Rockne viewed Yost as "a hillbilly who was forever grinding a religious ax against Notre Dame, who was crooked as a dog's hind leg, who was selfish and vain beyond comprehension, who was blindly jealous of Rockne's own success and ascension to national stardom and who coached boring, neanderthal football."ġ923 Big Ten track and field meet to which ND is invited. The young player swears to friends that he will ensure that Notre Dame not only never needs the Western Conference, Yost or Michigan again, but that she will eclipse them across the nation. Also, despite his pass-catching ability as displayed in the game against Army, Yost works to keep this player off of All American teams.
One senior football player of the class of '14 bears particular ill will towards Yost and Michigan for blackballing Notre Dame. The 1913 Army game - only scheduled due to the Michigan boycott - becomes one of the most famous in ND history as Gus Dorais and Knute Rockne use the forward pass to upset the top team in the then-dominant East.ġ914 - Yost to his AD "Do not favor Notre Dame game. Army, Texas, Penn State and Syracuse are added to the schedule. If at any time you should find that your schedule is not working out to suit you and that you would like to play Notre Dame, I would be very glad to hear from you."ġ913 - ND begins playing schools outside the midwest as a result of the boycott. Jesse Harper writes to ask Michgan to schedule a game: "I am very sorry you could not think it best to schedule a game for next fall. The two teams do not play again for thirty-two years.ġ911 - A general policy of blackballing of Notre Dame by Michigan and Western Conference schools begins. Practice was what we wanted."ġ910 - 24 hours before Notre Dame and Michigan are to play, Yost cancels the game. They have a good team down there, but you must recognize the fact that we went into that game caring little whether we won or lost. Later that year despite, having a worse record and losing to ND, Michigan was voted "Champions of the West" by some Western Conference sportswriters and Yost claimed the split championship was just. "The fair catches were perfectly legal" as officals later confirmed. To my utter amazement, he greeted me by saying 'Miller you were guilty of the most unsportsmanlike conduct that I've ever seen in all my days.'" Yost was angry because Miller had waited several times until the last minute to signal fair catches on punts and Michigan had been flagged twice for interference. Yost, who had been my idol for years, I was thrilled beyond measure. "When Shorty Longman introduced me to Mr. After the game Notre Dame player Red Miller goes to shake Fielding Yost's hand. track meet"ġ909 - Notre Dame defeats Michigan for the first time. "In June 1901 Michigan and Chicago orchestrated the conference's banning of Notre Dame from the initial I.C.A.A. In 1898 Michigan voted to deny Notre Dame membership in the (then) Western Conference." Both would become the staunchest athletic foes of Notre Dame.
"The two most powerful conference members athletically and politically were Chicago and Michigan. A review of his tenure vis-a-vis Notre Dame is instructive of how and why Notre Dame and Michigan view each other the way they do. It is well this week to reflect on relations between Notre Dame and Michigan : how they began, how they developed, why they are the way they are and what forces impel Michigan to be the way it is.įielding Yost is by far the most influential person in the history of Michigan athletics. * Sources: Kryk, "Natural Enemies: The Notre Dame- Michigan Football Feud", Sperber, "Shake Down the Thunder" and "Onward to Victory" Notre Dame and Michigan Media Guides.
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