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…