First Name
Fielding Harris "Hurry Up"
Last Name
Yost
Year Inducted
1951
Bio
Always in a hurry, thus the nickname "Hurry Up," Fielding Harris Yost gained national acclaim as a college football coach at Michigan at the turn of the century. Yost's travels included a stop at West Virginia, where he earned a law degree and played football in 1895-96. After his two years at WVU, the Fairview, West Virginia, native took the Michigan coaching job at age 30 in 1900. Four years later, he showed his appreciation for his alma mater at West Virginia by beating the Mountaineers 130-0, a score that didn't endear him to the West Virginia faithful. That 1904 Michigan squad was called the "Point-A-Minute" team. Later the athletic director at Michigan, he was singularly instrumental in building the nation's largest football stadium at Michigan. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 as a coach. He died August 20, 1946, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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