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1910 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Photograph En Route to Michigan Before They Canceled Rivalry
Displayed is a 1910 vintage photograph of the Notre Dame Football Team on route to a Nov. 5th scheduled game against the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a contest that was cancelled on Nov. 4th because Michigan alleged that Notre Dame was planning on using ineligible players. Michigan had actually taught the game to Notre Dame in 1887 when the teams first played, and over the next 21 seasons the schools played each other off-and-on, with Michigan winning every time. Finally, in the teams' tenth meeting, in 1909, Notre Dame won, 11-3 at Ann Arbor, the only loss that season for Michigan and Fielding Yost, their famous coach. In that 1909 season, Michigan had defeated the previous National Champion, Penn, in Philadelphia and defeated their previous Big Eight Conference champion, the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis, so the loss to Notre Dame rankled Michigan and its supporters, and the 1910 game was an opportunity to take revenge. However, on Nov. 4th, Michigan cancelled the game after days of negotiating with Notre Dame. In a signed contract involving the game, the schools had agreed to abide by new rules in Michigan's former league, the Big Eight Conference, limiting college eligibility to a total of three seasons, with no frosh allowed to play. Michigan was now actually an independent. Notre Dame had two linemen who were in their seventh season of college football: Both Ralph Dimmick and George Philbrook had each already played a season at The College of the Pacific in Oregon, three years of play at Whitman College in Washington State and two seasons at Notre Dame. There was also an issue involving Notre Dame back Lee Mathews. Notre Dame argued the case: They said that The University of the Pacific and Whitman College weren't on the Michigan Conference's "list of colleges" used for interpreting the three-year eligibility requirement. Michigan ended up cancelling the series for the next 32 years. The photo measures 5.25x9". On the back of the photo, an unknown hand has written in pencil; "Notre Dame team stopped on way when Mich cancelled game". The photo presents in very good condition, with minor creasing. On back is a handwritten in pencil by an unknown hand, "Notre Dame team stopped on way when Mich canceled game." In the photo, Dimmick and Philbrook are in the top row, second and third from the left respectively. The vintage photo relates to a memorable incident in the time before a national rule-making body controlled football - and rules for eligibility were negotiable.
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