Fallout From Minnesota Stories of the game’s brutality circled with the Detroit Free Press reporting that “several assert they heard ‘Podge’ Heffelfinger, who has assisted in coaching Minnesota, cry out from the…
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1903: Michigan Faces Foes on and Off the Field in Tumultuous Season (Part 1)
1903 Begins with Controversy Turmoil and frustration soured the off-season of 1903. The Wolverines were coming off their second national championship season and were the second of Yost’s “Point-a-minute” teams. The dominating…
1901: Michigan Wolverines Welcome Fielding Yost
Michigan entered the 1901 season looking to improve on a disappointing 1900 campaign. The Wolverine’s finished 1900 with a 7-2-1 record and a fifth-place finish in the Western Conference, including a loss to rival Chicago. To make matters worse, first year head coach Langdon Lea left Michigan to be the head coach at Princeton.