FOOTBALL HISTORY 1927 on CDROM
STOUCHDOWN
by Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg
Includes all 352 pages of this classic work on Football by a giant of Football coaches.
by Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg
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Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965)
U.S. college football coach who had the longest coaching career--71 years--in the history of the sport. In 1943, at the age of 81, he was named college coach of the year, and he remained active in coaching until the age of 98. He is the only person selected for the National Football Hall of Fame, New Brunswick, N.J., as both a player and a coach. He was also important in the development of intercollegiate basketball.
As an end for Yale, where he was also an outstanding baseball pitcher, Stagg was chosen for Walter Camp's first All-America football team (1889). He then attended the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School, afterward Springfield (Mass.) College; there he both played and coached football and became one of the first enthusiasts of basketball, which was invented by James Naismith at the Springfield school in 1891. On Jan. 18, 1896, Stagg's University of Chicago team defeated the University of Iowa in the first intercollegiate basketball game with five players on each side.
During Stagg's 41-year tenure (1892-1932) as football coach at Chicago, the Maroons won six Western Conference (Big Ten) championships outright (1899, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1913, 1924) and tied for another (1922). They were undefeated and untied in two seasons (1905, 1913) and undefeated but tied at least once in two other years (1899, 1908). For his Chicago teams he devised the end-around play, the man in motion, the huddle (also credited to Bob Zuppke, coach at the University of Illinois), the shift (later employed with great success by Knute Rockne at the University of Notre Dame), and the dummy for tackling practice. After his enforced retirement from Chicago at the age of 70, he was head coach at the College (now University) of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif. (1933-46); advisory coach at Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa., under his son, head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, Jr. (1947-52); and advisory coach at Stockton Junior College (1953-60).
Football is thepopular game played between two 11-member teams on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. Each team tries to score points by moving the oval ball over the opponent's goal line for a touchdown (by carrying or passing the ball to a teammate) or by kicking it between the goalposts. A team must advance the ball 10 yards in four attempts, called downs. Defensive and offensive teams alternate positions on the field as the possession of the ball changes from side to side.
American football evolved in the 19th century as a combination of rugby and soccer. The first intercollegiate football match in the United States is usually credited to the game played in 1869 by Princeton University and Rutgers College at New Brunswick, N.J., but that game more resembled the kicking style of association football (soccer) than modern football; there were 25 players on a team, and the game was won by the number of goals scored rather than by touchdowns. In 1873 the first collegiate rules were standardized by Princeton, Yale, Columbia, and Rutgers, and soon afterward the distinct American version of football began to develop. In 1910 the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) was formed to govern American intercollegiate competition. Postseason, or "bowl," games played between leading college teams, became popular and now include the Rose Bowl (Pasadena, Calif.), Orange Bowl (Miami), Sugar Bowl (New Orleans), Sun Bowl (El Paso, Texas), Cotton Bowl (Dallas, Texas), and Gator Bowl (Jacksonville, Fla.).
Professional football began in the 1890s, but it was not until the rise of television after World War II that it became one of the dominant American sports. In 1922 the American Professional Football Association was reorganized as the National Football League (NFL), which remains the main force of the professional game. A rival league, the American Football League (AFL), was created in 1959, but an agreement in 1966 led to the merger of the two in 1970 under the NFL title. The NFL is now divided into an American and a National conference; the winners of the conferences compete for the Super Bowl championship. In the early 1980s the U.S. Football League (USFL) emerged to threaten the NFL, but it ended after only three seasons.
American football evolved as the product of the imagination of early players and coaches who continuously adapted the game to the equipment, the players' skills, and the playing rules in effect during their time. The game played in NFL football began with rules evolved by Stagg and his associates. It was coaches such as Alonzo Stagg who developed the fundamentals of play and generated public interest in football. A must-have for anyone interested in Football and the history of the game. Includes a number of photographs including many historic football games and legendary football players. Anyone interested in Football or football coaching will enjoy this CDROM.Great gift for anyone who likes Football. Classic football games involving Wisconsin, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Michigan, Indiana, Chicago, Rutgers, Illinois, army, navy and other great teams are described, some with photographs included of classic football plays and football players. This is the origin of collegiate football and the game played in the National Football League and at the Super Bowl !
