1916 Michigan Wolverines football team

1916 Michigan Wolverines football
Conference	Independent
1916 record	7–2
Head coach	Fielding H. Yost (16th year)
Captain	John Maulbetsch
Home stadium	Ferry Field
Uniform
Seasons ← 1915 1917 →

Week 1: Marietta at Michigan

1 2 3 4 Total Marietta 0 0 0 0 0 • Michigan 7 14 7 10 38 Date: October 4, 1916 Location: Ferry Field Ann Arbor, MI Referee: Walter Kennedy (Chicago)

Week 2: Case at Michigan

1 2 3 4 Total Case 3 0 0 0 3 • Michigan 6 6 0 7 19 Date: October 7, 1916 Location: Ferry Field Ann Arbor, MI Referee: Kennedy (Chicago)

Week 3: Carroll at Michigan

1 2 3 4 Total Carroll College 0 0 0 0 0 • Michigan 20 14 13 7 54 Date: October 11, 1916 Location: Ferry Field Ann Arbor, MI Referee: Snyder (Harvard)

Week 4: Mount Union at Michigan

1 2 3 4 Total Mount Union 0 0 0 0 0 • Michigan 6 6 7 7 26 Date: October 14, 1916 Location: Ferry Field Ann Arbor, MI Referee: Snyder (Harvard)

Week 5: Michigan Agricultural at Michigan

1 2 3 4 Total Michigan Agricultural 0 0 0 0 0 • Michigan 3 0 0 6 9 Date: October 21, 1916 Location: Ferry Field Ann Arbor, MI Referee: Hackett (Army)

Week 6: Syracuse at Michigan

1 2 3 4 Total Syracuse 3 10 0 0 13 • Michigan 0 0 0 14 14 Date: October 28, 1916 Location: Ferry Field Ann Arbor, MI Referee: Holderness (Lehigh)

Week 7: Washington University at Michigan

1 2 3 4 Total Washington U. 0 7 0 0 7 • Michigan 6 20 13 27 66 Date: November 4, 1916 Location: Ferry Field Ann Arbor, MI Referee: Captain Haines (Yale)

Week 8: Michigan at Cornell

1 2 3 4 Total Michigan 0 14 6 0 20 • Cornell 6 0 7 10 23 Date: November 11, 1916 Location: Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY

Week 7: Penn at Michigan

1 2 3 4 Total • Penn 7 3 0 0 10 Michigan 0 0 0 7 7 Date: November 18, 1916 Location: Ferry Field Ann Arbor, MI Referee: J. C. Holderness (Lehigh)

The 1916 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1916 college football season. In his 16th year as head coach, Fielding H. Yost led Michigan to a 7–2 record, as the Wolverines outscored their opponents by a combined score of 253 to 56. Michigan held its first five opponents to a combined total of three points and won its first seven games by a combined score of 227 to 23. The team then lost its final two games, each game by a margin of only three points, against Cornell and Penn.

Michigan's leading scorer was left halfback John Maulbetsch with 89 kicks for on 11 touchdowns, 20 points after touchdown (PAT) and a field goal. Maulbetsch was also the team's captain. Quarterback Cliff Sparks added 40 points on six touchdowns, one field goal and one PAT. New York sports writer Monty selected Sparks as the first-team quarterback on his 1916 College Football All-America Team.

On Wednesday, October 4, 1916, Michigan opened its season with a game at Ferry Field against Marietta College from Marietta, Ohio. The game was the second and final game against the Marietta Pioneers football team, with Michigan having defeated the Pioneers by a 28–6 score in 1915.

Michigan defeated Marietta in the 1916 match by a 38–0 score. Quarterback Cliff Sparks scored three touchdownsF. The Detroit Free Press characterized Sparks' running as "one of the big features of the game." Left halfback John Maulbetsch scored a touchdown, kicked a field goal from placement, and converted four of four attempts at kicks for point after touchdown (PAT) for a total of 13 points. Philip Raymond also scored a touchdown, and Frank Willard kicked a PAT. Marietta relied heavily on the forward pass and did so with some success. Early in the game, Marietta completed a pass, Whiting to Hayes, for a gain of 55 yards before being tackled by Sparks.

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