Columns, Opinions
Texas History: Yeoman turned Cougars into winners
By Bartee Haile
The Houston Cougars put a smile on the face of their rookie coach with a road victory at Florida State on Nov. 3, 1962.
Few University of Houston fans had ever heard of Bill Yeoman when he was hired as the fifth head coach of a football program that had been around only 15 years. Even the most skeptical would soon be singing his praises.
William Frank Yeoman was born in 1927 in Indiana and grew up in Arizona. A star center on his high school team, he went to Texas A&M on a footb...