Arthur Redner Arthur E . Redner ( November 24 , 1879 – November 17 , 1973 ) was an American football player and coach . He played halfback for the University of Michigan in 1900 and 1901 and was the last surviving member of Fielding H . Yost ' s renowned 1901 " Point - a - Minute " football team . Early years . Redner was born in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania in November 1879 . His father , August Redner , emigrated from Germany in 1872 and worked as a barber . Redner also had a younger sister , Agnes . In approximately 1885 , the family moved to Bessemer in Michigan ' s Upper Peninsula . His father operated a barber shop in Bessemer . Redner attended both A . D . Johnston High School in Bessemer and Luther L . Wright High School in Ironwood , Michigan . He played football at both schools . University of Michigan . Redner enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1900 and played at the halfback position for the Michigan football teams of 1900 and 1901 . On November 17 , 1900 , he scored Michigan ' s only touchdown in a 7 – 0 win over Notre Dame . In 1901 , he played for Fielding H . Yost ' s famous " Point - a - Minute " team that won a national championship and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 550 to 0 . At the end of the 1901 season the " Michigan Daily - News " wrote : " He is very quick and good at bucking or skirting the end . He is faithful in his work and deserves his place among the ' M ' men . " Mining and coaching career . In 1902 , Redner transferred to the Michigan College of Mines and Technology ( later known as Michigan Technological University ) in Houghton , Michigan . After graduating from Michigan Tech in 1904 , Redner spent two years in the west . He returned to the Upper Peninsula in 1908 , taking an engineering position with the Oliver Iron Mining Co . in Ironwood , Michigan . Redner later became a football coach and mine superintendent in the Gogebic Range . He was the mine superintendent for the Corrigan - McKinley Steel Co . in Bessemer . In a draft registration card at the time of World War I , Redner indicated that he was living in Anvil , Michigan , and working for the Newport Mining Co . In 1910 , Redner began coaching the Ironwood High School football team . In 1921 , he was coach of the Bessemer city football team . Later years . Redner married the former Belle Olson in 1911 . The couple lived in Bessemer until 1934 , when Redner retired . They moved to Detroit , where Redner served on the board of directors of Grand View Hospital . During World War II , Redner returned to the workforce as an engineer for the Vickers Corp . in Detroit . He retired again in 1955 and moved with his wife to Calumet , Michigan . In 1954 , he was selected as one of the 20 charter members of the Gogebic Range Hall of Fame as published in the " Ironwood Daily Globe " . In 1968 , the couple moved to Northbrook , Illinois , to be near their daughter Ellen Probst . Redner ' s wife died in 1971 . In November 1973 , Redner died at age 93 at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge , Illinois . He was the last surviving member of the 1901 " Point - a - Minute " team . Redner was survived by a son , R . David Redner , and a daughter , Ellen Probst . His son , Arthur Redner , Jr . , died in 1926 .