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Michigan Wolverines football
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The Michigan Wolverines football program represents the University of Michigan in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Michigan has the most all-time wins and the highest winning percentage in college football history, Michigan began competing in intercollegiate football in 1879. The Wolverines joined the Big Ten Conference at its inception in 1896, Michigan has won or shared 42 league titles, and, since the inception of the AP Poll in 1936, has finished in the top 10 a total of 37 times. The Wolverines claim 11 national championships, most recently that of the 1997 squad voted atop the final AP Poll. From 1900 to 1989, Michigan was led by a series of nine head coaches, Fielding H. Fritz Crisler brought his winged helmet from Princeton University in 1938 and led the 1947 Wolverines to a national title and Michigans second Rose Bowl win. Bo Schembechler coached the team for 21 seasons in which he won 13 Big Ten titles and 194 games, a program record. Following Schembechlers retirement, the program was coached by two of his assistants, Gary Moeller and then Lloyd Carr, who maintained the programs overall success over the next 18 years. However, the programs fortunes declined under the two coaches, Rich Rodriguez and Brady Hoke, who were both fired after relatively short tenures. Following Hokes dismissal, Michigan hired Jim Harbaugh on December 30,2014, Harbaugh is a former quarterback of the team, having played for Michigan between 1982 and 1986 under Schembechler. The Michigan Wolverines have featured 78 players that have garnered consensus selection to the College Football All-America Team, Three Wolverines have won the Heisman Trophy, Tom Harmon in 1940, Desmond Howard in 1991, and Charles Woodson in 1997. Gerald Ford, who would become the 38th President of the United States. On May 30,1879, Michigan played its first intercollegiate game against Racine College at White Stocking Park in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune called it the first rugby-football game to be played west of the Alleghenies, midway through the first inning, Irving Kane Pond scored the first touchdown for Michigan. According to Will Perrys history of Michigan football, the crowd responded to Ponds plays with cheers of Pond Forever, in 1881, Michigan played against Harvard in Boston. The game that marked the birth of inter-sectional football, on their way to a game in Chicago in 1887, Michigan players stopped in South Bend, Indiana and introduced football to students at the University of Notre Dame. A November 23 contest marked the inception of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program, in 1894, Michigan defeated Cornell, which was the first time in collegiate football history that a western school defeated an established power from the east. By 1898 Amos Alonzo Stagg was fast at work at turning the University of Chicago football program into a powerhouse. Before the final game of the 1898 season, Chicago was 9–1–1 and Michigan was 9–0, Michigan won, 12–11, capturing the programs first conference championship in a game that inspired The Victors, which later became the schools fight song
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Fielding H. Yost
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Fielding Harris Yost was an American football player and coach and college athletics administrator. During his 25 seasons as the football coach in Ann Arbor, Yosts Michigan Wolverines won six national championships, captured ten Big Ten Conference titles. From 1901 to 1905, his Point-a-Minute squads went 55–1–1, outscoring their opponents by a margin of 2,821 to 42, the 1901 team beat Stanford, 49–0, in the 1902 Rose Bowl, the first college football bowl game ever played. Under Yost, Michigan won four national championships from 1901 to 1904. In 1921, Yost became Michigans athletic director and served in capacity until 1940. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1951, Yost was also a successful business person, lawyer, and author, but he is best known as a leading figure in pioneering the development of college football into a national phenomenon. Yost was born in Fairview, West Virginia, in April 1871, Yosts family had settled in West Virginia, in 1925. He was the oldest of four children of Parmenus Wesley Yost and Elzena Jane Yost and his father was a farmer and Confederate veteran. His family had been in Fairview since 1825 when his great, great grandfather, David Yost, settled there, Yost was educated in the local schools and became a deputy marshal in Fairview as a teenager. At seventeen, he got a teaching certificate. Yost began his education at Fairmont Normal School in Fairmont. He then taught school at Patterson Creek, West Virginia, during the 1889–90 school year, Yost next enrolled at Ohio Normal School. Yost played for the Ohio Normal baseball team, after three years at Ohio Normal, Yost returned to West Virginia to work in the oil fields. In 1895, Yost enrolled at West Virginia University where he studied law and he also played football for West Virginia University football team. A 6-foot,200 pounder, Yost was a standout at tackle at West Virginia into the 1896 season and he transferred in mid-season to join Coach Parke H. Daviss national championship team at Lafayette. Just a week playing against Davis in West Virginia, Yost was playing for Davis in Lafayettes historic 6–4 win over the Penn Quakers. The fortuitous timing of Yosts appearance on the Lafayette roster did not go unnoticed by Penn officials and they called it the Yost affair. The Philadelphia Ledger quoted Yost as saying that he came to Lafayette only to play football, the fact that Yost 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
