1906 Fordham football team
The 1906 Fordham football team was an American football team that represented Fordham University as an independent during the 1906 college football season. Fordham claims a 15–5 record, though College Football Data Warehouse (CFDW) lists the team's record as 5–3.


1906 Fordham football team
Fred L. Smith was the team's coach for a third, non-consecutive year. Quarterback Howard Gargan was the team captain from 1905 to 1907 and took over as head coach in 1908. The team played its home games at Fordham Field in The Bronx and at the Polo Grounds in Manhattan.


1906 Fordham football team, Schedule
The following eight games are reported in Fordham's media guide, CFDW, and contemporaneous press coverage.


1906 Fordham football team, Schedule
The following are 12 additional games reported in the Fordham media guide.


1906 Franklin Baptists football team
The 1906 Franklin football team represented Franklin College of Indiana in the 1906 college football season.


1906 French Grand Prix
The 1906 Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France, commonly known as the 1906 French Grand Prix, was a motor race held on 26 and 27 June 1906, on closed public roads outside the city of Le Mans. The Grand Prix was organised by the Automobile Club de France (ACF) at the prompting of the French automobile industry as an alternative to the Gordon Bennett races, which limited each competing country's number of entries regardless of the size of its industry.


1906 French Grand Prix
France had the largest automobile industry in Europe at the time, and in an attempt to better reflect this the Grand Prix had no limit to the number of entries by any particular country. The ACF chose a 103.18-kilometre (64.11 mi) circuit, composed primarily of dust roads sealed with tar, which would be lapped six times on both days by each competitor, a combined race distance of 1,238.16 kilometres (769.36 mi). Lasting for more than 12 hours overall, the race was won by Ferenc Szisz driving for the Renault team. FIAT driver Felice Nazzaro finished second, and Albert Clément was third in a Clément-Bayard.


1906 French Grand Prix
Paul Baras of Brasier set the fastest lap of the race on his first lap. He held on to the lead until the third lap, when Szisz took over first position, defending it to the finish. Hot conditions melted the road tar, which the cars kicked up into the faces of the drivers, blinding them and making the racing treacherous. Punctures were common; tyre manufacturer Michelin introduced a detachable rim with a tyre already affixed, which could be quickly swapped onto a car after a puncture, saving a significant amount of time over manually replacing the tyre. This helped Nazzaro pass Clément on the second day, as the FIAT—unlike the Clément-Bayard—made use of the rims.


1906 French Grand Prix
Renault's victory contributed to an increase in sales for the French manufacturer in the years following the race. Despite being the second to carry the title, the race has become known as the first Grand Prix. The success of the 1906 French Grand Prix prompted the ACF to run the Grand Prix again the following year, and the German automobile industry to organise the Kaiserpreis, the forerunner to the German Grand Prix, in 1907.


1906 French Grand Prix, Background
The first French Grand Prix originated from the Gordon Bennett races, established by American millionaire James Gordon Bennett, Jr. in 1900. Intended to encourage automobile industries through sport, by 1903 the Gordon Bennett races had become some of the most prestigious in Europe; their formula of closed-road racing among similar cars replaced the previous model of unregulated vehicles racing between distant towns, over open roads. Entries into the Gordon Bennett races were by country, and the winning country earned the right to organise the next race.


1906 French Grand Prix, Background
Entries were limited to three per country, which meant that although the nascent motor industry in Europe was dominated by French manufacturers, they were denied the opportunity to fully demonstrate their superiority. Instead, the rule put them on a numerical level footing with countries such as Switzerland, with only one manufacturer, and allowed Mercedes, which had factories in Germany and Austria, to field six entries: three from each country. The French governing body, the Automobile Club de France (ACF), held trials between its manufacturers before each race; in 1904 twenty-nine entries competed for the three positions on offer.


