Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-11-18

Gallaudet this fall departed from it's
usual policy and adopted a permanent
coaching system, Heretofore it has
picked up any foot ball mentor it
could get for a nominal salary, and
seldom did the same man have charge
more than a year or two at time.
consequently there was no systematic
with an eye to the future.
Now permanent coach has been
placed in charge of the team. and it
will not be long before the Kendall
Green eleven will rank with the
strongest In it's class. Fred Moore. one
Of the best backs that have worn CAL
1audet's colors and the brains of the
fine teams of 1913 and 1914, is in
charge. He already has accomplished
fine results and bids fair to give CAL
laudet what it really deserves-win-
ming elevens.
Fielding Yost has had a remarkable
where he has been good teams have
been turned out, while he himself was
one Of the best players of his day
That in itself is surprising because
few really good players have developed
into exceptional coaches. Yost's first
experience In foot ball was gained at
Ohio Wesleyan. Leaving there he en-
tered Lafayette, and easily made the
team. He took part in one of the
greatest collegiate struggles of that
period, Lafayette and Penn playing at
Philadelphia, and the former winning
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the intercollegiate championship. 1t
Is rather a remarkable coincidence that
Wharton, who is now coaching the
linemen at Pennsylvania. was for
ward on the Pennsylvania eleven that
year.
I After Yost finished at Lafayette as a
player he returned to Ohio Wesleyan
as coach. That year Ohio Wesleyan
played Michigan and, as 1T had no sub
stttutes.. Yost was allowed to go into
that the Ohio team held Michigan to a
tie. The following year. 1898, Yost
went to Nebraska. where he developed
great team. From that time on sue
cess followed Yost wherever he went.
A Michigan alumnus tells in a very
effective way. through the columns of
Philadelphia paper. this story of
Yost's coaching from the time he took
charge at Nebraska: ess
after coaching one season at Ne
braska. 1899 found Yost at Kansas. and
the present Wolverine tutor gave the
Jayhawkers the greatest team they
ever had. The first test Yost had at
Nebraska was to meet the Haskell In
dams. Woodruff. who was ousted after
two years coaching at Kansas. had
taken practically the entire Carlisle In
dian team to Haskell for the express
purpose OF defeating Yost's team at
KANSAS Woodruff had also played on
the Penn team. which had lost the title
to Lafayette in 1896.
The battle with the Indians was
scoreless in the first half. but Yost won,
IL. to O.. in a game which was perhaps
as critical as any of the great number
of climaxes which followed in the path
of the Tennessee lawyer. After the
Haskell game Yost's Kansas team
rolled up a total of 290 points to SO.
with 20 OF the latter scored on field
goals by Nebraska In the final game of
the season. The Cornhuskers had de-
cisively beaten Kansas the. year be-
fore. but now. with Yost coaching the
opposite team. the result was changed.
Yost defeated as great team as the
prairie states ever saw. Benedict and
Bender, two Of the greatest runners Of
their day,-were In the Nebraska back