The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-30
COACH YOST FILLED
MICHIGAN TREASURY
Before His Coming Wolverines
Were q Football
Blank.

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Nov. 29.-1ost
is even greater a success as money
maker at Michigan than as a coach.
There may be some doubt about the
1908 championship, but the present
season is the most successful in
financial way the university ever had.
When all debts have been paid, Mama
ger Baird says, Michigan will still have
between $4,000 and $4,000 in clear
profit.
When the cause to which this money
is applied is considered, there can be
no complaint about calling Yost, with
his high salary, a paying proposition.
To Yost, a winning coach, Michigan
owes the possibility of an athletic field,
with many thousand dollars already
put into its Improvement, which will
stirpass all American athletic grounds
except Soldiers field at Harvard
This is not merely a football field,
either. to be enjoyed by a few players.
1t is a mile square tract of land, al
ready laid out with imaginary tennis
courts for co-eds, as we'll as the men,
with baseball diamonds enough to. &C
ccmmodate nearly hundred ordinary
sort of students, who think they are
ball players and who derive lot OF
physical benefit from it. with gridiron
accommodations in the fall for an
even larger number Of students This
Whole scheme, with courts as fine as
any millionaires', in reach of the poorest
student who has 50 in his pocket, is the
result of Yost and his successful teams.
On all other sports Michigan loses
Int MICHIGAN did
not even have a respectable sized
"bleacher.'
Only one man on the 1903 eleven is
Ineligible to play next year. Capt.
Redden has played his four years. The
impression among the student body
that Maddox is playing his last year
is an error. 1t is idle to predict wheth-
er one of the other four veterans OF
this year viii return, except the man
elected captain. Two of Michigan S
stars had drawn up written business
contract which would have taken them
away from college for good this fall
when Yost, after half an hours talk
with the men, changed their minds.
This is quality of Yost-an element
in his success.
On Wednesday there was a big game
in Ann Arbor between the colored stu
dents of the university and the town
folks. Yost was a spectator on the side
lines, and he hadn't been there ten min
utes before he was roofing" Justify,
and advising the coIored men to play
low. there!" AS for Yosts devotion to
football, he was never known to ad-
nit even that any injuries occurred in
the game
A curious substantiation of Yosts
love of the game is the comparative
record of golf and football this fall at
Michigan. Playing golf. mans eye
has been knocked out. Over 200 young
men, including the carefully supervised
class teams, have played football hard
and often. There is not today one
serious injury to show the brutal
marks of football There are dozens of
sprains, and along with them the adj
ded muscle, which pays for the strain
tWofold.
When Yost gets to talking football
with some of his now departing stars,
they are pretty likely to return next
fall Few bear" stories have come
from Michigan in the shape of injuries.
This is because Trainer Fitzpatrick
makes it rule to keep injuries, no
matter how serious, a profound secret
if possible. Michigan has sent men
into it's big games suffering from bad
twists and strains, under the report OF
every man in perfect condition.
When a mans injury is known, there is
an unavoidable temptation for his
rivals to make that particular injury
a target Not since early in the year
for instance, has Joe Maddox been
seen to hurdle men in his last years
style. The reason is that Maddox
went into the last two big games suf-
feFing from two stiffening injuries. He
received bone bruise on the hip in
the Minnesota game, which lately
swelled as big as fist. Trainer Fitz-
patrick told him that the lump was the
muscle which Maddox had developed
by his new art of punting.