1906 French Grand Prix, Background
When Léon Théry won the 1904 race for the French manufacturer Richard-Brasier, the French automobile industry proposed to the ACF that they modify the format of the 1905 Gordon Bennett race and run it simultaneously with an event which did not limit entries by nation. The ACF accepted the proposal, but decided that instead of removing limits to entries by nation, the limits would remain but would be determined by the size of each country's industry. Under the ACF's proposal, France was allowed fifteen entries, Germany and Britain six, and the remaining countries—Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria and the United States—three cars each.


1906 French Grand Prix, Background
The French proposal was met with strong opposition from governing bodies representing the other Gordon Bennett nations, and at the instigation of Germany a meeting of the bodies was organised to settle the dispute. Although the delegates rejected the French model for the 1905 race, to avoid deadlock they agreed to use the new system of limits for the 1906 race. But when Théry and Richard-Brasier won again in 1905, and the responsibility for organising the 1906 race fell once more to the ACF, the French ended the Gordon Bennett races and organised their own event as a replacement, the Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France.


1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Track
A combined offer from the city council of Le Mans and local hoteliers to contribute funding to the Grand Prix persuaded the ACF to hold the race on the outskirts of the city, where the Automobile Club de la Sarthe devised a 103.18-kilometre (64.11 mi) circuit. Running through farmlands and forests, the track, like most circuits of the time, formed a triangle. It started outside the village of Montfort, and headed south-west towards Le Mans.


1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Track
Competitors then took the Fourche hairpin, which turned sharply left and slowed the cars to around 50 kilometres per hour (31 mph), and then an essentially straight road through Bouloire south-east towards Saint-Calais. The town was bypassed with a temporary wooden plank road, as the track headed north on the next leg of the triangle. Another plank road through a forest to a minor road allowed the track to bypass most of the town of Vibraye, before it again headed north to the outskirts of La Ferté-Bernard.


1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Track
A series of left-hand turns took competitors back south-west towards Montfort on the last leg of the triangle, a straight broken by a more technical winding section, near the town of Connerré. Competitors lapped the circuit twelve times over two days, six times on each day, a total distance of 1,238.16 kilometres (769.36 mi).


1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Track
To address concerns about previous races, during which spectators crowding too close to the track had been killed or injured by cars, the ACF erected 65 kilometres (40 mi) of palisade fencing around the circuit, concentrated around towns and villages, and at the ends of lanes, footpaths and roads intersecting the track. The planking used to avoid the towns of Saint-Calais and Vibraye was installed as an alternative to the system used in the Gordon Bennett races, where cars passing through towns would slow down to a set speed and were forbidden to overtake.


1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Track
Several footbridges were erected over the track, and a 2,000-seat canopied grandstand was built at the start and finish line at Montfort. This faced the pit lane on the other side of the track, where the teams were based and could work on the cars. A tunnel under the track connected the grandstand and the pit lane. The road surface was little more than compacted dust and sharp stones which could be easily kicked up by the cars, and to limit the resulting problem of impaired visibility and punctures the ACF sealed the entire length of the track with tar. More was added to the bends of the track after cars running on them during practice broke up the surface.


1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Entries and cars
Ten French manufacturers entered cars in the Grand Prix: Clément-Bayard, Hotchkiss, Gobron-Brillié, Darracq, Vulpes, Brasier (the successor to Richard-Brasier), Panhard, Grégoire, Lorraine-Dietrich and Renault. Two teams came from Italy (FIAT and Itala) and one (Mercedes) from Germany. With the exceptions of Gobron-Brillié and Vulpes, which each entered one car, and Grégoire, which entered two cars, each team entered three cars, to make a total field of thirty-four entries. No British or American manufacturers entered the Grand Prix. The British were suspicious that the event was designed as propaganda for the French automobile industry; British magazine The Motor quoted French daily newspaper Le Petit Parisien as evidence of this supposed lack of sportsmanship.


