The Resume

(August 16, 1862-March 17, 1965)
Born in West Orange, New Jersey
Pitcher for Yale's baseball team and end for Yale's football team
Helped James Naismith develop basketball (1891)
Head football coach at the University of Chicago (1892-1932) and University of the Pacific (1933-46)
One of the organizers of the Big Ten football conference
Coached the US Olympic track and field team (1924)
Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame (1951) and Basketball Hall of Fame (1959)

Why he might be annoying:

He planned to become a minister - attending Yale for its divinity school rather than its athletic program - but gave it up because he could not speak in front of crowds.
To cut back on expenses at Yale, he lived on soda crackers until he was diagnosed as suffering from malnutrition.
During the first public basketball game, he was a member of a faculty team that scored a total of one basket.

Why he might not be annoying:

For four decades, he was the only person in the College Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach.
He was named College Football Coach of the Year at age 81.
He had such a reputation for honesty that he twice was asked to referee a game his team was playing in.
His innovations include the lateral pass, the man in motion, the Statue of Liberty play, helmets, tackling dummies, numbered plays and putting names on uniforms in football; the five-on-five line-up in basketball; the batting cage in baseball; and overflow troughs for swimming pools.
Knute Rockne said, 'All football comes from Stagg.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Baseball Players
• Basketball Hall of Famers (Ranked: 1959)
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 18]
• Dual Sport Participants
• Football Players
• From St. Patricks to St. Peter [Died on March 17th] (Ranked: 1965)
• I Attended Phillips Exeter Academy [New Hampshire]
• I Attended Yale
• I Died in 1965 (Ranked: 102)
• I Lived to 100 (Ranked: 102)
• I Named My Kid After Myself
• I Stutter/Stammer
• I Was the Rose Parade Grand Marshall (Ranked: 1944)
• Look at Me, I'm Doing Housework
• NCAA Football Champion Coaches (Ranked: 1905)
• Profiles 25251-25500 (Ranked: 25278)
• Sport Coaches/Managers
• We Celebrated Our Golden Anniversary
• Yale's Skull and Bones Society

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 82 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 26 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 35 Votes: 54.29% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 76 Votes: 42.11% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 146 Votes: 36.30% Annoying