1917 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team

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1917 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football
ConferenceIndependent
Record0–9
Head coach
CaptainSherman Coryell
Home stadium College Field
Seasons
  1916
1918  
1917 Midwestern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Marquette   8 0 1
Detroit   8 1 0
Morningside   5 1 0
Notre Dame   6 1 1
Heidelberg   5 1 1
St. Mary's (OH)   7 2 0
St. Xavier   4 1 2
North Dakota Agricultural   4 2 0
Akron   5 3 0
Haskell   6 5 0
Western State Normal (MI)   4 3 0
Saint Louis   4 3 1
Michigan State Normal   3 4 0
Iowa State Teachers   2 3 0
South Dakota   2 3 0
Central Michigan   1 2 0
Lake Forest   2 5 0
Wabash   1 6 1
Toledo   0 3 0
Michigan Agricultural   0 9 0

The 1917 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team represented Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) as an independent during the 1917 college football season. In their ninth non-consecutive year under head coach Chester Brewer (Brewer previously coached the Aggies from 1903 to 1910), the Aggies compiled a 0–9 record and were outscored by their opponents 179 to 23. [1]

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This season marks the only time in team history in which they went winless on the field; in 1994, the Spartans finished with a 5–6 record, but this was changed to 0-11 after an academic scandal led to the forfeiture of their victories.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 6 Alma L 7–14
October 13 Kalamazoo
  • College Field
  • East Lansing, MI
L 3–7
October 20at Michigan L 0–279,038
October 27 Detroit
  • College Field
  • East Lansing, MI
L 0–14 [2]
November 3 Western State Normal
  • College Field
  • East Lansing, MI
L 0–14
November 10at Northwestern L 6–39
November 17at Notre Dame L 0–23
November 24 Syracuse Dagger-14-plain.png
  • College Field
  • East Lansing, MI
L 7–21
November 29 Camp MacArthur
  • College Field
  • East Lansing, MI
L 0–20
  • Dagger-14-plain.pngHomecoming

Game summaries

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On October 20, 1917, the Aggies played their annual game against Michigan at Ferry Field. It was the 12th game between the two schools dating back to 1898. Michigan had won eight of the prior 11 games. [3] Michigan won the 1917 game by a score of 27 to 0. Michigan scored in the first quarter on a drive that featured a 30-yard run by Tad Wieman and was capped by a 15-yard touchdown run by Archie Weston. At halftime, the schools' combined bands led a detachment of troops onto the field and played the "Star Spangled Banner" and "The Victors". In the third quarter, the Wolverines scoring drive began with a 20-yard punt return by Weston with Wieman scoring on a seven-yard run. In the fourth quarter, Wieman ran through the middle of the M.A.C. line, "shook off five tacklers," and scored on a 35-yard touchdown run. Later in the fourth quarter, Weston ran 30 yards around the left end to the M.A.C. 12-yard line, and Wieman scored his third touchdown of the afternoon on a one-yard run. [4] [5]

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References

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