Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michigan, for the first time in 25 years, the punishment was not directed by Coach Fielding H. ("Hurry Up") Yost. Overwhelmed by duties incident to the general direction of athletics at Michigan, the grey-haired gridiron notable turned the post of head coach over to his right hand man, Tad Weiman. One of the most famed coaches of all time, Yost has won nine Western Conference championships out of 15. Since 1901, his teams have scored 5,989 points; their opponents 834. Yost's retirement came almost coincidentally with the announcement from New Haven that famed Tad Jones...
Including Weiman's Michigan squad, some 1,000 men reported to coaches of the Western Conference...
...playing an excellent game for me. I love golf." He likes duck shooting too but has no time for it. He has had no opportunity to travel out of the ninth Federal Reserve District-Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He has a daughter, aged 13, another, aged 10. He was only 18 when he went to work as a bank messenger, because he could find no other job. And it has taken him twenty-seven years to reach the highest banking job in the land. For that success he quotes a platitude...
...enrollment of freshmen at the University of Michigan being two hundred less than that of last year, the inference has been made that the decrease is the result of that university's ban on automobiles. The New Student quotes President Little of Michigan as replying, if the decrease were due to the automobile regulation he was glad of it. Presumably his satisfaction arises more from confidence in the wisdom of the rule than from pleasure in its apparent result...
...University of Michigan will surely not suffer in prestige by the falling off in the number of its freshmen, but in these days when most colleges are fairly swamped with applications, it is rather remarkable that one of the largest should experience a sudden decline. If the question of automobile ownership is to be credited with such an influence, it comes as a surprising commentary upon the undergraduate attitude and it might be agreed that President Little was fortunate in escaping responsibility for the education of two hundred young men who judge his university in terms of its automobiles...