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He later became coach at Springfield College (1890-91), the University Of Chicago (1892-1932), and the College Of The Pacific (1933-46). During his career, he developed numerous basic tactics for the game (including the man in motion and the lateral pass), as well as some equipment. From 1947 to 1958 he served as an assistant coach under his son at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. In 1924, he served as a coach with the U.S. Olympic Track and Field team in Paris. He was elected to the College Football Hall Of Fame as both a player and a coach in the charter class of 1951 , and was the only individual honored in both areas until the 1990s. Influential in other sports, he developed Basketball as a five-player sport and was elected to the Basketball Hall Of Fame in its first group of inductees in 1959 . A Baseball Pitcher in college, he declined an opportunity to play professional baseball but nonetheless impacted the game through his invention of the batting cage. Known as the "grand old man" of college football, Stagg died in Stockton, California at age 102. Two high schools in the United States, one in Palos Hills, Illinois and the other in Stockton, California , were named after him. The NCAA Division III national Football championship game is also named after him. He was also the namesake of the University of Chicago's old Stagg Field where, on December 2 , 1942 , a team of Manhattan Project scientists led by Enrico Fermi created the world's first controlled, self-sustaining Nuclear Chain Reaction under the west stands of the abandoned stadium, as well as Stagg Memorial Stadium , Pacific's football and soccer stadium. The Amos Alonzo Stagg Collection is held at the University Of The Pacific Library, Holt Atherton Department of Special Collections. INNOVATIONS IN FOOTBALL
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