Fielding Harris Yost (; April 30, 1871 – August 20, 1946) was an
American football
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player, coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at:
Ohio Wesleyan University
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, the
University of Nebraska
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, the
University of Kansas
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,
Stanford University
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,
San Jose State University
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, and the
University of Michigan
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, compiling a
college football
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career record of 198–35–12. During his 25 seasons as the head football coach at
Ann Arbor
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, Yost's
Michigan Wolverines
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won six
national championships, captured ten
Big Ten Conference
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titles, and amassed a record of 165–29–10.
From 1901 to 1905, his "Point-a-Minute" squads had a record of 55–1–1, outscoring their opponents by a margin of 2,821–42. The
1901 team beat
Stanford
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, 49–0, in the
1902 Rose Bowl
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The inaug ...
, the first college football
bowl game
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. Under Yost, Michigan won four straight national championships from 1901 to 1904 and two more in 1918 and 1923.
In 1921, Yost became Michigan's
athletic director
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and served in that capacity until 1940. He was inducted into the
College Football Hall of Fame
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as a coach in 1951. Yost was also 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.
Early life
Yost was born in
Fairview, West Virginia, in April 1871. Yost's family had settled in West Virginia, in 1825. He was the oldest of four children of Parmenus (sometimes Permenus) Wesley Yost (1845–1920) and Elzena Jane (Ammons) Yost (1852–1943), both natives of West Virginia. His father was a farmer and a Confederate veteran. His 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.
Yost was educated in the local schools and became a deputy marshal in Fairview as a teenager.
At seventeen, he earned a public-school teaching certificate.
College
Yost began his college education at
Fairmont Normal School in
Fairmont, West Virginia
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. He then taught school at
Patterson Creek, West Virginia, during the 1889–90 school year.
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He next enrolled at the Ohio Normal School (now known as Ohio Northern University). Yost played for the Ohio Normal baseball team. After three years at Ohio Normal, he returned to West Virginia to work in the oil fields.
In 1895, Yost enrolled at ]West Virginia University
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where he studied law, earning an LL.B. He also played football for the West Virginia University football team.[Maramba, Kris Wise, "Fielding Yost, another son of Marion County, excelled with Wolverines"]
'' Charleston Daily Mail'', December 18, 2007 A 6-foot, 200 pounder, Yost was a standout at tackle at West Virginia into the 1896 season.
"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
In October 1896, after his team lost three home games to Lafayette, played on three different fields over the course of three days, Yost became a remarkable personification of "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." He transferred in mid-season to join Coach Parke H. Davis
Parke Hill Davis (July 15, 1871 – June 5, 1934)"PARKE H. DAVIS BURIED.; Many Prominent Men at Funeral of Football Authority", special to ''The New York Times'', June 9, 1934 was an American football player, coach, and historian.
Shortly befo ...
's national championship team at Lafayette. Just a week after playing ''against'' Davis in West Virginia, Yost was playing ''for'' Davis in Lafayette's historic 6-4 win over the Penn Quakers
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School colors
There are ...
.[
The fortuitous timing of his appearance on the Lafayette roster did not go unnoticed by Penn officials. They called it "the Yost affair." The Philadelphia ''Ledger'' quoted Yost as saying that he came to Lafayette only to play football. The fact that he appeared in a Lafayette uniform only once, in the Penn game, and that he returned to West Virginia within two weeks of the contest did not help appearances. He assured all concerned that he would return to Lafayette for at least three years of study.
]
Coaching career
Ohio Wesleyan
Yost began his coaching career at age 26 as head coach of the 1897 Ohio Wesleyan football team. Yost's team compiled a 7–1–1 record, shut out six of its nine opponents (including a 6–0 victory over Ohio State
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and a scoreless tie with Michigan
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), and outscored all opponents by a total of 144 to 32. Yost played at left tackle against Michigan, leading to a protest that Ohio Wesleyan had assured Michigan that Yost, a paid coach and non-student, would not play and had engaged in trickery by introducing another individual as Yost. One week later, Michigan announced that it would no longer schedule games against Ohio Wesleyan.
