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Maize & Blue Sweatervest Hoodoo! (1904)

Related Topics: Hoodoo, Washington, D.C., Michigan

[Originally posted in 2014, bumped given the mention of Yost’s “noisy yellow and blue sweater vest” ahead of Saturday’s maize for the Washington game.]

Holy moly. Have we merely scratched the surface on the gems out there in Michigan football lore? Methinks.

Via the great Greg Kinney, archivist at the U-M Bentley Historical Library, I present an Arkenstone of sorts. Via the October 9, 1904 edition of the Michigan Daily:

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Sadly Kinney hasn’t found a photo of young Yost donning the righteous sweatervest* in this game, a 95-0 humiliation of our friends from K-Zoo.