1883 Michigan Wolverines football team

1883 Michigan Wolverines football

Conference	Independent
1883 record	1-4
Head coach	no coach
Captain	William J. Olcott
Home stadium	Ann Arbor Fairgrounds

The 1883 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1883 college football season. The Wolverines played their only home game at the Ann Arbor Fairgrounds.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
May 12, 1883	10:20 AM	Detroit Independents	Ann Arbor Fairgrounds • Ann Arbor, MI	W 40–5
November 19, 1883		at Wesleyan	Middletown, CT	L 6–14
November 21, 1883		at Yale	Hamilton Park • New Haven, CT	L 0–46	400
November 22, 1883		at Harvard	Cambridge, MA	L 0–3	500
November 27, 1883		at Stevens Institute	St. George Cricket Club Grounds • Hoboken, NJ	L 1–5^[1]	200
Homecoming. All times are in Eastern Time.

Roster

The following is the roster of the 1883 team as listed in the University of Michigan yearbook, The Palladium, for 1884.^[2]
Forwards

Elmer Beach (Treasurer of the Foot-Ball Association)
Harry Bitner^[3]
Horace Prettyman
Henry Killilea
Hugh P. Borden^[4]
Richard Dott

Halfbacks

Robert Campbell Gemmel, Salt Lake City, Utah^[5]
Albert I. Moore

Three-Quarter Back

William J. Olcott

Fullback

Thomas W. Gilmore (President of the Foot-Ball Association)

Substitutes

Raymond Walter Beach, from Atwood, Michigan^[6]
Henry S. Mahon (Secretary of the Foot-Ball Association)^[7]
Edgar B. Wright

Coaching staff

Coach: No coach
Captain: William J. Olcott
Manager: Horace Prettyman

References

↑ Note the NCAA wrongly has this score as 17-5 Michigan"Stevens Scores a Victory". New York Times. 1883-11-28.
↑ The Palladium. 1884. p. 71.
↑ Harry Bitner was born approximately 1861 in Illinois. He was listed as a resident of Mount Carroll, Illinois, in the 1870 and 1880 U.S. Censuses. He was the son of Harry Bitner, born c. 1829, a farmer, and Emma E. Bittner, born c. 1830.
↑ Hugh P. Borden was born in August 1858 in Indiana. He was listed as a resident of St. Joseph County, Indiana (either Olive or New Carlisle) in the 1870, 1900 and 1930 Censuses. In 1900, he was a farmer in Olive, residing with his wife Edith and children Clinton and Floyd. In 1930, he was engaged in general farming at New Carlisel.
↑ Robert Campbell Gemmel was born on July 5, 1863 in Port Mathilda, PA, and received a degree in engineering from Michigan in 1884 and returned to Salt Lake City, where he was the assistant managing director of the Jackling allied porphyry mining properties He died on October 25, 1922, while traveling from Hurley, N.M., to Los Angeles. Biography published in the journal Mining and Mtallurgy, Number 192, at pp. 36-37.
↑ Raymond Walter Beach, born November 29, 1863, in Percival, Iowa, formed the Beach & Beach law firm in Chicago with his brother, Elmer Beach. He was also the brother of noted novelist Rex Beach.
↑ Mahon became a lawyer. He practiced in Detroit, Michigan, and later Duluth, Minnesota. He died in 1908 from rheumatism of the heart. See HENRY S. MAHON DEAD: Former Detroiter Passes Away at Home in Duluth, Detroit Free Press, July 2, 1908. His daughter, Winifred Mahon Sanford, was a noted short story writer in the 1920s and 1930s.

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