Nebraska
In 1898, Yost was hired to coach the Nebraska football team with compensation of $1,000 for 10 weeks of service. The 1898 Nebraska team compiled an 8–3 record, including victories over Iowa State (23–10), Missouri (47–6), Kansas (18–6), and Colorado (23–10), and losses to Drake (6–5) and Iowa (6–5).
Kansas
In June 1899, the University of Kansas Athletic Association offered Yost $350, and an additional $150 conditionally, to coach the school's football team. After spending the summer in Colorado, Yost arrived in Lawrence, Kansas
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, on September 4, 1899. During the 1899 season, the Kansas football team "lived separate from the rest of the students and ate specially selected and prepared food . . . with Coach Yost as their only mentor". The team compiled an undefeated 10–0 record, outscoring opponents 280–37. The season included victories over the Haskell Indians (12–0 and 18–0), Nebraska (36–20), and Missouri (34–6). During the 1899–1900 academic year, Kansas had Yost as its football coach and James Naismith
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as its basketball coach. Naismith also served as an assistant football coach during the 1899 season.
Stanford
In May 1900, Yost was hired as the football coach at Stanford University
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, and, after traveling home to West Virginia, he arrived in Palo Alto, California
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The city was es ...
, on August 21, 1900. Yost led the 1900 Stanford team to a 7–2–1, outscoring opponents 154–20.
Michigan
After first applying at Illinois, Yost was hired in 1901 by Charles A. Baird
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He was the manager of the University of Michigan football team from 1893 to 1895 and the school's first athlet ...
as the head football coach for the Michigan Wolverines football
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team.
Yost coached at Michigan from 1901 through 1923, and again in 1925 and 1926. He was highly successful at Michigan, winning 165 games, losing only 29, and tying 10 for a winning percentage of .833. Under Yost, Michigan won four straight national championships from 1901 to 1904 and two more in 1918 and 1923.
Point-a-minute
Yost's first Michigan team in 1901 outscored its opposition by a margin of 550–0 en route to a perfect season and victory in the inaugural Rose Bowl on January 1, 1902, over Stanford
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, the team Yost had coached the year before. From 1901 to 1904, Michigan did not lose a game, and was tied only once in a legendary game with the Minnesota Golden Gophers
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that led to the establishment of the Little Brown Jug trophy. Yost's teams used the short punt formation
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. He also developed a play called "Old 83" resembling an option.
Before Michigan finally lost a game to Amos Alonzo Stagg
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's Chicago Maroons
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squad at the end of the 1905 season, they had gone 56 straight games without a defeat, the second longest such streak in college football history. During their first five seasons under Yost, Michigan outscored its opponents 2,821–42, earning the Michigan team the nickname "Point-a-Minute." The team featured running back Willie Heston
William Martin Heston (September 9, 1878 – September 9, 1963) was an American football player and coach. He played halfback at San Jose State University and the University of Michigan. Heston was the head football coach for Drake Universi ...
, who Yost called the greatest player he ever saw.
In 1904, Germany Schulz
Adolph George "Germany" Schulz (April 19, 1883 – April 14, 1951) was an All-American American football center for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1904 to 1905 and from 1907 to 1908. While playing at Michigan, Schulz is credited wit ...
stood up from the center position and created the position of linebacker
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. Yost was horrified at first, but came to see the wisdom in Schulz's innovation.
Independent
In 1908, Michigan lost to Penn 29–0, the worst defeat suffered by a Michigan team during the Yost era. Yost said of Schulz's performance: "He gave the greatest one-man exhibition of courage I ever saw on a football field."
In 1909, Michigan suffered its first loss to Notre Dame. In 1910, Michigan was led by All-Americans Albert Benbrook and Stanfield Wells
Stanfield McNeill Wells (July 25, 1889 – August 17, 1967) was an All-American football player for the University of Michigan Wolverines football team from 1909-1911. He was the first in a long line of All-Americans to come out of Massil ...
and played its only undefeated season of the independent years, compiling a 3–0–3 record.
In 1916, John Maulbetsch
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led Michigan to one of its finest records. The Wolverines won seven straight games.
Return to Western Conference
Led by fullback Frank Steketee, the 1918 team went undefeated in the war-shortened season. The 1922
Events
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and 1923 teams went undefeated, led by punter Harry Kipke
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. The only blemish was a tie
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with Yost protege and brother-in-law Dan McGugin
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's Vanderbilt.
