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[[File:1910 Michigan football team.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Team portrait taken on Ferry Field, c. October 1910]]
In the third week of the 1910 season, Michigan played Ohio State to a 3–3 tie at [[Columbus, Ohio]]. The game was the 12th meeting in the [[Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry]], with Michigan having won ten of the prior meetings and tied once.<ref>{{cite web|title=Michigan vs Ohio St.|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse|url=http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigten/michigan/opponents_records.php?teamid=2380}}</ref> The 1910 Ohio State team was coached by former Yale coach, [[Howard Jones (American football coach)|Howard Jones]], who was later inducted into the [[College Football Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Howard Jones |publisher=College Football Hall of Fame |url=http://www.collegefootball.org/famer_selected.php?id=30080 }}{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
The only scoring in the game consisted of an exchange of field goals in the second quarter. A forward pass from [[Shorty McMillan]] to [[Stanfield Wells]] took the ball to the Ohio State five-yard line. After an offside penalty and no gain on a fake kick, [[Frederick L. Conklin]] kicked a field goal from the 15-yard line to give Michigan a 3–0 lead. Ohio State tied the score with a field goal by its left halfback, Wells, later in the second quarter. Neither team scored in the second half.<ref name=DFPOSU/><ref name=MAOSU/>
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===Notre Dame (cancelled)===
Michigan had been scheduled to play Notre Dame on November 5, 1910. Michigan protested Notre Dame's use of two players (Philbrook and Dimmick) who had reportedly played more than four years of college football. After Notre Dame refused to bench the players, Michigan's Board of Control of Athletics canceled the game. ''The New York Times'' reported: "It is understood here that this ends all athletic relations between Michigan and Notre Dame."<ref>{{cite news|title=Michigan Cancels Game: Notre Dame Insisted on Playing Two Players Who Are Ineligible|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 5, 1910|url=https://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F0CE7DC1330E233A25756C0A9679D946196D6CF}}</ref> The two teams did not play again for more than 30 years, the longest break in the [[Michigan–Notre Dame football rivalry]].<ref name=ND>{{cite web|title=Michigan vs Notre Dame (IN) |publisher=College Football Data Warehouse |url=http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigten/michigan/opponents_records.php?teamid=2349 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023110800/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigten/michigan/opponents_records.php?teamid=2349 |archivedate=2011-10-23 |df= }}</ref>
In lieu of the game with Notre Dame, Michigan played a game against the reserves on November 5. The game proved costly, as quarterback [[Shorty McMillan]], who had played every minute of the first four games, sustained torn muscles in his shoulder. As a result of the injury, he was unable to play against Penn.<ref>{{cite news|title=McMillan of Michigan Team Hurt|newspaper=the New York Times|date=November 8, 1910|url=https://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F0DE2DC1330E233A2575BC0A9679D946196D6CF}}</ref>
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[[File:Michigan_-_Penn_game,_1910,_Cole_attempts_to_recover_the_ball_after_Scott's_fumble.png|thumb|right|300px|"Cole Attempts to Recover the Ball after Scott's Fumble" in the Penn game]]
[[File:Michigan - Penn 1910.png|thumb|right|300px|Running play during the Penn game]]
On November 12, 1910, Michigan played the [[1910 Penn Quakers football team|Penn Quakers]] to a scoreless tie at [[Franklin Field]] in [[Philadelphia]]. Since leaving the [[Big Ten Conference]], Michigan had played annual rivalry games against Penn at or near the end of the season. Penn was one of the dominant football programs of the era, winning seven national championships between 1894 and 1912.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2011/FBS.pdf | title=2011 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records | pages=70–75 | publisher=The National Collegiate Athletic Association | date=August 2011 | location=Indianapolis, IN | accessdate=March 18, 2012}}</ref> The 1910 game was the sixth meeting between the schools. Penn won the first four games, and Michigan won the 1909 game.<ref>{{cite web|title=Michigan vs Pennsylvania |publisher=College Football Data Warehouse |url=http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigten/michigan/opponents_records.php?teamid=2519 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023092607/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigten/michigan/opponents_records.php?teamid=2519 |archivedate=2011-10-23 |df= }}</ref> Michigan arrived in Philadelphia on the Thursday afternoon before the game and set up camp in [[Wayne, Pennsylvania]], a Philadelphia suburb.<ref>{{cite news|title=Michigan Team Comes East|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 11, 1910|url=https://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9405E1D61F39E333A25752C1A9679D946196D6CF}}</ref>
Although the game ended in a scoreless tie, newspapers opined that Michigan had outplayed Penn. In the ''Detroit Free Press'', [[E. A. Batchelor]] wrote: "In everything but the count, it was Michigan's game. Yost's men, quoted at the long price of 10 to 6 in the betting prior to the opening of hostilities, showed a spirit and strength that completely astounded the easterners. In gaining ground on line bucking, the invaders were so superior to the Quakers that there was no comparison."<ref name=DFPP/> In the ''Chicago Daily Tribune'', [[Walter Eckersall]] (who also served as the game's referee) wrote that the game was "the most important intersectional contest of the year," a fierce struggle of "the kind which makes football history," and "a decided triumph for western football."<ref name=CDTP>{{cite news|author=Walter H. Eckersall|title=MICHIGAN PLAYS PENNSY TO A TIE: Referee Eckersall Describes Fierce Scoreless Battle in the East; Yost Has Star Eleven; Offense and Defense of Westerners Bewilder Opponents; Magidsohn Is Star|newspaper=Chicago Daily Tribune|date=November 13, 1910|page=C1|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/387652781.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+13%2C+1910&author=WALTER+H+ECKERSALL&pub=Chicago+Daily+Tribune+(1872-1922)&edition=&startpage=C1&desc=MICHIGAN+PLAYS+PENNSY+TO+A+TIE}}</ref> Eckersall wrote that Michigan's versatile offense bewildered Penn, and he described Yost's 1910 squad as "a team which has reached the pinnacle of football perfection."<ref name=CDTP/>
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