The 1899 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 1899 college football season

1899 college football season

The 1899 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Harvard and Princeton as national champions....

. The team was coached by former Michigan halfback Gustave Ferbert

Gustave Ferbert

-Gold prospecting in Alaska:After his coaching career at Michigan, Ferbert went to Alaska to search for gold. In May 1900, amid the Klondike Gold Rush, newspapers reported that Ferbert had left Ann Arbor for Seattle, where he planned to join "High" Allen and "Count" Villa, described as "two other...

. The Wolverines opened the season with six consecutive shutouts, outscoring opponents in those six contests by a combined score of 109 to 0. However, Michigan finished the season by going 2–2 in their final four games, losing a close game to the University of Pennsylvania Quakers

Penn Quakers football

The Penn Quakers football team is the college football team at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. The Penn Quakers have competed in the Ivy League since its inaugural season of 1956, and are currently a Division I Football Championship Subdivision member of the National...

 (11–10) and another to the Wisconsin Badgers

Wisconsin Badgers football

The Wisconsin Badgers are a college football program that represents the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision and the Big Ten Conference. They play their home games at Camp Randall Stadium, the fourth-oldest stadium in college football...

 (17–5). After the 1899 season, Ferbert resigned as Michigan's head coach to travel to Alaska

Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

 to participate in the Klondike Gold Rush

Klondike Gold Rush

The Klondike Gold Rush, also called the Yukon Gold Rush, the Alaska Gold Rush and the Last Great Gold Rush, was an attempt by an estimated 100,000 people to travel to the Klondike region the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1897 and 1899 in the hope of successfully prospecting for gold...

. He returned from Alaska several years later as a millionaire.

Schedule

Early games

Michigan opened the season with three non-conference home games in which they outscored the opponents by a combined score of 54 to 0. The games were played against Hillsdale College

Hillsdale College

Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, United States, is a co-educational liberal arts college known for being the first American college to prohibit in its charter all discrimination based on race, religion, or sex; its refusal of government funding; and its monthly publication, Imprimis...

 (11–0), Albion College

Albion College

Albion College is a private liberal arts college located in Albion, Michigan. Related to the United Methodist Church, it was founded in 1835 and was the first private college in Michigan to have a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. It has a student population of about 1500.The school's sports teams are...

 (26–0) and Western Reserve

Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA...

 (17–0).

Michigan 12, Notre Dame 0

Michigan faced Notre Dame

Notre Dame Fighting Irish football

Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team is the football team of the University of Notre Dame. The team is currently coached by Brian Kelly.Notre Dame competes as an Independent at the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision level, and is a founding member of the Bowl Championship Series coalition. It is an...

 at Regents Field

Regents Field

Regents Field was 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....

 in Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2010 census places the population at 113,934, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 344,791 as of 2010...

 on October 18, 1899. Michigan won the game by a score of 12 to 0. A newspaper account reported that Michigan's defense was generally good, and the team's overall performance against Notre Dame was "much superior" to that displayed in the prior week's game against Western Reserve.

Michigan 5, Illinois 0

Michigan traveled to Champaign, Illinois

Champaign, Illinois

Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, in the United States. The city is located south of Chicago, west of Indianapolis, Indiana, and 178 miles northeast of St. Louis, Missouri. Though surrounded by farm communities, Champaign is notable for sharing the campus of the University of...

 for a late October game against the University of Illinois. The first half ended in a scoreless tie, and Michigan scored the game's only points on a touchdown in the second half. On the scoring drive, McLean gained 20 yards carrying the ball to the Illinois 12-yard line. Everett Sweeney ran for six yards, and Charles McDonald then took the ball over the goal line for the score. Other newspaper accounts noted that Michigan's weight won the game, which was hard fought, from start to finish," and the game was "the most hotly contested one ever played on the Illinois field."

Michigan 38, Virginia 0

Michigan next faced the University of Virginia in a game played at Bennett Park in Detroit. The Wolverines won the game by a score of 38 to 0. A newspaper account at the time reported that the game was a mismatch: "Virginia's light line was no match for the heavyweights from Ann Arbor, and in the second went all to pieces, the Michigan men gaining almost at will."

