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The 1939 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1939 Big Ten Conference football season. Under second-year head coach Fritz Crisler, Michigan compiled a 6–2 record and outscored opponents 219 to 94. The team was ranked No. 2 in the AP Poll after winning its first four games by a combined score of 165 to 27, but lost its fifth and sixth games to Illinois and Minnesota. After winning its final two games, the Wolverines finished the season ranked No. 20 in the final AP Poll. In the post-season rankings by Frank Dickinson, the University of Illinois professor who developed the Dickinson System, Michigan ranked seventh in the country.
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Peter Dwyer was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach and head basketball coach at Niagara University from 1923 to 1927. After working as an assistant coach at Syracuse University, Dwyer became the head football coach and head basketball coach at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York. He was a 1910 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where he played left halfback on the school's football team.
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- ↑ DeLassus, David. "Niagara (NY) Team Records 1923". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
- ↑ DeLassus, David. "Coaching records: Richard C. "Dick" Harlow (1923)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
- 1 2 3 "Niagara Overwhelmed By Colgate Eleven". Colgate Maroon.[ permanent dead link ]
- 1 2 "PLAYERS REFUSE TO TACKLE; After Dispute With Colgate, Niagara Loses Farcical Game, 55 to 0". The New York Times . October 7, 1923. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
- ↑ "NU loses to Colgate Team" (PDF). Niagara Falls-Gazette. October 8, 1923. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
- ↑ "Football's Big Burlesque". Buffalo Courier-Express.