A video of my complete guest lecture at U-M course EDUC 212: The History of Intercollegiate Athletics. The topic is the career of Fielding H. Yost. In Part I we cover his early life and coaching career before Michigan, and just into his first season in Ann Arbor. Part II gets into his coaching and AD career, and legacy.
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Postcard Worthy (1909)
Despite the significance of this game it seems this one, and a lot during the post Point-A-Minute era is underappreciated in history. So here's a quick look at the wild season of 1909 and the signifcance of this postcard and its steep asking price!
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Yost Gets a Dog to Get Shorty Longman’s Goat (1910)
The story of how why Fielding H. Yost showed up with a dog in a 1910 team photo. It was apparently to get the goat of former player and Notre Dame coach Shorty Longman:
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Score it: Notre Dame beat Michigan (1909)
Readers of this site probably know that the season of 1909 is a real favorite of mine. So much went down that year, and a true piece of college football history recently showed up on eBay from that epic season. It’s a U-M athletic department-issued scorecard from the 1909 Notre Dame-Michigan game held at Ferry Field.
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Really, really Little Brother & Shorty’s Pooch (1910)
For This Week…we got deep into the archives back into 1910 and focus on the battle against M.A.C. and the controversy surrounding the scheduled game against Shorty Longman and the Irish. You can hear all of the This Week… clips here.
