Letter to Amos Alonzo Stagg from New York Athletic Club dated September 18, 1891

Item Information

Title:
Letter to Amos Alonzo Stagg from New York Athletic Club dated September 18, 1891
Description:
Letter to Amos Alonzo Stagg from the New York Athletic Club dated September 18, 1891 discussing the prospect of playing a football game in October 1891. The name of the sender was unable to be deciphered, but could possibly be Wurtenberg. In the letter they also discuss going down to Princeton for evening dinner. The letter is part of a series of letters received by Stagg regarding arrangements to play Springfield College in Football.
Date:
September 18, 1891
Format:
Documents
Location:
Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
Collection (local):
College Archives Digital Collections
Series:
Amos Alonzo Stagg Papers
Subjects:
Springfield College--Alumni and alumnae
Springfield College--Faculty
Springfield College--Football
Springfield College--Sports
Springfield College--Sports--Men
Springfield College
International Young Men's Christian Association Training School (Springfield, Mass.)
Stagg, Amos Alonzo, 1862-1965
Football
Correspondence
Places:
Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > Springfield
Link to Item:
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Publisher:
Springfield College
Language:
English
Notes:
In 1890, Amos Alonzo Stagg, a Yale all-American and major league baseball pitching prospect, came to Springfield College (then known as the YMCA Training School) and started the college’s first football team. Stagg graduated from Yale in 1888 and from Springfield College in 1891. As a graduate student in a one-year program to become a YMCA Physical Director, he served as Coach, Manager, Captain, and Player. On an open field overlooking Lake Massasoit, the team would practice and play the less important games, while playing bigger games downtown. Stagg served as an assistant physical education instructor at Springfield College from 1890-1892. His football teams at Springfield College were known as "Stagg's Eleven" or the "Stubby Christians". During the two years he coached and played football at Springfield College, the "Stubby Christians," went 10-11-1 and played in one of the first indoor football game on December 12, 1890 at Madison Square Garden against the Yale Consolidated team. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Stagg came to be known as the "Grand Old Man of Football". He coached football at the University of Chicago (Chicago, Ill.) from 1892-1932 and at the College of the Pacific from 1933 until his retirement in 1946. Over his career he won 314 games. Stagg died in 1965 at the age of 102. He pioneered the huddle, the man in motion, the end-around, and the Statue of Liberty play, among others. During October 2006, the refurbished Benedum Field was renamed the Amos Alonzo Stagg Field. In The Fireside Book of Football, author Edwin Pope describes Stagg as “football’s Ben Franklin, Alexander Bell, and Thomas Edison all rolled into one.”
Brackets and question marks in the text field represent words or phrases that were not readable due to the authors handwriting. To see the envelope/letter that is associated to this item click here: http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15370coll2/id/12437/rec/2
Identifier:
ms507-02-01-15-001