Albert E . Herrnstein Albert Ernest Herrnstein ( August 15 , 1882 – August 14 , 1958 ) was an American football player and coach . He played at the University of Michigan as a halfback and end from 1899 to 1902 and was the head football coach at the Haskell Indian School ( 1903 – 1904 ) , Purdue University ( 1905 ) , and Ohio State University ( 1906 – 1909 ) . University of Michigan . A native of Chillicothe , Ohio , Herrnstein attended the University of Michigan from 1899 to 1909 . He played six years of varsity football and gained fame as one of the stars of Fielding H . Yost ' s " Point - a - Minute " teams that outscored their opponents 1 , 211 – 12 in 1901 and 1902 . One of the highlights of Herrnstein ' s playing career was the 1902 Michigan – Ohio State game when he scored thirty five touchdowns in an 86 – 0 rout of the Buckeyes . Herrnstein might have scored more touchdowns had the official not stopped the game halfway through the second half after concluding " the game was getting out of hand . " As a member of the 1901 Wolverines team , Herrnstein played in the 1902 Rose Bowl , the first ever college football bowl game . Herrnstein kicked a 21 - yard field goal in the game , a 49 – 0 win over Stanford . Coaching . After graduating from Michigan in 1903 , Herrnstein was hired as the football coach at the Haskell Indian School in Kansas , where he coached in 1903 and 1904 . The Haskell football team went 7 – 3 in 1903 , and in 1904 Herrnstein led them to the best record in the school ' s history to that point , finishing with an 8 – 1 record , and outscoring opponents 221 – 50 . In 1905 , Herrnstein was hired as the head coach of Purdue and led the Boilermakers to a 6 – 1 – 1 record . Herrnstein was hired by Ohio State in 1906 , and his 1906 Buckeyes team was the best team the school had fielded to that point . The 1906 Buckeyes did not allow a single touchdown , outscored opponents 153 – 14 , and compiled a record of 8 – 1 . The one defeat was a 6 – 0 loss to Herrnstein ' s alma mater , Michigan . Herrnstein ' s 1906 team also threw the first forward pass in Ohio State history , a ten - yard touchdown pass in a game against Wooster . Herrnstein ' s 1907 team finished 7 – 2 – 1 with losses to Michigan and Case . In 1908 , the Buckeyes slipped to 6 – 4 , and Herrnstein failed in his third attempt to defeat Michigan . In 1908 , Michigan ' s athletic director , Charles A . Baird , published a column about the upcoming football season and wrote the following of Herrnstein : " Herrnstein was a former Michigan star who is thoroughly acquainted with the Yost system and by several years of coaching at the Haskell Indian school , Purdue and Ohio State , has developed into a great teacher of football . " In 1909 , Herrnstein ' s Ohio State team was 7 – 3 , but lost its fourth straight game to Michigan , this time by a score of 33 – 6 . Herrnstein ' s four - year record at Ohio State was 28 – 10 – 1 . He left Ohio State with more wins than any other coach in the school ' s history , a distinction he held until John Wilce compiled 78 wins from 1913 – 1928 . Later years . In later years , Herrnstein operated the Herrrnstein Hardware Co . , a retail hardware store located at 72 N . Paint Street in Chillicothe , Ohio . He ran the hardware store for more than 50 years and was the president of the National Retail Hardware Association . He was also a director of the Chillicothe Mutual Building and Loan Co . from 1913 and the president of the company from 1931 . At the time of the 1910 United States Census , Herrnstein was living at 303 Chestnut Street in Chillicothe with his wife Martha ( age 25 ) and his daughter Martha ( age 3 ) . His occupation was listed as a merchant at a hardware store . Herrnstein was the first of three generations of Herrnsteins to play football for the University of Michigan . His nephew , Bill Herrnstein , played for the Wolverines , and his grand nephew , John Herrnstein , was captain of the 1958 Michigan Wolverines football team . Herrnstein died on the eve of his 76th birthday in 1958 at the Chillicothe Hospital . He had been ill for several months , and his death was caused by a heart ailment .