Pueblo chieftain., 1921-12-01
BY Norman e. Brown.

By Norman e. Brown.
Will the next season see Coach
Hurry-Up Yost realize his one am
bition at Michigan?
For the last several years the great
tutor has been torn between two emo
nons-his desire to retro from the ac-
tive and arduous labors of coaching
and his desire to lead "Just ono more
great team for Michigan" Last winter
he faced the same problem and decided
to try 1t one moro year. This fall. al.
tho the Wolverines failed to unscat the
conference leaders his team showed
more promise than It has in. several
seasons. And the prospects for next
season arc even brighter. Yost is one
year older. And so he faces the same
old quandary again-to quit or not TO
quit.
Yost has been with the Ann Arbor
rise to fame there twenty years ago
isn't we'll known to the present rank
and file of college football followers.
Yost has played football at Ohio
Northern University. the University OF
West Virginia and lafayette when he
began his coaching career He had
made name as a tackle. 1t was Yost
and his fellow players at Lafayette IN
| 1895 that solved Pcnnsylyania Ia
nous guard back formation which
had mystificd the opposition up to that
| time.
When his college days were over
Ohio Wesleyan engaged him as coach
| And Yosts fame as a coach began
then. With scarcely enough men 10
make a complete eleven he built up
winning team. 1t is narrated that when
Yost led his Ohio team into Ann Arbor
to play Michigan his fiIst year as
coach he found that he had only ten
men available for the game. The
eleventh man had become Ill en- route:
Michigan agreed to allow Yost to fill
| 4, he ,,a cant posff{op Tho man who later
was to win fame as Michigan's mentor
helped his team hold the Wolverines to
, a tic. Yost's team won the Ohio cham
pionship that year.
FOLLOWS GREELEY'S ADVICE
The next year Yost coached Ne
braska and won the Missouri confer
encc title. The following year he took
charge Of the Kansas team and piloteo
| It to the valley title. defeating Nc
hraska rs to 90. Every one OF Nebras-
who kicked four goals from placement.
Yost had developed benedict the year
before.
BY this time the ontirc football
world was ciamoring for Yosts scr
vices Leland Stanford secured him
and he promptly led that team TO
the Pacific coast title. Having a
little spare time that fall hc also
| Coached the San Jose normal
| school team to the normal school
| title of that section and the Low
| ell. San Francisco, high school to
the scholastic title In tourney.
All this time fate had been play
ing a part in Yost's future. Michi-
gan had been hungering for great
| team. The 1900 season again found
| their eleven a failuvc and the off
| ciaIs decided on drastic measures.
| The first move was to sign Yost.
| DEVELOPS SUFER-TEAM
And now We come to the hcydcy OF
Yosts career. In few short weeks nc
developed Michigan team that was 10
take the gridiron world by Storm His
cry was speed" lie got 1t. and the
name .'Jurry-up." when the season
cudc,i his team had piled mp $50 points
and HAD NOT BEEN SCORED UPON.
| The fact that Wisconsin also went
\ thru the season without defeat pre-
vented Michigan from claiming the
Big Ten title.
, Tho following year fosts team con.
| tinucd its wonderful work. scoring 63f
points while allowing the opposition to
score hut -. In tho two seasons this
team had run up 1874 points. Their
wonderful scoring ability the second
wear earned them the tito OF "a point
| n minute team.
The men who played on those teams
are all still talked of--Hcston Weeks.
Carter Dan McC;ugin and half a dozen
others. Until 1905 Michigan went un-
defeated by any of the teams playing
under the rules prevailing at tho Ann
Arbor University. Tncn Chicago nosod
out o . to o victory, scoring n safety at
Marshall field.
Since those years Yost has had vary
. Ing success. His work with tho ma