1885 Michigan Wolverines football team

The 1885 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1885 college football season. The team compiled a 3–0 record and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 82 to 2. The team captain was Horace Greely Prettyman.

1885 Michigan Wolverines football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–0
Head coach
  • None
CaptainHorace Greely Prettyman
Home stadiumCampus playing field
1885 college football records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton    9 0 0
Michigan    3 0 0
Colorado College    1 0 0
Yale    7 1 0
Cincinnati    1 0 1
Penn    8 5 0
Lafayette    3 2 1
Massachusetts    3 2 1
Johns Hopkins    2 2 0
Richmond    1 1 0
Wesleyan    3 4 0
Navy    1 2 0
Lehigh    1 5 1
Rutgers    0 1 0
Fordham    0 3 0

The season began with a home-and-away series against a team from Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The first game was played in Windsor under Canadian rules (allowing 15 men on the field per side), and was the second and final football game played by a Michigan football team in a foreign country. The return game against Windsor was the first to be played on the University of Michigan campus, prior home games having been played at the Ann Arbor Fairgrounds. The team concluded the season with a 42–0 victory on Thanksgiving Day against the Peninsular Cricket Club team from Detroit.

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