Fielding H. Yost

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox college coach Fielding Harris Yost (Template:IPAc-en; April 30, 1871 – August 20, 1946) was an American college football player, coach and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at: Ohio Wesleyan University, the University of Nebraska, the University of Kansas, Stanford University, San Jose State University, and the University of Michigan, compiling a coaching career record of 198–35–12. During his 25 seasons as the head football coach at Ann Arbor, Yost's Michigan Wolverines won six national championships, captured ten Big Ten Conference titles, and amassed a record of 165–29–10.

From 1901 to 1905, his "Point-a-Minute" squads had a record of 55–1–1, outscoring their opponents by a margin of 2,821–42. The 1901 team beat Stanford, 49–0, in the 1902 Rose Bowl, the first college football bowl game. Under Yost, Michigan won four straight national championships from 1901 to 1904 and two more in 1918 and 1923.

In 1921, Yost became Michigan's athletic director and served in that capacity until 1940. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Yost was also a successful business person, lawyer, and author; but he is best known as a leading figure in pioneering the development of college football into a national phenomenon.

Early life

Yost was born in Fairview, West Virginia, in April 1871. Yost's family had settled in West Virginia, in 1825. He was the oldest of four children of Parmenus (sometimes Permenus) Wesley Yost (1845–1920) and Elzena Jane (Ammons) Yost (1852–1943), both natives of West Virginia. His father was a farmer and a Confederate veteran.<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref> His family had been in Fairview since 1825 when his second great grandfather, David Yost, settled there and took up a grant of over 2,000 acres.<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref>

Yost was educated in the local schools and became a deputy marshal in Fairview as a teenager.<ref name=WVBD>Template:Harvnb</ref> At seventeen, he earned a public-school teaching certificate.<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref>

College

Yost began his college education at Fairmont Normal School in Fairmont, West Virginia. He then taught school at Patterson Creek, West Virginia, during the 1889–90 school year.<ref name=WVBD/>

He next enrolled at the Ohio Normal School (now known as Ohio Northern University). Yost played for the Ohio Normal baseball team.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After three years at Ohio Normal, he returned to West Virginia to work in the oil fields.

In 1895, Yost enrolled at West Virginia University where he studied law, earning an LL.B. He also played football for the West Virginia University football team.<ref name=mail>Maramba, Kris Wise, "Fielding Yost, another son of Marion County, excelled with Wolverines", Charleston Daily Mail, December 18, 2007 Template:Webarchive</ref> A 6-foot, 200 pounder, Yost was a standout at tackle at West Virginia into the 1896 season.

"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."

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Yost (left) with teammate c 1895 or 1896

In October 1896, after his team lost three home games to Lafayette, played on three different fields over the course of three days,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Yost became a remarkable personification of "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." He transferred in mid-season to join Coach Parke H. Davis's national championship team at Lafayette. Just a week after playing against Davis in West Virginia, Yost was playing for Davis in Lafayette's historic 6–4 win over the Penn Quakers.

The fortuitous timing of his appearance on the Lafayette roster did not go unnoticed by Penn officials. They called it "the Yost affair." The Philadelphia Ledger quoted Yost as saying that he came to Lafayette only to play football. The fact that he appeared in a Lafayette uniform only once, in the Penn game,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and that he returned to West Virginia within two weeks of the contest did not help appearances. He assured all concerned that he would return to Lafayette for at least three years of study.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Coaching career

Ohio Wesleyan

Yost began his coaching career at age 26 as head coach of the 1897 Ohio Wesleyan football team. Yost's team compiled a 7–1–1 record, shut out six of its nine opponents (including a 6–0 victory over Ohio State and a scoreless tie with Michigan), and outscored all opponents by a total of 144 to 32. Yost played at left tackle against Michigan, leading to a protest that Ohio Wesleyan had assured Michigan that Yost, a paid coach and non-student, would not play and had engaged in trickery by introducing another individual as Yost. One week later, Michigan announced that it would no longer schedule games against Ohio Wesleyan.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref><ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

Nebraska

In 1898, Yost was hired to coach the Nebraska football team with compensation of $1,000 for 10 weeks of service.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The 1898 Nebraska team compiled an 8–3 record, including victories over Iowa State (23–10), Missouri (47–6), Kansas (18–6), and Colorado (23–10), and losses to Drake (6–5) and Iowa (6–5).