Penn 11, Michigan 10

Michigan traveled to Philadelphia to play the University of Pennsylvania Quakers on November 11, 1899. At the time, Penn was one of the three top football teams in the country. Michigan scored first on a 22-yard touchdown run by John McLean

John McLean (athlete)

John Frederick McLean was an All-American college football player, track and field athlete, and coach. He won a silver medal in the 110 metre hurdles at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris with a time of 15.5 seconds. He was also selected as an All-American football player in 1899 while playing for...

 around Penn's left end. Neil Snow

Neil Snow

Neil Worthington Snow gained renown as an all-around athlete at the University of Michigan from 1898–1902, where he competed in American football, baseball, track and field, and tennis. He was an All-American player in 1901, and was the Most Valuable player in the 1902 Rose Bowl, where he...

 missed the kick for the goal after touchdown, and Michigan led 5 to 0 at halftime. Penn's All-American Truxton Hare

Truxton Hare

Thomas Truxtun Hare was an American track and field athlete who competed in the hammer throw and All rounder events. He was also an American football player for the University of Pennsylvania from 1897 to 1900. Hare is one of only a handful of men to earn All-American honors during all four years...

 scored a touchdown in the second half (also missing its goal after touchdown attempt) to tie the score at 5 to 5. Michigan re-took the lead when McLean and Allen Steckle

Allen Steckle

Allen Chubb "A. C." Steckle was an American football player and coach. He played tackle for the University of Michigan from 1897–1899 and later served as the head football coach at the University of Nevada and Oregon State University, then known as Oregon Agricultural College...

 carried the ball to Pennsylvania's ten-yard line, and Michigan tackle, Charles McDonald, then carried the ball over the goal line for Michigan's second touchdown. Michigan's Everett Sweeley

Everett Sweeley

Everett Marlin Sweeley was an American football player and coach. He played fullback, halfback and end for the University of Michigan from 1899 to 1902 and was a member of Fielding H. Yost's 1901 and 1902 "Point-a-Minute" teams...

 missed the goal after touchdown, and Michigan led 10 to 5. With less than seven minutes left in the game, Hare scored his second touchdown of the game, and Pete Overfield

Pete Overfield

Peter Delome "Pete" Overfield was an All-American and professional football player, federal judge and rancher. Overfield played center for the University of Pennsylvania and was a first-team All-American in 1898 and 1899. He served as a federal district judge in Alaska from 1909-1917...

 kicked the goal after touchdown to give the Quakers the win with a final score of 11 to 10.

Although Michigan lost by a final score of 12 to 11 on Penn's Franklin Field, the Wolverines gained national respect with a good showing against the Quakers. The New York Times reported on the results of the game as follows:

"The game was a royal battle from start to finish, and was marked by both brilliant and poor playing by both teams. Pennsylvania earned her victory because she had to play harder for her two touch-downs than did Michigan. The latter team, although beaten, was not disgraced, for the Western boys made their Eastern rivals work hard for every inch of ground they gained. ... The game was a beautiful one for the spectators to look at. Both teams were about as evenly matched as they could be. The Quakers excelled in line bucking and in kicking, while Michigan far outplayed Pennsylvania when it came to skirting the ends. McLean, Michigan's left half back, was almost invariably used for end running, and his brilliant sprinting around Pennsylvania's ends often brought applause from the followers of the Quakers. The interference accorded him was almost perfect, and this, in a great measure, helped him in gaining ground."

The game also featured a duel between two of the best centers in the country, Penn's Pete Overfield

Pete Overfield

Peter Delome "Pete" Overfield was an All-American and professional football player, federal judge and rancher. Overfield played center for the University of Pennsylvania and was a first-team All-American in 1898 and 1899. He served as a federal district judge in Alaska from 1909-1917...

 and Michigan's William Cunningham

William Cunningham (American football)

William Ralph Cunningham was an All-American football center for the University of Michigan Wolverines.Cunningham was born at Volant, Pennsylvania in July 1872...

. Cunningham was Michigan's first ever All-American in 1898, when he was selected as a first-team All-American by Casper Whitney, and Overfield was picked by Walter Camp

Walter Camp

Walter Chauncey Camp was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football...

 as the first-team All-American of 1898. The New York Times reported on the match-up of Cunningham and Overfield as follows:

"The duel between Cunningnam and Overfield, the centre rushes, was interesting. Both are high-class players, and they played with a dash that was inspiring. Cunningham had much the better of it during the first half, but in the second period Overfield, through better staying qualities, made big holes through Michigan's bulky centre."