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John Maulbetsch
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Johnny Maulbetsch was an All-American football halfback at Adrian College in 1911 and for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1914 to 1916. He is also a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, Maulbetsch became known as the Human Bullet because of his unusual low, line-plunging style of play, and was also known as the Featherweight Fullback because of his light weight and small size. After his performance against Harvard in 1914, in some reports indicated he gained more than 300 yards, eastern writers, including Damon Runyan. Maulbetsch was also selected by Walter Camp to his All-American team, in 1915, Maulbetsch underwent surgery for appendicitis and did not perform to the same level as he had in 1914. He made a comeback as a senior in 1916 and was one of the leading players in college football. Between 1917 and 1920, Maulbetsch was the football coach at Phillips University. Maulbetsch quickly turned Phillips into one of the top programs in the southwest, as his teams beat Oklahoma and Texas, Maulbetsch was later the football coach at Oklahoma A&M and Marshall College in the 1920s. Maulbetsch was born and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan and he attended Ann Arbor High School where he led the football team to consecutive state championships in 1908 and 1909. One account of the 1908 playoffs noted, Ann Arbors smashing play in the first half was due to Maulbetsch, Ann Arbors fullback. He clearly outshone his team mates, after graduating from high school, Maulbetsch joined the Ann Arbor Independents, a football team made up of Michigan varsity eligibles and townies. Maulbetsch was once called upon to drive across the goal line for the Independents in a game in which a large crowd, including a farmer with his plow-horse. Head down and legs working like piston rods, Maulbetsch plowed ahead until head struck the plow horse amidships, down went the horse Mauly on top of him. Maulbetsch started his football career at age 21, leading Adrian College to an 8–0 record in 1911. Maulbetschs performance drew the attention of Michigan Coach Fielding H. Yost, after watching Maulbetsch dominate Michigans freshman team, Yost concluded, If I could get that kid into Michigan and keep him up in his studies I’d make an All-American place for him his first year. Yost persuaded Maulbetsch to transfer, and he played with the scrubs in 1912, Yost told the press at the time he had another Heston in Maulbetsch. Maulbetsch did not play for the varsity team until the fall of 1914 when he was 24 years old, before the season began, Maulbetsch was touted as one of the fastest halfbacks who ever donned moleskins. He weighs 155 pounds, is low, has a powerful pair of shoulders. Another pre-season account said he was a wonder as a line plunger, from the outset, considerable attention was paid to his unusual running style
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William D. Cochran
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William Duscharme Pink Cheeks Cochran was an American football player. He played guard and tackle for the University of Michigan from 1913 to 1915 and he was a first-team All-Western lineman and the captain of Michigans 1915 football team. He later operated a freight trucking line based in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and he also served as a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 1936 to 1950, including five years as the Deputy Chairman from 1946 to 1950. A native of Houghton in Michigans Upper Peninsula, Cochran played football at Houghton High School and was the Upper Peninsula shot put and he enrolled at the University of Michigan as a student in the College of Pharmacy. While at Michigan, Cochran played as a tackle or guard in every game for Fielding H. Yosts Michigan Wolverines football teams from 1913 to 1915 and he was known among his teammates by the nickname Pink Cheeks. Playing at the position, Cochran established himself as one of the stars of the 1914 Michigan Wolverines football team. The authors of Spaldings Official Foot Ball Guide dubbed Cochran one of the three stars of the 1914 Michigan team, Michigan has two stars in Capt. Raynsford, at center, and Cochran, at tackle. Both big, powerful