up or a heavy 'll like feel her Memorial Stadium at Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Well, it's Michigan-Illinois in the gridiron today. Looks like we're in for another battle of the giants. The kind that always occurs when the fighting of the lineups in the University of Illinois tangle with the Wolverines of Michigan, let go with everything they've been saving up for each other. There's the Wolverines' band. Let's pick them up for a minute. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] While the band is playing that famous Michigan football march to victory, here's Gabe Whitman with a reminder for these fall days. Your car will operate more efficiently this winter. If you take a few minutes now to rid the cooling system of rust and scum, the quick and easy way is to pour a can of DuPont cooling system cleanser into the radiator and run the engine for 30 minutes or more. Then drain out the dissolved rust and scum, refill with fresh water, and add a can of DuPont cooling system sealer to guard against leaks. These DuPont automotive products are examples of better things for better living through chemistry. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] This is Bill Sternigan, ladies and gentlemen. This stadium is jammed packed with 55,000 howling fans for this 1924 homecoming, waiting for the opening whistle to blow. But with all the excitement here today, the biggest gram and the best story, centers around a 53-year-old man sitting in the stands just below me. His name, Fielding Harris Yost. This is the first time in 24 years Fielding Yost hasn't been pacing up and down in front of the Michigan bench, chewing a beat-up cigar and leading his teams to more Big Ten championships than any other school in the conference. Remember those point-of-minute teams from 1901 to 1905? They played 56 exacting games without a defeat. Never hear of Willie Heston and Germany Schultz and McGogan and Harry Kipke. Yost made them and many other gridiron immortals. And on this day in 1924, he's sitting in the stands just like anybody else watching a football game. I wonder what he's thinking about sitting there alongside of Mrs. Yost. Yes, sir, I wonder how he's enjoying it. Now, Fielding, put that cigar back in your pocket. You're not the coach today. All right, dear. Hiya, coach! Why, that's Dan Wills. Hiya, Stan! Oh, now, Fielding, just get back in your seat and try to relax. I am relaxing. Hiya, coach! Well, hiya, Dutchman! Hello, coach, how do you feel? Hi, Dutchman, boy. You think you'll remember Germany Schultz, one of my old boys? Of course I remember him. Hiya, coach, Willie Heston. Well, well, it ain't good to see you. Say, coach, I hear this red grange is green slightly. They say it can't be stopped. If you were in there coaching today, he'd be great. No, Mr. Heston, the doctor said he was not to get excited. All right, Eunice, I'm not excited. Willie, no man is unstoppable. Remember what they said about Eckershall? Well, you and Germany stopped him. I'll say we did. Coach, do you remember the Chicago game in 1907? Chicago, 1907, yeah, I remember. I remember that first Rose Bowl game against Stanford. Uh-huh, I remember. Remember that 70-yard punt Sweeney made against Ohio? I remember, I remember, boys. I remember it all. Here's an Albert Down. I wanna go back, I wanna go back to Michigan. I wanna go back to Michigan. Yes, Mr. Yoke. Remember 1901, the era of pegged-top trousers and parasols, when a blacksmith's board started every main street and a long hatpin was the working girl's protection against the villainous male? Yes, this was a moment of 1901, on the day when a young man, his arms weighted down with two bulging suitcase, stepped off a Michigan Central train. I beg your pardon, sir. Can you tell me where I'll find Mr. Charles Baird? He's the manager of athletics at Michigan. I'm Charlie Baird. Are you fielding Yoke? Yes, sir. Oh, if you tell me where your carriage is, I'll dump my bags in. You're a younger man than I'd expected, Mr. Yoke. Tell me, is it true you coached four teams simultaneously out there in California last year? Five, sir. I forgot to mention the high school team I coached in my spare time. According to your newspaper clippings, all four of those teams won championships. Five, sir. Yes, sir. Mr. Yoke, do you think you can produce a winning team here at Michigan? Well, I'll tell you why not. What makes you so sure? Mr. Baird, there are three things that make a winning football team, spirit, manpower, and coaching. If your boys love Michigan, they've got the spirit somewhere in them, I'll take care of the coaching, and the rest is manpower. We've got over 2,000 male students. 2,000, eh? How many come up for football? About 15 or 20. 15 or 20? Mr. Baird, I'm a football coach, but more than that, I'm interested in physical fitness. I don't mean just football players, I mean the entire student body. Yes, that's very interesting, Mr. Yoke. You see, I'm looking to the days after these boys have graduated and are out in the world. The habits they form in college will last a long time. About the football team. You see, the thing to do is to get them all out for athletics, and that's what I propose to do. Aesthetics for all. That's the new motto at Michigan from now on, and if I, oh, sorry. I didn't mean to get all excited about it. What'd you say your catch was? I didn't. Hey, but I've got two heavy suitcases. Yes, I see. Well, I came on a bicycle. And since you're such an ardent believer in exercise for everybody, you can just cut along beside me. It's only a minor mile or so to the campus, Mr. Yoke. It's right up the hill. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] Football was a rough, tough sport in those days. With a nose guard and a shin protector, a flying wedge is a mass tandem plays. 1,000 spectators of the game was considered a banner crowd, won the true headlines in the Detroit Papers. It was a few days later that the new coach had his team out on the field for a practice session. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] All right, all right! Come on over here, men. Hurry up, hurry up! ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] Ah, now, now, listen, listen. I want speed. Four plays a minute. You, Snow, and you, Wicks, get in there. Hurry, show me some speed. You, Semi, use your eyes. You, Searchlight, turn them on the enemy. Use your hands. There, you're attacking weapons. Meat hooks are useless unless they have meat on them. And for the love of Mike, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up! Hurry up. It was after one of those early practice sessions that a newspaper reporter made sports history by changing a man's name. I went out to Regents Field today to see the new coach put his men through the paces. They say his name is Fielding Yost. This is undoubtedly a misnomer. As far as this reporter is concerned, that man's name is Hurry Up. Hurry up, Yost. That's how our name was born. A name that was to bring fame to Michigan. A name to become famous for fine football. Hurry up, Yost. Take it out! Take it out! Hurry up! Hurry up, you fellas! Get your back into it! Hurry up! Coach, excuse me. There's a new student here who wants to talk to you. What about him, Charlie? Oh, everything. Hello, Mr. Yost. Hello, take it out. Willie Heston. How are you, Coach? Yes, very. The same Willie Heston who played halfback for State Normal in California. Willie? You couldn't have picked a better school than Michigan. And that's what I figured, Coach, when I enrolled. Good, why don't you get in, Willie? Oh, about an hour ago, Coach. An hour ago? Yes, sir. Hey, you took your time coming out on the field, didn't you? Well, well, what are you waiting for? Get in that scrimmage. Hurry up, hurry up! ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] Thus appeared the first of Michigan's immortals. Willie Heston, all-time All-American halfback. One of the fastest backs in gridiron history. A man who scored more than 100 touchdowns for the Maze and Blue. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] This is the record for 1901, Yost's first season at Michigan. Michigan, 33. Indiana, nothing. Michigan, 29. Northwestern, nothing. Michigan, 21. Ohio State, nothing. Michigan, 50. Iowa, nothing. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] It was early in that first season, during the game with Buffalo, that a funny incident took place on the Michigan bench. Score was Michigan 110, Buffalo, nothing. When Yost looked around and saw a strange face. Hey, son, you don't belong over here. You're on the Buffalo team, aren't you? Yes, Coach. Well, what's the matter, you dizzy? You wanna drink a water? No, Coach. Hey, maybe you don't understand me. You're on the wrong side of the field. This is the Michigan bench. I understood you, Coach, only they sent me into this game four times and I'm not going in again. No, sir, I'm gonna sit right here on this bench with you fellas, where there's no chance of my getting killed. Move over, please. Ha ha ha ha ha. A few weeks later, on January the 1st of 1902, Michigan went out to Pasadena for the first Rose Bowl game in history. With 10 minutes still to play on the score, Michigan, 49, Stanford, nothing. The Stanford coach crossed the field of the Michigan bench. It's Yost, my boys are off their feet. Can't say I see much point in continuing this game. Well, let me get this straight. You mean you don't wanna play anymore? That's right, we don't wanna play anymore. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] Undefeated, untied, and unscored upon, that's Yost's record that first season. Fielding Yost lived, breathed, and ate football. Ask him about a particular play and he'd drop everything to demonstrate it. One day, Yost was in his own home explaining a new play to Germany Schultz, Michigan's great all-time All-American center. Chairs and cushions were arranged in formation and Yost was playing quarterback. Dutchman. Yeah? On this play, the end comes around as a decoy. I see. The halfback fades and comes around with him. Well. The quarterback takes the pass to the end and hands the ball. Where's the ball? Ah, you, nurse. What can I use for the ball? I'm sure I don't know, dear. We haven't any football. What do you mean you haven't any? Oh, I know, I know. Come here, sonny, that's our good boy. You put that baby down, you hear? Put that baby down. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] 19-2, Michigan 86, Ohio State, nothing. 19-3, Michigan 51, Indiana, nothing. 19-4, Michigan 130, West Virginia, nothing. The year 19-5, total Michigan, 495. Opponents, two points. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] Those were the famous point-a-minute teams. Want just one more bit of statistics? Listen then, ladies and gentlemen, because you never heard anything like this. 19-1 to 19-5, total points. Michigan, 2,821. Opponents, 42. Yes, those were great teams, and great crowds came out to see them, too. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] Well, Charlie Bear, how do you like sitting on the bench during a football game? I like it fine, coach. I can count the hocks better than me. Ha ha, quite a crowd. Must be 4,000 of me. Amazing. Feeling you've done a great job. You know something, Charlie? Someday, Michigan is going to have the finest athletic plan in the country with every conceivable kind of equipment. Sounds fine to me, coach, but who's going to pay for it? Football. Charlie, when I came here a few years ago, these stands at Regent's Field seated 800. Now you'll pick them up till they hold up to 4,000. And in a couple of years, you'll pick them up again till they maybe, maybe they'll hold 10,000. And that won't be enough. Coach, if it were anyone but you telling me this, I'd put in a call to the booby-hell. Wait, someday we're going to build a real stadium here at Michigan. It's going to seat 50, maybe 75,000 people. Who's going to pay for that? Football. Fielding, I think I will put in that call to the booby-hell. Wait and see, Charlie, wait and see. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] You are listening to Thomas Mitchell as Fielding Yost with Bill Stern as commentator on the Cavalcade of America, presented by the DuPont Company, makers of Better Things for Better Living through chemistry. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] Athletics for all, exercise for everybody. Fielding Yost lived that way. He preached it, he wrote articles about it, he talked about it. You couldn't shut him up, he told everybody about it. Now, Coach, will you pass the bread, please? Certainly, Professor. Say, I heard your debating team lose last night over at the auditorium. Awful, weren't we? Well, things might have been different if we were up to full strength. That Somerville boy, I could ring his neck. You fellas take this thing seriously, don't you? You take football seriously, don't you? It isn't the particular sport that counts for no, it's the spirit of competition. Yeah, that's right, of course. I never thought of it that way. Say, what's the matter with them, Professor, you know, young Somerville? I don't know, he's been looking kind of peaky lately. They run down, I guess. Anyhow, he never showed up last night. Wait a minute, tall and rangey, wears class line. No, him probably doesn't get in a lick of exercise from one year to the next. Exercise? Coach, you're forgetting, Mr. Somerville is the intellectual type, by the capo. Then he ought to have enough brains to take exercise. Send him around to me, I'll pick him up. But Coach, he's not the type, by the way. He's a scholarship man on the honors list. Just what I need in my backfield. Send him around. Good morning, Coach, sir. My name's Somerville. I heard you wanted to see me. That's right, ever play football? Me? When was the last time you took any form of exercise? Well, let's see now. I used to do a bit of swimming, but I had to give it up. Bad heart? No, no, no, my heart is fine. I just got tired. I'm always tired. And lately I've had insomnia. Insomnia, eh? Okay, go in and tell Charlie to fit you up with a uniform. Oh, Coach, you're not serious. Why, I get tired just walking from one class to another. Mr. Somerville, you're going to put on that uniform and you're going to have yourself a workout. And tonight you're going to be so doggone tired, you'll sleep all right. Don't worry, now get into that uniform. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"] Well, Professor, how'd your team make out in that debate last night? We won. Unanimous decision. Coach, we were magnificent. Such logic, such exposition. Glad to hear. Oh, by the way, what ever happened to young Somerville? Somerville? Best man we've got. You should have heard him. Incidentally, did he ever report to you that time? Yes, and he worked out for a month. Then I sent him over to the swimming coach. I understand he made the team. Really? Well, I'm sure he did. He was a good swimmer. I understand he made the team. Really? Coach, don't you think, well that is, it won't interfere with the really important things like debating for instance. Professor, exercise in the proper amount never hurt anybody. When a man is tired all the time and can't sleep. By the way, Professor, how do you sleep? Me? Why, I, oh I see what you mean. Excuse me, Coach, I'm afraid that I'm late for my class. Goodbye, Coach. I'll see you later. 1913, Michigan 43. Syracuse, seven. 1917, Michigan 42. For now, nothing. 1920, Michigan 14. Chicago, nothing. 1921, Michigan 38. Minnesota, nothing. So the years went by at Michigan. In 1921, Fielding Yost was appointed director of athletics. He continued to serve as football coach without pay through 1923. It was coming on towards Thanksgiving that year when a rather serious discussion took place between Mr. and Mrs. Yost and their family physician. Fielding, I told you before and I tell you again, you've got to give up coaching. No more football. Not me, Doctor, why I wouldn't know what to do with myself. You could go and accept to Europe, dear, with me. You could visit all those battlefields you're always talking about. That's an excellent idea. But why the battlefields? Are you a military expert, Fielding? Of course he is. He knows more about the Napoleonic War than any professor at the university. Now, Eunice, does this great interest have anything to do with football? Well, you see. Come on. I'm out with it. Doctor, those old battlefields are an inspiration to a football coach. Why, I've learned more strategy by studying Napoleon's campaign. Take the Battle of Waterloo, for instance. Now, Napoleon was over here where that chair is. Blucher was lined up over there near the