At the end of the season, Yost called the 1925 Michigan team "the greatest football team I ever coached" and "the greatest football team I ever saw in action". The team featured quarterback Benny Friedman
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A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Friedman played college football as a halfback and quarterback for the University of ...
and left end Bennie Oosterbaan
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, sometimes referred to as "The Benny-to-Bennie Show".
In tribute to the school where Yost began his coaching career, he arranged for Michigan to play its first game at Ferry Field
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(September 30, 1905) and its first game at Michigan Stadium
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(October 1, 1927) against Ohio Wesleyan.
Athletic director
After retiring from coaching, Yost remained at Michigan as the school's athletic director
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, a position he held until 1940, then held the title of athletic director emeritus. Under his leadership, Michigan Stadium
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, Yost Fieldhouse (now Yost Ice Arena), and the university's golf course were constructed.
Later years and death
Yost was in poor health for several years before his death and was hospitalized at the Battle Creek Sanitarium
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in May 1946. He reportedly suffered from a stroke, but was released after two weeks and returned to his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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. In August 1946, Yost died of a gall bladder
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attack at his home. He was survived by his wife, whom he had married in 1906, a son, Fielding H. Yost, Jr., two brothers, Ellis and Nichola, and a sister, Mrs. Charles Barry. Yost was buried at Ann Arbor's Forest Hill Cemetery near the University of Michigan campus.
Personal
A native of West Virginia, Yost's unusual pronunciation of the school's name, "MEE-she-gan," copied by long-time Michigan football broadcaster Bob Ufer, is affectionately carried on by many Michigan football fans and often referenced by ESPN
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sportscaster Chris Fowler
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.
A devout Christian
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, he was among the first coaches to allow Jewish
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players on his teams, including Joe Magidsohn and Benny Friedman
Benjamin Friedman (March 18, 1905 – November 24, 1982) was an American football player and coach, and athletic administrator.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Friedman played college football as a halfback and quarterback for the University of ...
. However, Murray Sperber's book ''Shake Down the Thunder'' places principal responsibility for the Big Ten blackballing and boycotting of Notre Dame on Yost. It also claims this was motivated by anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant prejudice common in the early 20th century, though John Kyrk's book ''Natural Enemies'' points out that there was a bitter feud between Yost and Knute Rockne
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, head coach of the Notre Dame football team.
Legacy
Yost had a profound impact on the Michigan athletics department. "No other man has ever given as much heart, soul, brains, and tongue to the game he loved—football" said Grantland Rice
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Early years
Rice wa ...
. A longtime football coach and athletic director, his career was marked with achievement. Yost was among the inaugural class of inductees to the College Football Hall of Fame
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in 1951.
Tommy Hughitt was heavily inspired by Yost's system and used it to great success, later adapting it to the professional game with the Youngstown Patricians and Buffalo All-Americans
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.
Innovation
Yost invented the position of linebacker
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with center Germany Schulz
Adolph George "Germany" Schulz (April 19, 1883 – April 14, 1951) was an All-American American football center for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1904 to 1905 and from 1907 to 1908. While playing at Michigan, Schulz is credited wit ...
; co-created the first ever bowl game
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, 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.
Hurry up
Yost was also known for a series of admonitions to his players beginning with the words, "Hurry up," for example, "Hurry up and be the first man down the field on a punt or kick-off." This inclination earned him the nickname, "Hurry up" Yost. He was also an innovator of the hurry up offense.
Professional coach
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. The professionalization of coaches that started with Yost and later, Walter Camp at Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...
, symbolized how serious college football was becoming, and Yost symbolized this more so than any of his peers. It was he who first articulated the now accepted premise about student-athletes in the sport that: "Football builds character."