1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Entries and cars
The ACF imposed a maximum weight limit—excluding tools, upholstery, wings, lights and light fittings—of 1,000 kilograms (2,205 lb), with an additional 7 kilograms (15 lb) allowed for a magneto or dynamo to be used for ignition. Regulations limited fuel consumption to 30 litres per 100 kilometres (9.4 mpg‑imp; 7.8 mpg‑US). Every team opted for a magneto system; all used a low-tension system except Clément-Bayard, Panhard, Hotchkiss, Gobron-Brillié, and Renault, which used high-tension. Mercedes, Brasier, Clément-Bayard, FIAT and Gobron-Brillié used a chain drive system for transmission; the rest used drive shafts.


1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Entries and cars
All entries were fitted with four-cylinder engines; engine displacement ranged from 7,433 cubic centimetres (454 cu in) for the Grégoire to 18,279 cubic centimetres (1,115 cu in) for the Panhard. Exhaust pipes were directed upwards to limit the dust kicked up off the roads. Teams were allowed to change drivers and equipment, but only at the end of the first day's running, not while the race was in progress.


1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Entries and cars
Michelin, Dunlop and Continental supplied tyres for the race. In the Grand Prix's one major technical innovation, Michelin introduced the jante amovible: a detachable rim with a tyre already affixed, which could be quickly swapped onto the car in the event of a puncture. Unlike in the Gordon Bennett races, only the driver and his riding mechanic were allowed to work on the car during the race, hence carrying the detachable rims could save time and confer a large advantage.


1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Entries and cars
The conventional method of changing a tyre, which involved slicing off the old tyre with a knife, and forcing the new tyre onto the rim, generally took around fifteen minutes; replacing Michelin's rims took less than four. The FIATs each used a full set, while the Renaults and two of the Clément-Bayards used them on the rear wheels of their cars. As carrying each rim added 9 kilograms (20 lb) to the weight of the car over conventional wheels and tyres, some teams—such as Itala and Panhard—could not carry them without exceeding the weight limit.


1906 French Grand Prix, Background, Entries and cars
The Grand Prix name ("Great Prize") referred to the prize of 45,000 French francs to the race winner. The franc was pegged to the gold at 0.290 grams per franc, which meant that the prize was worth 13 kg of gold.


1906 French Grand Prix, Race
Roads around the track were closed to the public at 5 am on the morning of the race. A draw took place among the thirteen teams to determine the starting order, and assign each team a number. Each of a team's three entries was assigned a letter, one of "A", "B", or "C". Two lines of cars formed behind the start line at Montfort: cars marked "A" in one line and cars marked "B" in the other.


1906 French Grand Prix, Race
Cars assigned the letter "C" were the last away; they formed a single line at the side of the track so that any cars which had completed their first circuit of the track would be able to pass. Cars were dispatched at 90-second intervals, beginning at 6 am. Lorraine-Dietrich driver Fernand Gabriel (numbered "1A") was scheduled to be the first competitor to start, but he stalled on the line and could not restart his car before the FIAT of Vincenzo Lancia, who was next in line, drove away.


1906 French Grand Prix, Race
Renault's lead driver, the Hungarian Ferenc Szisz, started next, and behind him Victor Hémery of Darracq, Paul Baras of Brasier, Camille Jenatzy of Mercedes, Louis Rigolly of Gobron-Brillié and Alessandro Cagno of Itala. Philippe Tavenaux of Grégoire, scheduled next, was unable to start; the only other non-starter was the sole Vulpes of Marius Barriaux, which was withdrawn before the race when it was found to be over the weight limit. The last of the thirty-two starters—the Clément-Bayard of "de la Touloubre", numbered "13C"—left the start line at 6:49:30 am.


1906 French Grand Prix, Race
Itala driver Maurice Fabry started the fastest of the competitors; he covered the first kilometre in 43.4 seconds. Over the full distance of the lap Brasier's Baras was the quickest; his lap time of 52 minutes and 25.4 seconds (52:25.4) moved him up to third position on the road and into the lead overall. A mechanical problem caused Gabriel to lose control of his car at Saint-Calais; he regained control in time to avoid a serious accident but was forced to retire.


