Amos Alonzo Stagg

Amos Alonzo Stagg (August 16, 1862 - March 17, 1965) was an American collegiate coach in several sports, especially football, and a pioneer of all sports. He was born in West Orange, New Jersey, and attended Phillips Exeter Academy. Play at Yale, where he was studying theology, and a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity and the secret Skull and Bones society, there was an end on the All-America first team, selected in 1889. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as a player and coach of the Charter Class of 1951 and was the only honoree in both areas before the 1990s. Influential in other sports, he developed basketball is a sport of five players and was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in his first group of winners in 1959. A pitcher of his college baseball team he was denied the opportunity to play professional baseball, but still influence the game through his invention of the batting cage.He went on to win an EMT Young Men's Christian training school of the, now known as Springfield College. On March 11, 1892, Stagg, still an instructor at the School of the YMCA, the public has played in the first game of basketball in Springfield (Mass).