Coaching tree
No fewer than 77 men who either played for Yost, or coached under him as an assistant, went on to become head coaches in college football; two, Benny Friedman
Benjamin Friedman (March 18, 1905 – November 24, 1982) was an American football player and coach, and athletic administrator.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Friedman played college football as a halfback and quarterback for the University of ...
and Tommy Hughitt, helmed teams in the National Football League
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(NFL). In addition Dan A. Killian, who was the head coach for the LSU Tigers
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(1904–1906), reportedly played quarterback
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on the Michigan football team under Yost, but if he did, he apparently did not qualify for a letter and is not listed below. Yost's coaching tree
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includes:
# Dave Allerdice: played for Michigan (1907–1909), assistant for Michigan (1910), head coach for Butler
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(1911), Texas
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(1911–1915)[
# Ernest Allmendinger: played for Michigan (1911–1913), head coach for South Dakota School of Mines (1914)]
# George Babcock: played for Michigan (1923–1925), head coach for Akron
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(1926) and Cincinnati
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(1927–1930).
# Ted Bank
Theodore Paul Bank (December 13, 1897 – June 3, 1986) was an American college football player, coach, and
Bank was a starting quarterback for Fielding Yost's 1920 and 1921 Wolverine football teams. He graduated from the university in 1923 a ...
: played for Michigan (1919–1921), head coach for Idaho
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(1935–1940).
# Roy Beechler: played for Michigan (1904), head coach for Mount Union (1905).
# Jack Blott
Jack Leonard Blott (August 24, 1902 – June 11, 1964) was an All-American football center and place kicker for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1922–1923. He was also a baseball catcher for the Wolverines from 1922–1924. After a ...
: played for Michigan (1922–1923), assistant for Michigan (1924–1933), head coach for Wesleyan Cardinals (1934–1940).
# Thomas A. Bogle, Jr.: played for Michigan (1910–1911), head coach for DePauw (1913–1914).
# Stanley Borleske: played for Michigan (1908–1910), head coach for North Dakota Agricultural (1919–1921, 1923–1924, 1928), Fresno State (1929–1932).
# Alan Bovard: played for Michigan (1926–1929), head coach for Michigan Tech
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(1947–1956).
# Franklin Cappon
Franklin C. "Cappy" Cappon (October 17, 1900 – November 29, 1961) was an American college football and college basketball player and coach. He played football and basketball at Phillips University and the University of Michigan and coached at L ...
: played for Michigan (1920–1922), assistant for Michigan (1925, 1928–1937), head coach for Luther (IA) (1923–1924) and Kansas
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(1926–1927).
# Otto Carpell
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: played for Michigan (1909–1912), head coach for Albion
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(1913)
# Abe Cohn: played for Michigan (1917–1918, 1920); head coach for Whitworth (1922–1923).
# William C. "King" Cole: played for Michigan (1902), assistant for Michigan (1904), head coach for Marietta (1903), Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are ...
(1905–1906), Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the sout ...
(1907–1910).
# James B. Craig: played for Michigan (1911–1913), head coach for Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the O ...
(1919).
# Wilbur M. Cunningham: played for Michigan (1907–1910), head coach for Transylvania (1912).
# Joe Curtis
John Spencer "Big Joe" Curtis (November 14, 1882 – January 29, 1972) was an American football player and coach. While playing for the University of Michigan, he was selected as a first-team All-Western tackle three consecutive years from 1904 t ...
: played for Michigan (1903–1906), head coach for Tulane (1907–1908), Colorado Mines (1909).
# James DePree
James "J. D." DePree, also known as Jim DePree, (March 14, 1879 – July 1, 1972) was an American football player and coach of football and baseball. He was the fifth head coach for the University of Tennessee
The University of Tennessee (o ...
: played for Michigan (1903–1904), head coach for Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 36th-largest by ...
(1905–1906)
# Prentiss Douglass: played for Michigan (1907–1908), assistant for Michigan (1909–1910), head coach for Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia ...
(1911).
# David L. Dunlap
David Lewis Dunlap (December 7, 1877 – July 9, 1954) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball, college athletics administrator, and physician. He played football for the University of Michigan's "Point-a- ...
: played for Michigan (1901–1903, 1905), head coach for Kenyon Kenyon may refer to:
Names
* Kenyon (given name)
* Kenyon (surname)
Places
* Kenyon, Cheshire, United Kingdom, a village
* Kenyon, Minnesota, United States, a city
* Kenyon, Rhode Island, United States, a village
* Kenyon, former name of Pineridg ...
(1906), North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, ...
(1908–1911), Allegheny (1912).
