 Present, hurry up y'all, starring Thomas Mitchell and Phil Serk. Speaking on this bright October day in the year 1924, from the Memorial Stadium at Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Well, it's Michigan Illinois and the good iron today. Looks like we're in for another battle of the Giants. The kind that always occurs. When the fighting alumni from the University of Illinois dangle with the Wolverines of Michigan, let go with everything they've been saving up for each other. Here's the Wolverine fan. Let's pick them up for a minute. Football watch to victory. Here's Gage Whitman with the reminder for these fall days. Your car will operate more efficiently this winter if you take a few minutes now to rid the cooling system of rust and scum. The quick and easy way is to pour a can of DuPont cooling system cleanser into the radiator and run the engine for 30 minutes or more. Then drain out the dissolved rust and scum, refill with fresh water and add a can of DuPont cooling system sealer to guard against leaks. These DuPont automotive products are examples of better things for better living through chemistry. 55,000 hauling fans for this 1924 homecoming waiting for the opening whistle to blow. But with all the excitement here today, the biggest drama in the best story, centers around a 53-year-old man sitting in the stands just below me. His name, Fielding Harris Yost. This is the first time in 24 years Fielding Yost hasn't been pacing up and down in front of the Michigan bench chewing a beat-up cigar and leading his teams to more Big Ten championships than any other school in the conference. Remember those point-of-minute teams from 1901 to 1905? They played 56 consecutive games without a defeat. Ever hear of Willie Heston in Germany? Schultz, Anne McGuggan and Harry Kipke? Yost made them and many other good iron immortals. And on this day in 1924, he's sitting in the stands just like anybody else watching up with ballgame. I wonder what he's thinking about sitting there alongside a Mrs. Yost. Yes, sir, I wonder how he's enjoying it. And put that cigar back in your pocket. You're not the coach today. All right, dear. Hiya, coach! Why, that's Dan Will. Hiya, Stan! Oh, now I'll see you then. Just get back in your seat and try to relax. Oh, I am relaxed. Hiya, coach! Well, hiya, Dutchman! Hello, coach. How do you feel? Hi, Dutchman. You remember Germany Schultz, one of my old boys? Of course I remember him. Hiya, coach! Willie Hester! Well, whatever, they're good to see you. Say, coach, I hear there's red grains. There's greens lightening. They say it can't be stopped. Hey, if you were in there coaching today, you'd be great. No, Mr. Hester, the doctor said he was not to get excited. All right, unit, I'm not excited. Willie, no man is unstoppable. Remember what they said about Hester Schultz? Well, you and Germany stopped him. I'll say we did. Coach, do you remember the Chicago game in 1907? Chicago, 1907, yeah. I remember. And remember that first Rose Bowl game against Stamford? Uh-huh, I remember. Uh, remember that 70-yard punch Willie made against Ohio? I remember, I remember, boys. I remember it all. I want to go back, I want to go back to Michigan. Mr. Hester, you remember 1901, the Christmas boards dotted every main street, and a long hat pin was the working girls' protection against the villainous male. Yes, this was a memory of 1901 that day when a young man his arms weighted down with two balls in suitcase stepped off a Michigan-Sanctuary. I beg your pardon, sir. Can you tell me where I'll find Mr. Charles Baird? He's the manager of athletics at Michigan. I'm Charlie Baird. Are you feeling healthy? Yes, sir. Well, if you tell me where your carriages I'll dump my bags in. You're a younger man than I'd expected, Mr. Yost. Tell me, is it true you coached four teams simultaneously out there in California last year? Five, sir. I forgot to mention the high school team I coached in my spare time. According to your newspaper clippings, all four of those teams won championships. Five, sir. Yes, sir. Mr. Yost, do you think you can produce a winning team here at Michigan? I'll see why not. What makes you so sure? Mr. Baird, there are three things that make a winning football team. Spirit. If your boys love Michigan, they've got the spirit for coaching, and the rest is manpower. We've got over 2,000 male students, 2,000, eh? How many come out for football? About 15 or 20. 