Fielding H. Yost

(1871-1946) lived in Lincoln. Football coach, administrator, his teams at the University of Michigan won mythical college football national championships in 1901 and 1902, compiled record of 196 wins, 36 losses, and 12 ties as head coach for 29 years at Ohio Wesleyan, Stanford University, and the Universities of Kansas, Nebraska, and Michigan; a pioneer of the modern college sports dynasty, as athletic director at Michigan from 1921 to 1941 he built a comprehensive sports complex such as a fieldhouse, football stadium, intramural sports building, golf course, gymnasium, and tennis courts. Consult New York Times obituary, August 21, 1946, p. 27 and Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Football (Greenwood Press, 1987) 668-670 and 1995 Information Please Sports Almanac (Houghton Mifflin, 1995) 163-165 and American National Biography, Vol 24 (1999) 140-142.

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