The Michigan Wolverine Football Program has lost 341 football games and tied 36 games since 1879, here is a list of 71 losses and 2 ties that may have hurt the most:

Fielding Yost and Amos Alonzo Stagg in 1921

Ugliest Losses and Worst Defeats in Michigan Football History

Michigan vs. Cornell at Detroit in 1894

The team who scored the most points on a Michigan Wolverine Football Team coached by Bo Schembechler was Missouri in 1969 with 40; the most points scored on a Fielding Yost team was Illinois in 1924 with 39, and the most points scored on a Fritz Crisler team was Notre Dame with 35 in 1943. The tradition of Michigan football was founded by Yost with a sound defense, Kipke, Crisler, Oosterbaan and Elliott maintained that tradition as "Michigan Men" although Crisler played for the University of Chicago. When Former Ohio State Assistant Coach, Bo Schembechler came in 1968 with former Ohio State Captain, Gary Moeller, they also emphasized a sound defense first. Perhaps someone should have tutored Bill Martin and Mary Sue Coleman on that prior to their hire of Rich Rodriquez.

Yost scheduled Penn for a game on the road in 1906, and the Quakers shut out the Wolverines, 0-17; Michigan was shut out in 1907 at home, 0-6, for homecoming, and again in 1908, 0-29. Yost finally beat Penn in 1909, 12-6. They played to 0-0 draws in 1910 and 1915. The two rivals played, 1906-1917, until Michigan rejoined the Big Ten Conference. The Wolverines hold an edge of 11-8-2 in the series that began in 1899, and ended in 1953.

Michigan vs. Cornell in 1916; the Big Red shut out the Wolverines 5 times from 1889-1911, and left Michigan with their worst defeat in history with a 66-0 clobbering in 1889. The Wolverines record against the Big Red was 6-12; they were shut out 6 times in those 12 defeats.

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Michigan Wolverines Shut Out by Rivals

The only other teams to shut out Michigan were Chicago Athletic Association, 0-20, in 1889, and 0-10, in 1891, Navy in 1926, 0-10; Michigan played 0-0 ties with Toronto in 1879, Ohio Wesleyan in 1897, the Alumni in 1899 and 1906, and Vanderbilt in 1922.

The Brown Jug Rivalry began in 1903 between Michigan and Minnesota after playing to a 6-6 draw

Michigan vs. Minnesota in their 1909 game; the two teams didn't schedule one another again until 1909, and the Wolverines prevailed in the next 6 games after the 6-6 tie in 1903

Oscar Munson found the jug that Yost and his team left in Minneapolis in 1903; it is the oldest Trophy game in NCAA Football History

Michigan Agricultural College won their first game against Michigan in 1913; the Wolverines defeated the Aggies, 39-0, in 1898, and 119-0 in 1902, and didn't play Michigan again until 1907 when the Wolverines won 46-0. The two teams played to a 0-0 draw in 1908. The Wolverines already established rivalries with Cornell, Penn, Chicago and Minnesota so the rivalry didn't loom as large until the 1930s when the Spartans beat Michigan 4 years in a row, 1934-1937. The Aggies became the Spartans in 1925. Michigan's longest winning streak against the Spartans was 10 years, 1938-1949, under Fritz Crisler, but Crisler's former assistant, Biggie Munn, 1938-1945, changed that in 1950.

Governor Soapy Williams, a University of Michigan graduate in 1937, introduced the Paul Bunyan Trophy in 1953, and Michigan State won it with a 14-6 victory; it was their 4th in a row, 1950-1953, after the Wolverines had blocked them from joining the Big Ten Conference until 1949, but it wasn't effective until 1953. Michigan has lost to the Spartans 36 times with 5 ties. Under the leadership of John Hannah, Michigan State University President, 1941-1969, the student body grew from 6,000 to 15,000 by 1950, and 38,000 by 1965 to make it one of the Top 10 largest universities in America.

Duffy Daugherty was promoted to Head Football Coach at Michigan State in 1954 after Biggie Munn became Athletic Director; Munn was 54-9-2 in seven seasons as Spartan football coach, and took MSU to the Rose Bowl in their first year of joining the Big Ten Conference in 1953 and won the 1952 National Championship

Chick Harley led the Buckeyes over the Wolverines in 1919, 13-3, at Ferry Field for the first win in the series; Ohio State beat Yost three seasons in a row, 1919-1921, after Michigan won 14 of the first 15 meetings including 11 shutouts. Minnesota was the Wolverines final opponent in 1919, but Ohio State replaced the Gophers as the season finale in 1935. The Wolverines have the most losses to the Buckeyes than any opponent with 51, and 6 ties.