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When the Ellis came out to face Peabody and his mates last fall, their offense was based on the Fielding Yost formula, they had Ed Taylor passing and punting and the rest of the team praying. Taylor will be right in there will the passes and punts again, but the rest of the men in Blue will be too busy executing Coach Howie Odell's well laid plans to do (or to need) much in the way of prayers...
...moonfaced, twinkly-eyed, German-born little scrapper, was only slightly less famed than Williams, Yost, Rockne. He popularized the huddle, introduced the center's short spiral snap. To maneuvers he gave fancy names, such as the flea flicker, the whirligig, the sidewinder, the whoa back, the flying trapeze...
...good midwestern phychology. I am a product of generations of graduates of the University of Michigan (loud fanfares of trumpets at this point). Thanks to a couple of grandparents, a host of aunts, and a pair of parents, I was brought up in the belief that Fielding II. Yost was the Almighty's special right hand man and that the Holy Trinity had something to do with the punt, the pass, and the prayer. Even if I were to do years of graduate work around Harvard I would never be able to efface from my memory the happy thrill...
...year's Gophers. At Ann Arbor, before the largest crowd (85,753) that ever crammed into the Michigan Stadium, Minnesota met its old rival in a titanic tug of war for the Little Brown Jug for which they have tugged since 1903, when Dr. Williams' upstarts held Yost's famed point-a-minute Michigan team to a 6-to-6 tie. The water jug Michigan used that day was held as hostage by delirious Minnesota students, has since served as their traditional trophy...
This year more than the jug was at stake. For Minnesota, undefeated this season, was ranked No. 1 in last week's Associated Press poll. Michigan, also undefeated, was ranked No. 3 (No. 2: Texas). The scrappy Wolverines, still clinging to Yost's "punt, pass and a prayer," were bent on kicking Minnesota off its perch...