The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-25
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IT'S RIGHT
YOST M LONGER
FOOTBALL KING
Famous Coach Seems Unable
to Build Up Great Grid
iron Machines.
BY r. c. CORNELL,

Coach Fielding II. CFIurrv Tn Tosis
reign of wizardry in football circles
appears to be nearing an end. TIE
whilom unbeatable mentor OF football
at the Wolverine school. deprived Of
the invincibie Heston. the rnaryalnas-
iy speedy Garrels. the sarewd YES.
general Weeks. Re6den. Tom Ea.a-
mond, Curtis. Maddox. McGuiEin a.ia
a score Of oIher stalwart gridiron re-
roes. whose names w.Il live as loA,
as there is any M blood in th. veI:ls
OF Michigan students. has dropped from.
the position Of an unbeatable coach L.
a position in the front rank OF gre
IRON instructors. but certainly no bet
ter than several other coaches now I'll
active service
Though the Wolverines have mot Sc
eral setbdcks in recent years. The DIST
blow that yet has bsfa!len the nlaiz.
and blue team was the recent tic gam
with the Michigan Agricultural Collee-
Of Lansing.
Great Touchdown Machines.
A few shor. y,als ago the gre
touchdown machines TUNED out - ana
ally by Yost at ann Artor were accus-
toned 10 rod up tGpheavy scores. set
ting as many as leo points against
the "Aggies" on one occasion. This
year Michigan was unable to score
and escaped defeat only because us
opponents lacked generalship 10 take
advantage Of the weaknesses in the
Ann Arbor defense.
The decline of the prowess of Michi-
gan football teams has raised the ques-
ton whether or not Yost was losing
his ability as a coach and whether or
not Hurry Up was the master OF the
new and open style Of game that he
was of the old line-plugging style.
The answer should be easy. Yost
has not lost his hold on the game.
he has lost only the wonderful men
that made possible the greatest Scor-
ing team any school ever turned out
Four Years Without Defeat.
For four years after Yost went To-
Michigan the Wolverines won every
football game they played with one
exception, the blot on the record OF
the Ann Arbor school being a tie game
with Minnesota in 1903. Yost's tao
tics made possible TO a large extent
these successes, but il was not his
ability alone that gave the Wolverines
their wonderful teams. He had the
most powerful lot of men from which
10 mold his teams that any western
coach ever possessed. 1t is true that
he instilled speed and fighting spirit
into these men, but they were such
players that they would have won the
majority of their games with any other
coach. The master hand of Yost made
the elevens of 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1904
well nigh invincible. and Chicago. Wis
consin and Minnesota went down To
defeat with such regularity that the
cry of the entire west was anything
TO beat Yost."
During those years Coach Stagg Of
~
few of Yost's substitutes and Chicago
might have a chance Of winning from
Michigan"
Monopoly on Material.
There was a lot of truth in this
longing of the Maroon leader. Year
after year the Michigan team came to
Chicago with a squad Of substitutes
that would have helped any team in
the then big Nine" In those days
Michigan not only had great coach.
but II came close to possessing a mo-
nopOly on the first-class gridirOn ma
terial of that section.
In 1905 Michigan lost HestOn. but IL
retained Longman. Garrels, Curtis. Tom
and Harry Hammond and several 9TH
er cogs Of the famous touchdown ma
chimes Heston, however, had been =
big factor in the Wolverine successes
and with him out Of the fray a Yost
team met it's first defeat in the his
torical game with Chicago on Thanks
giving day, when the Maroons. profit
ing by a mistake by Clarke. Heston' :
successor, won the game by a score
of TO 0.
Since that game Yost has lost the
Hammonds. LOngman, Curtis and Car
rels. and two more defeats have been
chalked up against his teams. both by
Pennsylvania With a team this year
which appears even weaker than any
of the three Immediately preceding.
Michigan's prospects for the remainder
Of this wear look blue.