1892 Illinois Fighting Illini football team
The 1892 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1892 college football season. In their first season under head coach Edward K. Hall, the Illini compiled a 7–4–1 record. Fullback Ralph W. Hart was the team captain.


1892 Illinois gubernatorial election
The 1892 Illinois gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1892.


1892 Illinois gubernatorial election
Incumbent Republican Governor Joseph W. Fifer was defeated by Democratic nominee John Peter Altgeld who won 48.74% of the vote.


1892 Illinois gubernatorial election, Democratic nomination, Results
The Democratic state convention was held on April 27, 1892, at Springfield.


1892 Illinois gubernatorial election, Republican nomination, Results
The Republican state convention was held on May 4 and 5, 1892 at Springfield.


1892 Indiana Hoosiers football team
The 1892 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 1892 college football season. Indiana played four games and compiled a 0–4 record, losing games to Butler (6–10), DePauw (forfeit), Purdue (0–68), and Wabash (24–36).


1892 Indiana gubernatorial election
The 1892 Indiana gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1892. Democratic nominee Claude Matthews defeated incumbent Republican Ira Joy Chase with 47.45% of the vote.


1892 Invercargill mayoral election
The 1892 Invercargill mayoral election was held on 1 December 1892 as part of that years local elections.


1892 Iowa Agricultural Cardinals football team
The 1892 Iowa Agricultural Cardinals football team represented Iowa Agricultural College (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1892 college football season. The 1892 season was the first in which an organized group of athletes represented Iowa State in football. However, the team did not engage in intercollegiate football, playing only two non-collegiate teams and compiling a 1–0–1 record. The team played a town team from State Center to a 6-6 tie and defeated a team representing the Des Moines YMCA by a 30-0 score.


1892 Iowa Agricultural Cardinals football team
Dr. Ira C. Brownlie was both the head coach, team captain, and played at the end position. Brownlie was credited with having "introduced football" while he was a student at the school in 1892. Brownlie later recalled: "There were so many strong boys around there doing nothing that I thought they could make a football team easily." The only other player known to have played on the 1892 team was Charles Deering.


1892 Iowa Agricultural Cardinals football team
Between 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library.


1892 Iowa Hawkeyes football team
The 1892 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa during the  1892 college football season. The season involved many 'firsts' for the Hawkeyes. After going three years without a conference, Iowa joined the Western Interstate University Football Association, along with Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas. But in another first, Edwin A. Dalton, formerly of Princeton University, was hired as Iowa's head coach. Although he was only hired for 10 days prior to the season, he is recognized as Iowa's first head coach.


1892 Iowa Hawkeyes football team
On the field, the results were relatively modest. After opening the season with two victories, the Hawkeyes found themselves no match for Kansas and Missouri. Criticism was voiced, with the Iowa City Citizen claiming that Iowa lost the Missouri game because of favoritism. Despite this, Iowa ended Iowa College's three-year span of dominance over the Hawkeyes by defeating the Pioneers 18–12 just four days after the loss at Missouri. Soon thereafter, the Hawkeyes ended the season with a 10–10 tie against Nebraska.


1892 Italian general election
General elections were held in Italy on 6 November 1892, with a second round of voting on 13 November. The "ministerial" left-wing bloc emerged as the largest in Parliament, winning 323 of the 508 seats. The electoral system reverted to the pre-1882 method of using single-member constituencies with second round run-offs.


1892 Italian general election, Historical background
Giovanni Giolitti's first term as Prime Minister (1892–1893) was marked by misfortune and misgovernment. The building crisis and the commercial rupture with France had impaired the situation of the state banks, of which one, the Banca Romana, had been further undermined by misadministration. The Banca Romana had loaned large sums to property developers but was left with huge liabilities when the real estate bubble collapsed in 1887. Then Prime Minister Francesco Crispi and his Treasury Minister  Giolitti knew of the 1889 government inspection report, but feared that publicity might undermine public confidence and suppressed the report.


1892 Italian general election, Historical background
The Bank Act of August 1893 liquidated the Banca Romana and reformed the whole system of note issue, restricting the privilege to the new Banca d'Italia – mandated to liquidate the Banca Romana – and to the Banco di Napoli and the Banco di Sicilia, and providing for stricter state control. The new law failed to effect an improvement. Moreover, he irritated public opinion by raising to senatorial rank the governor of the Banca Romana, Bernardo Tanlongo, whose irregular practices had become a byword, which would have given him immunity from prosecution. The senate declined to admit Tanlongo, whom Giolitti, in consequence of an intervention in parliament upon the condition of the Banca Romana, was obliged to arrest and prosecute. During the prosecution Giolitti abused his position as premier to abstract documents bearing on the case.


1892 Italian general election, Historical background
Simultaneously a parliamentary commission of inquiry investigated the condition of the state banks. Its report, though acquitting Giolitti of personal dishonesty, proved disastrous to his political position, and the ensuing Banca Romana scandal obliged him to resign. His fall left the finances of the state disorganized, the pensions fund depleted, diplomatic relations with France strained in consequence of the massacre of Italian workmen at Aigues-Mortes, and a state of revolt in the Lunigiana and by the Fasci Siciliani in Sicily, which he had proved impotent to suppress.


1892 Italian general election, Historical background
Despite the heavy pressure from the King, the army and conservative circles in Rome, Giolitti neither treated strikes – which were not illegal – as a crime, nor dissolved the Fasci, nor authorised the use of firearms against popular demonstrations. His policy was “to allow these economic struggles to resolve themselves through amelioration of the condition of the workers” and not to interfere in the process.


1892 Japanese general election
General elections were held in Japan on 15 February 1892 to elect the members of the House of Representatives of the Diet of Japan.


1892 Japanese general election, History and background
After the 1890 general election for the lower house of the Diet of Japan, the elected members proved much less amenable to government persuasion than had been anticipated by Itō Hirobumi and other members of the Meiji oligarchy. Rather than docilely rubber stamp legislation issued from the House of Peers and the genrō, the leaders of the lower house used the only leverage granted to them under the Meiji Constitution: withholding budgetary approval to show resistance. This stalemate led to earlier than anticipated dissolution of the government and new elections. Emperor Meiji expressed concern that if the same people were elected again, the same problem would recur, and suggested that regional offices encourage good people to run for office.


1892 Japanese general election, History and background
Home Minister Shinagawa Yajirō interpreted this as a condemnation of political party activity, and sent memorandums to all regional government offices encouraging the dismissal of men deeply involved in political party activity. He also instructed the police to deal severely with any acts of bribery and intimidation. Ironically, the 1892 election was the most violent in Japanese history, with numerous riots, in which 25 people were killed and 388 wounded.


1892 Japanese general election, History and background
Violence was particularly severe in areas of the country in which support for the opposition Liberal Party (Jiyutō) was strong Encouraged by Prime Minister Matsukata Masayoshi, Shinagawa arrested candidates he deemed “disloyal”, and had gangs of toughs molest voters and burn opposition politicians' property. Prefectural governors and police chiefs were secretly ordered to disrupt campaigns of "disloyal" opposition politicians and to aid pro-government supporters. Ballot boxes were stolen in Kōchi Prefecture, and voting was made impossible in parts of Saga Prefecture; violations were most conspicuous in these two prefectures, Ishikawa and Fukuoka.


1892 Japanese general election, History and background
As with the 1890 election, the electorate was based on limited suffrage, with only male citizens 25 years of age and over, who had paid 15 Japanese Yen or more in national taxes, and who had been resident in their prefecture for at least a year, qualified to vote. The number of eligible voters who met this requirement was 434,594. The number of candidates for office was 900. Voter turnout was 91.54%.


1892 Japanese general election, History and background
Despite the violence, the so-called mintō (liberal parties)- the Jiyutō, the Rikken Kaishintō and their affiliates) maintained their majority in the House of Representatives, winning 132 seats as opposed to 124 for pro-government candidates, with 44 independents.


1892 Japanese general election, History and background
The government faced an angry lower house when the next Diet term convened on May 6; even members of the House of Peers were outraged, issuing a resolution condemning the manner in which the election was held on May 11. Shinagawa was forced to resign the following month.


1892 Kalamazoo football team
The 1892 Kalamazoo football team was an American football team that represented Kalamazoo College in the 1892 college football season. In their first season fielding a football team, the Kalamazoo eleven lost two games against Olivet College, being outscored 32 to 8 by their opponent. The first game, played October 24 at Olivet, was planned as a part of Olivet's field day of 1892, which also included boxing matches, tennis, and track and field events like the hammer throw and pole vaulting. During the contest, Kalamazoo took an early 4–0 lead, but allowed 20 answered points, 8 in the first half and 12 in the second.


1892 Kansas Jayhawks football team
The 1892 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Western Interstate University Football Association (WIUFA) during the 1892 college football season. In their first season under head coach A. W. Shepard, the Jayhawks compiled a 7–1 record (3–0 against conference opponents), won the conference championship, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 144 to 36. The Jayhawks played their home games at McCook Field in Lawrence, Kansas. John Kenzie was the team captain.


1892 Kansas gubernatorial election
The 1892 Kansas gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1892. People's Party nominee Lorenzo D. Lewelling defeated Republican nominee Abram W. Smith with 50.04% of the vote.


1892 Kentucky Derby
The 1892 Kentucky Derby was the 18th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 11, 1892.


1892 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team
The 1892 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team represented Kentucky State College—now known as the University of Kentucky—during the 1892 college football season.


1892 Kesteven County Council election
The second set of elections to Kesteven County Council were held on Thursday, 3 March 1892. Kesteven was one of three divisions of the historic county of Lincolnshire in England; it consisted of the ancient wapentakes (or hundreds) of Aswardhurn, Aveland, Beltisloe, Boothby Graffoe, Flaxwell, Langoe, Loveden, Ness, and Winnibriggs and Threo. The Local Government Act 1888 established Kesteven as an administrative county, governed by a Council; elections were held every three years from 1889, until it was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972, which established Lincolnshire County Council in its place.


