In 1901, Michigan faced a crisis due to a long forgotten foe, the University of Chicago, founded in 1890 with an ambitious plan to rival Ivy League schools in the Windy City. They knew having a football squad was key to their vision, and I mean big time football. To compete with the dominant Wolverines from Ann Arbor, they H. Stagg, a coaching pioneer. And by 1900, the Maroons had turned the tables and began beating the Blue in the matchup. In this fierce rivalry desperate for a turnaround, Ann Arbor rolled the dice on an outsider, a fiery West Virginian named Fielding H. Yost. When Yost stormed onto campus and took the coaching reins, college football and Michigan would never be the same.