Show YOST Nfl lONGER j i FOOTBALL KING Famous Coach Seems Unable to Build Up Great Grid Gridiron Gridiron Gridiron iron Machines BY R C CORNELL Coach Fielding H 1 Hurry Hum tp fp X n reign of wizardry in 11 circle appears to be bt nearing an nn cad TT The unbeatable mentor of at the Wolverine school deprived of o othe the invincible le Heston the ly I speedy speed Garrels the shrewd rit nt j general Weeks Redden Toni Tom Ham Rau Hammond Ht Raumond mond Curtis Maddock aid aida iu iua a score of other oth r stalwart gridiron it t roes whose names will 11 live as oa as there is it any A 1 blood in the tha t vein emd of Michigan students has dropped from tron the position of an unbeatable couch COUl t l tx la 1 a x position in the front rank of gr grid gridIron gridiron i iIron Iron instructors but Jut certainly no bet bel better better ter tel than several other ather coaches fI now nu m li 1 active service Ben I ct Though the Wo have Me met meteral meteral se eral setbacks in recent years year the win Of st It blow that yet has befallen the ilie mah mahand and blue team was as the recent tie tic tt gam am with the Michigan Agricultural A tf tt of or Lansing Great Touchdown Machines A few short horl pal y a s ago aSo the grei gre i touchdown machines turn P u out nn i ally by b Yost at Ann Arbor were tomed tamed to roll roU up scores s set get setting getting ct ting as many malt as points against the on one occasion This Thi year ear Michigan was unable to score con cor conand i and escaped defeat only because Its opponents lacked generalship to take advantage of ot the weaknesses in the theAnn theAnn theAnn Ann Arbor Arbar defense delenS t I IThe The decline of the prowess of Michi Michigan Michigan Ichi gan football teamS has raised the ques question question tion whether or not Yost was losing his ability as a coach roach and whether or o not Hurry Hum Up Vp was wao the master of the thene new ne and open style st le of game that he h has was as of the old style The answer anser should be easy Yost has not lost his hold on the game he has lost only the wonderful men that made possible the greatest cor scoring coring ing big team any school ever eer turned out Four Foul Years Without Defeat For four years ears after aCter Yost went to tu Michigan the Wolverines won every ever I football game they Uley played with one exception the blot on the record of the Ann Arbor school being a tie game with Minnesota ota In 1903 Yosts tac tae tactics tactics tics ties made possible to 10 a large extent these successes es but It was not his Ills ability alone that gave gac tho the Wolverines their wonderful teams He had the most powerful lot of or men from which to mold his teams that any western coach ever eer possessed It Is true that he instilled speed and fighting spirit Into these men but they were such players that they the would have won the majority of their games gaines with any other coach The master hand of Yost made the elevens of 1901 1902 1903 and 1904 1004 well nigh Invincible and Chicago Wis VI Wisconsin Wisconsin and Minnesota went down to defeat with such regularity that the th cry of the entire west was anything to beat Yost During those years Coach Stagg Of the Maroons used to sigh Give me a afew afew few of ot Yosts substitutes and Chicago o might have a chance of or winning from Michigan Monopoly on Material There was a lot of truth In this longing of the Maroon leader Year after year the Michigan team came to Chicago ago with a squad of substitutes that would have hao helped any team in lit inthe Inthe the then Big DIg Nine Ine In those days Michigan not only had a great coach but it came close to possessing a mo monopoly monopoly on the gridiron ma material material material of that section In 1905 Michigan lost Heston but It retained Longman Garrels Curtis Tom Torn and Harry Hammond and several oth other other other er cogs of the famous touchdown ma mo machines machines chines Heston however had been a abig abig big biS factor In the Wolverine successes and with him out of ot the fray a Yost Yas team met its first defeat In the his historical historical game with th Chicago on Thanks Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thanksgiving giving day when the Maroons profit profiting profiting ing InS by b a mistake by b Clarke Heston successor won the game gam by b a score Frore of oC 2 to 0 O Since that game Yost has lost the th Hammonds H Longman Curtis and Gar Garrels Garrels Garrels and two more defeats have been chalked up against his teams both by Pennsylvania With a team this year ear which appears even weaker than any an of the three Immediately preceding prospects for tor the remainder of this year look blue |