Word: yost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fielding Harris Yost, the man responsible for what Michigan calls her system of play, long ago subscribed to the fact that points scored and not first downs win games and he proceeded to mould his teams accordingly. The first thing Mr. Yost always did was to develop a good center. With a list headed by "Germany" Schulz he can undoubtedly point to the largest collection of first-class centers developed by any coach in football...
After the center Mr. Yost developed a good kicker. Few Michigan teams have lacked a punter of the first rank. Then, when the forward pass became established, he sought to have a capable passer each season. And a place kicker...
...Arbor, Mich., Nov. 5, 1930-Cold weather and a high wind forced the Wolverine Varsity into the Yost Field House today for their last strenuous drill before leaving for the clash with the Crimson at Cambridge Saturday. A combination of drop kicking, punting, line plunging, and defense against Harvard was the order of the day, with Coach Barry Kipke driving his men to the limit in the final regular preparation for the feature event of the season. Tomorrow's activities will consist in a light drill before entraining for the East at 4.45 o'clock...
...these parts this fall and also furnish some of the toughest opposition, has followed the Big Ten custom of carding a double-header on the early Saturdays and will split up its squad and play games with both Ypsilanti and Dennison. The Ypsilanti game will be in the Yost Stadium and all the high schools in the state will be the guest of the university...
...Yost's appointment caused menacing rumblings from the Wet wing of the G. O. P. First to protest was Republican Congressman Fiorello Henry LaGuardia of New York: "Chairman Fess can't dry up the Republican party. . . . Mrs. Yost will be only a temporary director of women's activities because we won't stand for it. . . . There'll be a Wet explosion at the next national convention." Major Henry Hastings Curran, president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, loudly mocked Chairman Fess's attempts to eliminate Prohibition as an issue...