1896 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team

The 1896 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team represented Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) in the 1896 college football season. The Aggies compiled a 1–2–1 record.[1] Although teams representing MAC had played two games against nearby Alma College a decade earlier in 1886, the 1896 season was the first in which MAC fielded a varsity football team for a full season of play.

1896 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football
ConferenceIndependent
1896 record1–2–1
Head coach
  • no coach
1896 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Carthage      4 0 0
Washburn      6 1 1
Iowa Agricultural      8 2 0
Central Michigan      3 1 0
Ohio Wesleyan      6 2 0
Detroit College      5 2 0
North Dakota Agricultural      3 1 1
Heidelberg      2 1 0
Indiana      6 3 0
Ohio      4 2 1
Missouri      7 5 0
Beloit      2 1 3
Butler      4 3 0
Iowa State Normal      4 3 0
Notre Dame      4 3 0
Cincinnati      4 3 1
Wittenberg      5 4 0
Baldwin–Wallace      2 2 0
Kansas State      1 1 1
Ohio State      5 5 1
Lake Forest      3 4 1
Mount Union      3 4 1
Wabash      3 4 0
Drake      2 3 0
Chicago P&S      2 4 2
Michigan Agricultural      1 2 1
Indiana State      0 1 0
Buchtel      0 1 0
Washington University      0 2 0
Haskell      0 4 0
Doane      0 5 0

The team opened the season with a 10-0 victory over Lansing High School on September 26, 1896. In the first intercollegiate game of the season, the Aggies lost to Kalamazoo College by a 21 to 0 score on October 17, 1896. The Aggies then played Alma College to a scoreless tie on October 25, 1896, before closing its season with an 18-16 loss to Alma on November 11, 1896. The 1896 Aggies had no coach.[2]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 26Lansing High School
W 10–0[3]
October 17at KalamazooKalamazoo, MIL 0–24
October 25AlmaLansing, MIT 0–0
November 14AlmaAlma, MIL 16–18[4]

References

  1. "2016 Football Media Guide" (PDF). Michigan State University. p. 146. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
  2. 2016 Media Guide, p. 150.
  3. "M.A.C. Juniors Won at Lansing". Detroit Free Press. September 27, 1896. p. 6 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "The Preachers Were Too Much for the Lansing Farmers". Alma Record. November 20, 1896. p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
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