Joe Yost has resigned as the Ellet High School football coach after 38 seasons as the leader on the Orangemen sidelines.
Yost compiled a record of 234-152-2 as Ellet’s football coach, and led the Orangemen to playoff appearances in Division I in 1991 and in Division II in 2012 and 2013.
Yost is in his second year of retirement from a teaching career that spanned almost 40 years. He served as a physical education and health instructor at both Ellet High School and Hyre Middle School.
Under Yost’s watch, Ellet won outright City Series football championships in 2012 and 2013, and shared league titles in 1989, 1991, 1992, 1995, 2006 and 2016. He recorded 23 winning seasons and six .500 seasons, is the only coach in City Series history to amass over 200 victories, and his resume includes Coach of the Year honors in the City Series and in the Northeast Ohio Inland District. The Akron Beacon Journal selected Yost for the Clem Caraboolad Coach of the Year honor in 2005.
Yost is widowed following the passing of his wife, Pat, last year.
Prior to being Ellet’s head football coach, Yost spent seven seasons as an assistant to former Orangemen coach Bill McLain from 1971-1975 and 1977-1978, and one season as a volunteer assistant to former University of Akron coach Jim Dennison in 1976. Yost coached the Ellet junior varsity team and varsity wide receivers, linemen and linebackers as an assistant; and was the defensive coordinator in 1975, 1977 and 1978. With Dennison, he worked as an outside linebacker coach for the Zips.
Yost is a 1971 graduate of Ellet who earned three letters in football and one in wrestling. He played middle linebacker for McLain and was a senior captain. Yost continued his education at UA where he earned a Bachelors degree in 1976 and a Masters degree in 1984.
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