1904 Univ. Michigan vs. Univ. Chicago football game - Part 1

Michigan vs. Chicago November 12, 1904. This was the final game of the season and took place at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. Michigan won 22-12 to become Western Conference champions and was awarded a shared national championship with the Univ. of Pennsylvania. This film is incorrectly titled as taking place 1903 - the 1903 was in Chicago at a larger stadium. This was filmed by B.G. Smith of Thomas Edison's American Kinetograph Company. Mr. Edison was not at the game.

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• football
• michigan
• chicago
• 1904

[unlvrebelx]

US National Archives is where he got it. They have this one and two Princeton vs Yale games.

[BigBretHarris]

Yep. They have a lot of early films on the National Archives site. So old that its copyright-free.

[answerstolucky]

Hey, there's Joe Pa!

[ludehead]

What were Favre's stats in this game?

[NuisanceMan]

This game seems to have been played before they invented the "skills positions"...

[bebomac5]

@paladin313 Their were 33 deaths in 1909.

[CoachG1000]

C.W. Sullivan was bullshitting during that kickoff...lazy fuck.

[Abdulziz98]

Brett Favres rookie year

[area51lover]

GO BLUE

[area51lover]

GO BLUE

[TheKassicRock]

Elway was a rookie, right?

[gfmelo1910]

Where's the ball? :P

[skull9111]

its north american rugby

[theman211294]

@paladin313 I think what he is trying to say is that the players today are much bigger and stronger making the game more violent but really today refs would be calling twice as many penalties because the game was so much more tougher.