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Fielding Harris Yost (1871–1946) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. "After four single-season stints at Ohio Wesleyan, Nebraska, Kansas, Stanford and San Jose State (as interim coach), Yost was hired in 1901 as the head football coach for the Michigan Wolverines football team (1901–1923, 1925–1926), compiling a career college football record of 198–35–12. "During his 25 seasons as the head football coach in Ann Arbor, Yost's Michigan Wolverines won six national championships, captured ten Big Ten Conference titles, and amassed a record of 165–29–10. "Yost invented the position of linebacker, co-created the first ever bowl game, 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" — compiled Wikipedia                                                    ———————   In 1908, William P. "Big Bill" Edmunds was a student under Coach Yost at Michigan for the first few weeks of the early practice season. [1]   It would appear that the above photograph was taken during this short time. Edmunds later became Head Football Coach at Washington University in St. Louis from 1913-1916. On November 4, 1916, Washington University, coached by Bill Edmunds, played Michigan at Ann Arbor -- coached by Yost. Michigan edged out Washington in that game 66-7. [2]  

Yost is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, here in Ann Arbor. Don't know about Edmunds. Phil Dokas will post photos of Yost's gravestone(s) below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fielding_H._Yost en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Edmunds

University of Michigan graduate Ralph Craig (1889-1972) won two gold medals as a sprinter at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. Wikipedia bio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Craig

I have a restored and a colorized version of this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/buikhu/2379131165/

Here's some more Ralph Craig info from the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan: bentley.umich.edu/athdept/olymp2/ol1912.htm The Stockholm games brought another Michigan double in the sprints, Ralph Craig winning both the 100 and 200 meter events. Craig had been the pre-Olympic favorite in the 100 meters until beaten by the unknown Howard Drew in the U.S. trials. A leg injury kept Drew from the Olympic finals. By one account there were eight false starts in the finals, three by Craig. In one of them Craig and another sprinter ran the entire distance. Apparently that was just a good warm-up for Craig. When there finally was a clean start, he won the race by two yards. Craig came back to lead a U.S. sweep of the 200 meters with a time just 1/10th of a second off Archie Hahn's Olympic record. Craig earned three letters in track at U of M, from 1909 to 1911. He never won a Big 10 title, however, as Michigan had withdrawn from the conference during those years. A very successful industrial engineer, Craig later won a spot as an alternate on the 1948 U.S. Olympic yachting team. bentley.umich.edu/athdept/olymp2/ol1948.htm Ralph Craig, double gold medal winner at Stockholm in1912, was an alternate on the yachting team. His team's boat "Rhythm" finished 11th in the dragon class. In recognition of his Olympic accomplishments, Craig was given the honor of carrying the U.S.flag in the opening ceremonies.

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This photo appears to gave been taken about a month before George Sisler's major league debut with the St. Louis Browns, on June 28, 1915. Mr. Sisler set the Major League Baseball record for most hits in a season, 257, in 1920, a record that stood until 2004.

nicknamed "Gorgeous George"