Kansas

In June 1899, the University of Kansas Athletic Association offered Yost $350, and an additional $150 conditionally, to coach the school's football team.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After spending the summer in Colorado, Yost arrived in Lawrence, Kansas, on September 4, 1899.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> During the 1899 season, the Kansas football team "lived separate from the rest of the students and ate specially selected and prepared food . . . with Coach Yost as their only mentor".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The team compiled an undefeated 10–0 record, outscoring opponents 280–37. The season included victories over the Haskell Indians (12–0 and 18–0), Nebraska (36–20), and Missouri (34–6). During the 1899–1900 academic year, Kansas had Yost as its football coach and James Naismith as its basketball coach. Naismith also served as an assistant football coach during the 1899 season.

Stanford

In May 1900, Yost was hired as the football coach at Stanford University,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and, after traveling home to West Virginia, he arrived in Palo Alto, California, on August 21, 1900.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Yost led the 1900 Stanford team to a 7–2–1, outscoring opponents 154–20.

Michigan

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Yost from the 1915 Michiganensian

After first applying at Illinois,<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref> Yost was hired in 1901 by Charles A. Baird as the head football coach for the Michigan Wolverines football team.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Yost coached at Michigan from 1901 through 1923, and again in 1925 and 1926. He was highly successful at Michigan, winning 165 games, losing only 29, and tying 10 for a winning percentage of .833. Under Yost, Michigan won four straight national championships from 1901 to 1904 and two more in 1918 and 1923.

Point-a-minute

Yost's first Michigan team in 1901 outscored its opposition by a margin of 550–0 en route to a perfect season and victory in the inaugural Rose Bowl on January 1, 1902, over Stanford, the team Yost had coached the year before. From 1901 to 1904, Michigan did not lose a game, and was tied only once in a legendary game with the Minnesota Golden Gophers that led to the establishment of the Little Brown Jug trophy. Yost's teams used the short punt formation.<ref>Retyl, Richard, U-M's Shotgun Offense is Older than the Winged Helmets Themselves Template:Webarchive. November 9, 2010. MGoBlue.com. Retrieved June 26, 2013.</ref> He also developed a play called "Old 83" resembling an option.<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref>

Before Michigan finally lost a game to Amos Alonzo Stagg's Chicago Maroons squad at the end of the 1905 season, they had gone 56 straight games without a defeat, the second longest such streak in college football history. During their first five seasons under Yost, Michigan outscored its opponents 2,821–42,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> earning the Michigan team the nickname "Point-a-Minute."<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref> The team featured running back Willie Heston, who Yost called the greatest player he ever saw.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Refn

In 1904, Germany Schulz stood up from the center position and created the position of linebacker. Yost was horrified at first, but came to see the wisdom in Schulz's innovation.<ref>Malcolm Bingay, "A Little About This and That: How Schulz Entered Michigan Still A Mystery," The Morning Herald, May 1, 1951; "Frankly Speaking: Schulz' Great Grid Exploits Reviewed," The Long Beach Press-Telegram, April 17, 1951.</ref>

Independent

In 1908, Michigan lost to Penn 29–0, the worst defeat suffered by a Michigan team during the Yost era.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Yost said of Schulz's performance: "He gave the greatest one-man exhibition of courage I ever saw on a football field."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1909, Michigan suffered its first loss to Notre Dame.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1910, Michigan was led by All-Americans Albert Benbrook and Stanfield Wells and played its only undefeated season of the independent years, compiling a 3–0–3 record.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1916, John Maulbetsch led Michigan to one of its finest records. The Wolverines won seven straight games.

Return to Western Conference

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Yost from the 1928 Michiganensian

Led by fullback Frank Steketee, the 1918 team went undefeated in the war-shortened season. The 1922 and 1923 teams went undefeated, led by punter Harry Kipke. The only blemish was a tie with Yost protege and brother-in-law Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt.Template:Refn

At the end of the season, Yost called the 1925 Michigan team "the greatest football team I ever coached" and "the greatest football team I ever saw in action".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The team featured quarterback Benny Friedman and left end Bennie Oosterbaan, sometimes referred to as "The Benny-to-Bennie Show".

In tribute to the school where Yost began his coaching career, he arranged for Michigan to play its first game at Ferry Field (September 30, 1905) and its first game at Michigan Stadium (October 1, 1927) against Ohio Wesleyan.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Athletic director

After retiring from coaching, Yost remained at Michigan as the school's athletic director, a position he held until 1940, then held the title of athletic director emeritus. Under his leadership, Michigan Stadium, Yost Fieldhouse (now Yost Ice Arena), and the university's golf course were constructed.

