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Show HIKHKHTOHOTHWIMH Veteran Grid Mentor to Stick 1 U'-V-n Tn13 annual nimor that A. A. Stags Is get- g S Cvv'5 I tinS ready to quit as the University of g 2 y Chicago football coach has been spiked by g K I " tf "le gray-haired mentor himself. 5 I f "Tdiere are-several reasons wdiy I will g i. S Dot step down'" suiJ stll"S- "Tlle Pf'nci- 5 fs, TJ pal one is that I know of no one better s " v qualified to coach University of Chicago g I T" teams." g 5 .s i- : Uumors of bis retirement have been g S -4 1'V'4 N current for some time, presumably getting X $ ' ' their sturt after Fielding II. Yost, another g 5 - xS, '' X Big Ten coach, who has seen a quarter of n x Coach A A Stagg a cetury's service, announced his retire- g g mcnt from active direction of Michigan's $ football team. Stagg expressed the opinion that his system of coaching g g is used, in one form or another, by virtually every coach In the country. 5 g He made clear, however, that he did not mean the system was picked g up bodily, but that many of his plays were the basis of others' coach- $ g ing system. g Stagg even traced the Itockne system at Notre Dame back to h.s g g own, at the same time explaining that Itockne learned the basis of his 5 football from Jesse Harper, who in turn was a Stagg pupil. g g "Development of men," rather than encouragement of "a lust for 5 v victory," has been a cardinal Stagg principle at the Chicago university, g I'KB'BWSH'KBKHKHXHKH |