Show THE BIG FOUR By t 4 I g c f M P d' d 4 Q etI 7 I J r I i 1 U J w B ro w 1 NUTE-i NUTE Roc RocE E I IO O Re c E DAME j- j 4 r i c. c II- II Ji ii Fielding H. H Yost Realizes Great Dream After 25 Years Michigan's Million Dollar Field House Dedicated Dedicated Dedicated Dedi Dedi- in Grid Game With Ohio State Saturday By Billy Evans AN ANN N ARBOR Oct 22 A 22 A dream that hat was born bor n twenty five t five years ag ago wI when FIelding Fielding II H. 1 Yost os ostha was name named football coach of t the I University Uni Uni- Uch l of Mich Michigan r l igan was realized i il today J. J Yost's Yosts dream was a million million- J dollar ar stadium t to I n house Michigan's nf f athletic I activities I It has come e true and State gan here when met today Mich- Mich Ohio it w fJ was dedicated Fielding 1 g officially i II Yost now di director rector o. o of f athletics at Michigan i is isone T Tone one of footballs football's yf s YOST YOT r rone greatest personalities an outstanding ing ng figure Let us go back some twenty-five twenty years Jears to to get the at atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere at- at and color of other days It was back baek in the days when Then mass play was all the rage rage that Fielding H. H Yost acquired the unusual unusual unusual un un- un it usual name of Hurry Up and was vas in 1901 his first year at Michigan Mich- Mich Igan gan that Yost turned out one of his lis greatest teams His eleven eleen scored points while while the the opposition opposition tion lon failed to register It was the thoUght hought of Yost that if his team constantly had the jump on the opposition op- op position position started to run off oft plays before the rival team was set set it wo would ld be a a. great advantage In an effort to bring about Hurry up now was his slogan on the field fied He Ie would shout it over and over hundreds of times during every practice session OFFICIALLY NAMED UP HURRY YOST It wasn't long be before ore they began the calling him Up Hurry on Michigan campus Then the sports sportswriters sportswriters sportswriters writers took it up and before the close of his first year at Michigan he was Up Hurry Yost to the football world and he has been I that ever since I asked this Fielding H. H Yost person person person per per- son which was the better game that of twenty-five twenty years ago featuring mass play or the game of today with its forward pass and fancy open work Its a a. better game today than it used to be says Yost Its not only better to play but far more interesting to watch The modern game fairly bristles wI with h thrills and there is always a a. chance for the underdog but in the old game the superior team Invariably tri tri- Go back a a. minute to a a. few snatches of Yosts Yost's early career Born close to the campus of the University of West Virginia at Morgantown Morgantown Mor- Mor it was but natural that Yost should attend that college He made the eleven but he lie yearned earned to attend some eastern college that was more prominent in a a. football way so he later shifted l to Lafay Lafay- ette That was in 1894 There the football genius that was to make Yost one of the outstanding figures in the great college collage game got its start Pennsylvania with its famous guards back play playas as developed by George Woodruff was sweeping everything before it Yost saw Pennsylvania play and carefully studied the formation originated by Woodruff who had starred at Yale as a a. player He figured out a a. lIn lInof line hie of strategy that he lie believed would stop it and I am told when Lafayette Lafayette Lafayette La La- fayette met Penn that fall the guards back play for the first time time time-at at least temporarily was temporarily was halted JOINED MICHIGAN IN 1901 Yost came to Michigan In 1901 This year rounds out his twenty twenty- sixth season as director of Michigan's Michigan's Mich Mich- igans igan's football destinies Not a a. de defeat defeat do- do feat was marked up against Yost in his first four years at Michigan his elevens winning five fifty-five games and tying one Even as remarkable as this long winning streak was the fact that in all that time only forty points were s scored ored on Michigan 1 less than one point per game Yost is not only a a. great football coach but a a. fine lawyer as well Since both professions require a a. keen analytical mind Yost gets plenty of brain work during all twelve months of the year He is said to be the wealthiest of all football coaches could retire and live at ease If he cared but football football foot toot ball balI at Michigan l is part of his life and he lie will wUl probably be connected with Michigan to the end of hi his days Despite twenty-five twenty years years of service service service ser ser ser- vice at Michigan Yost Is still the same old Hurry Up He admits the first twenty-five twenty years of college college college col col- col- col lege football coaching are the hardest He anticipates a snore more pleasant time during the next twenty By the law of averages Yost sh shOuld uld have been counted out some years ago and a number of prophets have tried to count him out several times in his Mils career When the game was changed al almost almost almost al- al most overnight by the Introduction of the forward pass and open play it was predicted that Yost who knew only old time line smashing lashing mass football could never neer make makeover makeover makeover over his teams But Yost fooled them all nd some ome of the best forward passing ever done has been seen at Mich Mich- igan At that there is perhaps no coach In the game game- who resorts to old tricks s as s much as ns Yost One Onee I I e of his favorites Is a delayed pass pass pass- the fullback plunging into the line empty handed while the halves around the ends This one play has been used by Yost to score over fifty touchdowns Michigan's l mammoth new mil nil lion-dollar lion stadium Is a memorial to what Fielding Yost has done for Michigan Its It's an honor he lie richly deserves |