15 or 20? Mr. Baird, I'm a football coach, but more than that, I'm interested in physical fitness. I mean, the entire student body. Yes, that's very interesting, Mr. Yost. You see, I'm looking to the days after these boys have graduated and are out in the world. The habits they form in college will last a long time. About the football team. You see, the thing to do is to get them all out for athletics. And that's what I propose to do. At the new model at Michigan from now on, and if I... Oh, I've got two heavy suitcases. Yes, I see. Well, I came on a bicycle. And since you're such an ardent believer in exercise for everybody, you can just cut along beside me. It's only a minor's smile or so to the campus, Mr. Yost. It's right up the hill. This team out on the field for a practice session. Listen, as they meet on them, I'm gonna love a mic. Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up! A reporter made sports history by changing a man's... You see, the new coach put his men through the paces. They say his name is Fielding Yost. This is undoubtedly a misnomer. As far as this reporter is concerned, that man's name is Hurry Up Coach Anand Rose. God, when did you get in, Willie? Oh, about an hour ago, Coach. An hour ago? Yes, sir. Hey! Hurry up, hurry up! Wanna drink a water? This is the Michigan bench. I understood, your coach, only. They sent me into this game four times, and I'm not going in again. No, sir, I'm gonna sit right here on this bench with you fellas. Well, there's no chance am I getting killed. Move over, please. To the play on the score Michigan 49, Stanford nothing. The Stanford coach crossed the field of the Michigan bench. This is Yost. Yes, sir, I see much point. Continue on this game. Here, let me get this straight. You mean you don't want to play anymore? That's right. We don't want to play anymore. Information, and Yost was playing quarterback. A Dutchman? Yeah. On this play, the end comes around as a decoy. The half-back fades and comes around with them. Well, the quarterback takes the pass to the end and hands the ball. Where's the ball? Our unit. We haven't any football. What do you mean you haven't any? Come here, sonny. Listen then, ladies and gentlemen, because you never heard anything like this. 19-1 to 19-5. Total points, an 821. Michigan is going to have to find an athletic plan in the country with every conceivable kind of equipment. I'm trying to meet Coach, but who's going to pay for it? Football. Charlie, when I came here a few years ago, these stands at Regents Field seated 800. Now you'll pick them up until they hold us at 4,000. And in a couple of years, you'll pick them up again until they maybe, maybe they'll hold 10,000. And that won't be enough. Coach, if you were anyone but you telling me this, I'd put in a call to the booby head. Charlie? Someday we're going to build a real stadium here at Michigan. It's going to seat 50, maybe 75,000 people. Who's going to pay for that? Football. Fielding, I think I will put in that call to the booby head. Wait and see, Charlie. Wait and see. Coming to Thomas Mitchell as Fielding Yos with Bill Stern as commentator on The Cavalcade of America, presented by the DuPont Company, makers of better things for better living through chemistry. He wrote articles about it. He talked about it. You couldn't shut him up. He told everybody about it. Coach, will you pass the bread, please? Certainly, professor. See, I heard your debating team lose last night over at the auditorium. Awful, weren't we? Well, things might have been different if we were up to full strength. That summer, Bill Boy, I could rig this thing seriously, don't you? You take football seriously, don't you? It isn't the particular sports that counts. Of course, I never thought of it that way. So, what's the matter with him, professor? You know, young summer, Bill? I don't know. He's been looking kind of peeky lately. He run down, I guess. Anyhow, he never showed up last night. Wait a minute. It's tall and rangey. He wears glasses on. I know him. Probably doesn't get in a lick of exercise from one year to the next. Exercise? Coach, you're forgetting. Mr. Somerville is the intellectual type. I bet it kept up. Then you ought to have enough brains to take exercise. Coach, he's not the type. By the way, he's a scholarship man. I need in my backfield to Somerville. You're going to put on that uniform of a work out. And tonight you're going to be so... Don't you think? Well, that is. It won't interfere with... By the way, professor, how do you sleep? Me? Got to give up coaching. No more football? Not me, doctor. Why, I wouldn't know what