Y WEEK By LEMUEL F F. F PARTON N NEW EW YORK As As we get it Amos Alonzo Stagg now in his fiftieth season of football coaching leads the boys in prayer just before the game starts f D Stagg Prays However they Only That Boys do not pray TL D that they may maywin M. M G. G Give Their Th B Best est th t Win v bu but b U t th that a athey t they may do their best That would be considerable for any outfit trained by Mr 1 Stagg When his short-end short College of or the Pacific team turned in a seeming miracle Recently by defeating the University of California all reports agreed that the game was won on merit and not through any outside help As the old saying goes A wise old mans man's shadow is worth more than a young buzzards buzzard's sword Mr l Stagg now 77 years old is indeed wise in strategy and diligent in performance He lie has contributed t to the game the triple pass the fake pass the unbalanced line the flanking formation formation for for- mation matlon and several other dangerous dangerous dan dan- devices and he has come along through the era ern of change a jump or two ahead of his bis rivals ri rivals rivals ri- ri vals in hi mastering and teaching the long pass and the open formation formation formation for for- mation much more adaptable than any of the elder cIder statesmen of world politics He says change and experiment have vastly improved football This writer once knew an old- old timer who worked with young Amos Alonzo Stagg when he was the champion hay on the salt marshes around Newark bay My informant said young Stagg would figure out a nice leverage on the fork handle and move more hay with less effort than any other man manof manof manof of the lot He saved his earnings and went to Yale Theological school After his graduation he found public public public pub pub- lic speaking difficult turned away vay from the ministry and became a acoach acoach acoach coach at nt the Y M. 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A college n. n at t Springfield Mass In 1892 he hc went to Chicago and for 40 years was not only only only-a a team builder but a character buil builder er He lIe forbade liquor to tobacco tobacco tobacco to- to bacco and profanity and made it stick slick Seven years ago he left Chicago because of or the re rc- at 70 rule renewed his gentle exhortations at the College College Col Col- lege of the Pacific He keeps fit by tennis and a jog up and down own the road every day He was also a demon baseball player in in his youth pitching Yale to five successive championships While he is naturally tagged the Grand Old Man of Football his many admirers would woul l take in a lot lotmore lotmore lotmore more territory N OUR present attempt to remain I IN neutral there is much pulling and hauling over the opinions of John Bassett Moore and Professor Profess r Philip Jessup If any any- War as Long as body knows We Love Pomp what A j TI law is Atlen Attending d. d mg W War war ar they are the two Americans who would qualify but it is still pretty foggy as it was was years ago when old Hugo Grotius Grotius Gro- Gro tius left it that way The year 79 old spade bearded Mr Moore 1 resigned re resigned re- re signed from the world court in 1928 to compile 75 volumes covering international in in- international in- in law and neutrality in the theW W World war In 1922 after 37 years of pondering pondering ponder ponder- i ing g these matters he wrote So long as we love glory so solone long lone as we worship bravery so long as ns we thrill at the Ute call can of battle battIe so long will we love war Mothers may say that they do donot donot donot not raise their sons as food for cannon but when the call comes these same mothers will willbe willbe willbe be the first to answer Mr 1 Moore vigorously opposed the Kellogg pact and all other such devices devices de de- de vices and denounced the callow striplings and shallow dupes who ho offer them As befits an authority authority authority au au- au- au on neutrality he parts his hair in the middle He is probably Americas America's most distinguished scholar schol schol- I ar and authority in this field P OUR railroad presidents have FOUR Foun died in the last year All AU have been replaced by younger men and by men of operating rather than management or legal background Ch Charles E E. Denney elected to the then presidency of Get Rail Raz n 1 t C Chiefs h. h f Ie f e s the Northern From Ranks Pacific started started start- start ed cd with a ar O Order r d er 0 of f Day ay D switch company compa compa- ny up through grades with John J. J Bernet who made railroads out of junk-heaps junk rather than Own debentures In Lancaster P Pa he sold papers as asa asa a D boy and worked his way partway partway part part- wa way through Pennsylvania State college col col- lege as a runner for a boarding boardinghouse boardinghouse house He is six feet tall weighs pounds and has vigor and enterprise enterprise enter enter- prise to match Consolidated Fe Features Features tures Service |