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Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965)
U.S. college football coach who had the longest coaching career--71 years--in the history of the sport. In 1943, at the age of 81, he was named college coach of the year, and he remained active in coaching until the age of 98. He is the only person selected for the National Football Hall of Fame, New Brunswick, N.J., as both a player and a coach. He was also important in the development of intercollegiate basketball.
As an end for Yale, where he was also an outstanding baseball pitcher, Stagg was chosen for Walter Camp's first All-America football team (1889). He then attended the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School, afterward Springfield (Mass.) College; there he both played and coached football and became one of the first enthusiasts of basketball, which was invented by James Naismith at the Springfield school in 1891. On Jan. 18, 1896, Stagg's University of Chicago team defeated the University of Iowa in the first intercollegiate basketball game with five players on each side.
During Stagg's 41-year tenure (1892-1932) as football coach at Chicago, the Maroons won six Western Conference (Big Ten) championships outright (1899, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1913, 1924) and tied for another (1922). They were undefeated and untied in two seasons (1905, 1913) and undefeated but tied at least once in two other years (1899, 1908). For his Chicago teams he devised the end-around play, the man in motion, the huddle (also credited to Bob Zuppke, coach at the University of Illinois), the shift (later employed with great success by Knute Rockne at the University of Notre Dame), and the dummy for tackling practice. After his enforced retirement from Chicago at the age of 70, he was head coach at the College (now University) of the Pacific, Stockton, Calif. (1933-46); advisory coach at Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa., under his son, head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, Jr. (1947-52); and advisory coach at Stockton Junior College (1953-60).
Football is thepopular game played between two 11-member teams on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. Each team tries to score points by moving the oval ball over the opponent's goal line for a touchdown (by carrying or passing the ball to a teammate) or by kicking it between the goalposts. A team must advance the ball 10 yards in four attempts, called downs. Defensive and offensive teams alternate positions on the field as the possession of the ball changes from side to side.
American football evolved in the 19th century as a combination of rugby and soccer. The first intercollegiate football match in the United States is usually credited to the game played in 1869 by Princeton University and Rutgers College at New Brunswick, N.J., but that game more resembled the kicking style of association football (soccer) than modern football; there were 25 players on a team, and the game was won by the number of goals scored rather than by touchdowns. In 1873 the first collegiate rules were standardized by Princeton, Yale, Columbia, and Rutgers, and soon afterward the distinct American version of football began to develop. In 1910 the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) was formed to govern American intercollegiate competition. Postseason, or "bowl," games played between leading college teams, became popular and now include the Rose Bowl (Pasadena, Calif.), Orange Bowl (Miami), Sugar Bowl (New Orleans), Sun Bowl (El Paso, Texas), Cotton Bowl (Dallas, Texas), and Gator Bowl (Jacksonville, Fla.).
Professional football began in the 1890s, but it was not until the rise of television after World War II that it became one of the dominant American sports. In 1922 the American Professional Football Association was reorganized as the National Football League (NFL), which remains the main force of the professional game. A rival league, the American Football League (AFL), was created in 1959, but an agreement in 1966 led to the merger of the two in 1970 under the NFL title. The NFL is now divided into an American and a National conference; the winners of the conferences compete for the Super Bowl championship. In the early 1980s the U.S. Football League (USFL) emerged to threaten the NFL, but it ended after only three seasons.
American football evolved as the product of the imagination of early players and coaches who continuously adapted the game to the equipment, the players' skills, and the playing rules in effect during their time. The game played in NFL football began with rules evolved by Stagg and his associates. It was coaches such as Alonzo Stagg who developed the fundamentals of play and generated public interest in football. A must-have for anyone interested in Football and the history of the game. Includes a number of photographs including many historic football games and legendary football players. Anyone interested in Football or football coaching will enjoy this CDROM.Great gift for anyone who likes Football. Classic football games involving Wisconsin, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Michigan, Indiana, Chicago, Rutgers, Illinois, army, navy and other great teams are described, some with photographs included of classic football plays and football players. This is the origin of collegiate football and the game played in the National Football League and at the Super Bowl !
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