1906 French Grand Prix, Race
Baras maintained his lead after the second lap, but fell back to second the next lap as Szisz took over the lead. As the day grew hotter the tar began to melt, which proved to be a greater problem than the dust; it was kicked up by the cars into the faces of the drivers and their mechanics, seeping past their goggles and inflaming their eyes. The Renault driver, J. Edmond, was particularly affected: his broken goggles allowed more tar to seep past and rendered him nearly blind. His attempts to change the goggles at a pit stop were rejected by officials on the grounds that equipment could not be replaced mid-race. Nor could another driver be substituted; he continued for two more laps before retiring.


1906 French Grand Prix, Race
FIAT driver Aldo Weilschott climbed from fourteenth on lap three to third on lap five, before his car rolled off the planks outside Vibraye. Szisz maintained the lead he had gained on lap three to finish the first day just before noon in a time of 5 hours, 45 minutes and 30.4 seconds (5:45:30.4), 26 minutes ahead of Albert Clément of Clément-Bayard. Despite a slow start, FIAT driver Felice Nazzaro moved up to third position, 15 minutes behind Clément. Seventeen cars completed the first day; Henri Rougier's Lorraine-Dietrich finished last with a time of 8:15:55.0, 2+1⁄2 hours behind Szisz. All the cars that were competing the next day were moved into parc fermé, a floodlit area guarded overnight by members of the ACF, to prevent teams and drivers from working on them until the following morning.


1906 French Grand Prix, Race
The time each car set on the first day determined the time they set off on the second day, hence Szisz's first-day time of 5 hours and 45 minutes meant he started at 5:45 am. Following the same principle, Clément began at 6:11 am and Nazzaro at 6:26 am. This method ensured that positions on the road directly reflected the race standings. A horse, which had been trained before the race to be accustomed to the loud noise of an engine starting, towed each competitor out of parc fermé to the start line.


1906 French Grand Prix, Race
As neither driver nor mechanic could work on their car until they had been given the signal to start the day's running, Szisz and Clément began by heading directly to the pit lane to change tyres and service their cars. Clément completed his stop more quickly than Szisz, and Nazzaro did not stop at all, and so Clément closed his time gap to Szisz and Nazzaro closed on Clément. Jenatzy and Lancia, who were both suffering eye problems from the first day, had intended to retire from the race and be relieved by their reserve drivers. As planned, "Burton" took over Jenatzy's car, but Lancia was forced to resume in his street clothes when his replacement driver could not be found when the car was due to start.


1906 French Grand Prix, Race
Hotchkiss driver Elliott Shepard, who finished the first day in fourth, less than four minutes behind Nazzaro, spent half-an-hour working on his car at the start of the second day, fitting new tyres and changing liquids. On the eighth lap, he ran off the wooden planking at Saint-Calais but was able to resume; a wheel failure later in the lap caused him to run into a bank of earth and forced him to retire.


1906 French Grand Prix, Race
Panhard driver Georges Teste crashed early in the day and retired, as did Claude Richez of Renault; the sole Gobron-Brillié of Rigolly suffered radiator damage on lap seven and was forced out of the race. After two laps' running on the second day, second-placed Clément had established a 23-minute lead over Nazzaro, but this was reduced to three minutes on the following lap. Despite Nazzaro passing Clément on lap ten, a refuelling stop for the FIAT soon after put Clément back in front. Nazzaro passed again, and led Clément into the last lap of the race by less than a minute.


1906 French Grand Prix, Race
Szisz's Renault suffered a broken rear suspension on the tenth lap, but his lead was so great (more than 30 minutes) that he could afford to drive cautiously with the damage. He took the black flag of the winner at the finish line after a combined total from the two days of 12:12:07.0; he had also been quicker on the straight than any other driver, reaching a top speed of 154 kilometres per hour (96 mph). He finished 32 minutes ahead of second-placed Nazzaro, who was in turn 3 minutes ahead of Clément.


