Member Biography

Fielding Yost assembled the most devastating teams in the history of football, the famed "Point-A-Minute" teams at the University of Michigan in the early 1900s. "Hurry Up" Yost was a deadly earnest individual with a purity of spirit which belied his high wit and unwillingness to accept defeat. But, his teams rarely lost, so it was not an all-too-common problem. In 25 years at the Wolverine helm, Yost compiled a 165-29- 10 record. Yost began his coaching career at Ohio Wesleyan in 1897, served one-season terms at Nebraska, Kansas, and Stanford. He took the Michigan reins in 1901, and promptly launched an incredible success story, bound in a Maize and Blue cover. In his first season at Ann Arbor, the Wolverines finished 11-0-0 and defeated Stanford, 49-0, in the inaugural Rose Bowl game. Not a single opponent scored upon Michigan that season. His teams - offensively brilliant, defensively unmatched - continued to dominate the game for the next 4 years. Michigan won 44 games, lost only to Chicago, 2-0, in 1905, and tied Minnesota, 6-6, in 1903. Through those five years (1901-1905), Michigan was 55-1-1, outscoring the opposition, 2821-42.