Marietta at Michigan

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  The daily telegram, Clarksburg, W. Va., October 5, 1916, page 7

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  MICHIGAN WINS Marietta, o., College Loses to Yost’s Men by Score of 80 to 0. ANN ARBoR, Mich, Oct. 5.-Unlversity Of Michigan won the opening game of its football season here Wednesday, easily defeating Marietta (Ohio) College 38 to 0. Coach Yost of Michigan made numerous substitudons during the game, getting nearly his entire squad in action before the contest ended. MIchigan’s ground gaining was done through continuous hard, smashing assaults upon the Marietta line, with Captain Maulbetsch. Sparks and Raymond taking turns at scoring. Marietta used open plays throughout and successfully executed a number OF short passes Their numerous attempts at long ones, however, failed.

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  New Britain herald, October 5, 1916, page 8

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  MICHIGAN STARTS WELL. Wolverines Beat Marietta in Opening Game of Their Football Season. Ann Arbor, Mich, Oct. 5.-The University of Michigan won the open yesterday, defeating Marietta College, 38 to 0. Coach Yost of Michigan made nu- merous substitutions during the game, getting nearly his entire squad into action. Michigan’s ground gaining was done through continuous smash ing upon the Marietta line, with Capt. Maulbetsch, Sparks and Raym ond taking turns at scoring. Marietta used open plays throughout and sue cessfully executed a number of short passes. Numerous attempts by Mari etta at long passes, however, failed.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Michigan leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings.