University of Chicago football
1892: Amos Alonzo Stagg launches the school's football program, introducing innovations that shape the game into its modern form during a 41-year tenure.
1895: Chicago becomes a founding member of the Western Conference, which will become the Big Ten. It wins the first of its seven league titles in 1899.
1905: Maroons finish 10-0, win their second Big Ten championship and capture the first of two national titles with a 2-0 victory over Michigan.
1913: The team is again crowned national champion during a period of success that earns it the nickname "Monsters of the Midway,'' a title later appropriated by the Chicago Bears—who also adopted the school's "C'' logo.
1921: Chicago's 9-0 victory over Princeton marks the first victory by a Western team over Princeton, Yale or Harvard, a milestone that increases the game's national popularity.
1932: After three losing seasons in a row, Stagg leaves the university with a career mark of 224-112-27.
1935: Jay Berwanger, who plays nearly every position on both offense and defense, wins the first Downtown Athletic Club Trophy—later renamed the Heisman Trophy. One year later, he is the first player chosen in the first NFL draft.
1939: School President Robert Maynard Hutchins discontinues football after a four-year period in which the Maroons went 1-15 in the Big Ten.
1942: Under the west stands of abandoned Stagg Field, a team of scientists takes steps toward the atomic bomb.
1969: Football is revived as a Division III program.
Source: University of Chicago