men, they had the real foot ball intuition, at the end of the 1914 season, Cochran was unanimously elected as the captain of the 1915 Michigan Wolverines football team. Upon his election as captain, The Michigan Alumnus reported, Michigans new captain starred on defense all during the season just past, Cochran was also selected as a 1914 first-team All-Western player by Walter Eckersall in the Chicago Daily Tribune. In January 1915, newspapers across the country ran a story about the Michigan football captains inability to defeat his father in a wrestling match, according to the story, Cochran had long hoped to be stout enough to throw his father in a wrestling match. During his senior year, Cochran was 5 feet,8 inches tall, Cochran has increased many pounds in weight since the fall of 1914, and his additional avoirdupois is to be made use of next to the lighter Howe, who will probably play center. Cochran credited ginger ale as the secret to his weight gain, Cochran also participated in ice hockey and track at Michigan. After graduating from Michigan, Cochran returned to the Upper Peninsula and he was the owner of William D. Cochran Freight Lines in Iron Mountain, Michigan, and he also served a director of the Commercial Bank. In 1936, he acquired a motor freight line in Minnesota, extending his operations into Ontonagon, Rockland, Calumet, in June 1936, he was also named a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He served for eight years as a Class C director of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank before being appointed the Deputy Chairman in 1946 and he served as the Deputy Chairman for five years from 1946 to 1950. In 1998, Cochran was inducted into the Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame
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Ferry Field
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Ferry Field is a multi-purpose stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It opened in 1906 and was home to the Michigan Wolverines football team prior to the Michigan Stadium opening in 1927 and it had a capacity of 46,000. After football moved to Michigan Stadium, Ferry Field was converted to an outdoor track, Michigan Athletic Director Charles A. Baird improved the universitys athletic fields and was responsible for the construction of Ferry Field to replace the outdated Regents Field. In 1902, Detroit businessman Dexter M. Ferry purchased and donated 20 acres north of Regents Field for use in constructing a new athletic facility, Baird began by constructing new bleacher seating for 6,000 adjacent to the existing grandstand. One thousand circus seats were also installed, in November 1902, a Thanksgiving Day game against the University of Minnesota was held at Ferry Field with 10,000 spectators in attendance. By 1906, the new Ferry Field with seating for 18,000 spectators was opened, the facility included a brick wall and ornamental gate with ten ticket windows. The gateway was designed by Albert Kahn Architects of Detroit and constructed at a cost of over $10,000, in the 1890s, a $3.00 membership granted students admission to all athletic events. By 1904, an admission ticket for a big game cost as much as $3.00. With a seating capacity of 18,000, Bairds athletic department could generate $50,000 in revenue from a single game. When Ferry Field was completed, Baird expressed his pride in the facility, Speaking of the field, with the completion of the operations we are making the total expenditure for permanent improvement of the field will cost $150,000. On it we have a gridiron for practice, another where the old field was, and the splendid new one, drained, leveled, sodded, surrounded by a concrete wall
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1914 Michigan Wolverines football team
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The 1914 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1914 college football season. In their 14th season under head coach Fielding H. Yost and they then lost three of the final four games to finish with a 6–3 record. Michigan halfback John Maulbetsch was a consensus selection for the 1914 College Football All-America Team. Two other Michigan players, center James Raynsford and quarterback Tommy Hughitt, were named to Outing magazines Football Roll of Honor, Raynsford was the team captain, and Hughitt was selected as the teams most valuable player. Michigan opened the 1914 season with a 58-0 victory over DePauw, Lawrence Splawn ran for two touchdowns, drop-kicked a field goal from the 27-yard line, and averaged 55 yards on three punts. Quarterback Tommy Hughitt threw touchdown pass to John Lyons,20 yards in the air with Lyons running another 35 yards for the touchdown, in all, Michigan scored eight touchdowns, two each by Splawn, John Maulbetsch, and Hughitt, and one each by Lyons and Cohn. On October 3,1914, Michigan defeated Case by a 69 to 0 score, the game was played in 10-minute quarters at Ferry Field. Michigans touchdowns were scored by Lawrence Roehm, John Maulbetsch, James Catlett, Tommy Hughitt, Hughitt also kicked nine points