Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-01-12


Pacific, age n. The
second is Glenn SEQ ~ = saassla
hey C"Pop') War Alonzo Stapp
ner, now at San Jose
State, who was coaching Georgia As
years ago. The third is Fielding
("Hurry-Up"D Yost of Michigan, who
broke into West Virginia and La
fayette around 1886. Both War
ner and Yost are flirting with 70,
unless they broke into football as
Baby Leroys.
Lonnie Stage was on Walter
Camps first All-America, named
back in 1889.
He began coaching around 1890,
but fastened himself at Chicago in
1892, as I recall the date. All I
know is that Lonnie Stage has been
coaching so years-and that at the
age of n he brought down a team
good enough to beat the California
Golden Bears, and that he has no
idea of retiring to any sidelines or
to any old mans retreat. -
What do you mean-Old MANI"
asks Mr.. Stage Indignantly. 81 still
get up at Z a. m, play either one or
two sets of tennis before breakfast,
and then coach football team in
the afternoon"
Now we come to one Glenn Scobey
CPop'D Warner. The first time I
saw one of Pops teams happened to
be in 1896 when he brought Georgia
up to play Vanderbilt at Nashville.
Even in that far gone day, A
years ago, Pop had a good-looking
team with new offenSe. Pop al
ways had new offense-more Of
fensive formations than any coach
that ever lived. And most of these
were sound and smart. He was foot
balls offensive king.
A Grand Guy
In talking to Pop again, leaning
on his cane, I began looking back.
Looking back to the Carlisle Indians
-Bemus Pierce. Thorpe, Calac,
Guyon, Metoxen, Hudson, Mt. Pleas
ant, Choctaw Kelly, Houser-a long
list of other greats-probably the
most colorful outfit that ever roamed
American gridirons, handled by one
of the most colorful of all coaches.
After that, a long run of great
Pittsburgh teams-then on to STAN
ford-then back to Temple-then
back again to the West coasts
years of coaching and still under
steam.
A grand guy, Pop. And a fellow
who knew his trade. And still does.
The phone doomed and no second
guess was needed 1t had to be
Hurry-Up Yost. There is no substi-
tute.
Yost coached his way from the
Atlantic to Stanford, via Nebraska
and Kansas. In 1901 he reported at
Michigan.
For four years (l9Ol-O4) Yost and
Michigan had the best football team
on the map. know Yale didn't
think so, nor Harvard, nor Prince
ton, which were then planting about
nine men on Walter Camps ALL
America. But it was true. In those
four years Michigan ran up some
thing better than 1900 points against
almost nothing. Heston alone scored
over 100 touchdowns. mean against
strong teams from Wisconsin, Chi
cago. Minnesota, Carlisle, on and
on. One year Buffalo beat Yale
and Michigan beat Buffalo, los to 0.
Can't Bother Greatness.
In 1901 Stanford was the West
Coast champion. Yost gave his
Michigan team a final workout in
six inches of snow, headed them
west, played eleven men under blaz-
ing heat and beat Stanford 40 to 0.
And Stanford could use all the re-
placements she needed. It was that
sort of a Michigan team.
"a great football team" said
Yost. "can play in q snowstorm q
at a temperature Of los. Nothinl
bothers greatness"
As Yost admits, 1T could hav.
been 90 to o." n could.