Michigan vs Teams that no longer exist
Hard to title this other than what it is, but yes.
Here is a list of all of the teams Michigan has played in the past that either dropped their football program or weren't even colleges and just ceased to exist.
Date | Opponent | Result |
5/30/1879 | Racine | W 1-0 |
5/12/1883 | vs Detroit Independents | W 40-5 |
11/22/1884 | U. Club of Chicago | W 18-10 |
11/7/1885 | at Windsor Club | W 10-0 |
11/14/1885 | vs Windsor Club | W 30-0 |
11/26/1885 | at Peninsulars | W 42-0 |
11/24/1887 | at Harvard Club of Chicago | W 26-0 |
11/7/1888 | at Detroit Athletic Club | W 14-6 |
11/29/1988 | at U. Club of Chicago | L 4-26 |
11/28/1889 | at Chicago Athletic Association | L 0-20 |
10/18/1890 | at Detroit Athletic Club | W 18-0 |
10/10/1891 | vs Ann Arbor High School | W 62-0 |
11/14/1891 | at Chicago Athletic Club | L 0-10 |
11/26/1891 | at Cleveland Athletic Association | L 4-8 |
10/8/1892 | vs Michigan Athletic Association | W 74-0 |
10/12/1892 | Michigan Athletic Association | W 68-0 |
10/7/1893 | vs Detroit Athletic Club | W 6-0 |
10/14/1893 | at Detroit Athletic Club | W 26-0 |
10/6/1894 | vs Michigan Military Academy | T 12-12 |
10/21/1894 | vs Michigan Military Academy | W 40-6 |
10/5/1895 | vs Michigan Military Academy | W 34-0 |
10/12/1895 | vs Detroit Athletic Club | W 42-0 |
10/19/1895 | vs Adelbert | W 65-0 |
10/10/1896 | vs Grand Rapids High School | W 44-0 |
10/15/1896 | vs Physicians & Surgeons | W 28-0 |
11/2/1901 | Carlisle Indian School | W 22-0 |
10/12/1904 | vs Physicians & Surgeons | W 72-0 |
10/19/1904 | vs American Medical School | W 72-0 |
10/23/1909 | at Marquette | W 6-5 |
10/17/1917 | vs Detroit | W 14-3 |
9/26/1942 | vs Great Lakes Naval Academy | W 9-0 |
10/10/1942 | vs Iowa Pre-Flight | L 14-26 |
9/18/1943 | vs Camp Grant | W 26-0 |
9/23/1944 | at Marquette | W 14-0 |
9/15/1945 | vs Great Lakes Naval Station | W 27-2 |
9/26/1987 | vs Long Beach State | W 49-0 |
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The first night game in Michigan Football was against Marquette in 1944.
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Pioneer High School used to be Ann Arbor High School. AAHS burned down in 1904.
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Iowa Pre-Flight represented a pre-flight school at the University of Iowa. IPF went by the name the Iowa Seahawks
- 1883 vs Detroit Independents was the first home game in program history, played at the Washtenaw County Fairgrounds.
August 14th, 2017 at 8:17 PM ^
August 14th, 2017 at 8:22 PM ^
Looks like we committed malpractice vs the Physicians & Surgeons back in October of '04.
Good times,
August 14th, 2017 at 8:29 PM ^
72-0 vs. Physicians and Surgeons was malpractice, what was 78-0 vs. Rutgers last year? Gross negligence???
August 14th, 2017 at 8:45 PM ^
suicide
August 14th, 2017 at 9:19 PM ^
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August 14th, 2017 at 8:29 PM ^
TDs didn't count unless you made the extra point or "goal kick".
So 1-0 was basically 7-0.
August 15th, 2017 at 7:55 AM ^
if they didnt count how did they get the 1?
was the goal kick worth 6 and the TD worth 1?
August 15th, 2017 at 1:30 PM ^
The rules stipulated at the time:
Touchdown--0 points
Extra Point--1 point
Field Goal--1 point
So the only benefit of getting a touchdown was that the team got to attempt the conversion to score.
In the game against Racine, Michigan scored a touchdown, missed the conversion, and then kicked a field goal later in the game. By today's rules, that would be a 9-0 win, but at the time it was 1-0 Michigan.