1892 Kesteven County Council election
Forty-six electoral divisions of the new Council were outlined in December 1888. For the 1892 election, Sleaford and Bourne, which were initially two member divisions, were split, the former into Quarrington and Sleaford, the latter into Bourne and Morton. Nearly every candidate was returned unopposed, with contests in only eight divisions.


1892 Lafayette football team
The 1892 Lafayette football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1892 college football season. In its second and final year under head coach Wallace Moyle, the team compiled a 5–7 record and was outscored by a total of 139 to 126. Gustave Voight was the team captain. The team played its home games on The Quad in Easton, Pennsylvania.


1892 Laguna Salada earthquake
The 1892 Laguna Salada earthquake occurred at 23:20 Pacific Standard Time on February 23. It had an estimated moment magnitude of 7.1–7.2 and a maximum perceived intensity of VIII (Severe). The shock was centered near the Mexico–United States border and takes its name from a large dry lake bed in Baja California, Mexico. There were no reported casualties, but the event affected the then largely-uninhabited areas of northern Mexico and Southern California.


1892 Laguna Salada earthquake, Tectonic setting
The Salton Trough is part of the complex plate boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate where it undergoes a transition from the continental transform of the San Andreas Fault system to the series of short spreading centers of the East Pacific Rise linked by oceanic transforms in the Gulf of California. The southern part of the trough is divided into two by the Sierra Cucapa and Sierra Mayor ranges forming the Mexicali Valley to the east and the Laguna Salada to the west. The western side of these ranges is formed by the Laguna Salada Fault, which forms a possible continuation of the Elsinore Fault Zone of southern California.


1892 Laguna Salada earthquake, Tectonic setting
The Laguna Salada Fault shows combined normal (down to the southwest) and dextral (right-lateral) movement. Prior to 2010 it showed evidence of recent (probably historical) displacement with a 22 km (14 mi) zone of surface faulting, and 3–4 m (9.8–13.1 ft) of vertical displacement. This is interpreted to be associated with the 1892 earthquake.


1892 Laguna Salada earthquake, Earthquake
The earthquake was felt over a wide area from Los Angeles and San Bernardino in the north to San Quintin in the south. The area in which the perceived intensity of shaking reached VIII (Severe) or more was centered on the mapped fault rupture.


1892 Laguna Salada earthquake, Earthquake, Damage
A report from the Los Angeles Times the following day stated no damage was found in Los Angeles, but also specified that severe shocks were felt in San Diego. Masonry walls were cracked in several buildings there, as well as the outlying communities of Otay and Jamul. At the abandoned Carrizo Creek Stage Station, in what is now Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in eastern San Diego county, poorly built masonry was damaged and all adobe buildings were destroyed.


1892 Laguna Salada earthquake, Earthquake, Damage
At Hook Ranch and Laguna Station the shaking was strong enough to throw people off their feet and at Dulzura Canyon and McCain Valley the ground was seen to move in waves. There were rockfalls at Bratton Valley, Tierra Blanca Canyon, Storm Canyon and Whale Peak and landslides at Dulzura Canyon and Devil's Canyon.


1892 Laguna Salada earthquake, Earthquake, Aftershocks
At Campo, California 155 aftershocks were felt in the first 12 hours after the mainshock and continued every few days for the next two months.


1892 Laguna Salada earthquake, Other events
The Laguna Salada fault moved again during the 2010 Baja California earthquake.


1892 Lanarkshire County Council election
The second elections to Lanarkshire County Council were held on 6 December 1892 as part of the wider 1892 local elections.


1892 Lanarkshire County Council election
There were only contests in 19 of the councils 66 divisions, with 47 members being returned unopposed. In two of the 19 divisions (Bishopbriggs and Overton) candidates (Sir William Hozier and David McLardy respectively) had been nominated without their consent, and withdrew their names. Hozier had prior to the election served as the councils Chairman.


1892 Leeds South by-election
The Leeds South by-election, 1892 was a parliamentary by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Leeds South in the West Riding of Yorkshire held on 22 September 1892.


1892 Leeds South by-election, Vacancy
The by-election was caused by the elevation to the peerage of the sitting Liberal MP, Sir Lyon Playfair. Playfair had been MP for Leeds South since its creation for the 1885 general election. In his letter to his constituency association informing them of his peerage, Playfair said it had been a wholly unexpected honour, a point later repeated in his memoirs and correspondence. Playfair was a distinguished chemist and expert in sanitation.


1892 Leeds South by-election, Vacancy
He had worked closely with Prince Albert, the Prince Consort on a scheme for filtering sewage to fertilize the royal estate at Osborne House and later on plans for the Great Exhibition of 1851. As well as his past association with Price Albert, Playfair was a German speaker with strong Scottish connections so it was, perhaps, not surprising when he was created Baron Playfair of St Andrews and made Lord-in-waiting to Queen Victoria.


1892 Leeds South by-election, Candidates, Liberals
The South Leeds Liberals held a selection meeting on 26 August 1892 and, having considered a number of possible candidates, they decided to invite John Lawson Walton to defend the seat. Walton was aged 40 and was a successful barrister on the north-eastern circuit who also had a practice in London. At the 1892 general election, just a few weeks earlier, he had been the Liberal candidate for Leeds Central when he lost narrowly to the sitting Conservative MP G W Balfour.


1892 Leeds South by-election, Candidates, Conservatives
The Conservatives met on 24 August 1892 and resolved to contest the by-election. They selected 29-year-old Reginald Neville, also a barrister to fight the seat. Neville had been Playfair’s opponent at the 1892 general election when he had slightly reduced the Liberal majority. He was formally adopted on 6 September.


1892 Leeds South by-election, Candidates, Labour
It was expected that a candidate representing labour would enter the fray. A deputation of working men invited James M’Gregor, the general secretary of the National Labourers’ Federation to stand as a Labour candidate. M’Gregor seemed to be willing. He said he would submit the offer to the executive committee of his union and be bound by their decision.


1892 Leeds South by-election, Candidates, Labour
It is not known if the union were opposed to M’Gregor’s candidacy but a few days later it was reported that another trade union official, Mr J Solly, the organising secretary of the Railway Labourers’ Union, had accepted an invitation to fight the by-election for Labour. But Solly’s acceptance may have been premature because Leeds Trade Council were unable to approve him until the Railway Labourers’ Union agreed to contribute a substantial sum towards election expenses.


1892 Leeds South by-election, Candidates, Labour
Neither of these potential candidacies came to anything however as the Leeds Trades Council decided it would be counter-productive to stand a labour candidate and risk splitting the anti-Tory vote. However, as the by-election approached, another union man, John Lincoln Mahon, of the Leeds and District Gasworkers Union declared that he would be standing for labour as he had secured the support of the socialist journalist and activist Henry Hyde Champion, regarded as one of the leading spirits behind the formation of the Independent Labour Party. Champion had promised financial backing for Mahon to contest the by-election. Mahon said he would stand as an Independent in view of the decision of the local Trades Council not to endorse a candidate standing explicitly in the labour interest.


1892 Leeds South by-election, The campaign
The principal excitement of the campaign was the animosity between the Liberal and Labour camps. On 17 September, Mahon held an election meeting at the Hunslet Mechanics’ Institute. Almost from the outset the meeting deteriorated into disorder and violence. The culprits were said to be a large contingent of Irishmen who had deliberately occupied the seats at the front of the hall, many of whom were said to be intoxicated with drink. They howled down Mahon’s platform supporters and then rushing the stage they attacked Mahon himself and his party causing injuries requiring doctors to be called. At a more peaceful meeting the next night in Leeds, Mahon accused Lawson Walton of stirring up and inciting the attackers on the assumption they were supporters of the Liberal cause of Home Rule.


1892 Leeds South by-election, The campaign
Champion wrote an angry letter to The Times complaining that Walton had held a meeting on 16 September in which he had done his best to ‘inflame the minds of his partisans against the labour candidate and his supporters’. Champion stopped just short of accusing Walton of commissioning the break-up of the labour meeting and of supplying the Irishmen with drink but pointed out that they came to the meeting with a plentiful supply of election literature from the Liberal committee-rooms.


1892 Leeds South by-election, The campaign
He claimed the Liberals were increasingly worried about the rise of political labour and the threat this represented to Liberal electoral hopes. It was ironic that this charge was levelled at Walton, as he had stood aside as Liberal candidate in Battersea only the previous year when John Burns, the trade unionist indicated he proposed to stand in the seat at the 1892 election as an Independent Labour candidate.


1892 Leeds South by-election, The campaign
Another Labour meeting on 19 September, addressed by Keir Hardie pressed the issue of the representation of the working classes and whether this could ever adequately be done by the middle-class capitalists and professional men who dominated Liberal politics. The meeting was full of disturbance. Mr Sweeney of the Leeds Trade Council spoke against Mahon's candidacy and a vote of confidence in Mahon was proposed and lost by a large margin. A further meeting took place later and the proceedings were reported as being ‘uproarious’ with the police called, albeit without a repeat of the violence of the Hunslet meeting.


1892 Leeds South by-election, The campaign
Both Walton and Neville publicly denounced the violence against Mahon.


1892 Leeds South by-election, Nominations
Nominations were put in at Leeds Town Hall on 20 September. Those of Walton and Neville were accepted by the Mayor. However an objection was made to Mahon’s paper and after long consideration his nomination was rejected as invalid owing to the incorrectness of the name and address of his nominator. As a result, the contest was a straight fight between Walton and Neville. Mahon proceeded to issue his written manifesto but he could not contest the election itself. It was later alleged however that Mahon engineered the rejection of his nomination paper. It was said, admittedly by his opponents, that there had been ample time between the pointing out of the defect and the deadline for nomination to get a qualified supporter to sign the paper and so make it legal.


