• Yost’s Field House | This Week in Michigan Football History

    This week takes a trip back to the roaring 1920s. World War I was over (we won!) and Michigan was back in the Big Ten conference in the middle of a athletics arm-race. Large new football stadiums started to pop up around the conference but Fielding Yost took a different route - at least a first. He decided to build the largest indoor sports complex of its kind -- Yost Field House. On November 10, 1923 thousands, including 2,000 members of the Marine Core, packed into the new arena for the official dedication. Here's the story: