Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — VERSATILE MICHIGAN COACH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

VERSATILE MICHIGAN COACH

Coach Yost of Michigan, is very versatile. If he can’t make his football varlets get there in one way he tries another. Yost began his career as a tutor in the art of maiming without killing back in 1897 at Ohio Wesleyan. Yes, Yost once coached the Methodist collegians at Delaware, and in that same year Yost beat the Michigan eleven that he now trains—that is, he beat an eleven representing the Wolverines. This is how it was: Yost had finished his course at the University of West Virginia in 1896. He went to Delaware. Yost had a fair eleven so he took them up to Ann Arbor.

Yost was young then and unknown and more scrappy than at present. He conceived a brilliant idea. ‘He traded places with his brother, and played tackle for Wesleyan. Player Yost ran up and down the side lines, pulled his hair, beat the air with his fists and in other ways imitated a football leader in action. Ohio Wesleyan won by one touchdown. Possibly that is what made Michigan take an interest in the freckled one. After his year at Wesleyan Yost tutored the football teams at Nebraska, Kansas and Leland Stanford. He joined forces with Michigan in 1901 and fias been with the Wolverines ever since.

Fielding Yost.