The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-11-30
HURRY UP YOST
IS A GREAT SCOUT
MICHiCAM COACH SHOWS MARK
ED ABILITY AT SOLVING THE
FANCY PLAYS OF THE
ENEMY.

Il o.
together with their tutors and back
crs. are still wondering whether the
Wolverines really knew their signals
when the westerners came so close to
drubbing them in their recent meeting
i'm Philadelphia, Coach Yost Is smiling
over the results of his strategy. The
unerring accuracy with which the
maize and blue defense solved every
play that was directed against II and
the uncanny manner i'm which the
Wolverines placed themselves i'm eX-
actly the proper position TO stop each
attack was to the Quackers unfathom-
able. They couldn't figure IL out and
fell back on the only possible answer
that occurred to them, that Michigan
had obtained their signals.
Yost explained how the trick had
been turned recently, and he chuckled
as he did It. His statement shows the
value of intelligent scouting.
"They know better than that" said
the coach. "That is, those do who
really know anything about football
The men couldn't play any kind of a
game of football If they watched the
signals of their opponents. They'd be
standing up trying to figure out the
play when something would hit them
and they'd sit down hard while the
bunch opposite ran a few yards. No
one could play football that way If he
wanted to.
1t isn't hard to prepare for Penn,
though | saw the Lafayette game and
all through the second-half | named
every play before IT started and
wasn't wrong twice. / wasn't whore
/ could even hear the signals, but you
could tell just the way they lined up
where the play was going after you
had studied their play through one
half.
ASK the scrubs how the varsity
men knew where those plays We're
going. All during the week before
the Penn game We drilled TO stop the
plays that we knew would be used
against us. Each man in the scrub
backfie1d represented a certain Penn
player One OF them was Scott. an
other Ramsdell. and so on. l told
the boys how Penn would play, and
| showed them just what the forma-
ton would be. told them, Now,
when their backs line up i'm tandem
and Scott is the back man it's going
to be a kick or pass, and you want
to get back and wait for ii. You know
because they've got Ramsdell and
Mercer to carry the bail. And If they
line up i'm tandem, watch the pass. If
il goes to the front man they're going
to hit the line; but If it goes to the last
man for heavens sake get out to the
ends, because they're coming around
there, you know. and you want to be
out there and stop them
And guess they did get them, too,
didn't they? We We're ready TO stop
them, and we did The boys did
mighty we'll Most of them were play
ing I'm positions they'd never seen but
once before. If we could have played
another good game with that lineup
before we hit Penn we'd have beaten
them Is to 0. Wells played at dcfen-
sive left for the first time of his life.
her passes over there. and / wanted
a tall chap to stop them. He did 1t.
too, you noticed"
All of which serves to show how
invincible Michigan would be If she
had two Yosts, one to watch the other
fellows play and another to coach the
team. When IL came to prepare for
IL oh. md 0f
exact knowledge at his disposal. He
had had no opportunity to see the
Minnesota aggregation in action. True
Curtis Redden. assistant coach and OF
fetal scout had watched them play
and he had done his work well, but he
had not seen what Yost would have
seen. There is probably not another
in the country with the powers OF OBJ
servation and the wonderful insight
into football who could have done the
scouting job up i'm the shape that the
Hurry Up tutor would have.
Redden was so successful, however
that Yost had information at hand
with which TO prepare defense thar
would stop the Gophers. II succeeded
so well that up at Minneapolis also
they are still busy figuring out how II
happened. They blame the failure OF
their much touted offense to the effi-
cheney of the Wolverines scouting
The post norton walls now emanatine
from the Gopher camp seem to be &c
the effect that Yost had special de-
Tense prepared for the reception ol
each of their backfeld stars. In nc
other way can they explain how Meth
err Capt. Johnson nor Johnny McGov-
ern. not yet Rosenwald. could gair
aught in his assaults. Yost Is salts
fled with the knowledge he had fas'
charging line and that IL had to solve
each situation. Minnesota seems TO DO
giving him credit for extraordinary
astuteness.
The Gophers had an advantage IT
regard to the scouting. however They
found their opponents easy and neeo
not have disclosed the methods they
expected to use In the championship