Pigskin Dispatch Podcast... Stagg's Last Game at Chicago
Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I get together for our 100th episode and we discuss Amos Alonzo Stagg’s last game at Chicago. Born during the Civil War, Stagg saw football’s first 90 years and was among the sport’s great innovators.
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Stagg also played in the first public basketball game as a teammate of James Naismith on the teachers' team of the YMCA against the students. The March 12, 1892, Springfield Republican article about the game says: "...The most conspicuous figure on the floor was Stagg in the blue Yale uniform, who managed to have a hand in every scrimmage. His football training hampered him, and he was perpetually making fouls by shoving his opponents. He managed, however, to score the only goal that the instructors made..." The students won the game 5-1.