August 14th, 2017 at 8:26 PM ^
I think the two 1904 games in the grid clearly show that national championships (like the 1904 one claimed by Michigan) from the pre-modern area aren't as impressive as the most recent one, though it could be that Yale (a football power back then, I believe) had some tomato cans on its 1904 schedule, too.
I didn't know Long Beach State didn't have football. Some background here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Beach_State_49ers_football
August 14th, 2017 at 8:31 PM ^
they only existed due to WW II, and only played football for 3 years.
But they were a legitimate power for those 3 years - in 1943 they finished #2. Their only loss was to #1 Notre Dame, by a point in South Bend.
August 14th, 2017 at 8:47 PM ^
player from other schools that were in the program?
August 14th, 2017 at 8:38 PM ^
I'm not sure what they have right now should be called an existing football team.
August 14th, 2017 at 8:38 PM ^
August 14th, 2017 at 8:45 PM ^
College football during WW2 is always pretty interesting to me. When the navy commissioned the Iowa Pre-Flight school, they placed a huge emphasis on football because they thought it would be beneficial in preparing them for battle. That team had professional players, former Michigan players, a large chunk of the actual Iowa team, etc.
August 14th, 2017 at 8:49 PM ^
August 14th, 2017 at 8:53 PM ^
I assume you left off University of Chicago because there were too many games between the 2 schools.
August 14th, 2017 at 8:59 PM ^
University of Chicago's team still exists. They've been Division 3 since I think the 1960s.
August 14th, 2017 at 8:58 PM ^
Chicago does exist still.
They restarted their program at the Division III level in 1969 iirc.
August 14th, 2017 at 9:54 PM ^
does still have a team. I was recruited by them for a little bit until they saw my GPA, and now I get to play them this year. Gonna be lit.
August 14th, 2017 at 9:57 PM ^
Chip on your shoulder...
August 15th, 2017 at 10:25 PM ^
I want to be able to tell my kids I dominated a Rose Bowl champion.
As the great Brian Scalabrine once said about the 2008 Celtics:
"In 5 years I'll tell people I came off the bench, in 15 years I'll tell them I started, and in 30 years I'll tell them i won MVP"
August 14th, 2017 at 8:54 PM ^
August 14th, 2017 at 8:56 PM ^
August 14th, 2017 at 8:59 PM ^
for about 50 years. The school that's now Pioneer was built to replace it. The university tore down Frieze about 10 years ago to make way for North Quad.
August 14th, 2017 at 9:09 PM ^
August 14th, 2017 at 9:18 PM ^
The weird lockers. The windows that didn't open. The quarter-staircases connecting the separate buildings (it was three separate structures). The ground floor classrooms that were half below ground. The fact that it was always about 1000 degrees. The list was endless--the Frieze sucked.
Seemed like every semester I had a class in the basement, and it was hell. I'm all for historic preservation, and living down the street from the Frieze when they were demolishing it was annoying, but god I wish I could have taken the first swing at the place.
August 14th, 2017 at 9:27 PM ^
August 14th, 2017 at 10:12 PM ^
Can think a thread is extraneous and still want to talk about the extraneousness of the Frieze Building. The Frieze was that terrible.
August 15th, 2017 at 1:34 PM ^
before getting to my comment about the Frieze building?
August 14th, 2017 at 11:05 PM ^
I've been noticing more people saying that recently and wondered if there's something I'm missing on the desktop version of the site.
August 15th, 2017 at 7:58 AM ^
not sure if theres a way to see who up/down voted comments
August 15th, 2017 at 10:35 PM ^
All these years and I never clicked that tab. The more you know...
August 14th, 2017 at 9:51 PM ^
I used to get dragged to the go club there. They had suitable tables, unlike the newer class rooms.
August 14th, 2017 at 9:07 PM ^
August 15th, 2017 at 12:11 AM ^
August 15th, 2017 at 1:14 AM ^
Of course, SMU wound up getting the death penalty. They had no football team in 1987.
Long Beach State became the replacement.
https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/midaily/mdp.39015071754803/332
August 15th, 2017 at 8:46 AM ^
Translated the ads on the page too, but not the one for the Coach & Four, where Bo and I used to get our haircuts.
August 15th, 2017 at 8:41 AM ^
I would have expected that to get more attention.
August 15th, 2017 at 8:44 AM ^
Please correct the date of this game to 1888. This is shown as 1988. The game that we lost 4-26.