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Show FIELDING YOST DUE TO RETIRE Veteran Mentor After 22 Year Slated to Leave; Little May Act By NEA Service AN N ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 17. Is Fielding Yost to retire as head foot-I foot-I ball coach at the close of the present I season? Gossip around the campus is in the affirmative. Yost, who Is now director of all athletics at Michigan, has been in charge of football activities as head coach for 22 years. It Is hinted that if all coos well at Michigan this year, and at the prcs-(nt prcs-(nt time things are flourishing) Yost I will turn the fOOtbafl worries ov er to his assistant, George Little. Of course. Yost will continue to act In an advisory advis-ory capacity as director of athletics. Yost has an enviable record as football foot-ball coach at Michigan He certainly put the Maize and Blue on the map from a sporting standpoint Yost came to Michigan in 1901. lb-probably lb-probably won bis greatest fame in ins first fours years si Michigan. H:j teams from ll'Ol to 190,-V were practically practi-cally Invincible. Those were the days of the "polnt-a-minute" elevens. Michigan In the first four years of Yost regime, won 55 out of .'. ; games. tying one and losing th u!1m i. Minnesota Min-nesota In i:u3 piayed the Wolverines to a 6 to C tie, while Chicago in 1V0S beat Michigan 2 t 0, because of a bom " play on tne part of Denny Clarke, which permitted Chicago to score a safel) 1'iiting his tlrst five years 'at. Michigan Mich-igan host's teams scored 2790 points to the opposition's 42. a mo. rcmaiu- : able record, that probably will never i will be equalled In collegiate circles. Thus it Is easy to sc.- that Yost has had more than his share of glory and he is willing, yes, anxious to step down when In iinus someone he believes be-lieves Will fill the bill. Looks very; much as it he hid that man In George Little, his present assistant Oo |