The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-08
Michigan Afraid
 YoSt Won't Return

Michigan without Yost, would be like. a cigar without a light Just now out at Ann Arbor they're won- dering of the cigars going to burn next year. For Fielding H. Yost hasn't signed a contract. It used to ceremony as soon as a football sea- son was closed. With him it was just like putting on his shoes. But this year Yost says he wants thirty days for thinking it over'' before he signs-or does not.
 Yost says his business is demand ing more and more of his attention; that there's a chance he will be un- able, to return. Rumors say he may follow Keene Fitzpatrick's trail that leads to Princeton. In these, how ever, Michigan's alumni and under gra duates put no faith. They know Yost and believe that to him Michi- gan is everything when football is concerned. Nevertheless old Ann Arbor is worried-worried Jas much as New York fans would be were Mo Graw to retire and leave the Giants managerless.
 While Michigan's season cannot be called a success, there were many gratifying angles to 1t. Never was the Maize and Blue so beset with hard luck. Never were so many players injured and held back front their natural playing strength. Never did disappointment SO pile on disappoint- ment for the Yost men. Yet through 1t all they showed remarkable fight ing spirit. Half of them sin ban dages, they beat Pennsylvania team that, emerging from a slump. was building swiftly, into the machine that ground Cornell.
 Perhaps for that, if for no other reason Yost will return to Michigan. It has been said of him that he "loves football and surely the way his ln- jured team played for him must have given intense satisfaction. Moreover. last autumn Yost gave many signs of looking toward 1912 He watch ed the freshman squad closely and found material that ought to be var sity by next September.
 And there's the possibility of lar ger. more important campaigning in the Middle West. Michigan is read> Minnesota and Wisconsin want to re- sume football relations with the Vol verines. The graduates would like to see these matches. So would the undergraduates. Some of them can hear the Conference shaking on its
 As a matter of fact the conferen- ces will have to be dis olved before there will be Michigan Minnesota and Michigan-Wisconsin games. These elevens cannot meet the Wolverines without breaking the conference. 1t is certain that Michigan will not re- turn to that body. Michigan takes the stand that there is no more req son for the, conference dictating what the Wolverines should do or not do in an athletic way than there is for it's saying that the Greek department shall be conducted along certain lines There is a widespread feeeling that Michigan and the Middle Western . colleges ought to be hooked up in athletic contests, but if that means that there will have to De a submis- sion to the conference the sentiment is to forego the pleasures of playing these contests.
 It is said that the election to the captaincy of Bottles Thomson please.l Yost. He's the type of leader that the. men will play for to the limit He's a terrific smasher of lines and interferences. Last autumn he, like the other Michigan stars, was handi- capped throughout the season by in- juries.