Paul Stagg was an American football

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 player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Moravian College

Moravian College

Moravian College a private liberal arts college, and the associated Moravian Theological Seminary are located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, in the Lehigh Valley region.-History:...

 (1934–1936), Springfield College

Springfield College

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 (1937–1940), Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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 (1941–1946), and Pacific University

Pacific University

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 in Forest Grove, Oregon

Forest Grove, Oregon

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 (1946–1960), compiling a career college football

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 record of 94–99–12. Stagg played football as a quarterback

Quarterback

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 at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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, where his father, Amos Alonzo Stagg

Amos Alonzo Stagg

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, was the head coach. He was an assistant coach under his father at Chicago in the fall of 1932 before graduating in December with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in geography. He followed the elder Stagg in 1933 to the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California

Stockton, California

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, where he served as an assistant coach for a season before taking the head coaching job at Moravian. Paul Stagg returned to the University of the Pacific in 1961 as director of physical education and intercollegiate athletics, a capacity in which he served until 1967.

Stagg's older brother, Amos, Jr.

Amos Alonzo Stagg, Jr.

Amos Alonzo "Lonnie" Stagg, Jr. , sometimes called Young Stagg was an American football player and coach of college football and basketball....

, also played quarterback at Chicago under their father and was a later the head football coach at Susquehanna University

Susquehanna University

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. The two brothers coached against one another twice. In 1935, Amos Jr.'s Susquehanna Crusaders and Paul's Moravian Greyhounds played to a 0–0 tie in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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. The following year, Moravian beat Susquehanna, 26–16, in Selinsgrove

Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania

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Marriage and graduate study

Stagg was married on August 13, 1934 to Virginia Russell in Chicago

Chicago

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. He received a Master of Arts degree in physical education from Columbia University

Columbia University

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 that June. In the spring of 1947, he received a PhD in physical education from New York University

New York University

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