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During the Yost era, Michigan compiled a 4-6-2 record against the Quakers—one of the few teams against which Yost had a losing record. [74] The first Penn game of the Yost era occurred in 1906. The Quakers shut out the Wolverines, 17–0, before a crowd of nearly 26,000 spectators at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. The start of the game was ...
This is a list of seasons completed by the Michigan Wolverines football team of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Since the team's creation in 1879, the Wolverines have participated in more than 1,200 officially sanctioned games, including 49 bowl games.
Although the tradition of the Little Brown Jug was not established until later, Michigan and Minnesota played five football games in the pre-Yost era. Michigan lost the first two games, which were played in 1892 at Minneapolis and in 1893 at Ann Arbor. The Wolverines then won three consecutive game against the Golden Gophers from 1895 through 1897.
The majority of Michigan's national championships were earned prior to the commencement of the Associated Press Poll era in 1936, which generally considered the first season of the modern college ...
Yost stepped aside in 1926 to focus on being Michigan's athletic director, a post he had held since 1921, thus ending the greatest period of success in the history of Michigan football. [35] Under Yost, Michigan posted a 165–29–10 record, winning ten conference championships and six national championships. [18] [19] [34] One of his main ...
The 1903 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1903 college football season. The team's head football coach was Fielding H. Yost. The Wolverines played their home games at Regents Field. The 1903 team compiled a record of 11–0–1 and outscored opponents 565 to 6.
The Michigan Alumnus reported that the game was played before a crowd of 85,000 spectators and described the day as follows: "As a football spectacle, of course, it wholly surpassed anything in Michigan history. Ann Arbor flung open its gates to a horde of visitors nearly triple the size of its own population-and the new stadium swallowed them ...
The 1969 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game is considered to be one of the best-known games of the series, as well as one of the biggest upsets in college football history. The Buckeyes went into the game as the top-ranked team in the country, with a 22-game winning streak under the direction of head coach Woody Hayes. They were also ...