1910 Michigan Wolverines football team
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The 1910 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

 in the 1910 college football season
1910 college football season
The 1910 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Harvard and Pittsburgh as national champions...

. The team's head coach was Fielding H. Yost. The Wolverines played their home games at Ferry Field
Ferry Field
Ferry Field is a multi-purpose stadium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It opened in 1906 and was home to the Michigan Wolverines football team prior to the Michigan Stadium opening in 1927. It had a capacity of 46,000....

.

Schedule

Varsity letter winners

  • Albert Benbrook
    Albert Benbrook
    Albert "Benny" Benbrook was an American football guard who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1908-1910. He was chosen by Walter Camp as an All-American in 1909 and 1910 and was the team’s captain in 1910...

    , Chicago, IL - started 6 games at left guard
  • Thomas A. Bogle, Jr. Ann Arbor, MI - started 2 games at center, 1 game at right guard
  • Stanley Borleske
    Stanley Borleske
    -External links:...

    , Spokane, Washington
    Spokane, Washington
    Spokane is a city located in the Northwestern United States in the state of Washington. It is the largest city of Spokane County of which it is also the county seat, and the metropolitan center of the Inland Northwest region...

     - started 3 games at left end
  • Wheaton Dudley Cole, Oberlin Hall, Ohio - started 2 games at right tackle, 1 game at center
  • Frederick Conklin, Ann Arbor, MI - started 3 games at left tackle, 2 games at right guard
  • Arthur B. Cornwell, Saginaw, MI - started 3 games at center
  • William P. Edmunds, Youngstown, Ohio
    Youngstown, Ohio
    Youngstown is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Mahoning County; it also extends into Trumbull County. The municipality is situated on the Mahoning River, approximately southeast of Cleveland and northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...

     - started 3 games at left tackle, 2 games at left end, 1 game at right tackle
  • Donald W. Green, Saginaw, MI - started 3 games at right halfback
  • George Lawton, Detroit, MI - started 1 game at right guard, 1 game at fullback
  • Joe Magidsohn
    Joe Magidsohn
    Joseph "Joe" Magidsohn was an American football player and official. He played halfback for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1909 and 1910 and was selected as a second-team All-American by Walter Camp in 1909 and a first-team All-American in 1910...

    , Elkton, Michigan
    Elkton, Michigan
    Elkton is a village in Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 863 at the 2000 census. The village is within Oliver Township, along the Pinnebog River....

     - started 6 games at left halfback
  • Neil "Shorty" McMillan
    Shorty McMillan
    Neil "Shorty" McMillan was an American football quarterback for the University of Michigan from 1910–1911.-Playing career:...

    , Detroit, MI - started 6 games at quarterback
  • Victor R. Pattengill, Lansing, MI - started 3 games at right halfback
  • Clement Patrick Quinn, Saginaw, MI - started 2 games at right guard
  • George C. Thomson, Cadillac, Michigan
    Cadillac, Michigan
    Cadillac is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is the county seat of Wexford County. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 10,000. The city is situated at the junction of US 131, M-55 and M-115...

     - started 4 games at fullback
  • Stanfield Wells
    Stanfield Wells
    Stanfield Wells was an All-American football player for the University of Michigan Wolverines football team from 1909-1911. He was the first in a long line of All-Americans to come out of Massillon Washington High School, and was one of the pioneers of the forward pass...

    , Brewster, Michigan - started 3 games at right tackle, 3 games at right end

Reserves

  • Louis Bleich, Buffalo, NY
  • Fay G. Clark, San Bernardino, California
    San Bernardino, California
    San Bernardino is a city located in the Riverside-San Bernardino metropolitan area , and serves as the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States...

  • Raymon D. Cooper, Detroit, MI
  • Wilbur Morrill Cunningham, Benton Harbor, MI
  • Lewis E. Daniels, Cambridge, MA - started 1 game at left end
  • Carroll B. Haff, Kansas City, Missouri
    Kansas City, Missouri
    Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...

  • James E. Hancock, Indianapolis, Indiana
    Indianapolis, Indiana
    Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...

  • Adair Hotchkiss, Hotchkiss, Colorado
    Hotchkiss, Colorado
    Hotchkiss is a Statutory Town in Delta County, Colorado, United States. The population was 968 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Hotchkiss is located at ....