1892 Leeds South by-election, The result
The failure of Mahon to get himself on the ballot paper, real or manufactured, solved the problem for the traditional working class voters of South Leeds of deciding which non-Conservative candidate to support. This was perhaps just as well as the Liberal majority over the Conservative fell for the third successive election and a vote split between Liberal and Labour parties might have been enough to deliver the seat to Neville.


1892 Leeds South by-election, The result
The continued decline may have had to do with Walton’s being new to the constituency compared to the previous, well-known incumbent and Neville’s name being known from the general election a couple of months before. It is difficult from the results of by-elections in the early part of the 1892-95 Parliament to see a swing in public opinion away from the minority Liberal government of W E Gladstone and towards the Unionist parties.


1892 Leeds South by-election, The result
The Liberal Unionists did greatly reduce the Liberal majority in the Luton or Southern Division of Bedfordshire on 29 September and the Conservatives gained Cirencester in October 1892 but the Liberals gained four seats from the Tories in the early months of 1893 and it was not until the middle of that year that Conservative gains began to come more regularly, prefiguring their election win in 1895.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom
The 1892 Session of the Legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom, also known as the Longest Legislature, was a period from May 28, 1892, to January 14, 1893, in which the legislative assembly of the Hawaiian Kingdom met for its traditional bi-annual session. This unicameral body was composed of the upper House of Nobles and the lower House of Representatives. This would be the first session during the reign of Queen Liliʻuokalani and the last meeting of the legislative assembly during the Hawaiian monarchy. Three days after the prorogation of the assembly, many of the political tension developed during the legislative debates and the queen's attempt to promulgate a new constitution while her legislators were not in session led to the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 17, 1893.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Members of this legislative session included citizens and subjects of the kingdom of either full or mixed Native Hawaiian, Euro-American and Asian descent, who were divided across different party lines. They included the insurgents who would play an eventual role in the deposition of the queen, and also the political resistance leaders who would lead the opposition to the overthrow and attempts to annex the Hawaiian Islands to the United States.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Background
In 1887, King Kalākaua was forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution under duress by the Hawaiian League, a group of foreign businessman and Hawaiian subjects of American missionary descent including Lorrin A. Thurston. This constitution limited the absolute power of the monarch and strengthened the power of the executive cabinet. It also raised property requirements for suffrage, disenfranchised many poor Native Hawaiians and naturalized Asian citizens, and gave the vote to unnaturalized foreign residents of European or American descent.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Background
It also changed membership in the House of Nobles, the upper house of the legislature, from life appointments by the king to elected offices for the first time. A new cabinet headed by Thurston was imposed on the king and the king's previous administration headed by Walter Murray Gibson was ousted.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Background
The instigators of this coup d'état formed the Reform Party, drawing its memberships from Hawaiian conservatives and citizens of foreign descent, and won the majority of the seats in the legislature in the election of 1887, which was mandated by the new constitution. In the election of 1890, the Hui Kālaiʻāina (Hawaiian Political Association) and the Mechanics' and Workingmen's Political Protective Union joined together to form the National Reform Party in opposition to the Reform Party in this session. The Reform Party lost their majority control in the legislature and the Thurston cabinet was removed by a legislative vote of want of confidence.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Background
Following the prorogation of the legislature of 1890, King Kalakaua died while in San Francisco and was succeeded by his sister Queen Liliʻuokalani on January 29, 1891.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Election of 1892
The general election of 1892 proved the most contentious. The four major parties were the Reform, National Reform, National Liberal, and the Native Sons of Hawaii which ran the same candidates as the National Reformers. The National Reform Party became the administration or governmental party and gained the personal support of the new queen. They joined with the Reformers and Native Sons in opposing the more radical elements of the National Liberal.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Election of 1892
The National Liberal Party, which became the party of the opposition, advocated for increased Native Hawaiian participation in the government and a constitutional convention to draft a new constitution to replace the unpopular Bayonet Constitution. However, the Liberals soon became divided between radicals and more conciliatory groups. Joseph Nāwahī and William Pūnohu White became the leaders of the factions of the Liberals loyal to the queen against the more radical members led by John E. Bush and Robert William Wilcox, who were advocating for drastic changes such as increased power for the people and a republican form of government.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Election of 1892
The election resulted in a divided legislature, although the conservatives painted it as a victory for their coalition. It was hard to tell where the exact loyalty of many of the elected nobles and representatives lay because of internal disagreement. According to historian Ralph S. Kuykendall, "the party composition of the 1892 legislature (the forty-eight elected members) appeared to be: Reform Party, twenty-three; Liberal Party, thirteen; National Reform Party, nine; Independent, three".


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Legislative session
From May 28, 1892, to January 14, 1893, the legislature of the Kingdom convened for an unprecedented 171 days, which later historians such as Albertine Loomis and Helena G. Allen dubbed the "Longest Legislature". This would be the first session during the reign of Queen Liliʻuokalani and the last meeting of the legislative assembly during the Hawaiian monarchy.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Legislative session
At the opening of the legislature, forty-eight elected politicians, consisting of twenty-four nobles (including thirteen holdovers continued their terms from the 1890 legislature) and twenty-four representatives from the four main Hawaiian Islands met at the legislative halls of Aliʻiōlani Hale in Honolulu. The legislature met as a unicameral body composed of the upper House of Nobles and the lower House of Representatives with Noble John Smith Walker presiding as President of the Legislative Assembly and Noble John Kauhane as Vice-President.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Legislative session
The body included politicians of Native Hawaiian descent, Euro-American descent, mixed Hawaiian and Euro-American descent, and even three members of Chinese-Hawaiian descent. The appointed cabinet ministers also had the right to participate as ex-officio members of the legislature with the right to vote on all matters except on votes for their removal. In the course of the session, five members would resign and three new members chosen in special elections to replace with two of the five members reclaiming their vacated seats.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Legislative session
This session was dominated by political infighting within and between and the different parties. Debates heard on the floor of the houses concerned the popular demand for a new constitution, the passage of a lottery bill and an opium licensing bill, aimed at alleviating the economic crisis caused by the McKinley Tariff. By the end of the session, the queen had also signed into law the lottery bill and opium licensing bill, which were extremely controversial in the foreign community and especially with the leaders of the Reform Party.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Legislative session
Petitions asking for a new constitution were submitted by seven legislators: Noble David William Pua and Representatives Joseph Nāwahī, William Pūnohu White, Jose Kekahuna Iosepa, Anakalea Kauhi, T. S. Nahinu, Luther W. P. Kanealii and George Panila Kamauoha. Attempts were made to call a constitutional convention to draft a new constitution in both the 1890 session and the 1892 session. Both National Liberals and National Reformers campaigned on the promise of a new constitution, however many National Reformers supported a middle path and advocated for changes via amendments. The conservative Reformers would not tolerate any changes to the existing constitution. There was also disagreement on the legality of how to execute the change. No clear comparable precedents existed, since previous constitutions had been promulgated by the sovereign.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Legislative session
The main issue of contention between the new monarch and the legislators was the retention of her cabinet ministers; political division prevented Liliʻuokalani from appointing a balanced council. The 1887 constitution retained the monarch's right to appoint her own cabinet minister but gave the legislature the power to vote for the dismissal of her cabinet. Seven resolutions of want of confidence were introduced during this session, and four of her self-appointed cabinets (the Widemann, Macfarlane, Cornwell, and  Wilcox cabinets) were ousted by votes of the legislature. During this session, Nāwahī also proposed a bill to the legislature to amend the constitution to give women the right to vote. The bill failed to pass. Had it been made into law, Hawaii would have preceded New Zealand as the first nation to allow women to vote.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Legislative session
On January 13, 1893, after the legislature dismissed the Wilcox cabinet (which had political sympathies to the Reform Party), Liliʻuokalani appointed the new Parker cabinet, which had ties to the National Reform Party and consisted of Samuel Parker, as minister of foreign affairs; John F. Colburn, as minister of the interior; William H. Cornwell, as minister of finance; and Arthur P. Peterson, as attorney general.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Legislative session
The legislative assembly was prorogued January 14, at a noon ceremony officiated by the queen at Aliʻiōlani Hale, which was situated across the street from ʻIolani Palace.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Aftermath
Following the prorogation of the legislative session, Liliʻuokalani attempted to promulgate a new constitution while the legislature was not in session. In reaction to the legislative stand still on the constitution convention bill, the queen met in secret with the two leaders of the Liberal Party: Representatives Nāwahī and White and Samuel Nowlein, the captain of her Royal Guards, to draft a new constitution.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Aftermath
In the afternoon of January 14, she met with her cabinet ministers while members of Hui Kālaiʻāina and a delegation of native legislators marched to ʻIolani Palace with a sealed package containing the constitution for her to promulgate. According to historian William DeWitt Alexander, this was pre-planned by the queen. However, she discovered the ministers were either opposed to or reluctant to sign the new constitution and the queen had to postpone her plans and dismiss the delegations of political leaders and the assembled crowds from the palace. She later wrote, "I told them I would not have taken such a step if they had not encouraged me. They had led me out to the edge of a precipice, and now were leaving me to take the step alone."


