The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-06-26
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Several months ago. the writer spent
many minutes with footballs grand old
man, Amos Alonzo Stage, nov leao
coach at Pacific University, and LOT l
years or whereabouts head coach OF al
University of Chicago. I told Stagg
something he never knew, about one
of his football captains. And that ONE
thing was Bud" Henderson, the Ma
room grid captain of the 1927 team,
hailed from Butte. For several seasons
after his graduation. henderson was
one of Stages assistants. me .old
him. Stagg thought he knew the geo.
graphic spots whence most OF his team
captains hailed. Stage told me that he
was going to look up the matter and
write me within 10 days if my state
ment was wrong. He sent me a Christ
mas greeting but did not mention Hen
derSon or Butte.
Bud is a son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Henderson who left Montana six years
nephew of Charley Henderson, former
Silver Bow county sheriff. now a prom
inent citizen of Long Beach.
Stagg did comment on Montana boys
who have won fame in athletics in
many schools, though very, very few
ever attended the University Of Chi
cago. He mentioned that Montana lads
Boys like Henderson, Peters, Eaaley
and Pythian are the kind I have been
hunting for more years than I can
say" said the old man of football.
Coach Page Played With Chi
Speaking of Henderson acting as a
Stage assistant reminds me of an in
cident of another great Stagg-coached
athlete and aide. About 20 or 81 years
ago. the Chicago University baseball
Seattle the Maroon ball tossers played
a number of games. The team stopped
at Billings. meeting a local team. Pat"
Page, a great football end and a von-
derful basketball guard. a good pitcher,
too. was in charge of the ball team. It
was Pats second year as assistant to
the old man. The Billings team assault
hurlers. Then Pat Page went to the
box. I do know that on the trip Pat
pitched several games for the COL
legiates.
About a dozen years ago when Page
left the Stage concern to be head coach
on his own hook at Butler University,
located at Indianapolis, I happened to
be in the Hoosier capital on a night
when Butler was to play Wabash in a
basketball game. In those days Bitter
University did not have a gymnasium
as one of its possessions. I took a taxi
to old Tomlinson hall where Butler
played all home games. The hall would
a sellout. Lines of customers were
turned away. I moved up to the box
office and asked for a ticket. The clerk
told me that there were no more he
could put in circulation. He said that
many people travelled so or go miles to
see the game, only to be disappointed.
I remarked that I had journeyed
teams play. Incidentally I told the
ticket man I was a friend of the But
Ter coach, Pat Page. I was ushered up
stairs to a seat on the Butler bench,
and all during the game gabbed with
the coach. that is. when his team was
leading; but when Butler was behind.
Pat would suffer from coaches heebee-
anxiety. nervousness, filters, and hys-
terra. Butler is n of the few college
teams that has ever won the national
A. A. U. basketball championship. A
year after the incident reported above.
Page took his basketeers to Kansas
City and COPIED the national amateur
title.
Page held down the head football
coach job for a time at Indiana Uni
versity after his Butler years. Pat is
now in California coaching at a junior
college. He doesn't live far from his
old mentor, coys and friends. Stagg
and Page can put on an entertaining
two-man tanning bee, which they do
many times a month.
Warner Second Oldest
Stage is the dean of all football
coaches: Next in point of continuous
years Of grid coaching service, though
he has had sever jobs to two for Stage,
is Glenn Pop" Warner. The present
Temple mentor, formerly coach ct
Carlisle, Georgia, Cornell, Iowa State.
Pittsburgh and Stanford, has been
teaching line plays, spinners and other
football maneuvers for 80 years.
Like Pat Page, who played as well as
coached a Chicago university baseball
team n Stage who played with an
earlier Chicago U grid team he
taught, Pop played with a team he
directed. How many times I do not
know, but it is a matter of record that
he did play n game in Butte in the
late COS. At the time he was coach
ing Iowa State college of Ames. The
Butte team managed by Col. D. Cav
Stivers invited the Iowa school to play
here against the pro or semi-pro Butte
team that had taken the measure of
Omaha, Denver, Portland, Salt Lake
INC a Francisco clubs.
In the game Warner played a tackle
position for the collegiate club. There
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