  • Ralph J. Hurlburt, Portland, Oregon
    Portland, Oregon
    Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

  • Ernest C. Kanzler, Saginaw, MI
  • Glenn R. Madison, Ann Arbor, MI
  • John J. McDermott, Hubbardston, Michigan
    Hubbardston, Michigan
    Hubbardston is a village located in the U.S. state of Michigan. The village is on the boundary between Ionia County and Clinton County, and is partially in both. The village is mostly within North Plains Township in Ionia County and partially within Lebanon Township in Clinton County...

  • Meyer Morton
    Meyer Morton
    Meyer Morton, born Myer Isakovitz was an American football player and official and lawyer from Chicago, Illinois.-Early years:Morton was born in November 1889 in Chicago. His birth name was Myer Isakovitz...

    , Pine Grove, Michigan
  • Emery J. Munson, Mendota, Illinois
    Mendota, Illinois
    Mendota is a city located in north-central Illinois in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States. The city has 7,272 residents, and is the fifth largest city in LaSalle County, though recent estimates have shown that the population has decreased to 6,995 residents. It is part of the...

  • John A. Neelands, Northville, Michigan
    Northville, Michigan
    Northville is a city located in and divided by Oakland and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of Michigan and a suburb in Metro Detroit. The population was 5,970 at the 2010 census. The Oakland County portion is surrounded by the city of Novi. The Wayne County portion is surrounded by Northville...

  • William Kirke Otis, Hovey Falls, Michigan
  • Frank Picard, Saginaw, MI
  • Charles E. Rickerhauser, Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

  • Robert Shaw, Ovid, Michigan
    Ovid, Michigan
    Ovid is a village in Clinton and Shiawassee counties in the U.S. state of Michigan. Nearly all of the village is located within Ovid Township in Clinton County. The population was 1,514 at the 2000 census.The village is on M-21, about east of St...

  • Rufus G. Siple, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Harold F. Stock, Hillsdale, Michigan
    Hillsdale, Michigan
    Hillsdale is a city in the state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 8,305. It is the county seat of Hillsdale County, and is run as a council-manager government....

  • Rudolph D. Van Dyke, Lowell, Michigan
    Lowell, Michigan
    Lowell is a city in Kent County of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 4,013. The city is in the northern portion of Lowell Township, but is politically independent...

  • Edward J. Walsh, Denver, Colorado
    Denver, Colorado
    The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

  • Herbert Gale Watkins, Bay City, Michigan
    Bay City, Michigan
    Bay City is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan located near the base of the Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 34,932, and is the principal city of the Bay City Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Saginaw-Bay City-Saginaw Township North...

  • Henry L. Wenner, Tiffin, Ohio
    Tiffin, Ohio
    Tiffin is a city in and the county seat of Seneca County, Ohio, United States. The population was 18,135 at the 2000 census. The National Arbor Day Foundation has designated Tiffin as a Tree City USA....

     - started 1 game at fullback
  • Charles E. Wyman, Nunica, Michigan

Awards and honors

  • Captain: Albert Benbrook
  • All-American
    1910 College Football All-America Team
    The 1910 College Football All-America team is composed of various organizations that chose College Football All-America Teams that season. The organizations that chose the teams were Collier's Weekly selected by Walter Camp, Leslie's Weekly, and the New York Evening Telegram.-Complaints of Eastern...

    s: Albert Benbrook
    Albert Benbrook
    Albert "Benny" Benbrook was an American football guard who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1908-1910. He was chosen by Walter Camp as an All-American in 1909 and 1910 and was the team’s captain in 1910...

    , Stanfield Wells
    Stanfield Wells
    Stanfield Wells was an All-American football player for the University of Michigan Wolverines football team from 1909-1911. He was the first in a long line of All-Americans to come out of Massillon Washington High School, and was one of the pioneers of the forward pass...


Coaching staff

  • Head coach: Fielding H. Yost
  • Assistant coaches: Dave Allerdice
    Dave Allerdice
    David Way Allerdice was an American football player and coach in the United States. He played football for the University of Michigan from 1907 to 1909 and coached football at Butler University and the University of Texas at Austin .-Early life and playing career:Allerdice was born in...

    , Prentiss Douglass, Germany Schulz
    Germany Schulz
    Adolph George "Germany" Schulz was an All-American American football center for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1904 to 1905 and from 1907 to 1908. While playing at Michigan, Schulz is credited with having invented the spiral snap and with developing the practice of standing behind the...

  • Trainer: Alvin Kraenzlein
    Alvin Kraenzlein
    Alvin Christian Kraenzlein was an American athlete. He was the first sportsman to win four Olympic titles in a single Olympic Games...

  • Manager: Charles G. Spice

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