Fielding Yost Part 3

Our Guest, Author Dr. John Behee joins us in the Pigpen to discuss the legendary football coach Fielding Yost and the fantastic coaching points he made along with preparation of his players for success.

Photograph is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of College Football Hall of Fame inductees Germany Schulz and Fielding H. Yost conferring in 1914 at Ferry Field from an unknown author

Our guest in the podcast above is Dr. John Behee and he is the author not one but two biographies on Coach Fielding Yost. His latest, after over 50 years of research is titled Coach Yost: Michigan's Tradition Maker. Dr. Behee achieved a degree in History and then furthered his education at the University of Michigan and even got to spend some time as a graduate assistant coach for the Wolverines during his stay there. This kindled his passion for the football program's history and traditions and when he looked into them, the name Fielding H. Yost jumped off the pages, and the campus. Behee wrote his dissertation for his PhD on Coach Yost. Some 50 years later after that original published work, he recollected his notes dug a bit deeper and found even more revelations about this amazing coach from the early 20th century.

Photograph is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of Coach Yost, Big Bill Edmunds from the Bain News Service, circa 1917

The general respect that Coach Yost paid to his players made them love him. His teams were ready as Dr. Behee points out that there were four main reasons for his and his football teams' successes: Curiosity; Risk Taking; Preparation; and Charisma. 

This book Coach Yost: Michigan's Tradition Maker, has so much football history in it and you can tell the passion by which its author speaks that you are in for one great football history lesson from this Pigskin Professor, Dr. John Behee.

Photograph is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of University of Michigan football team trainer Harry Tuthill and head coach Fielding H. Yost, 1917

The picture in the banner above is from the Wikipedia Commons photo collection of the Public Domain of Photograph of Fielding H. Yost via the National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress) circa 1924 (cropped D Hayes 2022)

Special thanks to Dr. John Behee, and his wonderful book  Coach Yost: Michigan's Tradition Maker.