Discipling Football Players

The U of C [University of Chicago] has produced ninety-eight Nobel laureates, but I’m not sure any of them left as big an imprint on that university as its famed football coach, Amos Alonzo Stagg. Stagg coached the original Monsters of the Midway for four decades, winning two national titles in 1905 and 1913.

His brainchildren include the huddle, the onside kick, the T formation, and the forward pass. Amos Alonzo Stagg invented football as we…