Show at fulch FIELDING E DINO HURRY HURH YUr UP YOST ot of michigan igan was 70 old a month a ago go he came along when football was young and at 70 he Is still as rugged as his wet west virginia oaks or his michigan hemlocks by a rule ot of the western conference ecce 70 Is the retiring age which means that one of the ablest and most colorful characters from the american sporting s scene cene has come to the e end nd 0 of a football road that goes back to west virginia and the autumn of 1895 only L connle nnie stagg stage and pop warner wamer cari can look jook back a grantland Grantlan dRice rice deeper distance to a faraway past fara faraway and long ng ago I 1 the game has given us only I 1 one stagg only one warner only one and only one yost they painted the scene with a flaming flaring smear of vivid color calor that no one else barring only the famous knute rockne Rock has ever approached pro ached it was in 1895 that a big shaggy haired gawky backwoods teacher fro from m fairview saw and played tn in his first football game hurry up yost yos t had arrived yost wasso wag so keen about football from ahe the start that no one university could poul doffer offer him enough competition so in 1895 he played with west virginia lafayette and the allegheny athletic club drink brink thorae of yale was one of the lafayette coaches when yost was starring arring sl on a team cam that hat beat one of pennsylvanian Pennsyl star elevens by 6 to 4 yost wanted coplay to play football all day clay long brink once told me and talk it all night he might have added covering the map alap on his march across the count coun tryg rys map yost coached teams at ohio wesleyan nebraska kansas and stanford again one university enough while at stanford he also coached f four ur other teams success rully ful lythe abi stanford stanford freshmen san lose jose teachers lowell high school of san francisco and the california Z FIELDING YOST ukiah team five teams this what you might call putting in a ull full season most of his teams had vIctor victorious lous sweeps but it was not until unta 1901 when his famous battle cry of hurry up hurry cupl up arrived at michigan that yost came to instant tame fame 1 I still believe those michigan teams from 1901 through 1905 were the greatest five consecutive football teams any university ever moved into destructive action playing through heavy schedules they won 55 games tied one and lost one while scoring around points yost colit coached ched michigan for 23 25 years before he took over the directorship of lath athletes letes in those 25 years his teams won garnes games and lost but 10 they won or tied tor for the big ten title eight times and during it 11 of those 25 years the maize and blue was not in the conference i wh what at an all time i M michigan team yost coid could have put into the field from the men he coached he turned out 10 all american nominations through 1928 in addition to all this yost directed the construction of six athletic buildings including the michigan stadium that seats some people A football life lia for over 40 years football has been vests life he has eaten it dreamed it talked it and lived it the last time I 1 saw him we had bad lunch together at one at three the next morning he was still showing me what made a rood good punter and how to block at tie the finish J was a battered and a beaten wreck you have to be in ideal condition to talk with yost he hammers your chest with the powe powerful stub by fingers of both hands bandi |