# William P. Edmunds: played for Michigan (1908–1910), head coach for West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the ...
(1912), Washington University
Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is r ...
(1913–1916), Vermont
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(1919).
# Benny Friedman
Benjamin Friedman (March 18, 1905 – November 24, 1982) was an American football player and coach, and athletic administrator.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Friedman played college football as a halfback and quarterback for the University of ...
: played for Michigan (1925–1926), head coach for New York Giants
The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East divisio ...
(1930) and Brooklyn Dodgers
The Brooklyn Dodgers were a Major League Baseball team founded in 1884 as a member of the American Association before joining the National League in 1890. They remained in Brooklyn until 1957, after which the club moved to Los Angeles, Californi ...
(1932) of the NFL, head coach for CCNY and Brandeis Brandeis is a surname. People
*Antonietta Brandeis (1848–1926), Czech-born Italian painter
*Brandeis Marshall, American data scientist
* Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Austrian artist and Holocaust victim
* Irma Brandeis, American Dante scholar
*Louis ...
(1951–1959).
# Joe Gembis: played for Michigan (1926–1929), head coach for Wayne State (MI) (1932–1945).
# Herb Graver: played for Michigan (1901–1903), head coach for Marietta (1904).
# George W. Gregory
George W. "Dad" Gregory (April 19, 1879 – September 6, 1946) was an American football player, coach and lawyer. He was the starting Center (American football), center for the University of Michigan's "Point-a-Minute" football teams of 1901, ...
: played for Michigan (1901–1903), head coach for Kenyon Kenyon may refer to:
Names
* Kenyon (given name)
* Kenyon (surname)
Places
* Kenyon, Cheshire, United Kingdom, a village
* Kenyon, Minnesota, United States, a city
* Kenyon, Rhode Island, United States, a village
* Kenyon, former name of Pineridg ...
(1905).
# Thomas S. Hammond: played for Michigan (1903–1905), head coach for Ole Miss (1906).
# Albert Hansen: played for Yost at Nebraska (1898), head coach for Kansas State (1899).
# Albert E. Herrnstein
Albert Ernest Herrnstein (August 15, 1882 – August 14, 1958) was an American football player and coach. He played at the University of Michigan as a halfback and end from 1899 to 1902 and was the head football coach at the Haskell Indian Sch ...
: played for Michigan (1899–1902), head coach for Haskell Institute (1903–1904), Purdue
Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and mo ...
(1905), Ohio State
The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best public ...
(1906–1909).
# Willie Heston
William Martin Heston (September 9, 1878 – September 9, 1963) was an American football player and coach. He played halfback at San Jose State University and the University of Michigan. Heston was the head football coach for Drake Universi ...
: played for San Jose State Normal under Yost in 1900 and for Michigan (1901–1904), head coach for Drake
Drake may refer to:
Animals
* A male duck
People and fictional characters
* Drake (surname), a list of people and fictional characters with the family name
* Drake (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name ...
(1905), North Carolina A&M (1906)
# Herbert Huebel: played for Yost (1911-1912), head coach for Rose Polytechnic (1913-1914).
# Tommy Hughitt: played for Michigan (1912–1914), head coach for Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and nor ...
(1915–1916) and Buffalo All-Americans/Bison of the NFL (1920–1924).
# Emory J. Hyde: played for Michigan in 1901, head coach for TCU (1905–1907).
# Roy W. Johnson: played for Michigan (1919), head coach for New Mexico
)
, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque, New Mexico, Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Albuquerque metropolitan area, Tiguex
, Offi ...
(1920–1930).
# Paul Jones: played for Michigan (1901–1903), head coach for Western Reserve
The Connecticut Western Reserve was a portion of land claimed by the Colony of Connecticut and later by the state of Connecticut in what is now mostly the northeastern region of Ohio. The Reserve had been granted to the Colony under the terms o ...
(1904–1905).
# Harry Kipke
Harry George Kipke (; March 26, 1899 – September 14, 1972) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He was the head football coach at Michigan State College in 1928 and at the University of Michigan from 1929 to 193 ...
: played for Michigan (1920–1923), assistant for Michigan (1924–1927), head coach for Michigan State
Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the first of its kind in the United States. It i ...
(1928), Michigan (1929–1937).
# James C. Knight: played for Michigan (1901), head coach for Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
(1902–1904)
# Jesse R. Langley: played for Michigan (1904–1907), head coach for TCU (1908–1909)
# Belford Lawson Jr.: played for Michigan (1921–1923) head coach for Jackson College (1925–1926, 1928)
# George M. Lawton: played for Michigan (1908–1910) head coach for Detroit
Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at t ...
(1913–1914).
# George Little, assistant for Michigan (1922–1923), head coach for Michigan (1924), Wisconsin
Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...
(1925–1926).
# Frank Longman
Frank Chandler "Shorty" Longman (December 7, 1882 – April 4, 1928) was an American college football player and coach. He was born Dec. 7, 1882 in Fulton, a small community in rural Kalamazoo County, Michigan. By 1894, the Longman family had mov ...
: played for Michigan (1903–1905), head coach for Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the O ...
(1906–1907), Wooster (1908), Notre Dame (1909–1910)
# Jay Mack Love: played for Michigan (1904–1905), head coach for Southwestern (KS) (1906–1907)
# Joe Maddock, played for Michigan (1902–1903), head coach for Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its ...
(1904–1909), Oregon
Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...
(1924).
# Paul Magoffin
Paul Parker "Maggie" Magoffin (March 30, 1883 – February 1, 1956) was an American football player. He played left halfback for Fielding H. Yost's University of Michigan Wolverines football teams of 1904, 1905, 1906 and 1907, and was captain o ...
: played for Michigan (1904–1907), assistant for Michigan (1909), head coach for North Dakota Agricultural (1908), George Washington
George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of ...
(1910).
# John Maulbetsch
John Frederick Maulbetsch (June 20, 1890 – September 14, 1950) was an All-American football halfback at Adrian College in 1911 and for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1914 to 1916. He is also a member of the College Football Hall ...
: played for Michigan (1914–1916), head coach for Phillips (1917–1920), Oklahoma A&M (1921–1928), Marshall (1929–1930).
# Thomas L. McFadden: played for Yost at Stanford
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. S ...
(1900), head coach for Pacific
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(1901–1902), Oregon Agricultural (1903), DePauw (1904).
# Dan McGugin
Daniel Earle McGugin (July 29, 1879 – January 23, 1936) was an American football player and coach, as well as a lawyer. He served as the head football coach at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1904 to 1917 and again from ...
: played for Michigan (1901–1902), assistant for Michigan (1903), head coach for Vanderbilt (1904–1917, 1919–1934).
# William Melford: played for Nebraska (1898), head coach for Washburn (1899)
# Bo Molenda
John Joseph "Bo" Molenda (February 20, 1905 – July 20, 1986) was an American football player, primarily a fullback, who played for the University of Michigan and nine seasons in the NFL. He played for two Big Ten Conference championship teams a ...
: played for Michigan (1925–1926), head coach for Menlo College (1950–1969); also an assistant coach in professional football for the New York Giants
The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East divisio ...
1936–1941 (interim head coach for the 1939 NFL Championship Game
The 1939 NFL Championship Game was the seventh league championship game of the National Football League (NFL), held on December 10 inside the Milwaukee Mile, located at the Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwauk ...
); Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. It is the t ...
(1947–1948); Chicago Hornets (1949)
# Wade Moore
Wade Hampton Moore (June 14, 1876 – June 14, 1956) was an American football and baseball player and coach.
Moore was a graduate of the University of Kansas, lettering for the baseball team in 1898 and 1899, and the football team in 1899. Follow ...
: played for Yost at Kansas
Kansas () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its Capital city, capital is Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita, Kansas, Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebras ...
(1899), head coach for Kansas State (1901).
# Fay Moulton
Fay R. Moulton (April 7, 1876 – February 19, 1945) was an Olympic sprinter, American football player and coach, and lawyer. He served as the fifth head football coach at Kansas State Agricultural College, now Kansas State University, holding ...
: played for Yost at Kansas
Kansas () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its Capital city, capital is Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita, Kansas, Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebras ...
(1899), head coach for Kansas State (1900)
# Fred Norcross
Fred Stephenson "Norky" Norcross Jr. (July 14, 1884 – April 4, 1965) was an American football player and coach and mining engineer. He was the quarterback for the University of Michigan from 1903 to 1905, leading the team to a 33–1–1 record ...
