Michigan's records at B1G stadiums
I finished a very long and arduous remodeling plan yesterday on Section II: Series Records of my SuperGuides last night for all 29 sports.
It took about 3-4 months to complete, but it was well worth it. Just figured I'd share a piece that may interest people on here.
Note: Ferry Field (I) is what many know as Regents Field. It was renamed "Ferry Field" in 1902 in honor of Dexter Ferry who donated new land to U-M. This is not to be confused with Ferry Field that would be built in 1906, noted as Ferry Field (II) in these records.
Here are Michigan Football's records at every B1G venue.
Illinois (70-23-2 Michigan)
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Ann Arbor: 34-11-1
- Ferry Field (II): 3-1-0
- Michigan Stadium: 31-10-1
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Champaign: 34-12-1
- Illinois Field: 3-1-0
- Memorial Stadium: 31-11-1
- Neutral Site: 2-0-0
Indiana (56-9 Michigan)
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Ann Arbor: 38-7
- Ferry Field (I): 4-0
- Ferry Field (II): 1-0
- Michigan Stadium: 33-7
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Bloomington: 18-2
- Memorial Stadium (I): 1-1
- Memorial Stadium (II): 17-1
Iowa (41-15-4 Michigan)
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Ann Arbor: 24-6-3
- Ferry Field (I): 1-0-0
- Ferry Field (II): 0-1-0
- Michigan Stadium: 23-5-3
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Iowa City: 16-8-1
- Iowa Field: 1-0-0
- Kinnick Stadium: 15-8-1
- Neutral Site: 1-1-0
Maryland (5-1 Michigan)
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Ann Arbor: 4-1
- Michigan Stadium: 4-1
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College Park: 1-0
- Maryland Stadium: 1-0
Michigan State (69-35-5 Michigan)
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Ann Arbor: 49-21-3
- Ferry Field (I): 2-0-0
- Ferry Field (II): 12-2-0
- Michigan Stadium: 35-19-3
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East Lansing: 20-14-2
- Old College Field: 3-0-1
- Spartan Stadium: 17-14-1
Minnesota (74-25-3 Michigan)
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Ann Arbor: 38-13-1
- Ferry Field (I): 1-1-0
- Ferry Field (II): 5-1-0
- Michigan Stadium: 32-11-1
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Minneapolis: 34-12-2
- Athletic Park: 1-1-0
- Northrup Field: 3-0-1
- Memorial Stadium: 16-11-1
- H.H.H. Metrodome: 12-0-0
- TCF Bank Stadium: 2-0-0
- Neutral Site: 2-0-0
Nebraska (4-4-1)
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Ann Arbor: 3-2-0
- Ferry Field (I): 1-0-0
- Ferry Field (II): 1-0-0
- Michigan Stadium: 1-2-0
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Lincoln: 0-1-1
- Nebraska Field: 0-0-1
- Memorial Stadium: 0-1-0
- Neutral Site: 1-1-0
Northwestern (57-15-2 Michigan)
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Ann Arbor: 35-6-2
- Ferry Field (I): 2-0-0
- Ferry Field (II): 2-0-0
- Michigan Stadium: 31-6-2
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Evanston: 22-7-0
- Sheppard Field: 1-0-0
- Northwestern Field: 0-1-0
- Ryan Field: 21-6-0
- Neutral Site: 0-2-0
Ohio State (58-48-6 Michigan)
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Ann Arbor: 31-22-4
- Ferry Field (I): 4-0-1
- Ferry Field (II): 5-2-0
- Michigan Stadium: 22-20-3
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Columbus: 27-27-2
- Ohio Field: 6-1-1
- Ohio Stadium: 21-26-1
Penn State (13-7 Michigan)
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Ann Arbor: 7-3
- Michigan Stadium: 7-3
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University Park: 6-4
- Beaver Stadium: 6-4
Purdue (44-14 Michigan)
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Ann Arbor: 28-5
- Washtenaw County Fairgrounds: 1-0
- Ferry Field (I): 2-0
- Michigan Stadium: 25-5
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West Lafayette: 16-9
- Stuart Field: 2-1
- Ross-Ade Stadium: 14-8
Rutgers (2-1 Michigan)
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Ann Arbor: 1-0
- Michigan Stadium: 1-0
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Piscataway: 1-1
- High Point Solutions Stadium: 1-1
Wisconsin (50-14-1 Michigan)
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Ann Arbor: 28-7-0
- Ferry Field (I): 2-1-0
- Ferry Field (II): 3-0-0
- Michigan Stadium: 23-6-0
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Madison: 21-6-1
- Randall Field: 2-0-0
- Camp Randall Stadium: 19-6-1
- Neutral Site: 1-1-0
Winning in Columbus last year would've kept our winning record there.
Nice organization on this, WD.
Very nice work, WD. Thank you for sharing.
That Illinois rivalry appears to be raging and strongly as ever.
Don't discount that .500 record at Rutgers' Highpointe Stadium. Those guys are bringing it and taking the rivalry seriously.
I know the 2 U-M/Nebraska neutral site games ---- but why (and where) was U-M playing neutral site games w/ Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota & Wisconsin?
Annual games in Detroit and Chicago on Thanksgiving were a tradition for awhile. Michigan and Chicago actually started Thanksgiving Football.