after touchdown. On Wednesday, October 7,1914, Michigan defeated Mt, Lawrence Splawn scored a touchdown and kicked two field goals. On October 10,1914, Michigan defeated Vanderbilt 23 to 3 at Ferry Field, Michigan scored on two touchdowns by John Maulbetsch, a touchdown and points after touchdown by Tommy Hughitt, and a field goal by Lawrence Splawn. On October 17,1914, Michigan won a game over Michigan Agricultural College by 3-0 score at College Field in East Lansing. Michigan quarterback Tommy Hughitt sustained an elbow and was believed at the time to be lost for the remainder of the season. He ended up missing the following game against Syracuse but returned for the Harvard game. After winning its first five games, Michigan lost to Syracuse by a 20 to 6 score on October 24,1914. After a scoreless first half, each scored a touchdown in the third quarter. Syracuse scored two touchdowns in the quarter to win the game. John Maulbetsch accounted for Michigans scoring with a touchdown and goal from touchdown, on October 31,1914, Michigan lost to the undefeated 1914 Harvard Crimson football team by a 7 to 0 score at Harvard Stadium. Harvards All-American halfback Huntington Hardwick scored the only touchdown on a six-yard run in the second quarter
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1916 Michigan Wolverines football team
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The 1916 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1916 college football season. In his 16th year as coach, Fielding H. Yost led Michigan to a 7–2 record. Michigan held its first five opponents to a total of three points and won its first seven games by a combined score of 227 to 23. The team then lost its two games, each game by a margin of only three points, against Cornell and Penn. Michigans leading scorer was left halfback John Maulbetsch with 89 kicks for on 11 touchdowns,20 points after touchdown, Maulbetsch was also the teams captain. Quarterback Cliff Sparks added 40 points on six touchdowns, one field goal, New York sports writer Monty selected Sparks as the first-team quarterback on his 1916 College Football All-America Team. On Wednesday, October 4,1916, Michigan opened its season with a game at Ferry Field against Marietta College from Marietta, the game was the second and final game against the Marietta Pioneers football team, with Michigan having defeated the Pioneers by a 28–6 score in 1915. Michigan defeated Marietta in the 1916 match by a 38–0 score, quarterback Cliff Sparks scored three touchdownsF. The Detroit Free Press characterized Sparks running as one of the big features of the game, left halfback John Maulbetsch scored a touchdown, kicked a field goal from placement, and converted four of four attempts at kicks for point after touchdown for a total of 13 points. Philip Raymond also scored a touchdown, and Frank Willard kicked a PAT, Marietta relied heavily on the forward pass and did so with some success. Early in the game, Marietta completed a pass, Whiting to Hayes, the game was played in 12-minute quarters. On Saturday, October 7,1916, Michigan played its game against the team from Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland. The game was the 20th meeting between the schools in a series dating back to 1894, in the 19 prior meetings, Michigan won 18 games and played to a tie once. Michigan won the 1916 game by a 19–3 score, Case took the lead in the first quarter on a field goal from placement by Ashbaugh and led briefly. After Case scored, Michigan scored on its next drive, the drive featured a 25-yard run around left end by quarterback Cliff Sparks, a 15-yard run by left halfback John Maulbetsch, and a final touchdown plunge by fullback Cedric Pat Smith. In the second quarter, Maulbetsch helped set up the score with a 30-yard punt return. A forward pass from Sparks to Maurice Dunne advanced the ball to the Case 20-yard line, Michigan missed on both of its PAT attempts in the first half and led 12 to 3 at halftime. In the third quarter, Sparks returned a punt 60 yards, after an interception in the fourth quarter, Maulbetsch scored Michigans final touchdown and kicked the PAT
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University of Michigan
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The University of Michigan, frequently referred to simply as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817 in Detroit as the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania,20 years before the Michigan Territory became a state, in 1821, the university was officially renamed the University of Michigan. It moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 onto 40 acres of what is now known as Central Campus, the University was a founding member of the Association of American Universities. Considered one of the foremost research universities in the United States, Michigans body of living alumni comprises more than 540,000 people, one of the largest alumni bases of any university in the world. Besides academic life, Michigans athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are known as the