: played for Michigan (1903–1905), head coach at Oregon Agricultural (1906–1908).
# Bennie Oosterbaan
Benjamin Oosterbaan ( ; February 24, 1906 – October 25, 1990) was a three-time first team College Football All-America Team, All-American American football, football End (gridiron football), end for the Michigan Wolverines football team, two-tim ...
: played for Michigan (1925–1927), assistant for Michigan (1928–1947), head coach for Michigan (1948–1958).
# Bennie Owen
Benjamin Gilbert Owen (July 24, 1875 – February 26, 1970) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Washburn College, now Washburn University, in 1900, at Bethany C ...
: played for Yost at Kansas
Kansas () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its Capital city, capital is Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita, Kansas, Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebras ...
(1899), assistant for Michigan (1901), head coach for Bethany (KS) (1902–1904), Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New ...
(1905–1926).[
# Andrew G. Reid: played for Michigan (1901), head coach for Monmouth (IL) (1907–1909)
# ]Curtis Redden
Curtis Gerald "Cap" Redden (February 8, 1881 – January 16, 1919) was an American football player. He was the starting left end for the University of Michigan's football team from 1901 to 1904. He played for Michigan's "Point-a-Minute" teams a ...
: played for Michigan, head coach for Transylvania.
# Walter Rheinschild: played for Michigan (1904–1907), head coach for Washington State
Washington (), officially the State of Washington, is a U.S. state, state in the Northwestern United States, Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. Named for George Washington—the first President of the United States, U.S. p ...
(1908), St. Vincent (CA) (1909), Throop (1913), Occidental
Occidental may refer to:
* Western world (of or pertaining to)
Places
* Occidental, California, a town in Sonoma County, California, US
* Occidental Park (Seattle)
Other uses
* Interlingue, a constructed language formerly known as Occidental
...
(1916–1917).
# George Rich: played for Michigan (1926–1928), head coach Denison (1931–1934)
# Thomas J. Riley: played for Michigan (1908), head coach for Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and nor ...
(1911–1913), Amherst Amherst may refer to:
People
* Amherst (surname), including a list of people with the name
* Earl Amherst of Arracan in the East Indies, a title in the British Peerage; formerly ''Baron Amherst''
* Baron Amherst of Hackney of the City of London, ...
(1914–1916)
# Tod Rockwell
Ferdinand Almon "Tod" Rockwell (1900 – March 22, 1952) was an American football player and coach. He attended the University of Michigan, where he played quarterback for the Wolverines football team in 1923 and 1924, helping the 1923 team win ...
: played for Michigan (1923–1924), head coach for North Dakota
North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, ...
(1926–1927), Louisiana Tech
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(1928–1929)
# Frederick Schule: played for Michigan (1903), head coach for Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...
(1905–1906).
# Henry Schulte
Henry Frank Schulte (February 4, 1879 – October 18, 1944) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, baseball, and track and field. Schulte played football at Washington University in St. Louis from 1898 to 1900 and at t ...
: played for Michigan (1903–1905), head coach for Eastern Michigan (1906–1908), Cape Girardeau (1909–1913), Missouri
Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...
(1914–1917), Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the sout ...
(1919–1920)
# Germany Schulz
Adolph George "Germany" Schulz (April 19, 1883 – April 14, 1951) was an All-American American football center for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1904 to 1905 and from 1907 to 1908. While playing at Michigan, Schulz is credited wit ...
: played for Michigan (1904–1905, 1907–1908), assistant for Michigan (1913–1915), head coach for Detroit
Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at t ...
(1922–1923).
# Bruce Shorts
Bruce Carman Shorts (January 15, 1878 – March 29, 1945) was an American football player and coach. He played as a tackle at the University of Michigan from 1900 to 1901. Shorts served as the head football coach at the Nevada State University— ...
: played for Michigan (1900–1901), head coach for Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. N ...
(1904), Oregon
Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...
(1905).
# Andrew W. Smith: played for Michigan (1909), assistant coach under Yost (1911–1912), head coach at Throop College of Technology, now California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasional ...