Later years and death

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Yost's grave

Yost was in poor health for several years before his death and was hospitalized at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in May 1946.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He reportedly suffered from a stroke, but was released after two weeks and returned to his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In August 1946, Yost died of a gall bladder attack at his home. He was survived by his wife, whom he had married in 1906, a son, Fielding H. Yost, Jr., two brothers, Ellis and Nicholas, and a sister, Mrs. Charles Barry.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Yost was buried at Ann Arbor's Forest Hill Cemetery near the University of Michigan campus.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Personal

A native of West Virginia, Yost's unusual pronunciation of the school's name, "MEE-she-gan," copied by long-time Michigan football broadcaster Bob Ufer, is affectionately carried on by many Michigan football fans and often referenced by ESPN sportscaster Chris Fowler.

A devout Christian, he was among the first coaches to allow Jewish players on his teams, including Joe Magidsohn and Benny Friedman. However, Murray Sperber's book Shake Down the Thunder places principal responsibility for the Big Ten blackballing and boycotting of Notre Dame on Yost. It also claims this was motivated by anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant prejudice common in the early 20th century, though John Kyrk's book Natural Enemies points out that there was a bitter feud between Yost and Knute Rockne, head coach of the Notre Dame football team.

Legacy

Yost had a profound impact on the Michigan athletics department. "No other man has ever given as much heart, soul, brains, and tongue to the game he loved—football" said Grantland Rice.<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref> A longtime football coach and athletic director, his career was marked with achievement. Yost was among the inaugural class of inductees to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.

Tommy Hughitt was heavily inspired by Yost's system and used it to great success,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> later adapting it to the professional game with the Youngstown Patricians and Buffalo All-Americans.

Innovation

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Yost (on the sideline at right) coaching Michigan against Minnesota in 1902

Yost invented the position of linebacker with center Germany Schulz; co-created the first ever bowl game, the 1902 Rose Bowl, with then legendary UM athletic director Charles Baird; invented the fieldhouse concept that bears his name; and supervised the building of the first on-campus building dedicated to intramural sports.<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref>

Hurry up

Yost was also known for a series of admonitions to his players beginning with the words, "Hurry up," for example, "Hurry up and be the first man down the field on a punt or kick-off." This inclination earned him the nickname, "Hurry up" Yost. He was also an innovator of the hurry up offense.<ref name=owenou>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Professional coach

Yost initiated the concept of coaching as an actual profession near the turn of the century when he was paid as much as a UM professor. The professionalization of coaches that started with Yost and later, Walter Camp at Yale University, symbolized how serious college football was becoming, and Yost symbolized this more so than any of his peers. It was he who first articulated the now accepted premise about student-athletes in the sport that: "Football builds character."

Coaching tree

No fewer than 77 men who either played for Yost, or coached under him as an assistant, went on to become head coaches in college football; two, Benny Friedman and Tommy Hughitt, helmed teams in the National Football League (NFL). In addition Dan A. Killian, who was the head coach for the LSU Tigers (1904–1906), reportedly played quarterback on the Michigan football team<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> under Yost,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> but if he did, he apparently did not qualify for a letter<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and is not listed below. Yost's coaching tree includes: Template:Div col