Michigan 28, Case 6

After its road trip to Philadelphia, Michigan faced Case

Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA...

 at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Michigan began the game playing its substitutes, and Case scored the game's first touchdown less than seven minutes into the game. Michigan scored a touchdown but missed the goal after touchdown and trailed Case 6 to 5 at halftime. In the second half, Michigan's substitutes were replaced by regular varsity players, and a newspaper account indicates that Michigan added 32 points in the second half. However, other records show Michigan's point total as 28.

Michigan 24, Kalamazoo 0

On the Saturday before Michigan's championship game against Chicago, the Wolverines played Kalamazoo at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Michigan won the game easily by a score of 24 to 0.

Wisconsin 17, Michigan 5

The Western Conference championship was decided in a Thanksgiving Day match between Michigan and Wisconsin played on the National League baseball field in Chicago. Large numbers traveled from both Michigan and Wisconsin to watch the match, and the crowd was estimated to be 21,000—reported to be probably the largest ever to watch a football game in the West. A newspaper account described the scene as follows:

"Probably 21,000 people saw the struggle. Excursion trains were run from Milwaukee, Madison and Marinette, Wis., and from Ann Arbor and Menominee, Mich., and long before the game was called the immense stretches of bleachers and the grandstand at the south end of the field were packed so that hardly an inch of room was left. The brass bands of both universities were present, and before the game and between the halves marched around the gridiron trying to make themselves heard through the discord of tin horns and hoarse voices."

Wisconsin won the game by a score of 17 to 6, in large part due to the kicking of Pat O'Dea

Pat O'Dea

-External links:* Australian Dictionary of Biography...

. O'Dea accounted for five points with a field goal from the 35-yard line and kicked a long punt to McLean which was fumbled behind the goal line where it was recovered by Wisconsin for a touchdown. O'Dea was later ejected from the game for slugging. Wisconsin's weak spot in the game was at left end, where Cochems

Eddie Cochems

Edward Bulwer "Eddie" Cochems was an American football player and coach. He played football for the University of Wisconsin from 1898 to 1901 and was the head football coach at North Dakota State , Clemson , Saint Louis University , and Maine . During his three years at St...

 gave up many long runs by Michigan, including the Wolverines' lone touchdown on a 45-yard run by McLain. Neil Snow

Neil Snow

Neil Worthington Snow gained renown as an all-around athlete at the University of Michigan from 1898–1902, where he competed in American football, baseball, track and field, and tennis. He was an All-American player in 1901, and was the Most Valuable player in the 1902 Rose Bowl, where he...

 played against Cochems and "bothered his man greatly, and frequently put him out of the plays."

All-American

Prior to 1898, no player from a "Western" school had been selected as a college football All-American. Williams Cunningham

William Cunningham (American football)

William Ralph Cunningham was an All-American football center for the University of Michigan Wolverines.Cunningham was born at Volant, Pennsylvania in July 1872...

 became Michigan's first All-American in 1898. The 1899 College Football All-America Team

1899 College Football All-America Team

The 1899 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams for the 1899 college football season...

, as selected by the Philadelphia Inquirer, included three Michigan players:

• Neil Snow
  Neil Snow
  Neil Worthington Snow gained renown as an all-around athlete at the University of Michigan from 1898–1902, where he competed in American football, baseball, track and field, and tennis. He was an All-American player in 1901, and was the Most Valuable player in the 1902 Rose Bowl, where he...
  
   - Snow played at the end position for the 1899 Wolverines and repeated as an All-American in 1901. One of the great athletes in the history of the University of Michigan, Snow won more varsity letter
  Varsity letter
  A varsity letter is an award earned in the United States for excellence in school activities. A varsity letter signifies that its winner was a qualified varsity team member, awarded after a certain standard was met.- Description :...
  
  s than any other athlete (four each in baseball, football and track) in the school's history, scored five touchdowns in the first Rose Bowl game
  1902 Rose Bowl
  Originally titled the "Tournament East-West football game," what is now known as the Rose Bowl Game was first played on January 1, 1902 in Pasadena, California, starting the tradition of New Year's Day bowl games.The inaugural game featured Fielding H...
  
   in 1902, and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame
  College Football Hall of Fame
  The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football. Located in South Bend, Indiana, it is connected to a convention center and situated in the city's renovated downtown district, two miles south of the University of Notre Dame campus. It is slated to move...
  
