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Show COACH YOST STILL ON SAME GRID JOB Michigan Mentor Has Been Teaching Football for Thirty Years. Thirty years ago a young man came k out of the East to teach football to University of Michlg n students. Today To-day he still is teaching them the gridiron grid-iron sport. On the formnl records of the University Uni-versity of Michigan be is listed as Fielding Harris Yost, director of atb-S atb-S letics, professor of theory and practice of athletic coaching, but to the hun-) hun-) dreds who have learned football under I his tutelage, he Is Just "Coach." I Yost, opening bis drive for another I Western Conference contender in the I 1025 football season, found little to re- mind him of his first turnout of can-t can-t dldates In 1901. There were, It Is true, . 3 two halfbacks, with illustrious names 1 5 b Coach Fielding Yost. i Heston and Herrnsteln but they are nephews of the stars of Yost's point-a-minute machine of the early days. To build a team that can equal the performance of the, aggregation of 1901 Yost must find an offensive that can pile up 550 points during the season, and a defense that can keep the Michigan goal untouched. Yost coached Michigan teams have cored a total of 5,673 points to 806 cored by opponents. In only one year, 1919, has Yost coached a team that has been outscored, and in all but one year It has more than doubled the scores of its oppmients. 5 Three years of Yost's work at Mich- lgan stand out above others the ( mighty one of 1901; 1905 when the Maize and Blue ran up a total of 495 5 points to 2, the two being the margin ; by which Chicago defeated Michigan, ) and 1907, when Michigan was scored upon but once, this time by Pennsylvania. Pennsyl-vania. Although Yost's retirement from ae- T tlve football coaching frequently has been rumored, each season has found hlra on Ferry field at the opening of practice. : |