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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 know it, but that isn’t his greatest legacy. When he accepted the invitation to coach, he gave an acceptance speech of sorts to the university president: “After much thought and prayer, I decided that my life can best be used for my Master’s service in the position you have offered.”
Stagg would coach football until the age of ninety-eight, but he didn’t just coach his teams. He discipled his players. After one of his winning seasons, a beat reporter congratulated the coach on a job well done. Instead of passively receiving that compliment, Stagg coached that young reporter. He said in his straightforward manner, “I won’t know how good a job I did for twenty years. That’s when I’ll see how my boys turned out.”
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