They Don’t Make Football Coaches Like Alonzo Stagg Any More

A footnote found at the Wikipedia entry for George Lyman Kittredge, who in 1941, shortly before his death, kindly signed my father’s Detur Prize copy of his Complete Works of Shakspeare:

“The famous football coach and theology student Alonzo Stagg wrote, 72 years later, “the two greatest and most stimulating teachers that I ever worked under were George Lyman Kittredge of Phillips Exeter Academy and William R. Harper [later president of the University of Chicago], professor of Hebrew at Yale University,” quoted in Hyder (1962), p. 35.