Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-19 | Page 4 | 'Hurry-Up' Yost Inspires Every Regular on Team before Games

Hurry Up Yost Inspires Every Regular on Team Before Games Famous Michigan Mentor Appeals to Emotions Emotions Emo- Emo of Athletes Has Great Memory CHICAGO Ill Sept Hurry Hurry 19 Up Yost resuming c at Michigan l this season brings back to football one of the most colorful personalities the game ever p pro pro- Stagg Helsman Heisman Warner and Yost have served longest as football coaches Yost is the type of coach who appeals directly to the emotions of his players Benny Friedman 1926 captain and one of the greatest players Michigan ever turned out tells an Interesting story about Yosts Yost's abilIty ability abil- abil Ity to Inspire his team About an hour before a bIg game Benny says Yost gathers all his regulars in the locker room The subs are all excused The coach goes gocs over the strategy to be followed in the game After that ho he very feelingly impresses on us our obligations to the college At Atthe Atthe the end of the talk he stations himself himself him him- self at the exit and with tears in his eyes shakes each players player's hand handas as he leaves the room room There is a world of meanIng In that handshake hand hand- shake hake and I know every man on a 1 squad that I played on would have hare willingly made any sacrifice sac sac- rinee for the old man YOST RETIRES At the end of the 1926 season Yost announced his retirement as football head coach to give aU all his time to general supervision of athletics athletics ath- ath at Michigan Intimate friends of the veteran predicted that lie he would not be able to stay away from the lure of coaching One year in retirement was enough to tomake make malte Coach Yost decide that Michigan lich Mich- igan still needed him The famous nickname Hurry Up was wae given Yost in the early days ot of his coaching at Michigan l Back twenty seven years ago ngo Yosts Yost's big Blue team started a scorIng scorIng- run never equaled by any other football foot foot- ball aggregation It a point for every minute of play and was not scored against It rolled up points to O. O All through the training training train train- ing Yost urging the team to scoring scoring ing speed called out Hurr Hurry you'll have to hurry SomebodY called the coach Hurry Up Yost and the name stuck REMEMBERS PLAYERS Yost makes his football men mem members ers of his football family He takes pride in remembering the names of all the men on his football te teams ms since he began besan coaching at Michigan Quite an army of them in twenty eight Years Hurry Ups official title Is professor of theory and practice of athletic coaching But the boys bors dont don't call him professor They never will