Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-19
YOST WILL SPEAK
AT ANNUAL DINNER
Seniors Among IN" Men Will
Get Gold EmbIems-LiSt
Unusually Small.
BY III. C. BYRD.

is TO nOnOr lCS NJ Hleu dG
~ q dinner tonight in the
university dining hall at
College Park, with Fielding H.
SoSt Of the University of Michi-
gan as the one speaker. Letter
men in foot ball, base ball, track,
cross country, basket ball, lacrosse,
tennis, rife shooting and boxing,
the intercollegiate sports carried
on by the Old Line school, are to
receive their insignia.
Members Of the graduating class
who have won their letters also
receive a gold emblem, suitable to
the sport in which they have par
ticipated. The dinner Is to be
held at Z o'clock.
A comparatively small number of men
are to get their letters, largely because
the regulations under which letters are
awarded are about as astringent as in
any institution. AS matter of fact,
the regulations have been too stringent,
especially for foot ball, and for a long
time the athletic board has been consider
ing some changes. So stringent are the
108u1aLlOOS, 1OI INSTANCE, IIlAL year
only IL men actually earned their let
tiers in foot ball. The athletic board is
to meet this afternoon and probably will
reduce the amount OF time necessary
for Q man to play to get his letter from
three-fourths to two-thirds of the total
games played.
EOR the first time since the an" din
J. ners have been held an outside man
has been invited to make a talk.
And in extending such an invitation the
MArylanderS felt that they ought to
have the man who has had the largest
influence on college athletics, and that
choice fell on Fielding Yost.
What Yost represents to college ath-
letics actually Is beyond the ability Of
anybody TO estimate. However, one
thing Is certain--no other man in the
whole history Of college sports has exc
erted such o great influence for good.
He was . great foot ball coach before
the present crop of coaches began to
play the game. and he probably knows
more foot bail today than any other
man teaching the game. Yost also is
director of athletics at Michigan and
in his capacity as coach and director
has served his institution for more than
80 years, with record that will stand
as long Is college athletics last as an
example Of ndeIty to lofty purpose and
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ment.
FIELDING Yost likes foot ball above all
other sports. He can sit at q table and
talk the game from beginning to end,
and It does not take one long to be-
come convinced that master speaks.
A great many Of the so-called inno-
vatIons Of latter-day foot ball were
two decades ago. Probably the best play
In the Rockne system the last two
years was something OF an adaptation of
play that YoSt used at Michigan is
or 20 years ago.
Thirty years ago Yost was turning
out the greatest teams in the country.
the 'point-a-minute" teams that were
the talk Of the foot BAN world and which
simply annihflated most Of their oppO-
nents. And, incidentally, Yost thinks
that the greatest halfback Of all time
was O member Of one Of these teams
While Heston. And those that played
with Heston or saw him play back Yost
up In that statement. No team ever stop
ped Heston, and it IS freely said that he
would have been just IS great back
in present-day foot ball Is he was In
the old days at Michigan.
DAN McGU0IS. now coach at VAN
- derbilt, was one Of Yost's players
at Michigan, and McGugin thinks
bk18I I Oeb mas COnLlpAtCQ u1OEG 70 1OOL
bail than any other man. And Nc
Gugin not only thinks that, but never
hesitates to say that that influence ex-
tends all through college athletics, from
the Atlantic to the Pacific.
To use McGugin's own expression,
~Yost stands as a great peak among
peaks In the great range of those that
have served in athletics. And that his
name stands synonymous with that of
Michigan to a far greater extent than
that OF any other man, that he is known
from coast to coast intimately, and that
his whole career has been one Of con-
Structive accomplishment and places
him in the position of one who has
rendered signal service in the building
Of the Nation"
Tor the first time in the history Of
l. the South, track and field meet is
to be held under food lights. The
South Atlantic Amateur Athletic Union
championships in Baltimore Friday are
to begin at Q o'clock, at Honewood Field.
The experiment is being tried with the
thought that night track meets may
cause the sport to become more popular
Track meets at night in the Winter are
popular, and IL is felt that there Is no
reason why there should be any differ
ence IN the Spring.
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