Fielding H. Yost College coach

Fielding Harris Yost (April 30, 1871 – August 20, 1946) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Ohio Wesleyan University (1897), the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (1898), the University of Kansas (1899), Stanford University (1900), San Jose State University (1900), and the University of Michigan (1901–1923, 1925–1926), compiling a career college football record of 198–35–12. During his 25 seasons as the head football coach in 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 went 55–1–1, outscoring their opponents by a margin of 2,821 to 42. The 1901 team beat Stanford, 49–0, in the 1902 Rose Bowl, the first college football bowl game ever played. 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. Yost was also a lawyer, author, and businessman.

Personal facts

Fielding H. Yost
Alias (AKA)Yost Fielding Harris; Yost Fielding
Birth dateApril 30, 1871
Birth place
West Virginia Mountaineers football , Fairview West Virginia
Date of deathAugust 20, 1946
Place of death
Ann Arbor Michigan , Michigan Wolverines football

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Coach

coached team
Nebraska Cornhuskers football
Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops
Michigan Wolverines football
Kansas Jayhawks football
Stanford Cardinal football
San Jose State Spartans football
overall record198–35–12

Fielding H. Yost on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/coaches/fhyost.htm