1906 French Grand Prix, Race
Jules Barillier's Brasier was fourth, ahead of Lancia and Panhard driver George Heath. Baras—whose first lap was the fastest of any car during the race—was seventh, ahead of Arthur Duray of Lorraine-Dietrich, "Pierry" of Brasier, and "Burton". The last finisher, the Mercedes driver "Mariaux", was eleventh, more than four hours behind Szisz. Rougier, who had set the fastest lap of the day with a time of 53:16.4, had retired on lap ten after a long series of punctures.


1906 French Grand Prix, Race
Of the other retirements, Hémery, René Hanriot (riding mechanic Jean Chassagne) and Louis Wagner of Darracq suffered engine problems; the radiators on the cars of Rigolly of Gobron-Brillié, Xavier Civelli de Bosch of Grégoire and Cagno of Itala failed; Pierre de Caters of Itala, Shepard and Hubert Le Blon of Hotchkiss, A. Villemain of Clément-Bayard and Vincenzo Florio of Mercedes withdrew after wheel failures; Gabriel of Lorraine-Dietrich, "de la Touloubre" of Clément-Bayard and Henri Tart of Panhard retired because of other mechanical problems; and Fabry of Itala, Weilschott of FIAT, Teste of Panhard, Richez of Renault and Jacques Salleron of Hotchkiss suffered crash damage. Edmond of Renault was the only competitor whose retirement was the result of driver injury.


1906 French Grand Prix, Post-race and legacy
The top three finishers were escorted to the grandstand to collect their trophies. In an interview after the race, Szisz reflected on the "anxiety" he had felt as he drove the final laps: "I feared something small which would take away victory at the moment when it had seemed to be won." The prestige Renault gained from Szisz's victory led to an increase in sales for the company, from around 1,600 cars in 1906 to more than 3,000 a year later, and increasing to more than 4,600 in 1908. But the race had not proven the superiority of the French motorcar; an Italian car had finished second and only seven of the twenty-three French cars that had started the race finished it.


1906 French Grand Prix, Post-race and legacy
Reflections on the race by the organisers and the media generally concluded that the Grand Prix had been a poor replacement for the Gordon Bennett races. In part, this had been because the race was too long, and the system of starting the race—with each car leaving at 90-second intervals—had meant that there had been very little interaction between the competitors, simply cars driving their own races to time. The ACF decided that too much pressure had been put on drivers and riding mechanics by forbidding others to work on the cars during the race.


1906 French Grand Prix, Post-race and legacy
It was also felt that the outcome of the race had been too dependent on the use of Michelin's detachable rims. Clément had driven the only Clément-Bayard to not have the rims, and it was thought that this contributed to Nazzaro passing him on the second day as he stopped to change tyres. Despite this, the ACF decided to run the Grand Prix again the following year. The publicity generated by the race prompted the German governing body to organise a similar event that favoured their own industry. The forerunner to the German Grand Prix, the Kaiserpreis (Kaiser's Prize) was raced in 1907.


1906 French Grand Prix, Post-race and legacy
The conference held in 1904 to consider the French proposal for a change in formula to the Gordon Bennett races led to the formation of the Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus (AIACR; the predecessor of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile), the body responsible for regulating international motorsport. Although a smaller race held in 1901 had awarded the "Grand Prix de Pau", the 1906 race outside Le Mans was the first genuinely international race to carry the label "Grand Prix". Until the First World War it was the only annual race to be called a Grand Prix (often, the Grand Prix), and is commonly known as "the first Grand Prix".


1906 French legislative election
The 1906 general election was held on 6 and 20 May 1906.


1906 French legislative election
The elections produced an increased majority for the governing coalition between the Radicals (PRRRS) and the left Republicans (ARD), which had held power under the premierships of Maurice Rouvier and Ferdinand Sarrien since January 1905.


