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1896 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team

1896 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team

American college football season

The 1896 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team represented Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) in the 1896 college football season. The Aggies compiled a 1–2–1 record.[1] Although teams representing MAC had played two games against nearby Alma College a decade earlier in 1886, the 1896 season was the first in which MAC fielded a varsity football team for a full season of play.

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The team opened the season with a 10–0 victory over Lansing High School on September 26. In the first intercollegiate game of the season, the Aggies lost to Kalamazoo by a 21 to 0 score on October 17. The Aggies then played Alma to a scoreless tie on October 25, before closing its season with an 18–16 loss to Alma on November 11. The 1896 Aggies had no coach.[2]

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References

  1. [1]
    "2016 Football Media Guide" (PDF). Michigan State University. p. 146. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 17, 2017. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
  2. [2]
    2016 Media Guide, p. 150.
  3. [3]
    "M.A.C. Juniors Won at Lansing". Detroit Free Press. September 27, 1896. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. [4]
    "The Preachers Were Too Much for the Lansing Farmers". Alma Record. November 20, 1896. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.


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