for the two years which was just reversed with Pennsylvania. Both teams
were decisively defeated in 1913 and Pennsylvania again in 1914, but a
game with Harvard on Soldiers' Field in 1914 resulted in an honorable
defeat for Michigan with a score of 7 to 0. Though Harvard had not been
particularly effective up to that time the Michigan team made a strong
impression, and John Maulbetsch, '17_p_, left-half, was placed on
practically every All-American team as a result of his work in this
game. The unsatisfactory basis under which Michigan was maintaining her
relationship with the East was shown, however, by Harvard's
unwillingness to play a return game in Ann Arbor the following year.
This was perhaps fortunate as events turned out, for Michigan was
unusually weak in 1915 and the 1916 record was not much better, with
defeats from both Cornell and Pennsylvania.

Ever since Michigan had taken her stand on the Conference, there had
been vigorous discussion, but the unanimous approval necessary for a
return was absent. The unfortunate end of the 1917 football season,
however, led to a renewal of the discussion. Eventually the Board in
Control passed a resolution giving the Faculty, as represented by the
Senate Council, a veto over the actions of the Board. This was
eventually approved by the Regents and the way was open to resume
athletic relationship with the universities of the West in the fall of
1917.

Though the ban on inter-collegiate athletics which followed the
declaration of war in April, 1917, had been raised before the 1917
football season at the urgent plea of the War Department, the team was
seriously weakened by the enlistment of many of its best players. This
happened everywhere, however, and Michigan came through the schedule
with fair success, though defeated by Northwestern in the one Conference
game of that year. But in 1918 war-time conditions were felt more
severely, particularly in the general disorganization incident to the
S.A.T.C. regime, while the ravages of the influenza epidemic multiplied
the difficulties. Nevertheless Michigan managed to survive the season
not only undefeated but with some claims to the Western Championship.
The record in 1919 was very different, however, with defeats in all the
Conference games played save with Northwestern, a disgrace which was at
least partially retrieved by the 1920 eleven, which lost a hard-fought
battle with Illinois by the honorable score of 6 to 7 and w