Wolverines. They are members of the Big Ten Conference, the University of Michigan was established in Detroit on August 26,1817 as the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania, by the governor and judges of Michigan Territory. Judge Augustus B. Woodward specifically invited The Rev. John Monteith and Father Gabriel Richard, Monteith became its first President and held seven of the professorships, and Richard was Vice President and held the other six professorships. Concurrently, Ann Arbor had set aside 40 acres in the hopes of being selected as the state capital, but when Lansing was chosen as the state capital, the city offered the land for a university. What would become the university moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 thanks to Governor Stevens T. Mason, the original 40 acres was the basis of the present Central Campus. The first classes in Ann Arbor were held in 1841, with six freshmen, eleven students graduated in the first commencement in 1845. By 1866, enrollment increased to 1,205 students, many of whom were Civil War veterans, Women were first admitted in 1870. U-M also became the first American university to use the method of study. Among the early students in the School of Medicine was Jose Celso Barbosa, who in 1880 graduated as valedictorian and he returned to Puerto Rico to practice medicine and also served in high-ranking posts in the government. In 1920 the university reorganized the College of Engineering and formed a committee of 100 industrialists to guide academic research initiatives. The university became a choice for bright Jewish students from New York in the 1920s and 1930s. Because of its standards, U-M gained the nickname Harvard of the West. During World War II, U-Ms research supported military efforts, such as U. S. Navy projects in proximity fuzes, PT boats, and radar jamming. After the war, enrollment expanded rapidly and by 1950, it reached 21,000, as the Cold War and the Space Race took hold, U-M received numerous government grants for strategic research and helped to develop peacetime uses for nuclear energy
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Lawrence University
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Lawrence University is a liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Appleton, Wisconsin. Founded in 1847, the school held its first classes on November 12,1849, Lawrence was the second college in the United States to be founded as a coeducational institution. The school is a member of the Colleges That Change Lives, in a study by the National Science Foundation, Lawrence ranked 28th nationally in the percentage of graduates who go on to earn doctorates. The 84-acre campus is located in downtown Appleton, divided into two parts by the Fox River, the academic campus is on the north shore of the river, and the major athletic facilities are on the southeast shore. Lawrence also has a 425-acre northern estate called Björklunden, which serves as a site for retreats, seminars, concerts and it contains a chapel for weddings. Donald and Winifred Boynton of Highland Park, Illinois, donated the property in Door County to Lawrence in 1963, in the mid-1980s, the Physics Department built a $330,000 small laser laboratory, which includes 8005 mW small lasers and more than 500 mirrors. In 2009, Lawrence opened the Richard and Margot Warch Campus Center, a place for students, faculty, staff, alumni. The 107,000 square foot building is situated on the Fox River on the site of the former Hulburt House, the Warch Campus Center includes a cinema, campus dining services, campus mailboxes, and various meeting and event spaces. The building has earned a LEED Gold certification for meeting sustainability goals in conservation, environmental friendliness. The college has a history of razing buildings on its campus. Many buildings on campus are built on the site of former buildings, colman, using $10,000 provided by philanthropist Amos Adams Lawrence, and matched by the Methodist church. Both founders were ordained Methodist ministers, but Lawrence was Episcopalian and its oldest extant building, Main Hall, was built in 1853. Lawrence University was the coeducational institution in the country. Lawrences first period of growth came during the tenure of alumnus Samuel G. Plantz as president. From 1894 to 1924, when Plantz presided over the school, from 1913 until 1964, the school was named Lawrence College, to emphasize its small size and liberal arts education focus. The name was changed to Lawrence University when it merged with Milwaukee-Downer College, the state of Wisconsin then purchased the Milwaukee-Downer property and buildings to expand the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Initially, the university designated two entities, Lawrence College for Men and Downer College for Women, the Lawrence Conservatory of Music, usually referred to as the Con, was founded in 1874. Lawrence offers two degrees, a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Music and it also offers a five-year dual degree program, where students can receive both B. A. and B. Mus
