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1883 Michigan Wolverines football team

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1883 Michigan Wolverines football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–3
Head coach
  • None
CaptainWilliam J. Olcott
Home stadiumAnn Arbor Fairgrounds
Seasons
← 1882
1884 →
1883 college football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     9 0 0
Gallaudet     2 0 0
Carleton     1 0 0
Johns Hopkins     1 0 0
NYU     1 0 0
Harvard     8 2 0
Princeton     7 1 0
Penn     6 2 1
Stevens     6 4 1
Massachusetts     1 1 0
Minnesota     1 1 0
Wesleyan     3 3 0
Williams     1 1 0
Fordham     4 5 0
Michigan     2 3 0
Lafayette     2 4 0
Johns Hopkins     1 2 0
Columbia     1 3 0
Rutgers     1 6 0
Amherst     0 1 0
Dartmouth     0 1 0
Hamline     0 1 0
Lewisburg     0 1 0
Navy     0 1 0
CCNY     0 2 0
Columbian University     0 2 0
Georgetown     0 2 0

The 1883 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1883 college football season. The Wolverines played their only home game at the Ann Arbor Fairgrounds.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
May 1210:20 a.m.Detroit IndependentsW 40–5
November 19at WesleyanHartford, CTL 6–14
November 21at YaleL 0–64400
November 22at HarvardL 0–3500[1]
November 27at Stevens
W 17–5[n 1]200[3]

Roster

The following is the roster of the 1883 team as listed in the University of Michigan yearbook, The Palladium, for 1884.[4]

Forwards

Halfbacks

Three-quarter back

Fullback

  • Thomas W. Gilmore (President of the Foot-Ball Association)

Substitutes

Coaching staff

Notes

  1. ^ The result of this game is disputed. New York sources have this as victory for Stevens by a score of 5–1. Michigan sources have this as 17–5 Michigan win. Bentley Historical Library site describes the dispute and includes four links, two describing Michigan version and two describing New York version.[2]
  2. ^ Harry Bitner was born approximately 1861 in Illinois. He was listed as a resident of Mount Carroll, Illinois, in the 1870 and 1880 U.S. Censuses. He was the son of Harry Bitner, born c. 1829, a farmer, and Emma E. Bittner, born c. 1830.
  3. ^ Hugh P. Borden was born in August 1858 in Indiana. He was listed as a resident of St. Joseph County, Indiana (either Olive or New Carlisle) in the 1870, 1900 and 1930 Censuses. In 1900, he was a farmer in Olive, residing with his wife Edith and children Clinton and Floyd. In 1930, he was engaged in general farming at New Carlisle.
  4. ^ Robert Campbell Gemmel was born on July 5, 1863, in Port Matilda, Pennsylvania. He received a degree in engineering from Michigan in 1884 and returned to Salt Lake City, where he was the assistant managing director of the Jackling allied porphyry mining properties. He died on October 25, 1922, while traveling from Hurley, New Mexico to Los Angeles. Biography published in the journal Mining and Mtallurgy, Number 192, at pp. 36-37.
  5. ^ Raymond Walter Beach, born November 29, 1863, in Percival, Iowa, formed the Beach & Beach law firm in Chicago with his brother, Elmer Beach. He was also the brother of noted novelist Rex Beach.
  6. ^ Mahon became a lawyer. He practiced in Detroit and later Duluth, Minnesota. He died in 1908 from rheumatism of the heart. [5] His daughter, Winifred Mahon Sanford, was a noted short story writer in the 1920s and 1930s.

References

  1. ^ "An Unfinished Game Between Harvard And Michigan Elevens". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 23, 1883. p. 5. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  2. ^ "U-M Athletics History: 1883 Football Team". Bentley Historical Library.
  3. ^ "Stevens Scores A Victory". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 28, 1883. p. 2. Retrieved November 27, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ The Palladium. 1884. p. 71. Retrieved November 27, 2024 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Henry S. Mahon Dead". Detroit Free Press. Detroit, Michigan. July 2, 1908. p. 7. Retrieved November 27, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.