1960: College football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965), then 98 years old, announced his retirement after 70 years on the field. Stagg's career coincided with the evolution of the game from an amalgam of soccer and rugby into American football as we know it. Stagg also coached track, baseball, and basketball. Born and raised in West Orange, New Jersey, Stagg played football and baseball for Yale University. He attended Yale as a divinity student and graduated in 1888. In 1890, he began his career as a football coach at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. Prior to the television age, football was a college sport. A master strategist, Stagg is credited with many innovations in the game of football - from formations and plays to equipment and uniforms. His innovations include the lateral pass, tackling dummy, fake punt, quick-kick, and backfield shift, as well as padded goal posts, and uniform numbers. (Source: Library of Congress)