The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-06
MICHIGAN men
OF EAST PLAN
TO FETE Y0S1
Perry Recalls the Achievements of
Famous Mentor in Early Days
of Game.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

NSOpyTlSul, 1879, ny Inc Argus
New York, Jan. g. Eastern
alumni of the university of Michi-
gan have planned to mark with ap-
propriate ceremony, to-wit. a din
ner, Fielding HI. Yost's 21st year as
football coach at the Ann Arbor in
stitHte The dinner, it was an
nounced today. will be held in New
York. Jan. 20. Many prominent
Michigan men from various sec
tions will foregather to shake
Yost's good right hand and tell
him what a wonderful man he is.
Time does fly. 1t certainly does
not seem SO long ago as 1896 that
Hurry Up" Yost was playing hob
with Buck Wharton in the Lafay-
ette-Pennsylvania game of that
year. Lafayette had some crack
players that fall but none so form
liable as her great forward, Yost
Lafayette beat the Quakers, to
4, and the victory was 7-day won
der. For it was only four years
previously that Pennsylvania had
crowded up elbow to elbow with
Yale. Harvard and Princeton, con-
verting the Big Three in the Big
Four.
Yost soon after graduation fol-
lowed that suggestion which young
men of the SOS and the golden 90's
heard so frequently, and went west.
In 1899 he turned out great elev-
en- at Nebraska and then when to
Kansas where he developed the best
team the Jayhawkers ever had. In
the Nebraska game of that year the
corn huskers were odds on favor
ties, but Yost, who had coached this
team to a championship in 1898.
evidently knew how to undo his
work, for his Kansas eleven sound
| ly trounced the over-confident Ne
| braskans. People began TO say that
western championships followed
Yost
In 1900 the situation on the west
coast was pretty much the same as
it is today-California first, Leland
Stanford a poor second. The pre-
ceding season the Bears had won
the annual Stanford contest, 20 to
10. Yost went to Palo Alto and de-
yeIoped an eleven that beat Cali
| fornia S to 0, one of the most thrill
ing contests in football history. SO
absorbing it was, indeed, that when
a section of the grandstand col
lapsed, killing % persons and in
turing many others, majority OF
the 10000 throng knew nothing of
| the disaster and the players were
ignorant of the accident until next
! morning.
The following year Yost went to
Michigan. In his first four seasons
at Ann Arbor the Maize and Blue
did not lose a single football game.
He has always made the most OF
what ever material he had and his
teams, win or lose, are always COL
orful, game and dangerous.
In the early season schedules OF
league and college mines one notes
no change in the modern tendency
to keep organized baseball repre-
sentatives and college outfits apart
Harvard, Yale and Princeton play
one game each against major
league teams, but these contests
are exceptions to the prevailing
rule. Harvard surprised the couh.
trv and gratified all proponents OF
amateur snort two or three years
ago by downing the Red Sox-
I Looking back over Princeton
baseball history we find that tbs
triggers have won nine games from
the Athletics of Philadelphia ant
lost is; two from Brooklyn and lost
six; lost eight to the Boston Ma
tionals and no victories; one VIC
tory over the Giants and IL de-
feats: no victories over the Van
KEGS and two defeats. But all IN