(1914–c. 1917)
# Theodore M. Stuart: played for Michigan (1904–1905), head coach for Colorado School of Mines
The Colorado School of Mines, informally called Mines, is a public research university in Golden, Colorado, founded in 1874. The school offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering, science, and mathematics, with a focus on en ...
(1910–1911).
# Everett Sweeley: played for Michigan (1899–1902), head coach for Morningside (1903), Washington State
Washington (), officially the State of Washington, is a U.S. state, state in the Northwestern United States, Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. Named for George Washington—the first President of the United States, U.S. p ...
(1904–1905)
# William I. Traeger
William Isham Traeger (February 26, 1880 – January 20, 1935) was an American law enforcement official who served as sheriff of Los Angeles County from 1921 to 1932, and went on to serve one term as a United States Representative from Cali ...
: played for Yost at Stanford (1900), head coach for Pomona (1902) and Occidental
Occidental may refer to:
* Western world (of or pertaining to)
Places
* Occidental, California, a town in Sonoma County, California, US
* Occidental Park (Seattle)
Other uses
* Interlingue, a constructed language formerly known as Occidental
...
(1903)
# Joseph Truskowski
Joseph E. "Truck" Truskowski (c. 1906 – July 1959) was an American football, basketball and baseball player and coach. He played college football, basketball and baseball at the University of Michigan. He later served as the head baseball coach ...
: played for Michigan (1926–1929), head coach for Olivet (1931)
# Leigh C. Turner: assistant for Michigan (1905), head coach for Purdue
Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and mo ...
(1907)
# Irwin Uteritz
Irwin Charles "Utz" Uteritz (July 4, 1899 – December 14, 1963) was an American athlete and coach. He played American football and baseball for the University of Michigan from 1921 to 1923. At 140 pounds, he was one of the lightest quarterbacks ...
: played for Michigan (1921–1923), head coach for Washington University
Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is r ...
(1949–1952).
# George F. Veenker
George Frederick Veenker (April 17, 1894 – September 8, 1959) was an American football and basketball coach. He was the head basketball coach at the University of Michigan from 1928 to 1931 and also served as an assistant football coach at Michi ...
: assistant for Michigan (1926–1929), head coach for Iowa State
Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the ...
(1931–1936).
# Billy Wasmund: played for Michigan (1907–1909), head coach for Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
(1910–1911)
# Boss Weeks
Harrison Samuel "Boss" Weeks Jr. (April 3, 1879 – February 25, 1906) was an American football player and coach. He played quarterback for the University of Michigan from 1900 to 1902 and served as head football coach at the University of Kansas ...
: played for Michigan (1900–1902), head coach for Kansas
Kansas () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its Capital city, capital is Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita, Kansas, Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebras ...
(1903), Beloit (1904)
# Hugh White: played for Michigan (1898–1901), head coach for Washington University
Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is r ...
(1902)
# Tad Wieman
Elton Ewart "Tad" Wieman (October 4, 1896 – December 26, 1971) was an American football collegiate player, coach and athletic director. He played football for the University of Michigan from 1915 to 1917 and 1920 under head coach Fielding H. Yos ...
: played for Michigan (1915–1917, 1920), assistant for Michigan (1921–1926), head coach for Michigan (1927–1928), Princeton
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nin ...
(1938–1942).
# Eben Wilson
Ebin "Tug" Wilson (August 1869 – December 18, 1948), sometimes spelled Eben Wilson, was an American college football player and coach. He was a starter on the 1901 Michigan Wolverines football team that outscored its opponents 550–0 and later ...
: played for Michigan (1899–1901), head coach for Wabash (1902–1903), Alma (1904–1905).
# Hugh E. Wilson: played for Michigan (1918–1921), head coach for Louisiana Tech
Louisiana Tech University (Louisiana Tech, La. Tech, or simply Tech) is a public research university in Ruston, Louisiana. It is part of the University of Louisiana System and classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activi ...
(1926–1927)
Hockey arena
The Yost Ice Arena was named in his honor. In 2021, there were calls to remove his name.
Head coaching record
See also
*
* University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor
Notes
References
Bibliography
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*Kryk, John (2015), ''Stagg vs. Yost: The Birth of Cutthroat Football''. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
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External links
Profile at Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Athletics History
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