"This hasn't happened since 1886."
Cotton-haired, devout, 81-year-old Amos Alonzo Stagg was being carried off the field last week on the shoulders of his football team. His College of the Pacific team had just toppled a collection of All-Americas and professionals from Del Monte Pre-Flight, 16-to-7, in one of the season's biggest upsets. Not since Alonzo Stagg pitched Yale's baseball team to a 6-to-5 victory over Harvard 57 years ago had he beamed so broadly. His College of the Pacific looked like the strongest on the Pacific Coast, perhaps his best team since University of Chicago ruled the Big...
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