User:Cbl62/Pre-Yost era

The following is a list of articles covering the history of Michigan Wolverines football in the Pre-Yost era -- the 22 years before the arrival of Fielding H. Yost as head coach in 1901. There are currently more than 100 articles documenting this opening era in Michigan football history. They include articles on all 22 football seasons, all seven head football coaches, and more than 75 football players.

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 * James Burrill Angell - an American educator, academic administrator, and diplomat. He is best known for being the longest-serving president of the University of Michigan (1871–1909). Under his leadership Michigan gained prominence as an elite public university. Today, he is often cited by Michigan administrators for providing the vision of Michigan as a university that should provide "an uncommon education for the common man." After Michigan's first victory over an Eastern football power, a victory over Cornell in 1894, President Angell addressed Michigan's student body and said: "I have been asked often today, 'What will be the effect of the game?' I am neither a prophet or the son of a prophet, but there is one thing of great value that I believe will result. . . . I think the benefit of victory lies in the cultivation of this broad, generous university spirit that pervades all departments and makes us feel here one interest and common joy."
 * Charles A. Baird - athletic director, 1898–1909; donated Baird Carillon to University of Michigan, 1935; hired Fielding Yost in 1901; built the largest college athletic ground in the United States; and negotiated the school's appearance in the first Rose Bowl game.
 * History of the Big Ten Conference
 * Keene Fitzpatrick - an American track coach, athletic trainer, professor of physical training and gymnasium director for 42 years at Yale University (1890–1891, 1896–1898), the University of Michigan (1894–1895, 1898–1910), and Princeton University (1910–1932). He was considered "one of the pioneers of intercollegiate sport." He trained Michigan's 1894 and 1895 teams whcih compiled a 17–2–1 record and outscored opponents 510 to 98. He left Michigan for two years but returned in 1898.  Upon his return, he was the trainer of Michigan's undefeated football teams in 1898, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, and 1905.  Fitzpatrick was Michigan's track coach from 1900 to 1910, and during those years, Fitzpatrick's teams compiled a 24-2-1 record in dual meets and won Western Conference track championships in 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, and 1906.  Fitzpatrick's athletes also excelled in Olympic competition. Over the course of four Olympic Games held during his tenure as track coach, Michigan track and field athletes won 15 medals, including 7 gold medals.
 * Early history of Michigan Wolverines football (1879–1900)
 * Edward Moulton - an American sprinter, athletic trainer, and coach. He was a professional sprinter who won more than 300 races and was regarded as the American sprinting champion from 1872 to 1878. Moulton later trained many well-known track and field athletes. He was also employed as a trainer and coach of American football, including one year as the head football coach at the University of Minnesota. Moulton also coached athletics and worked as a trainer at other schools, including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan and Stanford.  Moulton served as the trainer for the 1893 Michigan Wolverines football team that compiled a 7–3 record and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 278 to 102.
 * Michigan Marching Band - Early years
 * Notre Dame rivalry - early years - the Michigan-Notre Dame rivalry was born in 1887 with Michigan traveling to South Bend to play the newly-formed Notre Dame football team and to instruct Notre Dame students in the fundamentals of the game. The two teams played six games in the pre-Yost era with Michigan winning all six games.
 * Albert Pattengill - an American professor of Greek. For 40 years, Pattengill was also a leader in athletics at the University of Michigan. He played on Michigan's 1867 baseball team and was part of a three-person committee that selected "azure-blue and maize" as the university's colors. He was also one of the leaders behind the formation and early development of the Big Ten Conference.
 * Regents Field - the home field for the University of Michigan football team from 1893 to 1905. It was located along South State Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where Schembechler Hall stands today.
 * Washtenaw County Fairgrounds - the first home field for the University of Michigan Wolverines football team. The Wolverines played their home games at the Fairgrounds from 1883 to 1884 and again from 1886 to 1892. The first intercollegiate football game played at the Fairgrounds was a May 12, 1883, game between Michigan and the Detroit Independents team. The game was part of a "Field Day" with events that included a ten-mile walk, wrestling and a "hop-skip-and jump" competition.
 * The Victors - the fight song of the University of Michigan. It was composed by UM student Louis Elbel in 1898 following the last-minute football victory over the University of Chicago that clinched a league championship. John Philip Sousa is quoted as saying The Victors is "the greatest college fight song ever written." First performed in public in 1899, "The Victors" did not catch on right away, and did not become Michigan's official fight song until many years later.