1. Dave Allerdice: played for Michigan (1907–1909), assistant for Michigan (1910), head coach for Butler (1911), Texas (1911–1915)<ref name=three/>
2. Ernest Allmendinger: played for Michigan (1911–1913), head coach for South Dakota School of Mines (1914)<ref name=three>Template:Cite news</ref>
3. George Babcock: played for Michigan (1923–1925), head coach for Akron (1926) and Cincinnati (1927–1930).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
4. Ted Bank: played for Michigan (1919–1921), head coach for Idaho (1935–1940).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
5. Roy Beechler: played for Michigan (1904), head coach for Mount Union (1905).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
6. Jack Blott: played for Michigan (1922–1923), assistant for Michigan (1924–1933), head coach for Wesleyan Cardinals (1934–1940).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
7. Thomas A. Bogle, Jr.: played for Michigan (1910–1911), head coach for DePauw (1913–1914).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
8. Stanley Borleske: played for Michigan (1908–1910), head coach for North Dakota Agricultural (1919–1921, 1923–1924, 1928), Fresno State (1929–1932).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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1. Alan Bovard: played for Michigan (1926–1929), head coach for Michigan Tech (1947–1956).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2. Franklin Cappon: played for Michigan (1920–1922), assistant for Michigan (1925, 1928–1937), head coach for Luther (IA) (1923–1924) and Kansas (1926–1927).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
3. Otto Carpell: played for Michigan (1909–1912), head coach for Albion (1913)
4. Abe Cohn: played for Michigan (1917–1918, 1920); head coach for Whitworth (1922–1923).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
5. William C. "King" Cole: played for Michigan (1902), assistant for Michigan (1904), head coach for Marietta (1903), Virginia (1905–1906), Nebraska (1907–1910).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
6. James B. Craig: played for Michigan (1911–1913), head coach for Arkansas (1919).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
7. Wilbur M. Cunningham: played for Michigan (1907–1910), head coach for Transylvania (1912).
8. Joe Curtis: played for Michigan (1903–1906), head coach for Tulane (1907–1908), Colorado Mines (1909).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
9. James DePree: played for Michigan (1903–1904), head coach for Tennessee (1905–1906)
10. Prentiss Douglass: played for Michigan (1907–1908), assistant for Michigan (1909–1910), head coach for Kentucky (1911).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
11. David L. Dunlap: played for Michigan (1901–1903, 1905), head coach for Kenyon (1906), North Dakota (1908–1911), Allegheny (1912).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
12. William P. Edmunds: played for Michigan (1908–1910), head coach for West Virginia (1912), Washington University (1913–1916), Vermont (1919).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
13. Benny Friedman: played for Michigan (1925–1926), head coach for New York Giants (1930) and Brooklyn Dodgers (1932) of the NFL, head coach for CCNY and Brandeis (1951–1959).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
14. Joe Gembis: played for Michigan (1926–1929), head coach for Wayne State (MI) (1932–1945).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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1. Herb Graver: played for Michigan (1901–1903), head coach for Marietta (1904).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2. George W. Gregory: played for Michigan (1901–1903), head coach for Kenyon (1905).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
3. Thomas S. Hammond: played for Michigan (1903–1905), head coach for Ole Miss (1906).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
4. Albert Hansen: played for Yost at Nebraska (1898), head coach for Kansas State (1899).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
5. Albert E. Herrnstein: played for Michigan (1899–1902), head coach for Haskell Institute (1903–1904), Purdue (1905), Ohio State (1906–1909).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
6. Willie Heston: played for San Jose State Normal under Yost in 1900 and for Michigan (1901–1904), head coach for Drake (1905), North Carolina A&M (1906)
7. Herbert Huebel: played for Yost (1911–1912), head coach for Rose Polytechnic (1913–1914).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
8. Tommy Hughitt: played for Michigan (1912–1914), head coach for Maine (1915–1916) and Buffalo All-Americans/Bison of the NFL (1920–1924).<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>
9. Emory J. Hyde: played for Michigan in 1901, head coach for TCU (1905–1907).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
10. Roy W. Johnson: played for Michigan (1919), head coach for New Mexico (1920–1930).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
11. Paul Jones: played for Michigan (1901–1903), head coach for Western Reserve (1904–1905).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
12. Harry Kipke: played for Michigan (1920–1923), assistant for Michigan (1924–1927), head coach for Michigan State (1928), Michigan (1929–1937).<ref>Template:Harvnb</ref>
13. James C. Knight: played for Michigan (1901), head coach for Washington (1902–1904)
14. Jesse R. Langley: played for Michigan (1904–1907), head coach for TCU (1908–1909)
15. Belford Lawson Jr.: played for Michigan (1921–1923) head coach for Jackson College (1925–1926, 1928)
16. George M. Lawton: played for Michigan (1908–1910) head coach for Detroit (1913–1914).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
17. George Little, assistant for Michigan (1922–1923), head coach for Michigan (1924), Wisconsin (1925–1926).<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>
18. Frank Longman: played for Michigan (1903–1905), head coach for Arkansas (1906–1907), Wooster (1908), Notre Dame (1909–1910)
