page_title: 1922 Michigan Wolverines football team
section_title: Week 5: Michigan Agricultural
hierarchical_section_title: 1922 Michigan Wolverines football team / Season summary / Week 5: Michigan Agricultural
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Franklin Cappon running for a touchdown against Michigan Agricultural College, November 1922.
context_page_description: The 1922 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1922 Big Ten Conference football season. In Fielding H. Yost's 22nd season as head coach, Michigan compiled a record of 6–0–1, outscored opponents 183–13, and tied with Iowa for the Big Ten championship. On defense, the team did not allow its opponents to score a point in the first five games of the season, and its scoring defense of 1.85 points per game is among the lowest in Michigan football history.
  Highlights of the 1922 season included participation in dedication games for Vanderbilt University's Dudley Field, the first large athletic stadium in the South, and Ohio State University's Ohio Stadium. In the latter, the Wolverines shut out the Buckeyes, 19–0.
  Halfback Harry Kipke led the team in scoring with 48 points in six games, handled punting responsibilities, and was also one of the team's best defensive players. Kipke was a consensus All-American, receiving first-team honors from Walter Camp, Athletic World, Walter Eckersall, Norman E. Brown, and Lawrence Perry.
context_section_description: For its fifth game, Michigan defeated the team from Michigan Agricultural College, 63–0.  Lloyd Northard wrote in the Detroit Free Press that "not in the past 10 years has an Aggie team been so utterly out-classed in every department of the game."  Fully embracing the passing game, Michigan threw 33 passes with 17 completions.  Northard wrote that the game at times "more resembled basketball than football" and called it "the greatest exhibition of aerial play ever witnessed on Ferry Field", setting records for both passes thrown and completed.
  Michigan's first touchdown came on a 29-yard pass from Harry Kipke to Irwin Uteritz.  Uteritz injured his ankle on the play and was replaced at quarterback by Ray Knode.  Paul Goebel place-kicked for the extra point.  On Michigan's second scoring drive, Kipke accounted for most of Michigan's 56 yards, and Knode ran for the touchdown from the one-yard line.  Goebel again place-kicked for the extra point.  At the start of the second quarter, Michigan drove 53 yards for its third touchdown.  The drive featured runs of 16 and 18 yards by Kipke around the ends and a 17-yard gain on a pass from Kipke to Jackson Keefer.  Franklin Cappon carried the ball across the goal line for the touchdown.  Goebel missed the extra point, and Michigan led, 20–0.  Later in the quarter, Michigan drove 66 yards for its fourth touchdown.  The drive featured a 46-yard gain on a pass from Knode to Goebel who was tackled at the Aggies' 20-yard line.  Cappon carried the ball over the goal line for his second touchdown of the quarter.  Kipke drop-kicked for the extra point, and Michigan led, 27–0.  Near the end of the first half, Stanley Muirhead blocked a punt on the Aggies' 12-yard line.  Michigan faked a field goal, and Goebel passed to Keefer for the touchdown.  Kipke missed the extra point, and Michigan led, 33–0, at halftime.
  During the third quarter, Michigan played with substitutes at every position.  On Michigan's first possession of the quarter, Steger place-kicked for a field goal to extend the lead to 36–0.  Steger also had a 41-yard punt return in the third quarter, but the Wolverines were unable to score.  Late in the third quarter, LeRoy Neisch blocked a pass from McMillan, pulled it in for an interception, and returned the ball 35 yards for a touchdown.  A pass attempt for the extra point was incomplete, and Michigan led, 42–0.  Michigan's starters returned to the game in the fourth quarter and scored three more touchdowns.  Steger, from a place-kick formation, ran 30 yards for the seventh touchdown, and Kipke drop-kicked for the extra point.  On the next possession, Michigan scored on a 65-yard drive that included a 53-yard gain on a pass from Steger to Neisch.  Kipke then scored on a ten-yard pass from Knode, and Kipke drop-kicked for the extra point.  Michigan's final drive featured a one-handed catch by Steger on a pass from Knode and ended with a six-yard touchdown run by Knode.  Steger kicked the extra point to give the Wolverines a 63–0 victory.
  Michigan's 63 points were scored by Knode (13), Cappon (12), Steger (10), Kipke (9), Uteritz (6), Keefer (6), Neisch (6), and Goebel (1).  Michigan's starting lineup against the Aggies was Kirk (left end), Rosatti (left tackle), Steele (left guard), Blott (center), Slaughter (right guard), Muirhead (right tackle), Goebel (right end), Uteritz (quarterback), Kipke (left halfback), Steger (right halfback), and Cappon (fullback).  Players appearing in the game as substitutes were Knode, Johns, Van Orden, Dunleavy, Garfield, Henderson, Blahnik, White, Gunther, Rankin, Chamberlain, Heath, Smith, and Tracey.
caption: Franklin Cappon plunges into the Aggies' line for a touchdown.
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