   in 1960.
• John McLean - McLean played halfback
  Halfback (American football)
  A halfback, sometimes referred to as a tailback, is an offensive position in American football, which lines up in the backfield and generally is responsible for carrying the ball on run plays. Historically, from the 1870s through the 1950s, the halfback position was both an offensive and defensive...
  
   for the 1899 Wolverines. He was also a gifted track athlete. The following summer, he represented the United States and the 1900 Summer Olympics
  Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics
  At the 1900 Summer Olympics, twenty-three athletics events were contested. 117 athletes from 15 nations competed. In many countries, due in part to the conflagration of the Olympic Games and the World's Fair in Paris, the media discussed only the athletics events under the "Olympic" name while...
  
   in Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
  , where he won the silver medal in the 110 metre hurdles with a time of 15.5 seconds. He went on to coach the Knox College and University of Missouri
  University of Missouri
  The University of Missouri System is a state university system providing centralized administration for four universities, a health care system, an extension program, five research and technology parks, and a publishing press. More than 64,000 students are currently enrolled at its four campuses...
  
   football teams.
• Richard France
  Richard France
  Richard Roy France was an American football guard who played for the University of Michigan in 1898 and 1899.France was born in Decatur, Indiana, in 1879. He was the son of John T. France, a lawyer, and Belle France....
  
   - France played at the tackle
  Tackle (American football)
  Tackle is a playing position in American and Canadian football. Historically, in the one-platoon system a tackle played on both offense and defense. In the modern system of specialized units, offensive tackle and defensive tackle are separate positions....
  
   position for the 1899 Wolverines. In addition to his selection as an All-American by the Philadelphia Inquirer, France was also a consensus All-Western player in 1899. France drew press coverage for his role in the 1899 Western Conference championship game. Wisconsin was led that year by Pat O'Dea
  Pat O'Dea
  -External links:* Australian Dictionary of Biography...
  
  , considered the greatest kicker in the history of the game to that time. Wisconsin took an 11–0 lead in the game, largely through the play of O'Dea. There were reports that Michigan's strategy was to put O'Dea out of the game, and he was subjected to a number of rough hits by France and William Cunningham. On one play, France "came into him like a battering ram after he had punted the ball." O'Dea warned France that if he did it again "there would be trouble." After another punt, France came for O'Dea again, and O'Dea slugged France in the face. A Wisconsin newspaper account described the incident as follows: "Meantime O'Dea had been laying out France, hitting him with such force that the big guard was stretched out and but for the time gained through the wrangle at the end of the goal line and the speedy ending of the half, would hardly have been able to continue playing. O'Dea claimed that the knockout blow was accidental." The game's referee saw the blow, and O'Dea was ejected from the game. Even without O'Dea, Wisconsin hung on in the second half to win the game 17–5.

Starting lineup

• Ends

Neil Worthington Snow

Neil Snow

Neil Worthington Snow gained renown as an all-around athlete at the University of Michigan from 1898–1902, where he competed in American football, baseball, track and field, and tennis. He was an All-American player in 1901, and was the Most Valuable player in the 1902 Rose Bowl, where he...

, Detroit, Michigan

David D. Gill, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...

George Burns, Fremont, Michigan

Fremont, Michigan

Fremont is a city in Newaygo County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 4,081 at the 2010 census.- History :The first inhabitants of the Fremont area were native Americans. A group of settlers led by Daniel Weaver first settled in the area in 1855. The Weaver homestead served as the...

 (reserve)

Charles Juttner, Powers, Michigan

Powers, Michigan

Powers is a village in Menominee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 430 at the 2000 census. It was named for John Powers, a bookkeeper for a logging company that came into the area in the late 19th century....

 (reserve)

• Tackles

Allen Steckle

Allen Steckle

Allen Chubb "A. C." Steckle was an American football player and coach. He played tackle for the University of Michigan from 1897–1899 and later served as the head football coach at the University of Nevada and Oregon State University, then known as Oregon Agricultural College...

, Freeport, Michigan

Freeport, Michigan

Freeport is a village in Irving Township, Barry County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 444 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land.-Demographics:...

Hugh White, Lapeer, Michigan

Lapeer, Michigan

Lapeer is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is the county seat of Lapeer County. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 8,841. Most of the city was incorporated from land that was formerly in Lapeer Township, though portions were also annexed from Mayfield Township and Elba...