19. Jay Mack Love: played for Michigan (1904–1905), head coach for Southwestern (KS) (1906–1907)
20. Joe Maddock, played for Michigan (1902–1903), head coach for Utah (1904–1909), Oregon (1924).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
21. Paul Magoffin: played for Michigan (1904–1907), assistant for Michigan (1909), head coach for North Dakota Agricultural (1908), George Washington (1910).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
22. John Maulbetsch: played for Michigan (1914–1916), head coach for Phillips (1917–1920), Oklahoma A&M (1921–1928), Marshall (1929–1930).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
23. Thomas L. McFadden: played for Yost at Stanford (1900), head coach for Pacific (1901–1902), Oregon Agricultural (1903), DePauw (1904).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
24. Dan McGugin: played for Michigan (1901–1902), assistant for Michigan (1903), head coach for Vanderbilt (1904–1917, 1919–1934).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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1. William Melford: played for Nebraska (1898), head coach for Washburn (1899)
2. Bo Molenda: played for Michigan (1925–1926), head coach for Menlo College (1950–1969); also an assistant coach in professional football for the New York Giants 1936–1941 (interim head coach for the 1939 NFL Championship Game); Green Bay Packers (1947–1948); Chicago Hornets (1949)
3. Wade Moore: played for Yost at Kansas (1899), head coach for Kansas State (1901).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
4. Fay Moulton: played for Yost at Kansas (1899), head coach for Kansas State (1900)
5. Fred Norcross: played for Michigan (1903–1905), head coach at Oregon Agricultural (1906–1908).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
6. Bennie Oosterbaan: played for Michigan (1925–1927), assistant for Michigan (1928–1947), head coach for Michigan (1948–1958).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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1. Bennie Owen: played for Yost at Kansas (1899), assistant for Michigan (1901), head coach for Bethany (KS) (1902–1904), Oklahoma (1905–1926).<ref name=owenou/>
2. Andrew G. Reid: played for Michigan (1901), head coach for Monmouth (IL) (1907–1909)
3. Curtis Redden: played for Michigan, head coach for Transylvania.
4. Walter Rheinschild: played for Michigan (1904–1907), head coach for Washington State (1908), St. Vincent (CA) (1909), Throop (1913), Occidental (1916–1917).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
5. George Rich: played for Michigan (1926–1928), head coach Denison (1931–1934)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
6. Thomas J. Riley: played for Michigan (1908), head coach for Maine (1911–1913), Amherst (1914–1916)
7. Tod Rockwell: played for Michigan (1923–1924), head coach for North Dakota (1926–1927), Louisiana Tech (1928–1929)
8. Frederick Schule: played for Michigan (1903), head coach for Montana (1905–1906).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
9. Henry Schulte: played for Michigan (1903–1905), head coach for Eastern Michigan (1906–1908), Cape Girardeau (1909–1913), Missouri (1914–1917), Nebraska (1919–1920)
10. Germany Schulz: played for Michigan (1904–1905, 1907–1908), assistant for Michigan (1913–1915), head coach for Detroit (1922–1923).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
11. Bruce Shorts: played for Michigan (1900–1901), head coach for Nevada (1904), Oregon (1905).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
12. Andrew W. Smith: played for Michigan (1909), assistant coach under Yost (1911–1912), head coach at Throop College of Technology, now California Institute of Technology (1914–c. 1917)
13. Theodore M. Stuart: played for Michigan (1904–1905), head coach for Colorado School of Mines (1910–1911).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
14. Everett Sweeley: played for Michigan (1899–1902), head coach for Morningside (1903), Washington State (1904–1905)
15. William I. Traeger: played for Yost at Stanford (1900), head coach for Pomona (1902) and Occidental (1903)
16. Joseph Truskowski: played for Michigan (1926–1929), head coach for Olivet (1931)
17. Leigh C. Turner: assistant for Michigan (1905), head coach for Purdue (1907)
18. Irwin Uteritz: played for Michigan (1921–1923), head coach for Washington University (1949–1952).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
19. George F. Veenker: assistant for Michigan (1926–1929), head coach for Iowa State (1931–1936).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
20. Billy Wasmund: played for Michigan (1907–1909), head coach for Texas (1910–1911)
21. Boss Weeks: played for Michigan (1900–1902), head coach for Kansas (1903), Beloit (1904)
22. Hugh White: played for Michigan (1898–1901), head coach for Washington University (1902)
23. Tad Wieman: played for Michigan (1915–1917, 1920), assistant for Michigan (1921–1926), head coach for Michigan (1927–1928), Princeton (1938–1942).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
24. Ebin Wilson: played for Michigan (1899–1901), head coach for Wabash (1902–1903), Alma (1904–1905).<ref>Michigan Alumnus 1904, p. 299.</ref>
25. Hugh E. Wilson: played for Michigan (1918–1921), head coach for Louisiana Tech (1926–1927)

Hockey arena

The Yost Ice Arena was named in his honor.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

See also

• List of college football head coaches with non-consecutive tenure
• University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor

Bibliography

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• Kryk, John (2015), Stagg vs. Yost: The Birth of Cutthroat Football. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Template:ISBN
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External links

• Profile at Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Athletics History
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