Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-22
STAGE To LEAD
ELEVEN AGAINST
HIS old RIVALS
University of Chicago Foot
ball Team win Clash With
Princeton Gridiron War
riorS on Saturday.


Chicago, Oct. 81 (by the Associ-
ated Press. Ut is thirty odd years
from the days that Coach Amos
Alonzo Stage played football
against Princeton until tomorrow
when he sends his University Of
Chicago eleven against his old
rivals. The intervening years have
made him the oldest football coach
in the country. In all this time his
first aim on the gridiron has been
to make men,"
with the right sort of coaching
you can make men faster on the
football field than in any other
sport" said Coach StagG in look
| in; back over his three decades OF
coaching just before taking his
team east.
.Is q Glorious Game"
"Football is a glorious game. 1t
calls for the highest in courage and
sacrifice, for the good of the school
and to win. 1t is a vigorous game
and in certaia sense it is to the
glory of football that men will
play the game in spite Of injuries
that quite often do come.
zone of the chief developments
Of the past thirty years is q re-
cognition of the worth OF football!
and of athletics. The war, also
helped to make people see that they
are worth while in d-veloping our
boys physically, mentally and NOR
ally.
football coaches have greatly
improved in ideals. There are
many more Of them today who see
the real value of the sport. Some
still are to be found who reverse
its benefits by trying to win at any
cost--who play the game crooked
Nv. who set false ideals before their
players, who encourage foul tao
tics and bad craftsmanship,
Should Be Faculty Member.
1--WE shall never get the pest
grade of coaches in my judgment,
until the coach is made member
OF the faculty. He needs to be sci
above the necessity OF immediate
winning of games. He needs 10
have the ideals of an educator. lie
should not have his job depend
solely on winning teams. l THINK
this has been the cause of much OF
the poor tactics some coaches have
employed
Coach Stage himself strikingly
illustrates the revolution that has
taken place in the coach's position
in the college world, for he was
the first coach to be made MEM
Der of the faculty of his instltu-
ton. When he was invited to come |
to the University of Chicago at its
opening in the fall of 1892, he was
made, at his own request, head OF |
it, department of physical cul. o
a I'd athletics. Up to that time col
lege athletics were entirely separate
from physical education and the
University of Chicago was the III st
college to combine the two uAder
a department. This department
also took over the management md
coaching of the university's ath-
letic teams. Until then all col
legiate sports had been managed
and controlled by the students.
Great Pitching Star.
Stage was Yales great pitching
star from 1886 to 1890, the winner
Of five baseball championships. He
was also selected on Camps ALI
American football team of 1889.
Entering the Springfield, Mass, Y.
M. c. A. college in the autumn of
1890, he really started his coaching
there.
The college had never before had
4 football team and ':tagg Started
TO build one, succeeding so well
thatat the end of the season it was
iblaf to schedule games with Yale .,
and Harvard for the next year. lie
played football there these two /
years, and also organized the col
eges first baseball team.
This makes Stages actual coach !
ng record thirty-two years long,
md in continuous servica. This ,
5ear marks his thirtieth football ,
season at the University of Chicago ;
"a record unique in length and
continuity at the same institution.
Comin| west in 1892, Stage ar
lived in Chicago after tie western ,
ootball season had opened. Only
II cen men answered his call for
he team, and he had to pay 4 ,
position himself. His
position at Yale was end.
First Games of Varsity.
The first games of the Univer-
ity of Chicago. which tomorrow
perhaps arrives at its highest PIN
lacl of football recognition in be-
ng the first western team to break ]
nto the eastern trio of Yale, Har- {
ard and Princeton for home and