Letter from Amos Alonzo Stagg to William Ball (March 22nd, 1940)
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This is a letter sent from Amos Alonzo Stagg to William Henry Ball on March 22nd, 1940. This letter contains Stagg's gratitude for Ball for his previous letter and for having an impact on his coaching career. Stagg brings up how he and Frank Seerley used to "make the ground" when they played on the first Springfield College Football team known as Stagg's Eleven and the Stubby Christians. He says the the first year of his coaching was "..the most satisfactory of the whole fifty years that I coached because we were one united group who entered every game, each of us with a prayer in our heart to do our best". For biographical information on William Henry Ball, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/722 For biographical information on Amos Alonzo Stagg, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/661
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