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Aftermath
The political fallout of the queen's actions led to citywide political rallies and meetings in Honolulu. Anti -monarchists, annexationists, and leading Reformist politicians, including legislators Lorrin A. Thurston, William Owen Smith, and William Chauncey Wilder, formed the Committee of Safety in protest of the "revolutionary" action of the queen and conspired to depose her. In response, royalists and loyalists formed the Committee of Law and Order and met at the palace square on January 16. White, Nāwahī, Bush, Wilcox, and Antone Rosa and other pro-monarchist leaders gave speeches in support for the queen and the government.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Aftermath
These actions and the radicalized political climate eventually led to the overthrow of the monarchy, on January 17, 1893, by the Committee of Safety, with the covert support of United States Minister John L. Stevens and the landing of American forces from the USS Boston. After a brief transition under the Provisional Government, the oligarchical Republic of Hawaii was established on July 4, 1894, with Sanford B. Dole as president.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Aftermath
During this period, the de facto government was composed largely of residents of American and European ancestry, although a few Native Hawaiians from the 1892 legislature: John Ena, John Kauhane, and Jose Kekahuna Iosepa signed the constitutional convention for the Republic while Kauhane and George Panila Kamauoha would serve multiple terms in the legislature of the Republic.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Aftermath
Many of the former legislators of the 1892 session, including Robert William Wilcox and Joseph Nāwahī, would lead the opposition to the overthrow and resistance to annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States. In 1893, Nawahi and many former 1892 legislators founded the Hui Aloha ʻĀina (Hawaiian Patriotic League), a patriotic group founded to protest annexation, while Wilcox led an unsuccessful counter-revolution in 1895 to restore the monarchy.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Members of the Legislative Assembly, House of Nobles
This incomplete breakdown of party allegiance are based on The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, a contemporary newspaper, reporting at the beginning of the legislative session and the report of Noble Edward C. MacFarlane in the Blount Report.


1892 Legislative Session of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Members of the Legislative Assembly, Cabinet Ministers
According to Article 42 of the 1887 Constitution, "The Cabinet holds seats ex officio, in the Legislature, with the right to vote, except on a question of want of confidence in them." Each cabinet were named after the leading cabinet ministers.


1892 Lehigh football team
The 1892 Lehigh football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1892 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach John A. Hartwell, the team compiled a 3–6 record and was outscored by a total of 164 to 91.


1892 Liverpool City Council election
Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on Tuesday 1 November 1892. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years.


1892 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections
At the meeting of the Council on 9 November 1892, the terms of office of eight alderman expired.


1892 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections
The death of Alderman Henry Jennings had been reported to the Council on 26 October 1892.


1892 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections
The resignation of Alderman David MacIver had been reported to the Council on 26 October 1892.


1892 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections
The following eight were elected as Aldermen by the Council (Aldermen and Councillors) on 9 November 1892 for a term of six years.


1892 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 9, Great George, 23 November 1892
Caused by the election of Councillor James Ruddin (Liberal, Great George, elected 2 November 1892)as an alderman by the Council on 9 November 1891.


1892 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 2, Scotland, 23 November 1892
Caused by the election of Councillor Dr. Alexander Murray Bligh (Irish Nationalist, Scotland, elected 2 November 1891) as an alderman by the Council on 9 November 1891.


1892 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 3, Vauxhall, 23 November 1892
Caused by the election of Councillor Andrew Commins MP (Irish Nationalist, Vauxhall, elected 1 November 1891) as an alderman by the Council on 9 November 1892.


1892 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 4, St. Paul's, 23 November 1892
Caused by the election of Councillor Philip Henry Rathbone JP (Liberal, St, Paul's, elected 1 November 1892) as an alderman by the Council on 9 November 1892.


1892 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 8, Pitt Street - 2 seats, 23 November 1892
Caused by the election of Councillor Henry Charles Hawley (Liberal, Pitt Street, elected 1 November 1892) and Councillor Francis Joseph McAdam (Liberal, Pitt Street, elected 1 November 1890) as aldermen by the Council on 9 November 1892.


1892 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 7, St. Peter's, 23 November 1892
Caused by the election of Councillor William Benjamin Bowring (Liberal, St. Peter's, elected 1 November 1890) as an aldermen by the Council on 9 November 1892.


1892 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 8, Rodney Street - 2 seats, 23 November 1891
Caused by the election of Councillor Henry Charles Hawley (Liberal, Pitt Street, elected 1 November 1892) and Councillor Francis Joseph McAdam (Liberal, Pitt Street, elected 1 November 1890) as aldermen by the Council on 9 November 1892.


1892 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 11, Abercromby, 18 February 1893
Caused by the death of Councillor Dr. Nicholas Kennick Marsh (Conservative, Abercromby, elected 1 November 1890) on 2 February 1893.


1892 Liverpool Everton by-election
The Liverpool Everton by-election, 1892 was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 15 February 1892 for the House of Commons constituency of Liverpool Everton.


1892 Liverpool Everton by-election, Vacancy
The vacancy was caused by the death on 14 January of the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Edward Whitley. The 67-year-old Whitley was a former Mayor of Liverpoolwho had held the seat since its creation at the 1885 general election,  and had previously been one of the three MPs for Liverpool from 1880 to 1885.


1892 Liverpool Everton by-election, Candidates
The Executive Committee of the Everton Conservatives met on 22 January to consider their choice of candidate for the by-election. They decided that three names should be proposed to a meeting of the party's Divisional Council: former Liverpool MP Lord Claud Hamilton, Councillor John Houlding, and former Birkenhead MP David MacIver. However, at the council meeting on 26 January Houlding declined the invitation to stand, and no other names were formally put to the meeting.


1892 Liverpool Everton by-election, Candidates
The Divisional Council met again on 2 February, with Houlding in the chair. Two names were proposed: MacIver, and the journalist John A. Willox. The meeting unanimously chose Willox, the owner of Cope Brothers tobacco merchants (based in Liverpool and London), and also the owner and editor of the Liverpool Courier newspaper.


1892 Liverpool Everton by-election, Candidates
The Liberal Party had intended to contest the election, and hoped that if the Conservatives had selected the brewer Houlding they would have gained the temperance vote. However, in the end they did not choose a candidate.


1892 Liverpool Everton by-election, Result
The writ was moved in the Commons on 10 February by Aretas Akers-Douglas,the MP for St Augustine's. 15 February had been selected as the day for nominations, and since Willox was the only candidate nominated, he was returned unopposed, without any need for a vote.


1892 Liverpool Everton by-election, Result
In honour of his election, over 100 journalists from Liverpool presented him with an illuminated address.


1892 Liverpool Everton by-election, Aftermath
Willox was re-elected with a large majority at the general election in July 1892,and was returned unopposed in 1895 and 1900. He was knighted in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Honours in 1897.


1892 Liverpool Everton by-election, Aftermath
Sir John held the seat until serious illnessprompted his resignation from Parliament in February 1905 by taking the Chiltern Hundreds, triggering another by-election. He died in June 1905, on his 63rd birthday.


1892 Livingstone football team
The 1892 Livingstone football team represented Livingstone College in the 1892 college football season as an independent.


1892 Livingstone football team
On December 27 of 1892, Livingstone College and Biddle College, (Johnson C. Smith) University played in the snows of Salisbury, North Carolina, just two days after Christmas. A writer of a story in the 1930 year-book of Livingstone College provided a glimpse of that December experience when the team from Biddle Institute traveled to Livingstone's Old Delta Grove campus in Salisbury to play while writers recorded the results of a historic moment in sports history.


1892 Livingstone football team
According to historian T.M. Martin, the men of Biddle spent two years studying and practicing the sport of football. In 1892, they challenged the men of Livingstone, whose team was formally organized in the fall of that year.


1892 Livingstone football team
It is doubtful that when Biddle University and Livingstone College teed it up on Dec. 27, 1892, in what was described as little more than a cow pasture, no less, if the contestants in this momentous occasion had the slightest inkling of the legacy they were about to give birth to. Games of monumental historical significance, coaches of legendary proportions and players of extraordinary brilliance ultimately emerged from the mother lode that was to become known as the historically Black colleges and universities. The teams played two 45-minute halves on Livingstone's front lawn.


1892 Livingstone football team
W.J. Trent scored Livingstone's only touchdown on a fumble recovery. By then snow had covered the field's markings and Biddle argued that the fumble was recovered out of bounds. The official ruled in Biddle's favor, allowing them to keep the 5–0 lead that they had established early on and giving JCSU the historic 1st victory! And the rivalry continues. ...


1892 Liège–Bastogne–Liège
The 1892 Liège–Bastogne–Liège was the inaugural edition of the Liège–Bastogne–Liège cycle race and was held on 29 May 1892. Léon Houa won the race, which started and finished in Liège.


1892 Louisiana gubernatorial election
The 1892 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held on April 19, 1892. Like most Southern states between Reconstruction and the civil rights era, Louisiana's Republican Party was virtually nonexistent in terms of electoral support. In addition, the Republican Party had split into two factions, each supporting a different candidate. As Louisiana had not yet adopted party primaries, this meant that the Democratic Party convention nomination vote was supposed to be the real contest over who would be governor. At the convention, pro-lottery former Governor Samuel D. McEnery was nominated.


1892 Louisiana gubernatorial election
As a result of the nomination of a pro-lottery candidate, a group of anti-lottery Democrats nominated their own candidate, State Senator Murphy J. Foster. In addition to the four candidates already mentioned, the increasingly popular Populists nominated R. H. Tannehill and their candidate. Despite all of this, Senator Foster was elected with 45% of the vote with a comfortable 19% margin between him and McEnery, who placed second. This election marked the last time until 1979 that the official Democratic Party nominee was defeated.


1892 Louisville Colonels season
The 1892 Louisville Colonels season saw the Colonels professional baseball team of Louisville, Kentucky, compete as members of the National League. In a split season schedule, the Colonels finished 11th in the first half of the season and ninth in the second half. Overall, the team had a record of 63–89, ninth-best in the 12-team National League.