1906 French legislative election
Sarrien resigned on 20 October for reasons of health. Georges Clemenceau, also a Radical, replaced him, and remained premier until July 1909, after which he went on to become one of the longest-serving French Prime Ministers. The Bloc des gauches formally dissolved with Clemenceau's coming to power.


1906 French legislative election, Electoral System
By the law of 13 February 1889 [fr], French legislative elections would take place utilising a first past the post system to elect one deputy in each constituency to the Chamber of Deputies (France), with some arrondissements being divided into multiple constituencies, though most containing only one.


1906 Galway Borough by-election
The Galway Borough by-election of 1906 was held on 3 November 1906. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Irish Parliamentary MP, Charles Ramsay Devlin, in order to return to Canada. It was won by the Irish Parliamentary candidate Stephen Gwynn.


1906 George Washington Hatchetites football team
The 1906 George Washington Hatchetites Colonials football team was an American football team that represented George Washington University as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In their first season under head coach Wilmer G. Crowell, the team compiled a 4–3–2 record.


1906 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team
The 1906 Georgetown Blue and Gray football team represented Georgetown University during the 1906 college football season. Led by Joe Reilly in his third year as head coach, the team went 6–1. Branch Bocock was the team's quarterback.


1906 Georgia Bulldogs football team
The 1906 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Bulldogs completed the season with a 2–4–1 record. Georgia’s only victories in the 1906 season came against Mercer and Auburn. The season included Georgia's third straight loss to Georgia Tech and the seventh straight loss to Clemson. During the 1906 season, the forward pass was legalized and the team tried to use this new play, however, an errant pass contributed to the loss to Davidson. This was the Georgia Bulldogs' first season under the guidance of head coach Bull Whitney.


1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets baseball team
The 1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets baseball team represented the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets of the Georgia Institute of Technology in the 1906 college baseball season. Star players in 1906 included captain and outfielder Chip Robert, shortstop Tommy McMillan, and pitchers Ed Lafitte and Craig Day.


1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team
The 1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. In the third season under coach John Heisman, Georgia Tech posted a 6–3–1 record.


1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Before the season
In no small part thanks to Heisman, the forward pass was legalized in 1906.


1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Maryville
Under the new rules, Maryville surprised Tech with a tie, 6–6.


1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Maryville
The starting lineup was: Hightower (left end), Monroe (left tackle), Bell (left guard), Luck (center), Henderson (right guard), McCarty (right tackle), Hill (right end), Robert (quarterback), Davids (left halfback), Means (right halfback), Sweet (fullback).


1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, North Georgia
In the second week of play, Tech defeated North Georgia 11–0.


1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Grant
Against Grant, Tech won  18–0. The game proved a punting duel between Brown and Grant's Reupert. The highlight of the game was a 40-yard punt return for a touchdown by Tech's Hightower.


1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Sewanee
Sewanee defeated Georgia Tech 16–0. The game's account is the first involving the jump shift. The starting lineup was Brown (left end), Luck (left tackle), Bell (left guard), Monroe (center), Smith (right guard), McCarty (right tackle), Hill (right end), Robert (quarterback), Hightower (left halfback), Davies (right halfback), Sweet (fullback).


1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Davidson
Lob Brown was responsible for the win over Davidson by a 40-yard field goal.


1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Auburn
Brown also helped in the victory over rival Auburn, the school's first.


1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Georgia
"Tech's cup of joy overflowed" as they defeated rival Georgia 17–0. An ambitious game with Vanderbilt was scheduled.


1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt defeated Tech in the rain and mud of Atlanta 37–6. Lobster Brown scored Tech's points. Atlanta Constitution sportswriter Alex Lynn wrote after the  game that Owsley Manier was: "the greatest fullback and all round man ever seen in Atlanta." He again scored five touchdowns.


1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt
The starting lineup was: Brown (left end); McCarty (left tackle); Snyder (left guard); Monroe (center); Henderson (right guard); Luck (right tackle); Brown (right end); Robert (quarterback); Davies (left halfback); Hightower (right halfback); Adamson (fullback).


