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What Prof. Pattengill's estate might have been had he devoted the intellect, force, persistence and energy that he abundantly demonstrated in his career to those professions or activities whose ideal if flatly the accumulation of wealth makes interesting speculation. ... Prof. Pattengill was much more than senior professor of Greek. He was a classicist and an educator of national reputation. ... Does the spectacle of such a reward as this induce the student deliberately to choose the career of scholar with its dignified penury in these days of great salaries and satisfying dividends? ... Pray what other highly skilled specialists of such elaborate training and rare intellectual gifts are given such niggardly return? The faculty of the university of
Michigan is a little more grievously underpaid than other institutions, but not by much. It is the tendency of the times to overlook the modest needs of the scholar in the rush after ideals that are overtaken by daring.
450:"For the last ten years his most significant work outside of the class-room was in the direction and control of Athletics. As chairman of the Board in Control he devoted untiring energy to the betterment of athletic conditions, to encouraging a spirit of manliness and fair play and to looking after and solving justly the perplexing problems that constantly arose. The value of his influence and his strong, honest personality cannot be easily overestimated. Thus in many ways the life of a vigorous man was wrought into the life of our university. It is a comfort to remember that the influence of his character on its destinies is undying."
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Chicago. Pattengill defended Yost, saying, "We have never had a coach who has caused us so little trouble as has Mr. Yost. When one of the Michigan players has been declared ineligible, he has never complained or sought to find a loop-hole of escape, as coaches before him too often have done. He has simply taken the men who were eligible and played them."
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to college athletic events to a maximum of fifty cents. A further resolution prohibited member schools from using professional coaches, a resolution that was seen as a direct attack on
Michigan's highly paid football coach FieldingYost. Pattengill was unsuccessful in stopping the passage of what became known as the Yost Resolution—a resolution that was partly responsible for Michigan's decade-long withdrawal from the conference.
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496:"To this day the students relate a tradition as to how he batted a home-run once from a point 100 feet south of North University avenue, so that the sphere landed on the skylight on top of the old medical building. Professional baseball players have looked at the distance and disputed it, but the tradition stands, nonetheless."
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for the establishment of collegiate and intercollegiate athletics on a high plane of sportsmanship and essential manliness? He was a tower of strength through the earlier days of
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Michigan's baseball team—one of the first sports teams organized at the university. The team defeated Ann Arbor (30-26), Ypsilanti (42-12), Central Club of Jackson (43-15). In the final game of the season, the Michigan team played the Detroit Baseball Club,
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It is surely not inappropriate to mention here, also, Professor
Pattengill's long service in a field far apart, these days, from the Greek studies he loved -- collegiate athletics. But could anything be in more harmony with the finest traditions of Greek culture than Professor Pattengill's efforts
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in 1879, which he declined. Pattengill returned to Ann Arbor in 1879. In June 1881, the
University Regents appointed Pattengill as an "Associate Professor of Greek, without present increase of Salary"—though his salary was increased in 1883 to $ 1,800. He was promoted to a full professorship of
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The filing for probate of the will of Prof. Albert H. Pattengill of the university of
Michigan revealed the existence of an estate valued at $ 10,000. This is the net remuneration for a life of 64 years devoted to the most exacting, intellectually arduous of skilled labor, profound scholarship.
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also paid tribute to Pattengill for his leadership role in the establishment of athletics at Michigan: "Professor Pattengill's interest in outdoor sports was lifelong. He was the moving spirit in the Conference through many years; and to him, more than to any other, Michigan owes, not only the
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making allegations of "professionalism" at several universities, including Michigan, Chicago and Wisconsin. Jordan described Fielding Yost as the "czar of Michigan's system" and accused him of traveling across the country "soliciting expert players" who were not true student athletes. One week
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wrote that the problems at Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin were due to "crooked alumni, flabby facilities, and coaches looking for reputations", and asserted that if Pattengill of Michigan, Vann Hise of Wisconsin and Northrop of Minnesota "had any backbone such conditions would not exist."
