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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...
Tyrus R. Cobb, Detroit baseball manager: "In the columns of able Journalist Clinton W. Gilbert, I noticed, recently, my name, coupled with that of Fielding Harris Yost, famed Michigan football coach. Commenting upon our oratorical support of Republican Congressman Robert H. Clancy, former Democratic Congressman, Mr. Gilbert graciously admitted that our advocacy helped defeat the sartorially notable Congressman John B. Sosnowski in Detroit's greatest Polish district. He wrote: 'Mr. Cobb commanded many votes among the masses. . . . Mr. Yost reached the intellectuals. His appeal was to the highbrows who follow the highbrow sport of football...
...University football squad was the guest of the Metropolitan Theatre last night for an unusual blackboard session. The coaches hoped that the team might profit from Richard Dix's new college comedy. "The Quarterback," inasmuch as the cinema was directed by Coach Yost of the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor football mentor had full charge of coaching the screen teams and filming the production to which, the players were invited...
...Fielding Yost, the Michigan mentor, has arrived in Princeton to help in the practice for a week. Together with Harvey Emery, former Princeton tackle, he will instruct the men daily in his Michigan tactics. After Yost's stay is up Coach Roper and Keene Fitzpatrick, the Tiger trainer, will go to Ann Arbor and supervise the work of the conference team...
...work at Princeton, Coach Yost has said that he finds no great difference in the way football is taught in the east and in the west. He believes with the Princeton coach, however, that the exchange of ideas should be of mutual benefit...