1922 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team

The 1922 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team represented Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) as an independent during the 1922 college football season. In their second and final year under head coach Albert Barron, the Aggies compiled a 3–5–2 record and were outscored by their opponents 135 to 111.[1]

1922 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–5–2
Head coach
CaptainWilliam C. Johnson
Home stadiumCollege Field
Seasons
← 1921
1923 →
1922 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Western State Normal (MI)     6 0 0
Bradley     9 0 1
Marquette     8 0 1
Central Michigan     6 0 2
Notre Dame     8 1 1
Butler     8 2 0
Haskell     8 2 0
Detroit     7 2 1
Michigan Mines     1 0 1
Wabash     7 3 0
St. Ignatius (OH)     4 1 3
Dayton     6 3 0
Saint Louis     6 3 1
Valparaiso     3 2 2
Baldwin–Wallace     4 3 1
DePauw     4 3 2
Michigan Agricultural     3 5 2
Earlham     2 6 0
Kent State     0 7 0

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30AlmaW 33–0
October 7Albion
  • College Field
  • East Lansing, MI
T 7–7
October 14at WabashCrawfordsville, INL 0–26
October 21South Dakota
  • College Field
  • East Lansing, MI
W 7–0
October 28at Indiana
L 6–14
November 4at MichiganL 0–6342,000
November 11Ohio Wesleyan
  • College Field
  • East Lansing, MI
L 6–9
November 18at Creighton
L 0–97,000[2]
November 25Massachusetts 
  • College Field
  • East Lansing, MI
W 45–0
November 302:00 p.m.at Saint LouisT 7–710,000[3][4]

Game summaries

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Michigan

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Week 5: Michigan Agricultural at Michigan
1 234Total
Michigan Agricultural 0 000 0
Michigan 14 19921 63

On November 4, 1922, the Aggies lost to Michigan, 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."[5] 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.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "2017 Football Media Guide" (PDF). Michigan State University. pp. 142, 148. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
  2. ^ "Lew Lane Boots Blue To 9 To 0 Victory: Homecoming Throng Sees Creighton Quarter Kick Over Northmen to a Win". Sunday World-Herald. November 19, 1922. pp. 1W, 2W – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Billikens Prepared for Gruelling Tussle With Michigan Aggies". The St. Louis Star. November 29, 1922. p. 12. Retrieved July 10, 2023 – via Newspapers.com  .
  4. ^ "McKenzie's Brilliant Recovery Of Michigan Aggie Fumble Gives St. Louis U. Eleven a Tie, 7 to 7". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. December 1, 1922. p. 47. Retrieved July 10, 2023 – via Newspapers.com  .
  5. ^ a b Lloyd Northard (November 5, 1922). "Wolverines Run Wild Over Farmers, Winning By the Score of 63 to 0". Detroit Free Press. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.