1892 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1892 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1892 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1892 Louisville Colonels season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1892 Maltese general election
General elections were held in Malta on 5 and 6 September 1892. Elections were only held in three constituencies as all other members were returned unopposed.


1892 Maltese general election, Background
The elections were held under the Knutsford Constitution. Ten members were elected from single-member constituencies, whilst a further four members were elected to represent nobility and landowners, graduates, clerics and the Chamber of Commerce.


1892 Maltese general election, Results
A total of 10,522 people were registered to vote, of which just 1,062 cast votes, giving a turnout of 10%.


1892 Manitoba general election
The 1892 Manitoba general election was held on July 23, 1892.


1892 Marquette Blue and Gold football team
The 1892 Marquette Blue and Gold football team was an American football team that represented Marquette University as an independent during the 1892 college football season. In Marquette's first season of American football, the University compiled a 1–2 record, with two losses against nearby Milwaukee High School and a win over Loyola of Chicago.


1892 Maryland Aggies football team
The 1892 Maryland Aggies football team represented the Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland) in the 1892 college football season. It was the first football team to officially represent the school. Maryland played three games, all of which it lost, and failed to score any points. Halfback Pearse "Shorty" Prough gained the only positive yardage for the team against Episcopal High School. He netted 35 yards from scrimmage after first running 30 yards in the wrong direction. It remained the only winless Maryland team until matched by the 1967 squad coached by Bob Ward.


1892 Maryland Aggies football team, Season summary
Teams composed mostly of MAC students were fielded in 1890 and 1891, but the 1892 squad was the first officially sponsored by the college. Dick Pue was elected captain as the only member to return from the unofficial 1891 "varsity". The Aggies opened the season against St. John's College, which had fielded a team since 1885. The game was held on October 15 in Annapolis and attended by a large crowd. Many of the spectators had traveled to also attend the Navy–Princeton game on the same day. Maryland was overmatched in all aspects and was routed by St. John's, 50–0.


1892 Maryland Aggies football team, Season summary
On November 5, the Aggies traveled by the B&O Railroad to face Johns Hopkins at Clifton Park in Baltimore. The heavier Hopkins team scored a touchdown in the game's first 40 seconds on its way to a 62–0 victory. The Baltimore American judged Prough, Rollins, Strickler, and Worthington as Maryland's best players of the game.


1892 Maryland Aggies football team, Season summary
Maryland closed the season against Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia. Episcopal controlled the game and won, 16–0. Halfback Pearse "Shorty" Prough recovered an Episcopal fumble and ran in the wrong direction 30 yards before realizing his error and changing course for a net gain of 35 yards to the opponent's 15-yard line. According to later accounts from eyewitnesses described in King of American Football in 1952, it may have been the Aggies' only positive yardage of the game. Episcopal's school newspaper, the Monthly Chronicle wrote, "Runs by [Episcopal's] Prof. Mead and Conrad were followed by Whaley dropping the ball. Prough picks it up and, forgetting himself, starts off for the wrong goal. He regains his self-possession, however, in time to turn and, by a pretty piece of running, make a net gain in the end." The Chronicle added that Maryland "showed an unaccreditable ignorance of football."


1892 Maryville Scots football team
The 1892 Maryville Scots football team represented the Maryville College during the 1892 college football season. In its inaugural season, the team's head coach was the Japanese Kin Takahashi.


1892 Massachusetts Aggies football team
The 1892 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1892 college football season. The team played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. Massachusetts finished the season with a record of 4–6–2.


1892 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
The 1892 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1892. Incumbent Democratic Governor William Russell was re-elected to a third term in office over Republican Lt. Governor William H. Haile.


1892 Massachusetts legislature
The 113th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1892 during the governorship of William E. Russell. Alfred S. Pinkerton served as president of the Senate and William Emerson Barrett served as speaker of the House.


1892 Mauritius cyclone
On April 29, 1892, a powerful tropical cyclone struck the island of Mauritius in the South-West Indian Ocean. At least 1,200 people died during the storm, and another 4,000 people were injured, with 50,000 people left homeless, making the cyclone the second-deadliest tropical cyclone recorded in the South-West Indian Ocean basin, behind Cyclone Idai in 2019. It is also the third-deadliest recorded in the Southern Hemisphere, behind the aforementioned Cyclone Idai and the 1973 Flores cyclone. The storm originated north of the island, and local meteorologists expected that the storm would remain away from the island.


1892 Mauritius cyclone
Consequentially, residents were unprepared until the arrival of the strong winds. For a span of 65 minutes, the calm of the storm's eye occurred on the island, before the winds again increased, reaching 195 km/h (121 mph), with gusts to 216 km/h (134 mph). During the storm, the barometric pressure dropped to 947 mbar (27.96 inHg), breaking the 74-year-old record for the lowest recorded pressure on the island.


1892 Mauritius cyclone
The damage on Mauritius was so severe that contemporaneous newspapers questioned whether the island would recover. Damage was estimated at £2,000,000 (1892 GBP, $9.75 million USD).


1892 Mauritius cyclone, Meteorological history
Before the storm struck, Mauritius had never experienced a cyclone between April 12 and December 1, which was considered outside of the cyclone season. The origins of the damaging cyclone are unclear. A report from the Royal Alfred Observatory on Mauritius noted that a large cyclone was moving southwestward on April 24, 1892, located north of the island. Over the next few days, the storm either recurved to the southeast, or generated a second smaller cyclone moving southeastward. Regardless, a powerful cyclone struck what was then the British colony of Mauritius on April 29.


1892 Mauritius cyclone, Meteorological history
From 1:25 to 2:30 pm that afternoon, the island experienced the eye of the storm for 65 minutes, before the winds again increased. At 2:30 pm, a weather station recorded a minimum pressure of 947 mbar (27.96 inHg); this was the lowest pressure ever recorded on Mauritius at the time, breaking the record set on March 1, 1818. At 3:47 pm, the weather station recorded maximum sustained winds of 195 km/h (121 mph). Wind gusts reached 216 km/h (134 mph), which would be the highest winds on the island until Cyclone Carol in 1960. There have been only six tropical cyclones producing a stronger wind gust since the 1892 storm: Carol, Jenny in 1962, Danielle in 1964, Gervaise in 1975, Claudette in 1979, and Dina in 2002. Cyclone Hollanda in 1994 tied the winds produced by the 1892 storm.


1892 Mauritius cyclone, Meteorological history
The cyclone also produced lightning on the island during its passage. Weather conditions quickly improved on Mauritius after the storm moved away from the island. The storm was unusual in its trajectory coming from the northwest; most other Mauritius cyclones struck from the northeast. The nomenclature for the weather phenomena on Mauritius was variously described as a blizzard, cyclone, hurricane, tornado, and whirlwind, although the size and scope of the storm meant it was not a proper tornado. A contemporaneous newspaper article described April 29 on the island as "Black Friday".


1892 Mauritius cyclone, Preparations and impact
For several days, high waves affected northern Mauritius, but the cyclone to the north was expected to remain away from the island. On the morning that the cyclone arrived, the weather observatory sent a telegram, noting that "[the winds] will probably not exceed 90 km/h (56 mph)". This was the final warning before the telegraph lines snapped. Officials in the capital city Port Louis warned residents about the impending arrival of the storm by firing a cannon, followed by a gunshot. Responding to the warning, all traffic was halted, and residents secured doors and storms shutters. As most houses on the island were constructed of wood, the shutters served as the primary means of defense to the high winds. The island's ports were closed on the morning of the storm's arrival.


1892 Mauritius cyclone, Preparations and impact
During a span of about six hours, the cyclone damaged most of the buildings on Mauritius, killed at least 1,200 people, and injured 4,000 others. Six villages were largely destroyed: Beau Bassin, Rose Hill, Phoenix, Vacoas, Rose-Belle, and Mahébourg-Souillac. Residents returned to business during the passage of the storm's eye, which was marked by the rain stopping and the appearance of the sun. After the eye passed, the winds increased from the opposite direction. Many residents were unprepared for the ferocity of the storm, which contributed to the high death toll.


1892 Mauritius cyclone, Preparations and impact
Strong winds damaged or destroyed most houses, leaving about 50,000 people homeless, and also wrecked 30 of the islands' 50 churches. The cyclone wrecked 75% of the island's sugar production facilities, completely decimating some plantations, which cut the sugar industry in half. Centuries-old trees were knocked down or stripped of their leaves, with about 200,000 trees knocked down on the island. Rail service was halted due to storm debris on the tracks. Damage on Mauritius was estimated at £2,000,000 (1892 GBP, $9.75 million USD).


1892 Mauritius cyclone, Preparations and impact
About one third of Port Louis was destroyed during the storm, with 1,500 houses wrecked and 20,000 people left homeless. There were at least 596 fatalities in the city. Intense clouds gathered in the mountains above the city and unleashed a torrent. High waters sank a dozen barges in the harbor, and washed at least 13 ships onto land, some 6.1 m (20 ft) above sea level. During the storm, at least ten fires broke out in Port Louis, which destroyed 16 houses, and burnt several injured residents to death. The storm destroyed churches and schools, including the Royal College. High winds knocked down trees, lifted the roofs of houses, and flung deadly airborne debris. The winds also knocked out telegraph lines, limiting communications, and damaged rail lines, interrupting travel.


1892 Mauritius cyclone, Aftermath
After the storm, military members and civilians transported the deceased residents of Mauritius by cart through the damaged streets, burying the dead in public cemeteries. Injured residents were carried and treated to the few buildings left standing, while homeless residents were housed in the barracks and the immigration building. Soldiers patrolled the streets of Port Louis to prevent looting. Under order from the island's colonial governor Thomas Elliott, churches were allowed to take rice and tea for injured storm victims. Responding to the death toll from the storm, flags were ordered to be flown at half-mast for eight days. Contemporaneous newspapers questioned whether the island would be able to recover from the storm.


