Amos Alonzo Stagg papers, 1905-1939.

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Amos Alonzo Stagg papers, 1905-1939.

Box 1 contains correspondence with various colleges about football game scheduling (1899-1932); clippings, essays and correspondence on professionalism in sports (1911-1923). Boxes 2-3 contain clippings on Stagg's life. Box 4 contains Stagg photos, film and memorabilia.

4 boxes (3 linear ft.)

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Stagg, Amos Alonzo, 1862-1965

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Athlete, educator. Great baseball player at Yale College (1880s). Attended Springfield College, a YMCA training school, became coach at University of Chicago (1892). A founder of Western Athletic Conference, National Collegiate Athletic Association and American Football Coaches Association. Member of U. S. Olympic Committee (1916-32). Retired after forty-one years at University of Chicago and became coach at College of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif. (1933-1946). Left C. O. P. and became coach at ...

College of the Pacific

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