The Topeka state journal., 1905-11-22
ATTACKS YOST.
Michigan's Team Severely Scored
by Critic Jordan.
Charges the COach's System Is
a "Cash Business.
HE EXPOSES METHODS.
Young Graduate of Badger In
stitutiOn Very Bitter.
Intimates a Good Player Can
Always Find a Job.
HE EXPOSES METHODS.

Chicago, Nov. 22.-In the article on
college athletics by 3. S. Jordan in Col
lier's Weekly. which is to be out this
week, it is Michigan that gets all of the
roasting and the Ann ArbOr school Is
ia deeper, according to an advance copy
than either Chicago, Wisconsin or Ild-
nois, which have already been dragged
over the Goals by the young graduate
OF the badger institution.
AS in the stories OF the other schools,
Jordan does not once come out with
any direct evidence against the Michi-
gan athletics and once more there win
be nothing proved. He centers his at
tack on Coach YOst of the football team
Dortant place in western athletics. Tom
Hammond, the star player on the Yost
football machine, as well as the famous
Heston, who is now coaching the Drake
team, are also given q round Of expos
ure by the former editor of the Wis
c0nsin Cardinal.
The YOst winning system" is scored
most severely by Jordan. This system
is headed by "Yost & Baird, victory
makers" and is aided by alumni.
Calls 1t a Cash System.
'eThe path of Michigan has been blaz-
ed by her alumni, the writer says, ''and
the faculty has been subdued by the
bleacher crowd. The alumni serves as
an athletic clearing house and supple
ment the field agency work of the YOst
school of victory. In academic prestige
Michigan pays handsomely for the kind
of loyalty and college pride she breeds.
Her mind is diverted from academic
channels. she rises on her tiptoes and
cries, God bless our X0st' The car
OF her system smiles. draws a salary
larger than any professor and the mad
scramble for victory goes on
1T is charged directly against Host tnat
he travels annually all over the country,
inducing the best athletes to 60 to the
Michigan school. Also it is said that Ost
has left @ trail of professionalism behind
him at the other colleges he coached be-
fore he went to Michigan.
Jordan says that once Michigan boaSted
Of her great law school, but now she
boasts of Hurry Up YOst. He declared
are in athletics and know that they have
some ability are simply waiting for an
invitation from Ann ArbOr with its in
ducements to attend school there and
play football.
HestOn Leaves With Bank Account.
He declares that the mighty HestOn was
picked UP by an alumnus and given a
good paying position that he could carry
on with MS college work and his athlet-
les 1T is also stated that when HestOn
left the school after four years he had a
bank account
Dan McGuigan Is pulled into the scan
dal also and is said to have invented the
Xost cigar, the selling privilege of which
was given to HestOn, who reaped q. greal
income from the privilege.
Jordan tells how Tom Hammond failed
Park high school. but was nevertheless
taken to Michigan and given a brief tut
oring by special instructions and was
soon up in the requirements for entrance
The article is causing much comment
among the students at Ann ArbOr and
strong denials are expected to follow.