1892 Mauritius cyclone, Aftermath
The lord mayor started a relief fund to raise funds for rebuilding. Mauritius administrator Eugène P. J. Leclézio requested assistance from the British government, estimating the cost of rebuilding at £800,000. The British government granted loan to farmers, to be repaid after 20 years, to prevent them from going bankrupt. Nearby Réunion island and Seychelles sent resources to Mauritius to assist in rebuilding. Other residents in the British Empire helped the colony rebuild. The United Society Partners in the Gospel raised £1,114 to rebuild damaged churches.


1892 Mercer Baptists football team
The 1892 Mercer Baptists football team represented Mercer University in the 1892 college football season. They finished with a record of 1–0 as they won their only game 12–6 for their first win in program history.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election
The second election to the Merionethshire County Council was held in March 1892. They were preceded by the 1889 election and followed by the 1895 election.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Overview of the result
The Liberals held their large majority with most seats being uncontested.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Unopposed Returns
At the inaugural election the majority of seats had been contested, and in many cases the majorities were very small. By 1892, however, most wards were uncontested.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Contested Elections
There were a large number of contested elections and the majorities were small in most instances. In most cases there were contests between Liberal and Conservative candidates.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, The New Council
The first meeting of the council was held in Dolgellau.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Summary of Results
This section summarises the detailed results which are noted in the following sections. This was the inaugural county election and therefore no comparison can be made with the previous elections. One councillor was described as an Independent candidate but was also grouped in some reports with the Conservatives.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Summary of Results
This table summarises the result of the elections in all wards. 42 councillors were elected.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Summary of Results
This table summarises the position following the election of aldermen. Eight were elected from among the elected members and eight from outside the council. This brought the total number of councillors and aldermen to 56.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Summary of Results
This table summarises the position following the by-elections for the three seats vacated following the election of aldermen. Technically these were new seats, taking the total number of councillors to 56. However, the Liberals defended three seats.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Results, Aberdovey District
Enoch Lewis, Balkan Hill, standing as an Independent defeated William Jones, Sea View Terrace. The previous member sat as a Conservative.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Results, Cynfal and Teigl District (two seats)
William Davies, farmer, of Caerblaidd, Ffestiniog and John Hughes, farmer, of Hafodfawrisaf, Maentwrog, were elected at the expense of George Henry Ellis, solicitor, of Penymount, Ffestiniog and Edward Henry Jonathan, draper, of Paris House, Four Crosses.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Results, Dyffryn
Samuel Pope, having been caught in the controversy over use of the Welsh language in 1889, did not seek re-election. John Davies, Glanymorfa, was elected in his place, defeating W. Ansell, Corsygedol.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Results, Harlech District
The sitting member, Richard Thomas Jones, surgeon, of Penygarth Villa, Harlech defeated F.R. Lloyd of Bronygraig by a much larger margin than his success in 1889.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Results, Llanfor
Richard John Price of Rhiwlas defeated William Thomas Rowlands, farmer, of Tanycoed, Llanfor (L).


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Results, Llanfrothen
John Jones, gentleman, of Ynysfor, Llanfrothen defeated William Hughes, farmer, of Cwmcaeth, Nantmor, Beddgelert.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Results, Maenofferen and Diphwys Combined District (two seats)
John Parry Jones of the District Bank, Blaenau Ffestiniog and Robert Owen Jones, solicitor, of High Street, Blaenau Ffestiniog were elected at the expense of Morris Jones, flour dealer, of Blaenbowydd House, Blaenau Ffestiniog.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Results, Penrhyn and Talsarnau (two seats)
J. B. Jones, miller, of Brynyfelin and John Rowe, quarry manager, of Glasfryn View, Penrhyn, were elected at the expense of Edmund Morgan Roberts, farmer, of Cefntrefor- isaf, Talsarnau and John Morgan, grocer, of Canton House, High Street, Blaenau Ffestiniog.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Results, Trawsfynydd Eastern and Western Districts (two seats)
John Humphreys, physician and surgeon, of Fronwynion-street, Trawsfynydd and Robert Hugh Pughe, farmer, of Brynllefrith, Trawsfynydd, were elected at the expense of David Tegid Jones, farmer, of Y Goppa and William Evans, draper, of Meirion House, Trawsfynydd.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Election of Aldermen
In addition to the 42 councillors the council consisted of 14 county aldermen. Aldermen were elected by the council, and served a six-year term. Following the election of the initial sixteen aldermen, half of the aldermanic bench would be  elected every three years following the triennial council election. After the initial elections, there were sixteen Aldermanic vacancies and the following Alderman were appointed by the newly elected council:


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Election of Aldermen
Only three of those elected were members of the council.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Aldermanic Vacancies 1889-1895
Richard Jones died suddenly in February 1889, creating an immediate vacancy.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, Aldermanic Vacancies 1889-1895
Therefore, the following appointment was made for the remaining six years in May 1892.


1892 Merionethshire County Council election, By-elections, Bala by-election
Edward Watkin, land agent, Rhiwlas, standing as an Independent, defeated the Liberal candidate by fifteen votes. Richard Jones, who had been elected alderman, died three days later.


1892 Mexican general election
General elections were held in Mexico in 1892. Incumbent president Porfirio Díaz was re-elected with 99.9% of the vote.


1892 Miami Redskins football team
The 1892 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University during the 1892 college football season. There was no paid head coach for the season. They had a 2–2 record in 4 games.


1892 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team
The 1892 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team represented Michigan State Normal School (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1892 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Dean W. Kelley, the Normalites compiled a record of 2–1 and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 36 to 30. George L. Wilson was the team captain.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1892 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan in the 1892 college football season. In its first season under head coach Frank Barbour, the team compiled a 7–5 record and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 298 to 170. With 298 points scored, the team held the record for the most points scored in a single season by a Michigan football team until 1901.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1892 season was Michigan's first in the newly-formed Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest consisting of the Universities of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and Northwestern University. The season also included: (i) a road trip through four states in which the team played five games in 15 days; (ii) Michigan's inaugural matches against Wisconsin, Minnesota, Northwestern, and Amos Alonzo Stagg's Chicago Maroons; and (iii) a controversial game with John Heisman's Oberlin team which both teams claim to have won.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team
Fullback George Dygert was the team captain and started all 12 games for Michigan. Right halfback George Jewett led the team on offense and was described by coach Barbour as the best halfback he had ever seen. In 1890, Jewett became the first African American to play football at Michigan; after 1892, it was 40 years before another African American played football for the team.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
In April 1892, representatives of several Western colleges met at the Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago where they formed the Western College Athletic League to compete in football, baseball and track. The members of the new league were the University of Wisconsin, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, and the University of Minnesota. The Western College Athletic League laid the foundation for what later became the Big Ten Conference. With the new alliance in place, Michigan played several teams that would become its long-time rivals. The 1892 season included Michigan's first-ever games against Wisconsin, Minnesota, Northwestern, and Chicago.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
Before the season began, Michigan hired Frank Barbour of Yale as its new head football coach. Twenty men showed up for practice in mid-September. Barbour spent weeks teaching his players the fundamentals of the game. George Jewett, the first African-American to play football at Michigan, was described as the "phenomenon" of the pre-season practice. After the 1892 season, it took 40 years before another African American (Willis Ward) played for the Michigan football team.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 1: Michigan Athletic Association
On October 8, 1892, Michigan opened its season with a 74–0 victory over the Michigan Athletic Association team from Detroit. The game was played in 25-minute halves at Regents Field in Ann Arbor. George Jewett, credited with playing his "usual brilliant running game," scored Michigan's first touchdown and kicked the goal. Michigan's second touchdown was scored by George Dygert with Jewett kicking the goal. On Michigan's next possession, Jewett ran 75 yards for a touchdown and kicked goal. Later in the first half, Jewett returned a kick for another touchdown and again kicked goal. Michigan led, 30–0, at halftime.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 1: Michigan Athletic Association
In the second half, Michigan scored 44 points. Jewett scored four more touchdowns and kicked four more goals. While contemporary accounts do not record who scored each touchdown and goal, the account in The U. of M. Daily attributes at least 44 points to Jewett on seven touchdowns (four points each) and eight kicks for goal (two points each).


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 1: Michigan Athletic Association
Michigan's lineup against M.A.A. was Ralph Waldo Emerson Hayes (right end), Willard W. Griffin (right tackle), Charles Thomas (right guard), Frank F. Harding (center rush), Virgil Tupper (left guard), Frank Henry Decke (left tackle), Woodruff [Paul Woodworth?] (left end), Edmond L. Sanderson and McAllister (quarterback), Lawrence Grosh (left halfback), Jewett (right halfback), and Dygert (fullback).