1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Game summaries, Clemson
The season ended with a disappointing, 10–0 loss to Clemson. Fritz Furtick scored Clemson's first touchdown. Baseball star Ty Cobb attended the game.


1906 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team, Postseason
At season's end, Brown was elected captain for next season.


1906 German football championship
The 1906 German football championship was the fourth competition for the national championship of Germany. Held under the auspices of the German Football Association (DFB), eight teams competed for the title. For the first time only champions of regional football associations were admitted to the championship, excluding champions of local associations such as the Verband Magdeburger Ballspielvereine (Association of Magdeburg ballgame clubs). An exception was the situation in Berlin where two associations — the Verband Berliner Ballspielvereine (VBB) and the Märkischer Fußballbund (MFB) — existed. Both their champions were admitted, as were defending champions Berliner TuFC Union 92. This led to three teams from Berlin competing in the final tournament.


1906 Giro di Lombardia
The 1906 Giro di Lombardia was the second edition of the Giro di Lombardia cycle race and was held on 11 November 1906. The race started and finished in Milan. The race was won by Cesare Brambilla.


1906 Goldey College football team
The 1906 Goldey College football team represented Goldey College (now known as Goldey–Beacom College) in the 1906 college football season as an independent. In three games played, Goldey went winless, being outscored 0–38 in contests against Wilmington High School, the Delaware Reserves, and the Washington Reserves.


1906 Grand National
The 1906 Grand National was the 68th renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 30 March 1906.


1906 Grand Prix season
The 1906 Grand Prix season is regarded as the first Grand Prix racing season. It marked the advent of two iconic races: The French Grand Prix and the Targa Florio.


1906 Grand Prix season, Season review
The season started with the first ever motor-race in Cuba, won by Victor Demogeot in a 1904 80-bhp Renault.


1906 Grand Prix season, Season review
To raise the profile of Italian motorsport, the wealthy 23-year old Conte Vincenzo Florio devised a course across the middle of his native Sicily. The circuit ran from Campofelice di Roccella on the northern coast up 3,600 feet (1,100 m) into the Madonie mountains to Petralia Sottana before returning to the coast. The roads at this time were unsealed and very rudimentary and windy. The race would be three laps of the 150 kilometres (93 mi) circuit. Florio went to great lengths to promote the event, commissioning a solid gold trophy and having an elaborate grandstand installed for VIPs at Petralia Sottana, overlooking the valleys.


1906 Grand Prix season, Season review
Cars had to cost less than 20000 French francs (FF) and had to be one of at least least ten built. They could have engines of any size, but had to be under 1300kg in weight. There were ten entries in this first edition, including five Italas. Vincenzo Lancia, in the sole FIAT, took the lead initially before being forced to retire when a stone punctured his fuel tank. Itala team-mates Alessandro Cagno and Ettore Graziani then vied for the lead before the experience of Cagno showed through and he pulled away to win the inaugural Targa Florio. He had covered the 447km in 9hrs 33 minutes, finishing 32 minutes ahead of Graziani.


1906 Grand Prix season, Season review
The French Automobile Club (ACF) had grown more dissatisfied with the format of the inter-nation Gordon Bennett Cup. Each nation would enter a 3-car team for those races, but France had many more manufacturers than the other competing nations. In 1906, as current holders, it was the turn of the ACF to host the next Gordon Bennett race. Instead it proposed a new race with far larger Grand Prix (‘Big Prize’) of FF100,000 (equivalent to about €400,000 in 2015) to the winner, and open to all car-companies.


1906 Grand Prix season, Season review
Interest from manufacturers was high and in October 1905, promoted by the sports newspaper L’Auto, tenders were opened to the French auto clubs for hosting rights. The newly formed Automobile Club de la Sarthe, forerunner of the ACO, won the contract, starting construction on a 103km triangular circuit to the east of Le Mans.