The games-
| Date | Opponent | Result | Location |
| 10/29/1892 | Northwestern | L 8-10 | Chicago |
| 11/23/1895 | Minnesota | W 20-0 | Detroit |
| 11/13/1897 | Minnesota | W 14-0 | Detroit |
| 11/12/1898 | Illinois | W 12-5 | Detroit |
| 11/30/1899 | Wisconsin | L 5-17 | Chicago |
| 10/27/1900 | Illinois | W 12-0 | Chicago |
| 11/10/1900 | Iowa | L 5-28 | Detroit |
| 11/28/1901 | Iowa | W 50-0 | Chicago |
| 11/1/1902 | Wisconsin | W 6-0 | Chicago |
| 11/7/1925 | Northwestern | L 2-3 | Chicago |
It'll be cool when we play Wisconsin or Iowa in the B1G Championship some day because of the old history.
That's the only way we'll ever play a B1G team on a neutral field.
Yeah, no.
Princeton-Yale, Thanksgiving, 1876, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1884, 1886...
By the late 1880s, pretty much every single major team out east was playing on Thanksgiving, but Princeton-Yale was by far the most common traditional Thanksgiving Day game.
Looks like I was fooled by the urban legend.
The University of Michigan made it a tradition to play annual Thanksgiving games, holding 19 such games from 1885 to 1905. The Thanksgiving Day games between Michigan and the Chicago Maroons in the 1890s have been erroneously cited as "The Beginning of Thanksgiving Day Football."Well, we weren't the first to have baggy shorts in Basketball or winged helmets in Football but we get the credit for it, so I'll take it!
We won't play them in Lincoln until 2020 at the earliest as 2018-2019 schedules do not feature them on the road and 2020 has not been released yet.
If you think that's bad, check this out.
Michigan Softball has NEVER played Nebraska at home. Not once! WTF!? They've been in the league for 7 years.
Is there a formula in terms of who you play in the other division like the NFL? Or is it randomly generated? Or does a committee decide?
Whatever the case, that is a weird anamoly
I added a Series Breakdown section to every B1G series page that details the series even further than just the results and locations that it originally was. Here's an example-
Took 2 months but Section II has been remodeled for all 29 sports.@UMichSuperGuide will be the most thorough & detailed M guide existing pic.twitter.com/UHUNvo2lSM
— † Wolverine Devotee (@UMichWD) July 14, 2017
Interesting take aways:
How did we manage to lose 7 games at home to Indiana?
Better at Kinnick that I would have guessed.
Worse in East Lansing than I would have guessed despite poor results under RR and Hoke.
14+ wins (not sure before the move to Metro Dome) in a row on the road vs. Minn.
14-8 @ Purdue reflects some of the struggles we had there during the Bo years.
A lot better against Wisconsin than I would expect, especially in Madison.
Thanks, and like I said, I have this for every sport.
I have our records in every arena for Basketball, every rink for Hockey, every field for Softball, every gym for gymnastics and so on.....
I was going back and looking at some old hockey writeups in the Daily. It's amazing how awful the Michigan media guide actually is.
2 examples from the first season: Michigan is listed as playing Notre Dame on a Sunday, which no way in the world ND would have done in the 1920s, and Michigan is listed as playing "L'Assumption", which I finally figured out by reading the Daily is actually Assumption College in Windsor. No idea where they got the "L'."
Also, the media guide gets a lot of Home/Away games exactly backwards, and it has at least one game against MSU with the wrong winner. If you have something better than that (with home rinks recorded), and you obviously do, I would genuinely like to see it.
Hockey has its flaws (Wisconsin series record they list is flat-out a counting mistake. It's not correct) but the worst of them all Baseball.
I have few words to describe what a disaster that thing they put out is. It's shocking how poorly done it is. Granted, they didn't have the tools then that we do now to research.
Baseball is a long term project, getting that thing fixed. First of all, they don't record any of the sites where the games are played. Nothing.
The Michigan Daily archives that were installed recently are a godsend. I've been able to manually go and look through things, fix errors and put locations and fix dates on games.
In the MSU series ALONE, there were games our media guide said we tied or even lost where in fact we actually WON! I used the Lansing State Journal archive through Newspapers.com ($) as a secondary source.
The whole series record is wrong which means there are tons of errors.
U-M media guide says the series is 198-106-2
I researched every single solitary game in the series, double checked with screenshot for sources in changed games, and the series record is actually 200-110-1.
That project keeps me awake some nights. I have no idea when that beast is going to be done, because The Daily archive only goes back to 1893 or so. We played games 30 years prior to then that need to be researched.
I'm more comfortable in getting Golf done than Baseball, because I can just go to Bentley and go through the boxes of old tournament results that MGoBlue was apparently not interested in going through to assemble records. At least I know WHERE to go for Golf.
Baseball is a lot more murkier right now. Games against the Jackson Mutuals and the Detroit Detroits (seriously their nickname) are gonna be really tough to find info on.
https://www.press.umich.edu/11954/baseball_fever
A good book on early baseball in Michigan. I think it mentions the University of Michigan team, but I might be wrong. You also might want to look up the local Society for American Baseball Research chapter; that is the sort of place where you might find some information on the Mutual club of Jackson.
Good stuff, WD. Thanks for these posts. Obviously, a lot of work.
@ Purdue, @ MSU were harder than I would have thought. I used to brag about how we had a winning record in the Horseshoe. Obviously that was a while ago...
I'm surprised we've been that successful at Camp Randall and Beaver Stadium and that MSU has been that competitive at Michigan Stadium.
Crazy how dominate we were in the series with OSU up until 2000.
if you asked people to guess how many Big Ten teams have more wins in Ann Arbor than Indiana. The fact that only four do is amazing, considering how putrid IU has been over the years.
Thanks for posting this! I'm proud of our record against our primary rivals - even in their home turf. Now all we need to do it turn things around against OSU and we'll be back in business!
Thanks for posting this! I'm proud of our record against our primary rivals - even in their home turf. Now all we need to do it turn things around against OSU and we'll be back in business!