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 2: at Michigan Athletic Association
Four days after the season opener, Michigan traveled to Detroit for a Wednesday night game against the Michigan Athletic Association. Michigan won the rematch, 68–0. Michigan scored seven touchdowns (four points each) and five goals (two points each) in the first half to take a 38–0 lead. The Wolverines added to their lead with five touchdowns, four goals, and a safety in the second half.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 2: at Michigan Athletic Association
The Detroit Free Press wrote afterward that the Michigan team "seems pretty well equipped this year" and added: "From the looks of some of them in the dressing room they have been tackling locomotives and other tough obstacles around the college town, but, like the veterans in the army, they only seem to relish it all the more when once bruised and broken up." The Michigan Athletic Association team was trained by Keene Fitzpatrick, who later gained fame as the trainer and track coach at Michigan and Princeton.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 2: at Michigan Athletic Association
Michigan's starting lineup for the second game was Hayes (right end), W. W. Griffin (right tackle), Thomas (right guard), Harding (center), Tupper (left guard), Decke (left tackle), Woodruff [Woodworth?] (left end), McAllister (quarterback), Crozier [Grosh?] (left halfback), Jewett (right halfback), and Dygert (fullback). Sanderson replaced McAllister at quarterback in the second half.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 3: at Wisconsin
From October 15 to 29, 1892, Michigan conducted a five-game, 15-day road trip through Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, and Illinois. The trip began on October 15 with the inaugural meeting between the Wolverines and the Wisconsin Badgers. The Wolverines won the game by a score of 10–6 before a crowd of 800 spectators at Randall Field in Madison, Wisconsin. The receipts from the game totaled approximately $300.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 3: at Wisconsin
Michigan ran in a "V" formation in the game. According to the account published in the Chicago Tribune, George Jewett accounted for all 10 of Michigan's points with a long touchdown run and a kick for goal in the first half and a second touchdown in the second half. Wisconsin scored on a touchdown by left tackle Freeman with fullback Sumner kicking the goal.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 3: at Wisconsin
The game account published in the Wisconsin State Journal repeatedly referred to Jewett as "the negro". The newspaper described the crowd's reaction to a tackle of Jewett: "Diving in between two of the Michigan men, he grasped the negro by the legs and brought him down. The crowd went wild, and even several of the oldest and most staid professors were seen to cheer and wave their hats." In its account of the game, the Detroit Free Press credited Jewett with "some brilliant runs."


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 3: at Wisconsin
Michigan's starting lineup against Wisconsin was Paul Woodworth (right end), W. W. Griffin (right tackle), Charles Thomas (right guard), Frank Harding (center), Virgil Tupper (left guard), Frank Henry Decke (left tackle), Ralph Waldo Emerson Hayes (left end), Edmond Sanderson (quarterback), McAllister (left halfback), Jewett (right halfback), and George Dygert (fullback). Ten of Michigan's eleven starters played the entire game. Starting center Harding was "knocked insensible" near the end of the first half and was replaced by Frederick W. Henninger.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 4: at Minnesota
Two days after playing Wisconsin, Michigan faced Minnesota at the Minneapolis Base Ball Park in Minneapolis. The game was the first of more than 90 meetings in Michigan's oldest football rivalry. Minnesota won the game, 14–6. After the Saturday afternoon game in Madison, the Wolverines arrived in Minneapolis at 8 o'clock on Sunday morning. The team spent Sunday afternoon with alumni in St. Paul and visited Minnehaha Falls on Monday morning.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 4: at Minnesota
The game was played on Monday afternoon during a hard rain that made the field wet and muddy. Despite the rain, The Minneapolis Tribune reported that the game was played before "the largest crowd that ever witnessed a football game in the Northwest." The Saint Paul Daily Globe, on the other hand, estimate the crowd size at 800 persons. Michigan's starting center Frank Harding was unable to play due to the injury he sustained against Wisconsin. The Detroit Free Press's account of the game reported that Michigan was "badly outclassed at center and could not withstand Minnesota's rush." At the end of a 45-minute first half, Minnesota led 10-0.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 4: at Minnesota
Michigan's only touchdown came on a long run by George Jewett in the second half. Jewett and Ralph Hayes were also praised for making "great tackles." The Minneapolis Tribune noted that "Jewett, Ann Arbor's colored phenomenon at half-back, could win the game alone with half a chance." Jewett made gains for Michigan throughout the game, and Michigan coach Frank Barbour, who played at Yale, called Jewett "the best half-back he has ever seen."


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 4: at Minnesota
Michigan's starting lineup against Wisconsin was Woodworth (right end), Griffin (right tackle), Thomas (right guard), Henninger (center), Tupper (left guard), Decke (left tackle), Hayes (left end), McAllister (quarterback), Grosh (left halfback), Jewett (right halfback), and Dygert (fullback). The only substitutions for Michigan were McAllister (replacing Grosh at left halfback in the first half), Sanderson (replacing McAllister at quarterback), and Southworth (replacing Woodworth at right end in the second half).


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 5: vs. DePauw
On October 21, 1892, Michigan defeated DePauw, 18–0, before a crowd of 1,500 spectators at the old Y.M.C.A. ball grounds in Indianapolis. The game began at 4:00 p.m., having been delayed by the city's Columbian parade. Right halfback George Jewett scored 14 of Michigan's 18 points. On the opening drive, he ran around the end for 40 yards, McAllister scored on the next play, and Jewett kicked goal to give Michigan a 6–0 lead. On the next drive by DePauw, Jewett twice tackled DePauw's back, the latter time for a 10-yard loss.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 5: vs. DePauw
Michigan regained possession on a fumble, and on the first play of the drive, Jewett ran some 50 yards for a touchdown and kicked goal to give Michigan a 12–0 lead. On Michigan's third possession, Jewett "skated across the field as he pleased", scoring the third touchdown and kicked the goal to put Michigan ahead, 18–0. Darkness made play difficult in the second half, and the game was ended soon after the second half began.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 5: vs. DePauw
According to the Detroit Free Press, the Wolverines "did sharp work" for the first 15 minutes of the game, scoring all 18 points in that time. The Wolverines reportedly lost their vigor in the remainder of the game.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 5: vs. DePauw
The Indianapolis Journal wrote that Jewett "played a brilliant game and was as elusive as a will-'o-the-wisp." During the game, a spectator yelled to a DePauw player, "Kill the nigger," referring to Jewett, who was playing a brilliant game. On hearing the comment, Jewett approached the spectator "with a leap like a panther" and his "fist shot out". When the spectator picked himself up, he didn't know where he was. Jewett returned to the game in time for the next play "as unconcerned as though he had just made an easy buck at the center."


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 5: vs. DePauw
Michigan's lineup against DePauw was Paul Woodworth (left end), Frank Decke (left tackle), Virgil Tupper (left guard), Frank Harding (center), Charles Thomas (right guard), W. W. Griffin (right tackle), Charles Southworth (right end), Ed Sanderson (quarterback), Jewett (right halfback), McAllister (left halfback), and George Dygert (fullback).


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 6: at Purdue
On Monday, October 24, 1892, Michigan lost to Purdue, 24–0, before a crowd of 2,500 spectators at Stuart Field in Lafayette, Indiana. The game was the second meeting between the two schools, Michigan having won the first game in 1890.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 6: at Purdue
The game began at 3:00 p.m. Purdue scored two touchdowns and kicked both goals to take a 12-0 lead at halftime. Purdue scored another two touchdowns and two goal from touchdown in the second half. Michigan sustained multiple injuries, and team captain George Dygert was injured on Purdue's fourth touchdown run. Michigan had no more replacements left to substitute into the game, so Purdue was allowed to kick its goal from touchdown, and the game was then called.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 6: at Purdue
The strain of playing five games in 13 days showed in the play of the Michigan team. The Detroit Free Press described a spate of injuries that eventually led to the game's early termination: "Michigan's team was crippled at several points as it went on the field. Jewett's right ankle was very weak, and McAllister's back and neck still used up from the De Pauw game. Harding was hurt almost at the beginning, and was forced to retire before the middle of the half. . . .


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 6: at Purdue
Jewett was in no condition to play the game, and Freund had to take his place soon after Harding retired. . . . At the opening of the second half McAllister had his leg so strained that he gave his place to Woodworth, Southworth playing end. Soon after Dygert's ankle gave way and the game was called, since Michigan had no sixteenth man to enter the game."


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 6: at Purdue
After the game, Purdue fans celebrated with "ringing of bells, parades and fireworks."


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 6: at Purdue
Michigan's starting lineup against Purdue was Powers (right end), W. W. Griffin (right tackle), Thomas (right guard), Harding (center), Tupper (left guard), Decke (left tackle), Woodworth (left end), Sanderson (quarterback), McAllister (left halfback), Jewett (right halfback), and Dygert (fullback). Players appearing in the game solely as substitutes for Michigan were Bird (right guard), Freund (right halfback), and Southworth (left end).


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 7: vs. Northwestern
Michigan concluded its 15-day road trip with its first-ever football game against Northwestern. The game was played in Chicago on Saturday, October 29, 1892, and Michigan lost, 10–8. The Michigan team arrived in Chicago shortly before 8 p.m. on Friday evening and spent the night at the Tremont Hotel. The game was played in 20-minute halves with 1,000 spectators in attendance.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 7: vs. Northwestern
Early in the game, Michigan's left tackle Frank Decke recovered a fumble and returned it for a touchdown. George Jewett's kick for goal failed, and Michigan led, 4–0. Northwestern then tied the game when it scored a touchdown but missed the kick for goal. Later in the first half, Northwestern scored another touchdown and kicked its goal for a 10–4 lead at halftime. Michigan scored a touchdown in the second half with Jewett leading the attack.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 7: vs. Northwestern
Michigan's touchdown came on a fluke play when a Northwestern punt from deep in its own territory struck a Michigan rusher and bounced into the endzone. Woodworth fell on the ball for the touchdown. Jewett missed his second kick for goal, a kick that would have tied the game. Despite the missed kicks, the newspapers praised Jewett's play. The Chicago Daily Tribune noted: "In the second half, Jewett the big colored halfback of Ann Arbor, made a number of brilliant rushes." The Detroit Free Press reported that "Bray, Jewett and Decke carried off the honors for the U. of M."


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 7: vs. Northwestern
After the game, a large celebration took place on the Northwestern campus in a square on Davis Street. Students blew tin horns, and a large pile of barrels and boxes were set afire. Members of the football team were carried around the fire before the crowd marched to Woman's Hall.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 7: vs. Northwestern
Michigan's starting lineup against Northwestern was Smith (right end), Bray (right tackle), Thomas (right guard), Spangler (center), Griffin (left guard), Decke (left tackle), Woodworth (left end), McAllister (quarterback), Leonard (left halfback), Jewett (right halfback), and Dygert (fullback).


