1894 Michigan Wolverines football team

1894 Michigan Wolverines football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–1–1
Head coach
CaptainJames Baird
Home stadiumRegents Field
Seasons
← 1893
1895 →
1894 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Western Reserve     7 0 0
North Dakota Agricultural     2 0 0
Baldwin–Wallace     1 0 0
Buchtel     1 0 0
Michigan     9 1 1
Iowa Agricultural     5 1 0
College Of Emporia     4 1 0
Minnesota     3 1 0
Washburn     3 1 0
Wittenberg     6 2 0
Doane     5 2 0
Wisconsin     5 2 0
Notre Dame     3 1 1
Beloit     6 3 0
Washington University     2 1 0
Chicago     14 7 1
Ohio State     6 5 0
Case     4 3 0
Illinois     4 3 0
Oberlin     4 3 1
Cincinnati     3 3 0
Drake     2 2 0
Mount Union     4 5 0
Lake Forest     3 4 0
Miami (OH)     1 2 0
Ohio Wesleyan     1 3 0
Rush Medical     3 6 0
Northwestern     1 5 0
Ohio     0 1 0
South Dakota     0 2 0

The 1894 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan in the 1894 college football season. In its first season under head coach William McCauley, the team compiled a 9–1–1 record and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 244 to 84.[1]

The Wolverines played two games against Cornell, losing at Ithaca and winning the second game in Detroit. The win over Cornell "marked the first time in collegiate football history that a western school defeated an established power from the east."[2] The Wolverines closed the season with a victory over Amos Alonzo Stagg's University of Chicago Maroons.

James Baird was the team's captain and quarterback.

  1. ^ "1894 Football Team". Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
  2. ^ "University of Michigan Football Coaches: William L. McCauley". University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library.