The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-08
How "Hurry Up" Yost Would
Coach at Harvard.
Famous Football Teacher
Would Stir Up Things.
A GOODTEAM FOR THEM
Would BE in Supreme Command
of the Crimson.
Michigan Man Knows Football
from Start to Finish.

| Boston, Dec. S.-"Hurry Up Yost in
charge of football at Harvard %
laughed man who knows the famous
Michigan coach pretty well. why, it
wouldn't be bad thing at all if you
could get those Cambridge fellows to
see it. Yost, of course, would insist
upon being supreme on the field and
in council The former Harvard play
ers who strut around the held, look
wise, get in the way. offer foolish sug-
gestions and NEEDLE with everything,
would have, as Dudley Dean says in
another connection, to take their seats
in the stadium.
This would mean a big dose of
pride to be swallowed down by these
Harvard fellows, but the worst would
be over after the one gulp. YoSt
would never offend any one. He is
always smiling, always in the best of
humor. To be sure, he has never had
d loser; and some of these Harvard
men, no doubt, would try the patience
of a saint.
''stnl, 1 believe Yost. once given
authority, would not permit himself
to be even annoyed by anything that
might be said to him or about him. If
any ex-coach came to him and asked
a question that implied criticism, I
can imagine him instantly getting out
a pad of paper and pencil, sketching
out diagram with lightning rapidity,
and fairly choking off the objections
and the objector with his There he
goes. Here he should be. It's this
way. There you are At this point,
etc.
'fYost knows pretty nearly all there
is to know about football. He has
read the rules oftener than many very
devout persons have read the Old Tes-
lament, and he can tell you offhand
how many plays and what plays Yale
used to score her first touchdown
,-f To- I'D Iii I1ey
either.
Amy one who tries to start an ar
gument with him, therefore, should
know more about the game Of foot
ball than many of the Cambridge peo-
pie know or have forgotten.
'Yost will be remembered in after
years for the manner of his cigar
smoking. He seems always to be
smoking one, and his manner of en-
phasizing point by wagging about
the two fingers in which the cigar is
tightly held is something to remember
when one has seen it.
Always wearing long coat, al
ways carrying the cigar, his head a
little on one side, his hat a little on
one side of his head, his feet slightly
apart, his smile constant, his gesture
a figure on the football side lines to
remember we'll.
Il have never heard him call man
down, although suppose he has to do 1t
occasionally.
The Michigan players drink. in his
words as though they were inspired, ana
after all, are so much more blase and old
for their years but that they would come
pretty near having the same faith in him
If he was their coach.
He talks football from one year to the
next. Meet him at Christmas, and he will
talk football instead of the contents of
his stocking Meet him at a baseball game
in the summer and he will talk football
still.
'FYost will stop a football man on his
way to chapel or to recitation, call off
a humber and demand: Where should
you be on that play?' Another of his
little peculiarities is the constant use of
1t is hurry up here and hurry up there,
until Hurry Up has become the name by
which Yost is known all over the football
world.
IF Harvard should swallow her pride
and engage Hurry Up Yost, provided he
could be got, I believe that Yost would
tutes in the university who could play
the game of football according to his no.
lions. The team would be picked and
playing together at a time of the season
oftener than one time in eight or nine.
the amount of personal credit given Yost
for the successes of his teams. One Har-
ward man takes it up solemnly after an
other, and one hears more about 'Yost's
team than about 'Michigan's team
Here in the east, however, 1 think I
have heard mention of Gordon Browns
team and .Campbell's team: The argu-
means, in effect, that a college should
rather have a poor team coached by grad
yates than good team coached by a
Harvard's position, and the change you
suggested would meet with too strong an
opposition, probably, from the men who
hold this view.