e already being sown.

An unbroken series of victories marked the 1898 season, with the
Championship of the West decided by a thrilling 12 to 11 victory over
Chicago. At the end of the first half in this game the score stood 6 to
5,--a touchdown for Michigan and a goal from the field by Chicago's
great punter, Herschberger. One of the most spectacular runs in
Michigan's football history came in the early part of the second half
when C.H. Widman, a freshman, broke through between left end and tackle,
ran down the field sixty yards, broke away from the Chicago full-back,
and squirmed across the remaining five yards for a touchdown. Chicago's
subsequent touchdown made the score a close one but left the
championship, the first in three years, with Michigan. The center on
this team, W.R. Cunningham, '99_m_, was Michigan's first player on an
All-American Team.

This team had been coached by a number of the older players, a system
that was followed again in 1899, but with no brilliant success. A
change came in 1900 when Langdon Lea, of Princeton, took charge. He
instituted some revolutionary changes and insisted on the fundamentals
of the game,--always the weak point of Western football. The season,
however, was not a great success, and in the final game with Chicago,
Coach Stagg, with his famous "whoa-back" formation, was able to take
advantage of Michigan's weakness in backing up the tackles, and won with
a score of 15 to 16.

The record for the following year was very different. Fielding H. Yost,
who received his football training at the University of West Virginia
and Lafayette, was called to Michigan from Stanford and entered upon his
long and successful career as Michigan's football coach. Not only has he
proved himself time and again a master of football strategy, but his
insistence on the highest ideals of sportsmanship has been one of the
strongest factors in the development of clean athletics at Michigan.

The new coach undeniably had good material to work with in his first
team. Most of the men comprising it had been well trained in the finer
points of the game by his predecessor and included such exceptional
players as Captain Hugh White, '02_l_, tackle; Curtis Redden, '03_l_,
end; Neil Snow, '02, full-back; Harrison S. ("Boss") Weeks, '02_l_,
quarter; and Everett Sweeley, '03, half-back; while to this list were
added that year Martin Heston, '04_l_, one of the greatest backs in the
history of the game; the cen