page_title: 1906 Michigan Wolverines football team
section_title: at Ohio State
hierarchical_section_title: 1906 Michigan Wolverines football team / Season summary / at Ohio State
caption_attribution_description: English: "The 1906 Football Team and Substitutes" Front row: Magoffin, Workman, Newton Second row: Fitzpatrick, Hammond, Graham, Curtis, Loell, Clement, Rumney, Whitmire, Hull (mgr) Third row: Wheeler, Eyke, Bishop, Morgan, Yost, Garrels, Wright, Embs Back row: Chandler, Steckle
context_page_description: The 1906 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1906 college football season. The team's head coach was Fielding H. Yost in his sixth year at Michigan. The team compiled a record of 4–1 and outscored opponents, 72 to 30.
  The 1906 season was played under two sets of new rules. First, the rules governing intercollegiate football were changed to promote a more "open" and less dangerous style of play. The changes included the legalization of the forward pass and allowing the punting team to recover an "on-side" kick as a live ball. Second, the Big Nine Conference enacted new rules, including a rule limiting teams to five games and prohibitions on the "training table" and pre-season training before the start of the academic year.
  Also before the season began, university officials ruled that two of the stars from the 1905 team, Germany Schulz and Walter Rheinschild, were academically ineligible to compete in football. Despite the setbacks, Michigan won its first four games by a combined score of 72 to 13. The season opener against Case Scientific School was the first game played on the new Ferry Field.
context_section_description: For its second game, Michigan defeated Ohio State, 6–0, before a crowd of 6,000 spectators at University Park in Columbus.  A special train carried eleven coaches full of Michigan fans to Columbus, arriving one hour before the game started.  The game was the eighth meeting in the Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry, with Michigan having won six of the prior meetings and tied once.
  The game began shortly after 2:40 p.m., on a cool, but not uncomfortable Saturday afternoon.  The game was scoreless for the first 56 minutes of play, as Michigan's offense struggled.  The Chicago Daily Tribune attributed the sluggish offensive performance to the fact that Michigan's halfbacks, Ivan Steckle and Paul Magoffin, "were not in the best of shape," having arrived in Columbus on an excursion train a few minutes before the game began.  They were rushed to the football field in an automobile and arrived in poor condition.  Neither Magoffin nor Steckle had played in the season opener against Case.
  With four minutes remaining in the game, John Garrels kicked a field goal from a difficult angle at the Ohio State 25-yard line to give Michigan a 4-0 lead.  Garrels had attempted four earlier field goals in the game, all unsuccessful.  The Chicago Daily Tribune noted, "Evidently the Wolverines placed all their reliance on Garrels, for the big fellow was constantly trying goal shots."  With two minutes remaining, Ohio State's fullback, Gibson, attempted a punt from behind his goal line.  Gibson dropped the ball on a poor snap from the sub center, Claggett, and fell on it, resulting in a safety that accounted for Michigan's final two points.  On defense, Michigan held Ohio State to four first downs in the game.  The Chicago Daily Tribune praised Jack Loell as "a whirlwind at center" who "sustained the heaviest attack of the Ohio backs and drove two of his opponents to the side lines and a third to making the poor pass which gave Michigan the last two points."
  Michigan's lineup against Ohio State was Newton (left end), Curtis (left tackle), Eyke (left guard), Loell, (center), Graham (right guard), Patrick (right tackle), Embs (right end), Bishop (quarterback), Magoffin (left halfback), Steckle and Kanaga (right halfback), and Garrels (fullback).  Wrenn of Harvard served as referee, and Hoagland of Princeton was the umpire.  The game was played in 30-minute halves.
caption: "1906 Football Team and Substitutes" from The Michigan Alumnus, November 1906
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