Charles G. McDonald, Fremont, Nebraska

Fremont, Nebraska

Fremont is a city in and the county seat of Dodge County, Nebraska, United States, near Omaha in the eastern part of the state. The population was 26,397 at the 2010 census....

 (Oberlin U)

Elisha Elijah Sayed, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2010 census places the population at 113,934, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 344,791 as of 2010...

 (reserve)

Ebin Wilson

Ebin Wilson

Ebin "Tug" Wilson was an American football player and coach. He was a starter on the 1901 Michigan Wolverines football team that outscored its opponents 550–0 and later coached football at Wabash College and Alma College.-Early life and playing career:Wilson was born in August 1869...

, Lapeer, Michigan

Lapeer, Michigan

Lapeer is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is the county seat of Lapeer County. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 8,841. Most of the city was incorporated from land that was formerly in Lapeer Township, though portions were also annexed from Mayfield Township and Elba...

 (reserve)

Godlove Orth Deitz, Gilman, Illinois

Gilman, Illinois

Gilman is a city in Douglas Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,793 at the 2000 census, and 1,677 in 2009.-Geography:...

 (reserve)

Arthur D. Brookfield, Englewood, Illinois (reserve)

Jesse Lansing Yont, Anamosa, Iowa

Anamosa, Iowa

As of the census of 2000, there were 5,494 people, 1,750 households, and 1,135 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,453.4 people per square mile . There were 1,884 housing units at an average density of 841.3 per square mile...

 (reserve)

• Guards

Rudolph J. Siegmund, Huntington, Indiana

Huntington, Indiana

Huntington, known as the "Lime City", is a small city in and the county seat of Huntington County, Indiana, United States. It is in Huntington Township and Union Township...

Richard France

Richard France

Richard Roy France was an American football guard who played for the University of Michigan in 1898 and 1899.France was born in Decatur, Indiana, in 1879. He was the son of John T. France, a lawyer, and Belle France....

, Decatur, Indiana

Decatur, Indiana

Decatur is a city in Root and Washington townships, Adams County, Indiana, United States. The city, which serves as the county seat of Adams County, takes its name after the prominent war hero Stephen Decatur, Jr., one of the captains of the original 6 frigates of the US navy...

Charles F. Bliss, Durham, Maine

Durham, Maine

Durham is a town in Androscoggin County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,419 at the 2000 census. It is included in both the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Metropolitan New England City and Town Area.-Geography:According to the United...

 (reserve)

Rutherford Kramer, Elgin, Illinois

Elgin, Illinois

Elgin is a city in northern Illinois located roughly northwest of Chicago on the Fox River. Most of Elgin lies within Kane County, Illinois, with a portion in Cook County, Illinois...

 (reserve)

Samuel Kelley, Knobnoster, Missouri (reserve)

• Centers

William Cunningham

William Cunningham (American football)

William Ralph Cunningham was an All-American football center for the University of Michigan Wolverines.Cunningham was born at Volant, Pennsylvania in July 1872...

, Grove City, Pennsylvania

Grove City, Pennsylvania

Grove City is a borough in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, approximately north of Pittsburgh. It is the home of Grove City College, a private conservative Christian liberal arts college; General Electric; Instron; USIS; George G. Howe Co.; and a number of small businesses. It is also the home to...

John Dickey, Niles, Michigan

Niles, Michigan

Niles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. The population was 11,600 at the 2010 census. It is the greater populated of two principal cities of and included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a...

 (reserve)

• Quarterbacks

Charles E. Street, Lee, Massachusetts

Lee, Massachusetts

Lee is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, metropolitan statistical area. The population was 5,943 which was determined in the 2010 census. Lee, which includes the villages of South and East Lee, is part of the Berkshires resort...

 (Williams College)

Allen Wynand Gardener (reserve)

Walter W. Shaw

Walter W. Shaw

Walter White Shaw was an American football player and coach, attorney and businessman. He played at the halfback position for Fielding H. Yost's renowned 1901 "Point-a-Minute" football team. He later worked as an attorney, judge and businessman in Oklahoma and Louisiana.Shaw was born in Owego,...

, 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...

 (reserve)

George S. Herr, Waterbury, Connecticut

Waterbury, Connecticut

Waterbury is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, on the Naugatuck River, 33 miles southwest of Hartford and 77 miles northeast of New York City...

