Paul Magoffin Paul Parker " Maggie " Magoffin ( March 30 , 1883 – February 1 , 1956 ) was an American football player . He played left halfback for Fielding H . Yost ' s University of Michigan Wolverines football teams of 1904 , 1905 , 1906 and 1907 , and was captain of the 1907 team . He later served as a football coach at North Dakota State University and George Washington University . Early years . Magoffin first played football on a Kansas high school team . He later ran track and played two years of football for Central High School in Washington , D . C . He later attended the Academy at Marietta and played one year for of football for Marietta College in Marietta , Ohio . At Marietta , Magoffin played for William C . " King " Cole , who had previously been a star player for Fielding H . Yost at the University of Michigan . University of Michigan . In 1904 , Magoffin transferred to the University of Michigan , began playing on the freshman team , but played in several games for the varsity team , though he was not awarded a varsity letter for the 1904 season . He became a starter at left halfback for the 1905 Michigan Wolverines football team that compiled a 12 – 1 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 495 to 2 . He continued as a starter at left halfback on the 1906 and 1907 Michigan team s . The " Michigan Alumnus " in January 1907 described Magoffin ' s contributions as follows : " Magoffin has shown himself to be a remarkably fast and untiring player on both offense and defense , although slow in rounding into physical shape , owing to his later return to the University . He did his greatest work in the Pennsylvania contest , fighting gamely and stubbornly to the end . His repeated fierce tackling of Hollenbeck for losses was one of the redeeming features of that game for the Michigan spectators . " On November 3 , 1907 , Magoffin became the first player to catch a forward pass for a touchdown in a Michigan – Ohio State game , a 25 - yard pass from quarterback Billy Wasmund . Magoffin scored five times during Michigan ' s 46 – 0 victory over Ohio State in 1907 . The 1907 team captained by Magoffin won its first five games without allowing a point to be scored . The Wolverines lost the final game of the season to Penn by a score of 6 – 0 , though Coach Yost complained loudly that Michigan had been robbed of touchdown in the game . They disputed play was a 35 - yard touchdown pass to Magoffin that was disallowed by the referee . Yost said of the play , " In order to reach Magoffin , thirty - five yards ahead , the ball must have gone from Allerdice over the line of scrimmage at least fifteen yards to the left of where it was put in play . I know that , after having worked with that play for two years , and I was not taking any chances with it . Magoffin ' s touchdown was as legal as any play I ever saw on a football field . " Coaching and officiating . In July 1908 , after graduating from the University of Michigan as part of the literary class of 1908 , Magoffin was hired as the athletic director and head football coach for the North Dakota Agricultural College " Flickertails , " now known as the North Dakota State Bison . In 1910 , Magoffin was the football coach for the George Washington University " Hatchetities " in Washington , D . C . In September 1910 , " The Washington Post " reported that Coach Magoffin led his George Washington football team in practice sessions on the White House Ellipse . Magoffin served as an official in college and high school football games for at least 32 years from 1912 to 1943 . In December 1914 , he was married in Philadelphia to Edith Jane Young . He died in 1956 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery .