The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
SPORTING NEWS.
Y0st Has Finally Decided to
Stay With Michigan.
To Coach Again at Ann Arbor
the Season of 19O5.
NEVER BEEN BEATEN.
Gridiron Tutor With Winning
Teams in Long Career.
He Thinks and Talks Of Nothing
Else But Football.

Chicago, Nov. 16-Coach F. H. Yost,
who has Just completed his fourth
season at the head of Michigan's foot
ball affairs, has announced definitely
that he will return. to the Ann Arbor
university in the fall of 1905 and again
coach the Wolverines in the gridiron
sport.
With the Chicago game last Saturday
Michigan closed its season for the year,
the eastern game with CT Umbia for
Thanksgiving having been cancelled
and no other having been arranged in
it's place. The Maize and Blue COM
pleted its fourth consecutive football
season without a defeat-a record never
before made on a western gridiron.
Yost's announcement that he will coach
Michigan again means that 1905 will be
another strenuous year for teams OPP
posing the Ann Arbor eleven. AS only
two men from this years team will
drop from the team on account of the
four-year eligibility rule-Capt. Heston
and Carter-Michigan is bound to have
another wonderful machine. To re-
place these men with others of equal
value will be a hard task even for
Yost, but that he Will develop an ag-
gregation the equal and probably the
superior of anything else in the west is
the general opinion.
Coach Yost began his career in
coaching after leaving Lafayette, where
the Ohio Wesleyan team in 1897. That
eleven won tho championship of Ohio
and even held Michigan to to 0
score. In '98 he was seen leading the
Nebraska team to easy victory in its
league with Kansas and Missouri. and
then to prove that it was his work and
not that of the team, he shifted over
to Kansas the following year and went
Cornhuskers. sc to- 20. Leland Stanford
was his next post and his team won
the championship of the Pacific coast
in spite of the efforts of king Kelley,
Princeton's old star, who coached Cali
fornia. .e
Wandering back to the middle west
Yost was next seen in 1901 at Michigan
and there he has been ever since. Be
fore going to Ann Arbor YoSt posi-
lively refused to stay longer than a
single season with any school and 1t
was thought, after the successful sea-
son of 1901 that he would refuse to go
back to Michigan When he did it was
predicted that his system would soon
be solved and his teams would be no
greater than any others in the middle
west. He has just completed his fourth
season with Michigan and is. still I'M
defeated. Only once has a team of his
been held to n; ctfe-when Minnesota.
played the Wolverines last year 6 to
6. In all the eight years of coaching
Yost has done he has never yet tasted
defeat.
Yost is an enthusiast in football He
thinks and talks about the game all the
time and from the results his thinking
and talking have proved of great value.
He is said to be independently wealthy
and cares far less about the salary he
receives than about the material he
has to work with and the results OBJ
tainable with it.
1t is the one overpowering ambition
of Yost to get a game with one of the
big eastern institutions to prove the
mettle of the team he has been turning
out at Michigan. His elevens have
conquered everything within range and
they are now searching for new fields
of conquest. The game with Columbia
fell through and most Michigan follow
ers are glad, since the New York team
proved n miserable diSappOin ement and
Michigan wants to be tried out with a
strong team. Efforts will be made this
season to get a game with one of the
big four of the east for 1905. When
YoSt succeeds in that and is successful
he will have reached the acme of his
aspiration