Fielding Harris Yost was an American football player, coach and college athletics administrator.
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30 Facts About Fielding Yost
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Under Fielding Yost, Michigan won four straight national championships from 1901 to 1904 and two more in 1918 and 1923.
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In 1921, Fielding Yost became Michigan's athletic director and served in that capacity until 1940.
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Fielding Yost was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951.
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Fielding Yost was a successful business person, lawyer, and author; but he is best known as a leading figure in pioneering the development of college football into a national phenomenon.
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Fielding Yost was the oldest of four children of Parmenus Wesley Yost and Elzena Jane Yost, both natives of West Virginia.
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Fielding Yost's father was a farmer and a Confederate veteran.
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Fielding Yost's family had been in Fairview since 1825 when his second great grandfather, David Yost, settled there and took up a grant of over 2,000 acres.
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Fielding Yost was educated in the local schools and became a deputy marshal in Fairview as a teenager.
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Fielding Yost began his college education at Fairmont Normal School in Fairmont, West Virginia.
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In 1895, Fielding Yost enrolled at West Virginia University where he studied law, earning an LL.
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Fielding Yost assured all concerned that he would return to Lafayette for at least three years of study.
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In 1898, Fielding Yost was hired to coach the Nebraska football team with compensation of $1,000 for 10 weeks of service.
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In May 1900, Fielding Yost was hired as the football coach at Stanford University, and, after traveling home to West Virginia, he arrived in Palo Alto, California, on August 21,1900.
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Fielding Yost coached at Michigan from 1901 through 1923, and again in 1925 and 1926.
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Under Fielding Yost, Michigan won four straight national championships from 1901 to 1904 and two more in 1918 and 1923.
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Fielding Yost developed a play called "Old 83" resembling an option.
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Fielding Yost was horrified at first, but came to see the wisdom in Schulz's innovation.
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Fielding Yost was in poor health for several years before his death and was hospitalized at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in May 1946.
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Fielding Yost was survived by his wife, whom he had married in 1906, a son, Fielding H Yost, Jr.
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Fielding Yost was buried at Ann Arbor's Forest Hill Cemetery near the University of Michigan campus.
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Fielding Yost had a profound impact on the Michigan athletics department.
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Fielding Yost was among the inaugural class of inductees to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.
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Fielding Yost invented the position of linebacker with center Germany Schulz; co-created the first ever bowl game, the 1902 Rose Bowl, with then legendary UM athletic director Charles Baird; invented the fieldhouse concept that bears his name; and supervised the building of the first on-campus building dedicated to intramural sports.
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Fielding Yost was an innovator of the hurry up offense.
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Fielding Yost initiated the concept of coaching as an actual profession near the turn of the century when he was paid as much as a UM professor.
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