Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-28

EIGHTEEN YEARS OF SERVICE
FOR f. H. YOST AS HEAD COACH.
TEMPERAMENT FACTOR IN GOI n
Stagg and Villa m s
Other Western Foot
ball Tutors Who Have
Been Long in Action

T,oR some reason they seem 10 stick
Il around longer in the. West than they do
In the East
There Is Hurry-up Yost Yost broke out
as a head coach exactly eighteen years ago.
He handled various Western elevens betore
he deecended upon Michigan fifteen years
ago. but after reaching Ann Arbor he de-
cidcd TO cast anchor and call II home under
the Maize and Blue.
one might think OF Michigan without
football team. But no one ever could think
OF Michigan with Yost detached.
Yost r. as much part OF Michigan as
the campus, the curriculum and the build
lngs are. He simply belongs. Five years
ago he was offered twice his salary TO leave
for another university. He refused TO even
consider the proposition.
Not 70 go back 70 Michigan In early Sep
tember would break in upon his life about
as badly as II he should lose both legs
II merely is unthinkable Fifteen years are
fifteen years.
Two Others
Yost is not the only veteran in the West
There are Alonzo Stagg at Chicago and
Harry Williams at Minnesota. Both stage
and Williams are Yale men-rather. were
Yale men.
Today stagg and Chicago are virtually
one and the same in football way. The
Stage has been at Chicago even longer
than Yost has been at Michigan. The Old
Man of the Midway left Yale nearly thirty
years ago, and he has been at Chicago for
the greater part OF twenty years.
williams has, been at Minnesota almost
as long. All three have served upon an
average of twenty years, and for a good
part of this time they were rivals OF ex-
traordinary intensity.
In the Old Days
From 1901 through 1905 Yost. Stage and
williams, representing Michigan. Chicago
and Minnesota, fought out wars that never
have been approached In the West nor sur
passed in the East.
Yost through this period had his great
est teams, and IL was not until Chicago
beat him, 20. that Stagg finally stopped the
Wolverine charge. Yost In those days had
| such stars as Heston. Snow, McGugin, Red
den, Weeks, Hammond. Sweeley, etc, and
while Stagg and Williams developed fine
teams they never were quite able until that
| last year to check the march of the Maize
| and Blue.
| In four years Michigan ran up ss points
against Chicago's IL, but when the Maroon
! team finally triumphed II was decided that
the rivalry had passed the safety point so
| the big annual battle was abandoned.
1t has been eleven years now since Michi-
gan met Chicago. and Il win be great
day for Western football when the two
meet again.
| In the East
In the East Walter Camp. the Yale solon.
was the dean Of all coaches, but for a long
| time he has acted in only an advisory capac-
ity. According TO Yost, Camp knows more
| football and has done more for football than
| any other man connected with the game.
| When Camp was supreme at Yale, Yale
| was supreme In the game Camp has been
| in football for over thirty years. and until
| he dropped away from active participation
| in Eli councils Yale almost was unbeatable
Compared 10 Camp. Yost. stagg and VIII
Hams. Coach Haughton, Of Harvard. is still
young at the game
While Haughton had charge of Cornell
for a while. he only began instruction al
Harvard eight years ago, where the last
| four years OF his reign have been some
thing like the first four years Yost had al
1 Michigan.
ny GRANTLAND RICE.