Michigan Football gets a shout out for having one of the most dominant teams ever!
August 18th, 2016 at 12:14 PM ^
Honorable mention? LOL
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Date | Opponent | Result |
9/28 | vs Albion | W 50-0 |
10/5 | vs Case | W 57-0 |
10/12 | vs Indiana | W 33-0 |
10/19 | vs Northwestern | W 29-0 |
10/26 | vs Buffalo | W 128-0 |
11/2 | Carlisle (in Detroit) | W 22-0 |
11/9 | at Ohio State | W 21-0 |
11/16 | vs Chicago | W 22-0 |
11/23 | vs Beloit | W 89-0 |
11/28 | Iowa (in Chicago) | W 50-0 |
1/1 | Stanford (Rose Bowl) | W 49-0 |
1902
Date | Opponent | Result |
9/27 | vs Albion | W 88-0 |
10/4 | vs Case | W 48-6 |
10/8 | vs Michigan State | W 119-0 |
10/11 | vs Indiana | W 60-0 |
10/18 | Notre Dame (in Toledo) | W 23-0 |
10/25 | vs Ohio State | W 86-0 |
11/1 | Wisconsin (in Chicago) | W 6-0 |
11/8 | vs Iowa | W 107-0 |
11/15 | at Chicago | W 21-0 |
11/22 | vs Oberlin | W 63-0 |
11/27 | vs Minnesota | W 23-6 |
1903
Date | Opponent | Result |
10/3 | vs Case | W 31-0 |
10/8 | vs Albion | W 76-0 |
10/10 | vs Beloit | W 79-0 |
10/14 | vs Ohio Northern | W 65-0 |
10/17 | vs Indiana | W 51-0 |
10/21 | vs Ferris State | W 88-0 |
10/24 | vs Drake | W 47-0 |
10/31 | at Minnesota | T 6-6 |
11/7 | vs Ohio State | W 36-0 |
11/14 | vs Wisconsin | W 16-0 |
11/21 | vs Oberlin | W 42-0 |
11/26 | at Chicago | W 28-0 |
1904
Date | Opponent | Result |
10/1 | vs Case | W 33-0 |
10/5 | vs Ohio Northern | W 48-0 |
10/8 | vs Kalamazoo | W 95-0 |
10/12 | vs Physicians & Surgeons | W 72-0 |
10/15 | at Ohio State | W 31-6 |
10/19 | vs American Medical School | W 72-0 |
10/22 | vs West Virginia | W 130-0 |
10/29 | at Wisconsin | W 28-0 |
11/5 | vs Drake | W 36-4 |
11/12 | vs Chicago | W 22-12 |
August 18th, 2016 at 12:49 PM ^
Minnesota just messin it up for everyone
August 19th, 2016 at 11:51 AM ^
Now you see why they viewed the brown jug as a trophy.
August 18th, 2016 at 3:40 PM ^
You know you care about shit like that more than 99.999% of college football fans, right? Many laugh at Michigan fans for beating their chest about pre-forward pass dominance. And no, I don't think that comes from jealousy as I'm sure you delude yourself into thinking.
August 18th, 2016 at 11:08 AM ^
I was alive to see that team, and trust me, they were as good as this article states.
August 18th, 2016 at 11:49 AM ^
Footballs?
Or, did you give out official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifles!
August 18th, 2016 at 11:53 AM ^
out kid.
August 18th, 2016 at 12:58 PM ^
A young Jim Harbaugh could shoot your eyes out with a football.
August 18th, 2016 at 1:39 PM ^
Blasphemy; Jim Harbaugh still can...
August 18th, 2016 at 11:09 AM ^
Plays were some of the best.
I remember that one game they won 7-4, never thought they'd beat the Michigan Southern Teachers Union but they survived.
August 18th, 2016 at 12:00 PM ^
Didn't allow a single point but he gave up 4 in one game? I'm callin bullshit on your "memories"
August 18th, 2016 at 12:23 PM ^
I read a little further, at the end of the season the powers that be ruled the 4 points scored in that game to be whimsical at best, and ruled them no good.
August 18th, 2016 at 11:16 AM ^
OP title wins award for most bait and switch title evar!
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August 18th, 2016 at 11:22 AM ^
Fans of the 73 Dolphins are going to be apoplectic that the 85 Bears and Pats made the list (sortof) but they didn't.
August 18th, 2016 at 11:31 AM ^
since that's the team that went undefeated!
August 18th, 2016 at 11:54 AM ^
True.
In addition, all references to teams by year should carry an implied standard deviation of +/- 1 when the season and playoffs span two calendar years.
August 18th, 2016 at 8:11 PM ^
I would agree. While the 72 team that went 17-0 was perfect, the 73 team was better.
August 18th, 2016 at 11:42 AM ^
second reference to that football period in Michigan history in two days. Yesterday the thread on top Michigan players all-time led to a link that listed MgoBlue's previous ranking of all-time Michigan athletes covering that period in time with mention of several players including Willie Heston and a defender who innovated the linebacker position at Michigan during this incredible period of the school's early football supremacy.
You may not appreciate the past in connection with today's modern version of the game, but the guys who played back then were the best athlketes of their day and played whomever they could compete against.
August 18th, 2016 at 11:43 AM ^
That was back when College Football was probably as talented as intramurals are now. Honorable mention seems reasonable.
August 18th, 2016 at 11:51 AM ^
Compared to the teams they played at that time.
August 18th, 2016 at 12:53 PM ^
There's no way to judge how good Michigan was playing against teams that were not nearly at the same level.
It's like you beating your 2 brothers at basketball, they are 2 years old, you are 21. It's not realistic to compare.
August 18th, 2016 at 7:02 PM ^
Yes....that is dominant.
To dominate somebody, or in this case an entire schedule, it is due to being vastly superior in a number of ways. To re-use your brother example (although I don't know about the 21-2 comparison) I would dominate my brothers in basketball because I am bigger, faster, stronger, and more athletic. To be fair, there really wasn't anybody at that time that WAS on Michigan's level. Very very few teams. So nobody being as good as you are means you aren't dominant?
You aren't on the same level with people and dominate them very often. It just doesn't happen that way. I think you misunderstand the meaning of the word domination.
August 18th, 2016 at 8:15 PM ^
It's also tremendously difficult to make judgements about things that happened so long ago.
August 18th, 2016 at 12:09 PM ^
I don't think we should be talking about the 1901 Michigan team until we beat msu and osu.
August 18th, 2016 at 12:41 PM ^
Harbaugh should consider beating Michigan State 119-0 this year.
August 18th, 2016 at 1:21 PM ^
Time for an updated version.
August 18th, 2016 at 3:05 PM ^
Case, Physicians and Surgeons, American Medical School. I heard those teams had a pretty solid run game, but not much for defense.
The surgeons were noted for being able to cut and slice opposing secondaries.
August 18th, 2016 at 7:49 PM ^
I don't think you can talk historically about those schools being "solid" until they beat MSU and OSU.
August 18th, 2016 at 4:48 PM ^
Hugh White was captain of the 1901 team. In the Tournament of Roses game (the inaugural) Michigan travelled with only 11 players. The game was so one-sided that the Stanford captain approached Hugh White in the Third Quarter to concede the game and Hugh accepted.
Another note: scoring was different back then. The scores listed above would be even more pronounced if translated to a more modern metric.
August 18th, 2016 at 4:51 PM ^
the school colors back then were black & white.
come to think of it, everybody's school colors were black & white back then!