Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-21
Y0ST CAN'T RESIST
CALL OF FOOT BALL
Michigan Coach Has Good
Business, But Has No
Thought of Quitting.

We'll, we walloped Pennsy at last, and
! think have made good at last said
Fielding H. Yost, the George Washington
of western foot ball. after the game be-
tween Michigan and Pennsylvania in
Philadelphia.
We'll take one more wallop at those
Penn people. anyway. After that 1 don't
know" continued Mr.. Yost.
II never said 1 was going to quit
coaching Michigan. Yes, ] know all the
western papers have printed reports that
is to be my last year at Ann Arbor. but
i don't know who told them SO.
las a matter of fact, I have often
thought of quitting foot ball for good.
| own shares in several mines in the
west and am connected with a company
that owns good many water-power sites
that WILL be worth a lot of money some
day. Really 1 suppose 1 ought to give
all my time to business. and a. good many
years ago / used to say to myself at the
end of every season: Well, this is my last
year of foot BALL
Can't Resist Games Call.
But every year when the fall season
rolls around and the leaves begin to fall
the old lust of battle gets into my blood,
and l can't rest in peace until 1 get into
a canvas suit out on the gridiron helping
the scrub push the varsity around.
II quit swearing off on foot ball years
ago, because l knew 1 couldn't stay
away.
LAS a matter of fact, l may have busi-
ness next year which will keep me on
the field but I won't make any predic-
tions, because l have so often berore
been in the position of the man VINO
found pleasure interfering with business
and cut out business.
Coach Hurry Up Yost has often been
called the father of foot ball in the MD
die west. He found the game there a
sickly, starving plant imported from the
east played by only a few colleges which
thought 1t necessary to support their pre-
tensions. to social position by feebly imi-
tatine the customs of the big eastern col
ieges.
Father of Foot Ball in West.
Yost changed all this He gave the
west a foot ball system peculiarly its
own, and developed tactics of attack to
possibly greater perfection than has ever
been reached elsewhere.
He is the originator of the hurry up
system. which has been Incorporated into
the name by which he Is known to the
sporting world. The hurry up system
is simply the fine art of driving men. 1t
is imperatively necessary in the west,
because coach there faces difficulties
undreamed of in the east. Before Yost
there were no first-class teams in the
west. Yost saw the needs and the pos
sibilities of the situation first and invent
ed hurry up. He made good, and west
ern coaches since have followed in his
footsteps.
To begin with, in the west there are no
hosts of former preparatory and high
school stars entering the big universities
every year, offering the coaches seasoned
material to draw from.
NO Seasoned Material
Instead there are a host of raw coun-
try boys from the farms and woods, bet
ter physical material perhaps than east
ern lads, but lacking the four or five
wears experience the latter have had in
school foot ball. and awkward enough to
make angels weep.
Inferior as this material is. it does not
usually stay in college for the regulation
four years or more. as is almost invari-
ably the rule In the east but usually
comes for q one, two or three year
course then departs just when 1t is be-
ginning to know as. much foot ball as
the average grammar school eleven in the
east.
The coach's job then in the west is to
give his men thorough education In
foot ball from the ground up in one sea-
SON. whereas the eastern coach has four
in which to impart varsity polish to