...the time, $2,500, and giving him tenure as an associate professor, Harper told Stagg that he wanted him to develop teams which "we can send around the country and knock out all the colleges." 70 How different this was from the Harvard attitude which justified amateur coaching by looking socially...

...and in the negotiations with Stagg, a champion of "moral athletics," he reportedly wrote, "I want you to develop teams which we can send around the country and knock out all the colleges. We will give them a palace car and a vacation, too" (Lawson and Ingham 42). Thus the University of Chicago's athletic...

...achievement on a par with scholastic achievement in building a great university. He hired Amos Alonzo Stagg and directed him to "develop teams which we can send...varsity players] a palace car and a vacation too" (quoted in Seymour 1990, p. 154). Besides helping a school achieve general visibility, successful sports...

...towards intercollegiate athletics," Harper answered, "I am most heartily in favor of them. I want you to develop teams which we can send around the country and knock out all the colleges. We will give them a palace car and a vacation too." Stagg's response: "These words have made me very happy, for...

...immediately hired well-known Amos Alonzo Stagg to be the football coach, charging him with developing "teams which we can send around the country and knock out all the (other) colleges. We will give them a palace car and a vacation too." According to one story Stagg...

...immediately hired well-known Amos Alonzo Stagg to be the football coach, charging him with developing "teams which we can send around the country and knock out all the (other) colleges. We will give them a palace car and a vaca-tion too." According to one story Stagg...

...unsullied manhood," "moral purity," and "human self-restraint" outdoor athletics developed. He wanted Stagg "to develop teams which we can send around the country and knock out all the colleges. We will give them a palace car and a vacation too." Stagg was pleased to have such support because he loved outdoor...

...by beating opponents throughout the nation. As Harper wrote to Stagg at his hiring, he wanted Stagg "to develop teams which we can send around the country and knock out all the colleges. We will give them a palace car and a vacation too."0 Stagg delivered, beating Stanford on Christmas Day and defeating...

...athletic department, and encouraged him to build a prominent football team. "I want to develop teams that we can send around the country and knock out all the colleges," Stagg later recalled Harper proclaiming. "We will give them a palace car and a vacation." In other...

...University of Chicago, hired the legend-to-be, Amos Alonzo Stagg, as his first football coach, instructing him to "develop teams which we can send around the country and knock out all the colleges."2 In those wide-open days, some schools were not above using traveling mercenaries to improve...