Hall of Fame
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.