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 8: Albion
On November 5, 1892, Michigan played its second home game of the year. The Wolverines defeated Albion by a decisive score of 60–8. The game was played in halves of 45 minutes in front of 600 spectators at Regents Field. Michigan scored 10 touchdowns and converted on all 10 kicks for goal from touchdown. The Detroit Free Press reported: "The university team played a sprinting game, nearly every touchdown being made after long runs and skillful dodging." George Jewett, in particular, was credited with playing a "great game", having kicked nine consecutive goals after touchdown. Dygert kicked the 10th goal. The score was evenly divided between the two halves, with Michigan scoring 30 points and Albion four points in each half. Contemporaneous newspaper accounts do not detail which players scored Michigan's 10 touchdowns, though Jewett, Dygert, and Leonard were credited with long runs.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 8: Albion
The game was marked by rough play. Michigan's left guard Jefferis received a "vicious kick" in the back, the sound of which could be heard in the grandstand. Jefferis left the game and was replaced by Hall. Michigan's right end Hayes accused Albion's fullback Mulholland of putting fingers in his mouth and trying "to tear him." An Albion player also accused Michigan's left tackle Bray of slugging him in the face.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 8: Albion
Michigan's lineup against Albion was James Bird and Hiram Powers (left end), Bray (left tackle), Albert Jefferis and Hall (left guard), Charles T. Griffin (center), Frederick W. Henninger (right guard), W. W. Griffin (right tackle), Ralph Waldo Emerson Hayes (right end), Edmond L. Sanderson (quarterback), Jewett and McAllister (left halfback), Herman B. Leonard (right halfback), and George Dygert (fullback).


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 9: at Cornell
On November 8, 1892, three days after playing Albion, Michigan played a Tuesday afternoon game against Cornell before a crowd of 1,200 spectators at Percy Field in Ithaca, New York. The Wolverines lost the game, 44–0. Michigan reportedly made good gains through center, "used the wedge effectively" and "tackled hard, but guarded poorly and fumbled continually." The play of right halfback George Jewett was also a bright spot. The Cornell Sun wrote that, "as the crowd thronged out of the gates every one was asking his companion, who was the phenominal [sic] right half-back with the U. of M. team."


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 9: at Cornell
The team's rigorous travel schedule, likely the toughest ever undertaken by a Michigan team, took a toll. The Detroit Free Press reported: "The Michigan eleven was really beaten before entering the game. The men had slept but two or three hours Monday night and were consequently in poor trim for the contest."


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 9: at Cornell
Michigan's lineup against Cornell was Powers (left end), Dickie (left tackle), Hall (left guard), C. T. Griffin (center), Henninger (right guard), W. W. Griffin (right tackle), Hayes (right end), Sanderson (quarterback), Freund (left halfback), Jewett (right halfback), and Dygert (fullback).


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 10: vs. Chicago
On November 13, 1892, Michigan played its first game against the Chicago Maroons. Michigan had originally been scheduled to play Lehigh in Toledo, but the opponent was changed to Chicago. A group of 300 traveled by train from Ann Arbor, escorted the team to Boody House, and "showed Toledo how college boys take a city by storm."


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 10: vs. Chicago
The game was played at Toledo's Olympic Park on a wet and muddy field. The crowd was estimated at 700 by the Detroit Free Press and at 1,500 by the Chicago Tribune. Michigan won the game by a score of 18 to 10. As the Michigan team took the field, the players were greeted by 300 Michigan students making "an unearthly howl ending with their college yell."


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 10: vs. Chicago
Amos Alonzo Stagg was Chicago's coach, team captain, and starting right halfback. Decke scored Michigan's first touchdown, and Jewett kicked goal to give Michigan a 6–0 lead. Shortly thereafter, Rapp scored for Chicago, but the goal was missed, and Michigan led, 6–4. Decke then scored Michigan's second touchdown with Jewett again kicking goal to extend the lead to 12–4. Jewett was later stopped for a safety, and the lead narrowed to 12–6. Stagg then scored on a long run but missed the kick for gal, and the score stood at 12–10 at the end of a 45-minute first half. Michigan scored one touchdown in the second half and kicked goal. Jewett had a "remarkable run" dodging tacklers just before the clock expired.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 10: vs. Chicago
The Chicago Tribune described the game as a "triangular contest between the mud and the two teams" and noted that, by the end of the game, the players "resembled walking clay models from a sculptor's studio."


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 10: vs. Chicago
Michigan's starting lineup against Chicago was Hayes (right end), W. W. Griffin (right tackle), Thomas (right guard), C. T Griffin (center), Henninger (left guard), Decke (left tackle), Woodworth (left end), Sanderson (quarterback), Leonard (left halfback), Jewett (right halfback), and Dygert (fullback).


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 11: Oberlin
On November 19, 1892, Michigan played a close game against an undefeated Oberlin team led by player-coach John Heisman. The outcome of the game was, and remains, disputed. Michigan records the game as a 26–24 victory, while Oberlin does not count the final Michigan touchdown and records the game as a 24–22 victory for Oberlin.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 11: Oberlin
George Jewett scored Michigan's first touchdown on 45-yard run around the right end. He also kicked goal, and Michigan led, 6–0. Williams then scored for Oberlin, and Hart kicked goal to tie the score. Savage scored Oberlin's second touchdown, and Hart again kicked goal to put Oberlin ahead, 12–6. Michigan scored three additional touchdowns in the first half, two by Jewett and one by W. W. Griffin. Jewett converted two out of the three kicks for goal from touchdown. Oberlin also scored another touchdown and kicked goal. At halftime, Michigan led, 22–18.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 11: Oberlin
The second half consisted of only three short drives before the game ended in controversy. Michigan began the half with possession and fumbled. On Oberlin's first possession of the second half, Savage took the ball at Oberlin's two-yard line and ran 103 yards to Michigan's five-yard line where Jewett caught up and tackled him. Two plays later, Hart scored a touchdown and Oberlin kicked goal to take a 24–22 lead.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 11: Oberlin
On the next possession after Hart's touchdown, Michigan ran two plays when the referee Ensworth, a substitute player for Oberlin, called time and the entire Oberlin team "ran off the field so quickly it almost seemed prearranged." A Harvard man in the audience approached Oberlin's manager Hogen to say that "Oberlin would be everlastingly disgraced among reputable Rugby teams if she persisted," but the Oberlin team refused to play out the game, boarded its bus, and left for its hotel. Michigan refused to accept the ruling and, with the support of the umpire (Horace Greely Prettyman of Michigan), handed the ball to Jewett who walked for Michigan's claimed fifth touchdown.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 11: Oberlin
The U. of M. Daily opined that Oberlin had played a strong game but had "neutralized the good impression" by "leaving the field several minutes before time was up." In another account, the Daily detailed the clock controversy as follows: "Referee Ensworth, an Oberlin substitute, lost all tab of time, and called the game at fourteen minutes to five, while the captain of each team had agreed to play until ten minutes before the hour. Time-keeper Spangler also verifies this. Captain Williams immediately got his team into the bus and were driven to their hotel. All expostulations with the Oberlin captain and manager were of no avail. Umpire Prettyman had the time and says that Mr. Ensworth did not take out a four minutes wait during the latter part of the half when one of the players was recovering from an injury."


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 11: Oberlin
Adding to the intrigue, the Chicago Tribune reported that Michigan's left tackle "Doc" Pearson had earlier been ejected from the game and in turn slugged the referee – the Oberlin man who later called the game over.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 11: Oberlin
The Detroit newspapers reported that Michigan had won the game, while Oberlin newspapers reported that Oberlin had won. More than a century later, the controversy continued as the Oberlin Alumni Magazine published an article titled "The Day Oberlin Beat Michigan, Or Did We?"


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 11: Oberlin
Michigan's lineup against Oberlin was Woodworth (left end), Pearson and Bird (left tackle), Thomas (left guard), C. T. Griffin (center), Henninger (right guard), W. w. Griffin (right tackle), Hayes (right end), Sanderson (quarterback), Leonard and Freund (left halfback), Jewett (right halfback), and Dygert (fullback).


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 12: vs. Cornell
On Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1896, Michigan lost a second game to Cornell by a 30–10 score. The game was played in Detroit on the Detroit Athletic Club grounds. Attendance was reported as 3,000 by The U. of M. Daily and 3,500 by the Detroit Free Press.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 12: vs. Cornell
Cornell dominated the first half, scoring four touchdowns and kicking two goals from touchdown to take a 20–0 lead. In the second half, each team scored 10 points, but the deficit created in the first half gave the victory to Cornell. George Jewett scored Michigan's first touchdown and also kicked the goal. Moving the ball with Jewett, Michigan relied on a trick play. The U. of M. Daily described the play: "Jewett got the ball on the pass back. The whole team started, gridiron fashion, to the left, and Jewett, after a few yards, appeared at the right side.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 12: vs. Cornell
It fooled Cornell badly and Jewett made 25 yards." After Jewett had already been tackled, a second Oberlin player, Witherbee, "came in on a gallop and dropped hard on Jewett's head." Jewett got up, "smashed Witherbee on the nose", and was ejected from the game. Charles Rittenger, substituting for Jewett, scored Michigan's final touchdown.


1892 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Game 12: vs. Cornell
Michigan's starting lineup against Cornell was Ralph Waldo Emerson Hayes (right end), W. W. Griffin (right tackle), Frederick W. Henninger (right guard), C. T Griffin (center), Charles Thomas (left guard), Frank Decke (left tackle), Paul Woodworth (left end), Edmond Sanderson (quarterback), Lawrence Grosh and Raynor Freund (left halfback), Jewett and Charles Rittenger (right halfback), and George Dygert (fullback). Freund and Rittenger appeared as substitutes.