1910 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team

1910 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football
Conference Independent
1910 record 6–1
Head coach Chester Brewer

The 1910 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team represented Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) in the 1910 college football season. In their eighth year under head coach Chester Brewer, the Aggies compiled a 6–1 record and outscored their opponents 168 to 8.[1]

Game notes

Michigan

Week 2: Michigan Agricultural at Michigan
1 234Total
Michigan Agricultural 0 030 3
• Michigan 0 006 6

On October 15, 1910, the Aggies lost to Michigan by a 6 to 3 score at Ferry Field. It was the fifth game in the Michigan - Michigan State football rivalry, and Michigan had a 3–0–1 record in the four prior meetings, outscoring the Aggies by a combined total of 204 to 0.[2] The Aggies came into the 1910 game at Ann Arbor with a 2–0 record, having beaten two prior opponents by a total of 46 to 0. The 1910 Aggies compiled a record of 6–0 and outscored opponents 165 to 2 against teams other than the Wolverines (including a 17–0 victory over Notre Dame.[3][4] Prior to the Michigan game, the M. A. C. student body adopted the slogan, "On to Michigan."[5]

After a scoreless first half, the Aggies blocked two punts by George C. Thomson in the third quarter. On the second occasion, Thomson kicked from his 50-yard line, and the low punt was blocked and rolled to Michigan's 12-yard line where the Aggies' left tackle Campbell recovered the ball. After Michigan stopped two runs, the Aggies' right halfback, Hill, kicked a field goal from the 21-yard line.[6] The Aggies' maintained a 3–0 into the fourth quarter. With less than five minutes left in the game, Shorty McMillan completed a pass to Stanley Borleske who ran 50 yards to the Aggies' 15-yard line. Don Green then carried the ball to the three-yard line. Due to a penalty, the Wolverines had five unsuccessful chances to score the touchdown after advancing to the three-yard line. Michigan then lined up for a field goal, but the play was a fake. Green took the snap from center and ran for the touchdown. Conklin kicked the extra point, and Michigan won by a score of 6 to 3.[6][7]

After the game, Coach Yost praised the Michigan Agricultural team as "remarkably strong."[6] The game was played in 15-minute quarters.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Michigan State Yearly Results (1910-1914)". College Football Data Warehouse (David DeLassus). Retrieved July 19, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Michigan vs Michigan State". College Football Data Warehouse.
  3. ↑ "Michigan State Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse.
  4. ↑ "Farmers' Best Football Year: Season Just Closed Most Successful in History of Athletics at East Lansing; Fitting Close to Coach Brewer's Term of Service; University of Michigan Only Team Able to Cross the Aggies' Final Chalk Mark". Detroit Free Press. December 3, 1910. p. 10.
  5. ↑ ""On to Michigan" Is M.A.C. Slogan: About Five Hundred Rooters Will Accompany Team to Ann Arbor Saturday; Annual Battle Is Talk of Campus at Lansing; With Practically Green Squad Brewer's Team Must Face Yost's Seasoned Veterans". Detroit Free Press. October 9, 1910. p. B7.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Michigan Wins, 6–3: Aggies Give Yost's Men Hardest Kind of Battle, Leading at End of Third Period, by Virtue of Hill's Field Goal; Varsity's Touchdown Comes in Last Quarter; Forward Pass to Borleske and Long Run Bring Ball to One Yard Line, Where M. A. C. Makes Gamest Kind of Fight". Detroit Free Press. October 16, 1910. p. 15.
  7. 1 2 "Michigan 6; M.A.C. 3". The Michigan Alumnus. November 1910. pp. 93–94.
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