Week 1: Case at Michigan
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Case |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| • Michigan
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14 |
7 |
0 |
13 |
34 |
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Date: October 5, 1912
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Location: Ferry Field
Ann Arbor, MI
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Game start: 2:30 p.m.
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Game attendance: 6,000
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Referee: Ralph P. Hoagland (Princeton)
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Week 2: Michigan Agricultural at Michigan
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Week 3: Michigan at Ohio State
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| • Michigan
|
7 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
14 |
| Ohio State |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Week 4: Michigan at Syracuse
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Michigan |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
| • Syracuse
|
0 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
18 |
-
Date: October 26, 1912
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Location: Standard Oil Stadium
Syracuse, NY
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Referee: Pendleton
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Week 5: South Dakota at Michigan
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Week 6: Michigan at Penn
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Michigan |
14 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
21 |
| • Penn
|
0 |
7 |
7 |
13 |
27 |
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Week 7: Cornell at Michigan
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Cornell |
0 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
| • Michigan
|
7 |
0 |
0 |
13 |
20 |
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The 1912 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1912 college football season. The team's head coach was Fielding H. Yost in his 12th year at Michigan. The Wolverines compiled a record of 5–2 and outscored opponents 158 to 65.
The team's captain and fullback George C. Thomson was also the leading scorer with 49 points on eight touchdowns and one extra point. Two Michigan players, Miller Pontius and Jimmy Craig, were consensus All-Western players. Pontius was also selected as a first-team All-American by Alfred Harvey.
In May 1912, the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania jointly announced that they had signed an agreement to continue their annual football rivalry games through the 1915 season. Since leaving the Big Ten Conference, Michigan had played annual rivalry games against Penn at or near the end of the season. Penn was one of the dominant football programs of the era, winning seven national championships between 1894 and 1912.
In June 1912, the Detroit Free Press wrote that, with eight varsity letter winners returning from the 1911 team, Michigan's football prospects were the "brightest in years."
In early August 1912, invitations were sent to candidates for the football team for training camp at Ferry Field in mid-September. Instead of holding training camp at Whitmore Lake, Michigan, as had been the tradition for several years, the 1912 training camp was held on campus. On the eve of the opening of training camp, Michigan announced that former Michigan star, Henry Schulte, would join Fielding H. Yost's staff as an assistant coach. Stung by fumbles in past years, Coach Yost posted a sign on the door of the training house at Ferry Field that read, "No butterfingers need apply."
On September 23, 1912, the Detroit Free Press reported from training camp that one of the Michigan players had broken the program's marathon eating record. The player, who asked that his identity not be disclosed, reportedly required two waiters "to minister to his wants alone." At the team's lunch on September 22, the player consumed a bowl of cream of tomato soup, a dish of celery, "half a dozen or so bunches of grapes," a dish of crackers, more than ten slices of bread and butter, two helpings of chicken, "three thick slices of roast beef with brown gravy," four side dishes of potatoes, two side orders of string beans, three dishes of ice cream, two dishes of rice pudding, two glasses of milk, and a pitcher of water. The meal was consumed in "the fast time of 2:13." After the contest, Michigan's trainer Stephen Farrell aid, "More could not have been asked," to which the person in charge of feeding the team replied, "More would not have been given."
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