Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-10-05
STACCHASHAR
JOB ON HANDS
Chicago ~" Faces Heavy
Schedule With Crew
~of Recruits.

Chicago. Oct. 5.-(By the Associ-
ated Press -Undaunted by the fact
that he faces one Of the most diff
hcult tasks of his thirty years as foot
ball mentor ut the University Of CHI
cago. Amos Alonzo Stage, veteran
coach Of the Maroons. has gone about
the job of turning out Il team to face
one or the hardest schedules in the
schools history.
This schedule includes games at
home with Princeton on October 2S,
and h sixty-year old coach is work
Ing to make his thirty-first team the
superior OF his reign. Coach Stage,
anecttonately known among students
and alumni for two decades as 1.-The
GRAND Old Man. has two large gaps
in his formation that he must fill. and
I'LL with capable men if his eleven is
tx compete successfully in the big
Fem schedule and the ten games out
side the conference. Besides playing
Princeton, Chicago will meet Georgia
here Next Saturday.
While he has much material from
which to choose most OF his aspirants
are lacking in university experience
and there are hopes that q dark
horse may emerge. The most i'm
portant position to be filled is that
Of quarterback to replace Milton
Romney. the utah fash who was
declared ineligible. last spring.
Stages job has been made the
more difficult because Bobby Cole,
the substitute pilot, was graduated
last June and one Of the several as
pirants thus far have made a strong
bid for the POSITION. Among the can
Stages son.
The other gap is in the line. Cap
tain Harold Lewis Is the only veteran
OF last years team at q tackle posi-
ton and none is left at the guards.
A number OF the members of last
years freshman team are trying for
these positions and 1t Is believed that
trouble here as in finding a quarter
back.
odd Man Stage has coached Uni
versity Of Chicago football teams
since 1892. Some of them have lost,
others have won, but it is Coach
Stages boast that none of them play
ed unfairly. His only demand is that
every player learn his rule that, 1T is
better to lose fairly than to with un-
fairly" Short. heavy set and with
iron-gray hair, the stocky coach has
won the respect and admiration Of
students and alumni alike. Some
alumni have complained thai he has
made mistakes, but in a short time.
according to a campus publication,
they were teaching their children
that the president OF the United
States is a great man, John D.'Rocke-
teller Is a good man Sout the man
who is both great and good is Amos
Alonzo Stasg." r
The veteran coach has seen the rise
Of football al the university. When
1 ~ G~o IN 80 . -, --.- -.
sponded to his call for recruits and it
was necessary for him to fill one po-
sition> himself SO his outfit could be
IEput on the gridiron. Now football Is
the major sport at the university and
every student who thinks he has a
chance to make the team is expected
by the coach to turn out.
Captain Lewis, mainstay Of the Chi
cago line, is helping the coach to whip
the team into shape n his task also
is to find an acceptable quarterback.
Lewis, tall curly-haired blond youth,
is also the president and leader of
tsity and a member of the Bible, study
committee OF the Y. M. C. A. On the
gridirOn he liz transformed into q
giant in moleskins and jersey.
Lewis himself is an excellent tackle
or guard. He distinguished himself
in the game against Princeton last
year by his hard consistent tackling
and plunging. !.
In addition to the Strenuous duties
as. leader of the footballs squad, Lewis
is expected this year., as head of the
honor commission to direct the uni
lVersity's campaign against ticket
scalptng and other unsportsmanlike
practices against which the efforts OF
the body are directed. y