Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty-five years ago last week the football team of West Virginia University met the Michigan team of Fielding H. ("Hurry Up") Yost at Ann Arbor. When the West Virginians returned home the Daily New Dominion of Morgantown interviewed them and reported...
...score of that game was Michigan 130, West Virginia...
...teams-the early-century Wolverines who during five years (1901-05) lost one game out of 57 and rolled up 2,821 points to their opponents' 42-were invited to Ann Arbor for a Grand Homecoming with grizzled 68-year-old Fielding Yost, still the grand mogul of Michigan football (although he stopped coaching twelve years ago to devote all his time to directing athletics...
...Wolverine Express. In three games it had scored 138 points, better than any other major college team in the U. S. And in the Big Ten (Western Conference)-where year in & year out there is more Grade A football played than in any other conference in the country-Michigan, in its second year under onetime Princeton Coach Fritz Crisler, was whizzing toward another championship after five chug-chugging years...
Fortnight ago, against Chicago, Coach Crisler's boys had chalked up a score of 85-to-0 (even with second and third string substitutes). It was the largest score recorded by a Michigan team since the canvas-jacket days of the point-a-minute monsters. Small wonder Yost wanted his old boys to see this modern machine and had selected its meeting with Yale in which to show...