September 22 1932 Amos Alonzo Stagg autograph letter University of Chicago Track

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This is an auction for a very special September 22 1932 Amos Alonzo Stagg autograph letter, framed with protective glass, and the piece includes a 1922 University of Chicago Indoor Track Medal, Postcard of the campus from that period that shows were the Football stadium was originally on Campus, a 1924 Program, a picture of Amos Alonzo Stagg with the 1924 Olympic Team, among other University of Chicago treasures. Good Luck!!!
Amos Alonzo Stagg
(August 16, 1862 – March 17, 1965) was an American athlete and college coach in multiple sports, primarily
American football
.
[1]
[2]
He served as the head football coach at the International
YMCA
Training School (now called
Springfield College
) (1890–1891), the
University of Chicago
(1892–1932), and the
College of the Pacific
(1933–1946), compiling a career
college football
record of 314–199–35 (.605). His undefeated
Chicago Maroons
teams of
1905
and
1913
have been recognized as
national champions
. He was also the head
basketball
coach for one season at Chicago (1920–1921), and the Maroons' head
baseball
coach for nineteen seasons (1893–1905, 1907–1913).
At Chicago, Stagg also instituted an annual prep basketball tournament and track meet. Both drew the top high school teams and athletes from around the United States.
Stagg played football as an
end
at
Yale University
and was selected to the first
All-America Team
in
1889
. He was inducted into the
College Football Hall of Fame
as both a player and a coach in the charter class of 1951 and was the only individual honored in both roles until the 1990s. Influential in other sports, Stagg developed basketball as a five-player sport. This five-man concept allowed his 10 (later 11) man football team the ability to compete with each other and to stay in shape over the winter. Stagg was elected to the
Basketball Hall of Fame
in its first group of inductees in 1959.
Stagg also forged a bond between sports and religious faith early in his career that remained important to him for the rest of his life.