to do with myself. You could go and accept Europe. Yeah, with me. You could visit all those battlefields you're always talking about. That's an excellent idea. But why the battlefields? Are you a military expert feeling? Of course he is. He knows more about the Napoleonic wars than any professor at the university. Ah, you mess. Does this great interest have anything to do with football? Well, you see. Come on. Help with it. Doctor, those old battlefields are an inspiration to a football coach. Why, I've learned more strategy by studying Napoleon's campy... Take the Battle of Waterloo, for instance. No. Napoleon was over here where that chair is. Brutcher was lined up over there near the... He was a businessman who developed a hydroelectric plant in Tennessee. The following year, 1924, one of the greatest football players of all time was running wild. Red Grains, the galloping ghost. And this, as the saying goes, is where we came in. Remember the beginning of this story? We're back to that game. The game that started the old coach in his star pupil's Heston and Schultz reminiscing. And as the first quarter got underway, Red Grains lived up to his advanced notices. I mean, he ran wild as a ghost watched and suffered. Tonya, you let yourself get fucked in. You'll never learn to play football. You'll play football. He won't stop till he's up. You're clear. Get down. He's gonna get very quiet. I can't help it. I can't help it. Great guns. Four touchdowns in the first quarter. Against magic. And I can't stand it. I can't do... I can't... Needless to say, the next year, building eight shows was again in charge of woodball at Michigan. The doctor decided that not being coached was too much excitement for him. You have to do it this way. You don't go in. And you don't let yourself get boxed. You just keep running very parallel with range, forcing him toward the sidelines. Got it, coach. And you won't touch him. You won't even try to touch him. You'll just ooze him out toward the sidelines and out of bounds. You get it? Got it. Now, use your eyes, use your hands, and use your heads and your backs. Against these babies, something happened that never happened before. We had four touchdowns scored against us in the first quarter. That won't happen today. Not if you carry out your assignments. Remember, you're representing a great school with a great tradition. No. Tradition isn't something you can put on like a coat. It's got to be built up day by day. Tradition, now go on out in there and help build it up from Michigan. Play like a Michigan team. Three to nothing. And another well-coached team from Ann Arbor was on its way to another big tent. They looked at each other. It's a football game. Cover the dedication at the Eastfield House. Really? Sure thing. Would you tell me a little about those great point-a-minute Michigan teams that you're in? Not today, Bill. The day I don't want to look backward. I only want to think about this new athletic plant we have right here at Michigan. That certainly is a honey. I hear you build a golf course, too. Yes, and 63 tennis courts and three swimming pools in the hockey rink and everything else you can think of. Know where it all came from? I'll tell the people of America all about you and what you've done here at Michigan. Is there anything special you want me to say? Special? I've been thinking about for a long time. And that's this. That we should never forget that America was developed and settled by a race of workers. 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Screen Guide considers it a privilege to make this award tonight to the Dupont Cable Cade of America. Thank you, Ms. Graves, for the Dupont Company and for all of us who work on Cable Cade. It presents George Tobias in an original and unusual radio play called Us Pilgrims, The Story of an Immigrant and Thanksgiving. See with us again next Monday night and listen to George Tobias in Us Pilgrims on the Dupont Cable Cade of America. The original music for the Dupont Cable Cade was composed by Arden Cornwell and conducted by Donald Bryant. Tonight's play was written by Arthur Aaron. Thomas Mitchell is currently starring in the Broadway production and Inspector Calls, and Bill Stern, in addition to his football broadcast, may be heard on his sports newsreel Friday night over many of these stations. This is Bill Hamilton inviting you to listen next week to Us Pilgrims starring George Tobias on the Cable Cade of America, brought to you by the Dupont Company of Wilmington, Delaware.