1883 Michigan Wolverines football team

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.

1883 Michigan Wolverines football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–3
Head coach
  • None
CaptainWilliam J. Olcott
Home stadiumAnn Arbor Fairgrounds
1883 college football records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale   –  9 –0 –0
Gallaudet   –  2 –0 –0
Carleton   –  1 –0 –0
Johns Hopkins   –  1 –0 –0
NYU   –  1 –0 –0
Harvard   –  8 –2 –0
Princeton   –  7 –1 –0
Penn   –  6 –2 –1
Stevens   –  6 –4 –1
Massachusetts   –  1 –1 –0
Minnesota   –  1 –1 –0
Wesleyan   –  3 –3 –0
Williams   –  1 –1 –0
Fordham   –  4 –5 –0
Michigan   –  2 –3 –0
Lafayette   –  2 –4 –0
Johns Hopkins   –  1 –2 –0
Columbia   –  1 –3 –0
Rutgers   –  1 –6 –0
Amherst   –  0 –1 –0
Dartmouth   –  0 –1 –0
Hamline   –  0 –1 –0
Lewisburg   –  0 –1 –0
Navy   –  0 –1 –0
CCNY   –  0 –2 –0
Columbian University   –  0 –2 –0
Georgetown   –  0 –2 –0

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
May 1210:20 a.m.Detroit Independents
W 40–5
November 19at WesleyanHartford, CTL 6–14
November 21at Yale
L 0–64400
November 22at Harvard
L 0–3500[1]
November 27at Stevens
W 17–5[n 1]200

Roster

The following is the roster of the 1883 team as listed in the University of Michigan yearbook, The Palladium, for 1884.[3]
Forwards

Halfbacks

Three-Quarter Back

Fullback

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

Substitutes

  • Raymond Walter Beach, from Atwood, Michigan[7]
  • Henry S. Mahon (Secretary of the Foot-Ball Association)[8]
  • Edgar B. Wright

Coaching staff

Notes
  1. The result of this game is disputed. New York sources have this as 5-1 Stevens win. Michigan sources have this as 17–5 Michigan win. Bentley Historical Library site describes the dispute and includes four links, two describing Michigan version and two describing New York version.[2]

References
  1. "An Unfinished Game Between Harvard And Michigan Elevens". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 23, 1883. p. 5. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  2. "U-M Athletics History: 1883 Football Team". Bentley Historical Library.
  3. The Palladium. 1884. p. 71.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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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