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Your committee, appointed to select emblematic colors for our University, unanimously agree in presenting as their choice, Azure Blue and Maize, and recommend that the following resolution be adopted: 'Resolved, that Azure Blue and Maize be adopted as the emblematic colors of the University of
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squad at the end of the 1905 season, they had gone 56 straight games without a defeat, the second longest such streak in college football history. From 1901 to 1905, Michigan outscored its opponents 2,821 to 42, earning the nickname as the "Point-a-Minute" teams.
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Pattengill married Annie Warden Ekin (U-M Class of 1876) in February 1878; she died 17 months later in November 1879, "having been preceded to the grave by an infant son." Pattengill remarried in 1895, taking Bessie E. West as his wife at a ceremony in
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Pattengill joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1869 as an assistant professor of Greek and French. He spent the year 1878 studying at German universities and was offered a professorship in Greek at the
151:'s 1867 baseball team and was part of a three-person committee that selected "azure-blue and maize" as the university's colors. He was also one of the leaders behind the formation and early development of the
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Patengill died suddenly at his home in Ann Arbor in March 1906; the cause of death was reported as "heart trouble." In his obituary, a legend concerning Pattengill's baseball hitting ability was recounted:
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then the reigning Michigan state champions. With Pattengill playing in the outfield, the college team from Ann Arbor "pulled off a stunning upset," defeating the Detroit club by a score of 70 to 18.
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on the formation of the conference and served as Michigan's faculty representative to the conference. He also served as Chairman of the Western Conference for a number of years.
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called for a reform conference on football. Angell sent Pattengill as Michigan's representative at the conference, and the press reported on Pattengill's departure as follows:
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988:"Western Colleges Will Have Football This Year: Decision Reached by the Big Nine Conference Held at Chicago". Sunday World-Herald (Omaha). 1906-03-11.
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home built for Pattengill in 1896 and located at 1405 Hill Street in Ann Arbor, is now part of the Washtenaw Hill Historic District.
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977:"Football's Fate Rests Now with the American Football Rules Committee to Decide". Grand Forks Daily Herald. 1906-01-21.
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in 1897, a game that Michigan won 34-0, and won its first Western Conference football championship in 1898, prompting
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The controversy surrounding college football continued in December 1905, as Eastern football expert
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560:History of the University of Michigan, p. 263
885:"Michigan in the Olympics: 1904 - St. Louis"
691:. University of Michigan. pp. 146–149.
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586:. The Classical Journal. 1906. p. 202.
302:(gold medal in the 110-meter hurdles), and
163:Pattengill was born in 1842 on a farm near
688:Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan
263:. On learning that Michigan's rival, the
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1082:. March 18, 1906. p. 44 – via
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1044:. Harcourt Brace and Howe. pp.
844:Nicholas J. Cotsonika (1996-04-05).
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1025:"A Modern Greek - A Tribute"
619:. 1886. pp. 82 and 417.
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137:Albert Henderson Pattengill
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733:The University of Michigan
649:Liene Karels (Fall 1996).
597:Theodore R. Chase (1881).
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16:American businessman
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340:inaugural Rose Bowl
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1080:Detroit Free Press
850:The Michigan Daily
489:on June 26, 1895.
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436:Patengill's legacy
399:David Starr Jordan
388:David Starr Jordan
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944:
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934:"Sporting".
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854:the original
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839:
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707:
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663:
655:the original
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64:(1906-03-16)
1167:1906 deaths
1162:1842 births
474:Ferry Field
324:The Victors
320:Louis Elbel
304:William Coe
300:Fred Schule
288:Archie Hahn
273:John McLean
159:Early years
77:Nationality
1136:Categories
698:0472068261
521:References
292:Ralph Rose
211:Michigan.'
100:Chairman,
44:1842-02-26
404:Collier's
284:St. Louis
85:Education
924:, p. 162
819:, p. 160
806:, p. 282
793:, p. 177
780:, p. 148
767:, p. 111
715:, p. 184
149:Michigan
110:Employer
80:American
754:, p. 78
390:(right)
206:report:
118:Spouses
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330:hired
1048:–253.
920:1906
815:1906
802:1905
789:1902
776:1901
763:1900
750:1899
740:–259.
711:1899
141:Greek
693:ISBN
59:Died
38:Born
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346:'s
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