Before he won 10 Big Ten titles at Michigan, before he won six national championships, before his squad played 56 consecutive games without a loss, Fielding Yost came to Columbus to interview for the Ohio State head coaching gig.
It was a job interview and he wanted to impress — and Yost still had the fire of his playing days at West Virginia in his system. So to prove that he knew a thing or two about proper football form and technique, he tackled two of his interviewers. Ohio State football historian Jack Park recounted what happened next in The Official Encyclopedia of Ohio State Football:
“After Yost demonstrated his physical competence on both a student and faculty member, instructions were given to ‘get that wild man off the campus.