Victrola. Where's the baseball? Eunice, is there a baseball in the house? On the doctor's orders, Yost resigned as football coach at the end of the 1923 season. He was tired out, for Fielding Yost was not only interested in football. He had a law degree, and he was a businessman who developed a hydroelectric plant in Tennessee. The following year, 1924, one of the greatest football players of all time was running wild, Red Grains, the galloping ghost. And this, as the saying goes, is where we came in. Remember the beginning of this story? We're back to that game, the game that started the old coach and his star pupils Heston and Schultz reminiscing. And as the first quarter got underway, Red Grains lived up to his advance notices. I mean, he ran wild as Yost watched and suffered. You, you there at end. He cut back on you. You let yourself get fucked in. You, you were the secondary. Where'd you ever learn to play football? Fielding, please, please, stop. Wake up, wake up. You're playing for Michigan. Please, Eden, sit down. Please don't get too excited. I can't help it. I can't help it. Great guns, four touchdowns in the first quarter. Against Michigan, I can't stand it. I can't, I can't stand it. That game ended, Illinois 39, Michigan 14. Needless to say, the next year, Fielding H. Yost was again in charge of football at Michigan. The doctor decided that not being coach was too much excitement for him. It's 1925 now, one year later. The locker room a few minutes before another Illinois game. All right, all right, now down, down, down, down, everyone. Now you, Wustabout, I want you to do it this way. You don't go in and you don't let yourself get boxed. You just keep running, many parallel with range, forcing him toward the sidelines. Got it, coach. And you won't touch him. You won't even try to touch him. You'll just ooze him out toward the sidelines and out of bounds. You get it? Got you. Now, now this is for everybody. Use your eyes, use your hands, and use your heads and your backs. Move in fast. Last year against these babies, something happened that never happened before. We had four touchdowns scored against this in the first quarter. That won't happen today, not if you carry out your assignments. Remember, you're representing a great school with a great tradition. No, tradition isn't something you can put on like a coat. It's got to be built up day by day. Love for the school, love for the game, love for the team. That's what makes men and wins games and builds up tradition. Now go on out in there and help build it up for Michigan. Play like a Michigan team. That afternoon, the Michigan team went out on the field and stopped Red Grange Cole. Then as a result of Benny Friedman's field goal, Michigan won three to nothing. And another well-coached team from Ann Arbor was on its way to another Big Ten championship. Then came the day when Fielding Yost's great dream was realized. The magnificent new stadium was completed at Michigan. On that eventful afternoon, Fielding Yost and old Charlie Baird looked down from the topmost row of seats, down on a jam-packed crowd of 85,000 men and women. Then they looked at each other. 85,000, Charlie. And they all came out to see a football game. Oh, Yost, Mr. Yost. Phil. Phil Stern. Hiya, Bill. What are you doing in Ann Arbor? Well, I came out to cover the dedication at the Yost Field House. Really? Good. Say, have you got a minute to talk to me? Sure thing. I'm going to go to point a minute Michigan teams of yours. Not today, Bill. Today I don't want to look backward. I only want to think about this new athletic plant we have right here at Michigan. That certainly is a honey. I hear you build a golf course, too. Yes, and 63 tennis courts and three swimming pools and a hockey rink and everything else you can think of. Know where it all came from? Football. Coach, on my sports program tonight, I want to tell the people of America all about you and what you've done here at Michigan. Is there anything special you want me to say? Special? Yes. There's something I've been thinking about for a long time, and that's this, that we should never forget that America was developed and settled by a race of workers, and that the human body today is the same as it was when our forefathers lived by physical work. So today we must not get soft. It's a fact known to every reader of history that when any people develop too large a percentage of idlers, that people has been destroyed. We have a responsibility to ourselves and the future, future generations. So let's stay in the game. Fielding Yost is dead. He died two years ago. The great championship Michigan team of this year knows him as only a memory, but Fielding Yost is not forgotten. Wherever football is played, he'll be remembered. For there are those who keep alive his spirit, and they'll tell you that on a cold, clear wintery night out in Ann Arbor, you can still hear his famous never to be forgotten shout ringing out in the silent stadium. Hurry up! Use your eyes! Use your hands! Hurry up! Hurry up! Fielding Yost is dead. Not a chance. Not as long as football lives will they ever forget the one and only, the immortal. Hurry up, Yost! You can still hear his famous never to be forgotten shout ringing out in the silent stadium. Now, Jane Whitman speaking for DuPont. Nowadays more people eat their breakfasts, and sometimes other meals too, in the kitchen or in a breakfast nook. The saying used to be, come out of the kitchen, Mother. Now we go into the kitchen with Mother. 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