The New York herald., 1922-01-21
Post Season Football and Pro-
fessional Game Are Men
aces, He Declares.
CRITICIzEs THE CRITICS
Lashes Alumni Who Sit and
Stand and Pick Flaws
in Teams Work.
BY WILLIAM ID. HANNA.

Fielding Yost, Hurry Up" Yost of
Michigan football fame. entertained 200
Michigan alumni with anecdotes and
epigrams. all worth listening to. at a
dinner last night in the Aldine Club.
After him came Kenneth Porter. Mich
igan aviation ace in the war. who
showed moving pictures or Ann Arbor
scenes. principally football. Guests of
the evening included Keene Fitzpatrick,
the Princeton trainer, once of Michigan;
Foster Sanford. Edward Moss, Lawrence
Perry, John b. Foster and Custavus
Kirby.
Lawrence Hull presided and among
the other Michigan men there were
Hugh White, captain of the '01 eleven;
j. w. S. Bennett, '9S captain Ralph
Craig, the Olympic sprinter; H. aI.
Steward, Harry Hammond. George
Wheeler, Stanley McGraw, Paul DiclSey,
Charles Riegeman, Morgan M. Mann.
Franklin a. Wagnen C. w. Bigelow,
William Cooper and Dr. v. II. Jackson,
all New Yorkers now.
In the course of HIS talk Mr.. Yost
laid stress on three menaces to college
football, namely: Too many games and
too many away from home; post sea-
son games; professionl football. and
prosclyting. He was very much in
earnest on these points and particularly
hostile to professional football and long
trips for post season football. He men,
toned no names. but clearly was op-
posed to such trips as Penn State.
Washington and jefferson and Centre
took to the far West last fall.
Professional football. he said. de-
stroyed the spirit of achievement for
achievements sake, and post season
trips would make football develop into
an annual race across the continent.
The coch told how last season three
teams made the journey to the coast.
and don't know that they're all home
yet" The football season, he declared,
cugt to end the last Saturday in No
vember.
The coach reminiscenced entertainingly
for awhile and provoked many laughs.
He told OF developing the tackles back
play in 1S97-three years before 1T was
made famous by Gordon Browns Yale
eleven--and of being the first to use the
spiral throw, but not for forward pass
Ing, because there wasn't any such
thing in those days. One look at Mr..
Yosts businesslike hands is sufficient
evidence that manually he could do any,
thing with a football he desired to do.
1t seems there was time when Michl-
gan went to the coast, for Yost's rem
iniscences took in 40 TO victory of
the Wolverines over Stanford in 1901.
''Stanford," he narrated, had used
twenty-one men and we were still using
out our original eleven aud r'arin' to go,
when the Stanford coach came to mo
and said: There are nine minutes to
Z 20. We're used up. but you can stay
out there as long as you want to- "
Yost emphasized the value of Ser
vice." giving something to the game.
''Not those fellows" he continued, ''who
play only because the field is a fine
place to view the game.
He touched on the profits of college
sports and said the question was not
what you can make out OF athletics. but
what you do with it. He took fling.
even went so far as to lash those stu
stand and criticise the work of those
on the field.
Ibid you ever see one of these critics
who in his criticism suggested anything
that included work by himself?' he de-
manded with all the vigor at his COM
mand. Their attitude is ingratitude"'
Cheers. songs and applause punctuated
the evening. and the way the alumni
gave the locomotive was the real
thing in locomotives. The way. too they
checred Yost was evidence indubitable
that whatever criticism this or that
alumnus may have to his regime. those
on hand last night were with him. IL
seems that on the eve of a big Michigan
game five former players under Yost
sent him this telegram:
Coach, like all loyal Michigan alumni.
we're with you.. and to hell with the
rest!'