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<blockquote data-quote="AZeer" data-source="post: 131512322" data-attributes="member: 1391975">Eligibility rules back in Yost day, well there weren't any...&quot;If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.&quot;In October 1896, after his team, WV, lost three home games to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_Lafayette_football_team">Lafayette</a>, played on three different fields over the course of three days. Yost became a remarkable personification of &quot;If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.&quot;&nbsp; He transferred in mid-season to join Coach <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parke_H._Davis">Parke H. Davis</a>'s national championship team at Lafayette. Just a week after playing against Davis in West Virginia, Yost was playing for Davis in Lafayette's historic 6-4 win over the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Quakers_football">Penn Quakers</a>The fortuitous timing of his appearance on the Lafayette roster did not go unnoticed by Penn officials. They called it &quot;the Yost affair.&quot; The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Ledger_(Philadelphia)">Philadelphia Ledger</a> quoted Yost as saying that he came to Lafayette only to play football. The fact that he appeared in a Lafayette uniform only once, in the Penn game, and that he returned to West Virginia within two weeks of the contest did not help appearances. He assured all concerned that he would return to Lafayette for at least three years of study.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AZeer, post: 131512322, member: 1391975"] Eligibility rules back in Yost day, well there weren't any... [SIZE=5][B]"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."[/B][/SIZE] In October 1896, after his team, WV, lost three home games to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_Lafayette_football_team']Lafayette[/URL], played on three different fields over the course of three days. Yost became a remarkable personification of "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." He transferred in mid-season to join Coach [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parke_H._Davis']Parke H. Davis[/URL]'s national championship team at Lafayette. Just a week after playing [I]against[/I] Davis in West Virginia, Yost was playing [I]for[/I] Davis in Lafayette's historic 6-4 win over the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Quakers_football']Penn Quakers[/URL] The fortuitous timing of his appearance on the Lafayette roster did not go unnoticed by Penn officials. They called it "the Yost affair." The [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Ledger_(Philadelphia)']Philadelphia [I]Ledger[/I][/URL] quoted Yost as saying that he came to Lafayette only to play football. The fact that he appeared in a Lafayette uniform only once, in the Penn game, and that he returned to West Virginia within two weeks of the contest did not help appearances. He assured all concerned that he would return to Lafayette for at least three years of study. [/QUOTE]

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