1883 Michigan Wolverines football team

The 1883 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 1883 college football season

1883 college football season

The 1883 college football season had a clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Yale as national champions....

. The Wolverines played their home games at Ann Arbor Fairgrounds

Ann Arbor Fairgrounds

Ann Arbor Fairgrounds was the first home field for the University of Michigan Wolverines football team. The Wolverines played their home games at the Fairgrounds from 1883 to 1892. The first intercollegiate football game played at the Fairgrounds was a May 12, 1883, game between Michigan and the...

Schedule

Roster

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

Forwards

Elmer Beach
Elmer Beach
Elmer Ellsworth Beach was an American football player and lawyer. He played college football for the University of Michigan from 1882 to 1883. He later became a lawyer in Chicago, established the Beach & Beach law firm, and practiced law from 1887 until his retirement in the 1930s...

(Treasurer of the Foot-Ball Association)
Harry Bitner
Horace Prettyman
Henry Killilea
Henry Killilea
Henry J. Killilea was one the five men who founded baseball's American League as a major league in 1899. The other members of the group were his brother Matthew Killilea, Connie Mack, Charles Comiskey, and the leader of the effort, Ban Johnson. Their first meeting was held in Killilea's Milwaukee...
Hugh P. Borden
Richard Dott

Halfbacks

Robert Campbell Gemmel, Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...
Albert I. Moore

Three-Quarter Back

William J. Olcott
William J. Olcott
William James Olcott was an American football player and mining and railroad executive in the Mesabi Range. He played college football for the University of Michigan from 1881 to 1883 and was captain of the 1882 and 1883 teams. After receiving his degree, he worked in the iron ore mining...

Fullback

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

Substitutes

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

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