Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-17

sary to support their pretensions to social position by feebly initiating the customs of the big eastern colleges. Originated Hurry Up System. Yost changed all this. He gave the west football system peculiarly its l 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 incorpor- ated into the name by which he is known to the sporting world The hurry up" system is simply the fine art of driving men. It is fmperativeIy necessary in the west, because a coach there faces difficulties undreamed of Tn the east. Before Yost there was no first class team in the west. Yost saw the needs and the possibilities of the situation first and invented hurry up.' He mace good and the western coaches have since followed in
 To begin with. in the west there are no hosts of former preparatory and nigh school stars entering the big uni- Versities every year, offering the coaches seasoned material to draw from.
 No Seasoned Material.
 Instead there are host of raw country boys from the farms and woods, better physical material per- maps than eastern lads, but lacking the four or five years experience the lat ter have had in school football. 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 invariably the rule in the east, but usually comes for a one. two or three year course. then departs just when 1t is beginning to know as much football as the average grammar school eleven in the east
 Football from the Ground Up.
 The coach's job then in the west is to give his men thorough education in football from the ground up in one season, whereas the eastern coach has four in which to impart a varsity pol ish to the candidates already the vest ern varsity mans superior in knowl- edge of the game.
 Yost did it with his ''hurry up" He did it partly by means of his dry, slow wit and gift of irony that, they say. will make the slow farmer boys of Michigan do things they never knew themselves, capable of to escape his gibes, and partly by his royal open ness and honesty, which makes every body who comes in contact with him his friend.
 Made Steam Roller Teams.
 He made Michigan's great steam roller teams that ran up totals of one and two hundred points a game, and has made name for himself that will never die as long as football is a game and Michigan a college.
 Only when he attempted to invade the east has Yost encountered decisive reverses. Once in 1899 and three times in the last three years has he met de- feat at the. hands of the university of Pennsylvania.
 Although his system was not dis credited. his raw western lads were nothing like match in the rudiments of football for their veteran opponents and lost because they had not been drilled almost from childhood, as had their opponents, in charging and tack ling low in handling the ball.
 Personally, Yost is a big brown man, with chin like the rock of Gib- raltar and pair of humorous. quizzi- cal eyes. He never has much to say, but what he says is very much to the point. He is a graduate of Lafayette where he played right tackle on the varsity in 1896 and was taught his football by the great Parke Davis. He has been coaching Michigan since 1901.