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Caption: Dedication - Memorial Stadium Drive Book #2
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"CHUFF HAD A VISION AND 7OOO YOUNG HEARTS SHARED IT H E Y will tell you, around the table at the University Club, or in those faculty offices where there are but two desks, or perhaps only one, and where the names of the occupants are printed austerely on the door, that when G. Huff speaks, the "powers that be" listen with marked respect and consideration. And they will tell you that this is not particularly because G. Huff was the greatest college baseball coach in America, or because he is today the finest athletic director. A professor of engineering once shifted his feet, mussed his hair, and wrinkled his brow prodigiously. "G.. Huff? I'm not good at the flowery stuff, but G. Huff—well, he's strong on foundations, and, best of all, when he gets a foundation done, he realizes that he's beginning not finished." A Ph.D. in the classics looked up with interest from his copy of Sophocles when the name of George Huff was mentioned.". "I'-often wonder if Mr. Huff has read Greek drama," he remarked,.. "for never have I met a man who so adequately personifies its simplicity and its grandeur." Which made one of his listeners, a youth who can do more things with a football than a philologist can with a transitive verb, smile. "I don't get this Greek drama business," the youth said, "but if G. Huff wants a two-million-dollar Stadium, I'll lay my collar bone to a red cent that every living Illini '11 give it to him." When, last winter, " G " first spoke of a Stadium for Illinois, it was said around the fires in fraternity houses, at the tables in boarding clubs, and in sorority parlors, that it must have been in his mind for a long time, and t h a t it was an idea with greatness in it. It had been in his mind for a long time. How long, no one can tell. When Harvard built its magnificent horseshoe, when Yale swung the great gray circle of its Bowl into student and alumni life, when Princeton made of iron and concrete and stone a new and thrilling symbol of its vitality, G. Huff said: *T am thinking of something like these, but something greater somehow." He went on, quietly developing intra-mural athletics until it saturated the campus with the spirit of sportsmanship and vigor, quietly building up what is today the only complete college for athletic coaches in America, T From a bas-relief by Antonio M. Paterno, *2iy Philippine Islands " G " HUFF
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