 (reserve)

Arthur M. Fitzgerald, Springfield, Illinois

Springfield, Illinois

Springfield is the third and current capital of the US state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County with a population of 117,400 , making it the sixth most populated city in the state and the second most populated Illinois city outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area...

 (reserve)

• Fullback

Leo J. Keena

Leo J. Keena

Leo Japathet Keena was an American football player and diplomat. Keena was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1878, the son of James T. Keena and Henrietta Keena. His father was a lawyer who later became the president of the Peoples State Bank of Detroit...

Everett Marlin Sweeley

Everett Sweeley

Everett Marlin Sweeley was an American football player and coach. He played fullback, halfback and end for the University of Michigan from 1899 to 1902 and was a member of Fielding H. Yost's 1901 and 1902 "Point-a-Minute" teams...

, Sioux City, Iowa

Sioux City, Iowa

Sioux City is a city in Plymouth and Woodbury counties in the western part of the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 82,684 in the 2010 census, a decline from 85,013 in the 2000 census, which makes it currently the fourth largest city in the state....

Harry Shurtleff Durant, Chicago, Illinois (reserve)

• Halfbacks

John McLean

John McLean (athlete)

John Frederick McLean was an All-American college football player, track and field athlete, and coach. He won a silver medal in the 110 metre hurdles at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris with a time of 15.5 seconds. He was also selected as an All-American football player in 1899 while playing for...

 , Menominee, Michigan

Menominee, Michigan

Menominee is a city in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 9,131. It is the county seat of Menominee County. Menominee is the fourth-largest city in the Upper Peninsula, behind Marquette, Sault Ste. Marie, and Escanaba...

Ard Ezra Richardson, Jackson, Michigan

Jackson, Michigan

Jackson is a city located along Interstate 94 in the south central area of the U.S. state of Michigan, about west of Ann Arbor and south of Lansing. It is the county seat of Jackson County. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 33,534...

Harrison S. "Boss" Weeks, Allegan, Michigan

Allegan, Michigan

Allegan is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 4,838. It is the county seat of Allegan County. The city lies within Allegan Township, but is administratively autonomous....

 (reserve)

Albert E. Herrnstein

Albert E. Herrnstein

Albert Ernest Herrnstein was an American football player and coach. He played at the University of Michigan as a halfback and end from 1899–1902 and was the head football coach at the Haskell Indian School , Purdue University , and Ohio State University .-University of Michigan:A native of...

, Chillicothe, Ohio

Chillicothe, Ohio

Chillicothe is a city in and the county seat of Ross County, Ohio, United States.Chillicothe was the first and third capital of Ohio and is located in southern Ohio along the Scioto River. The name comes from the Shawnee name Chalahgawtha, meaning "principal town", as it was a major settlement of...

 (reserve)

J. Elliott McAfee (reserve)

Walter G. Bain, Ann Arbor, Michigan (reserve)

Coaching and training staff

• Head coach: Gustave Ferbert
  Gustave Ferbert
  -Gold prospecting in Alaska:After his coaching career at Michigan, Ferbert went to Alaska to search for gold. In May 1900, amid the Klondike Gold Rush, newspapers reported that Ferbert had left Ann Arbor for Seattle, where he planned to join "High" Allen and "Count" Villa, described as "two other...
  
   (Class of 1897)
• Assistant coaches: John R. Duffy (Class of 1891), H. G. Hadden (Class of 1895), Frederick W. Henninger
  Frederick W. Henninger
  Frederick William "Pa" Henninger was an American businessman and football player and coach. He played football for the University of Michigan from 1893 to 1896 and was the captain of the 1895 team that outscored their opponents by a combined score of 266 to 14...
  
   (Class of 1897)
• Graduate manager: Charles A. Baird
  Charles A. Baird
  Charles A. Baird was an American football manager, university athletic director, and banker.He was the manager of the University of Michigan football team from 1893 to 1895 and the school's first athletic director from 1898 to 1909. During his time as Michigan's athletic director, he was...
  
  (Class of 1894)
• Student manager: Leonard D. Verdier (Class of 1901)
• Assistant student manager: Harry K. Crafts (Class of 1901)

External links

• 1899 Football Team -- Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Athletics History
• Michigan Alumnus, 1899-1900 - includes accounts of each game
• 1900 Michiganensian - University of Michigan yearbook for the 1899-1900 academic year]