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Show Grand Old Man of Football 1 If " J ( - -5s V " i if Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg. As slick and bright as one of John D. Rockefeller's shiny dimes and with his brain buzzing with tricks, the "grand old man of American football," Amos Alonzo Stagg, has whipped together to-gether his thirty-seventh football eleven elev-en at the University of Chicago with as much ardor as he did back in rhe early nineties. Prospects for a winning team artn't so bright for Stagg and Ids .Maroon warriors this year, hut the last one to admit It is t lie sixty-six-yenr-old gray eagle himself. Out on the practice field day after day. rain or shine, stands the martial figure of Maroon gridiron lore, sans hat and with tousseled locks tossing to and fro us he shouts instructions Not a mistake escapes his eye and he is Just as dynamic as ever. "Well; I'm at It again and we are going go-ing to have another good team this year." he beamed confidently- as he talked to his recruits. "We want to win, but. you know, winning isn't everything. ev-erything. It's winning or losing right by clesn playing. We haven't as much natural talent this season as last year, but we can make It up by speed and light." Ami that is what he Is stressing as his shrill voice rises above the thump of scrimmage. Time and again he grabs the ov;il, much the same as when he starred at end on Yalf's championship machine in and demonstrates what he means." "Oh, I've plenty of tricks In my head." he answered when he was asked if he hadn't run out of them. "You know that is my chief trouble. Ideas? Why. I've so many it is hard lo get any of'them across. This year I've thought up some new ones, and if they work, if they only work, we're going to score some touchdowns." A'ked how long he intended to remain re-main in football. Stagg merely chuckled and then added: "Guess I'll be In this game until my teeth fall out." All Big Ten squads worked through long, hard practices recently amidst cold, rainy wea titer. |