Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1917 — YOST PLAYERS DELIGHT IN SOAKING BILL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

YOST PLAYERS DELIGHT IN SOAKING BILL

The tackling dummy on the University of Michigan football practice field has been rechristened and is now a male instead of a female parsonage. Coach Yost; grinning broadly, is ready to admit that there is an ocean of effectiveness “in a name.” Until this season the dummy has been known as “Gertrude.” On numerous occasions Yost, Trainer Tuthill and other chiefs of the training squad have informed ambitious young football candidates that they never would get, to

the front unless they showed considerably less consideration for “Gertrude’s” feelings. This season, with many gridiron stars absent from college and many green men to teach, Yost faced a problem. But he solved it. He had the tackling dummy rechristened. Its new name is “Kaiser Bill.” And that’s the reason why Yost is still grinning.

COACH YOST CHANGES NAME OF TACKLING DUMMY.