1906 Grand Prix season, Season review
The inaugural French Grand Prix took place on the weekend of 26-27 June. Cars had a maximum weight of 1000kg (excluding lights, wings and upholstery) and sufficient gasoline was allocated for a fuel consumption of 30 litres per 100km. Run over the two days, the cars had to run six laps of the circuit each day, locked up overnight, for a total distance of 1240km. Twelve manufacturers entered, most in 3-car teams, with nine from France, two from Italy (FIAT and Itala) and Mercedes from Germany.


1906 Grand Prix season, Season review
The fastest cars were the Brasier team, but at the end of the first day, it was the 13-litre Renault AK of Ferenc Szisz – a Hungarian émigré now resident in France – that led. He had taken 5 hours 45 minutes, at an average speed of 107 km/h. Second was Albert Clément in his Clément-Bayard ahead of Felice Nazzaro in the 16.2L FIAT. All three teams were greatly helped by the installation of the new Michelin detachable-wheel units that saved about ten minutes at each pit stop for changing tyres.


1906 Grand Prix season, Season review
Szisz carried on his advantage into the second day to win, taking a total of just over twelve hours to complete the 12 laps, at an average speed of just over 100 km/h. Nazzaro got up to finish second ahead of Clément. Over the course of the race, as the sun melted the newly-laid tar and the road-surface broke up, tyre changes were common. Szisz himself needed 19 tyre-changes during the course of the race – good pitwork had brought him victory. It established Renault and their car sales rose from 1600 in 1906 to 3000 in 1907 up to 4600 in 1908.


1906 Grand Prix season, Season review
A large contingent of European drivers, including Nazzaro, Cagno and Louis Wagner, had entered the American Vanderbilt Cup race in October. In response, an elimination race was organised beforehand to select the five drivers to represent the US in the main race. A new circuit through New York city was set up, but yet again, crowd control was a constant problem with one spectator run over and killed when crossing the track during the race. The end of the race was signalled with a black and white chequered flag, marking the first instance that format was used. Frenchman Louis Wagner won in a Darracq, but yet again the crowd surge onto the track after the race endangered the remaining speeding cars.


1906 Grand Prix season, Season review
The final new race of the year was also promoted by L’Auto. The Coupe de l’Auto was developed to promote engineering advances. Regulations dictated the size of single and two-cylinder Voiturette engines with a minimum weight of 700kg. It was a true endurance race, with cars having to do eight laps of the 20-mile Rambouillet circuit, west of Paris, each day at an average speed of at least 30 miles per hour (48 km/h) for six days to qualify for the race itself on the 7th day. Georges Sizaire won in his own car – an 18hp Sizaire-Naudin.


1906 Grand Prix season, Season review
At the end of the year, Vincenzo Lancia founded his own car-company, while still staying on as a FIAT works-driver.


1906 Grand Prix season, Season review
In 1906 Charles Jarrott, a British amateur racing driver, wrote the book "Ten Years of Motors and Motor Racing" about the years of open-road city-to-city racing. He noted then "The result is that only men who make it their business to drive these cars can hope to be successful... the curse of commercialism is the ruin of every sport".


1906 Grant football team
The 1906 Grant football team was an American football team that represented the Chattanooga campus of  U. S. Grant Memorial University (now known as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) during the 1906 college football season. In their first year under head coach Arthur Rieber, the team compiled a 3–3 record.


1906 Greek legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 26 March 1906. Supporters of Georgios Theotokis emerged as the largest bloc in Parliament, with between 112 and 114 of the 177 seats. Theotokis remained Prime Minister after the election, having  originally assumed office on 21 December 1905.


1906 Harvard Crimson football team
The 1906 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1906 college football season. The Crimson finished with a 10–1 record under second-year head coach Bill Reid. The team won its first ten games by a combined 167–20 score, but lost its final game against rival Yale by a 6–0 score. Walter Camp selected only one Harvard player, guard Francis Burr, as a first-team player on his 1906 College Football All-America Team. Caspar Whitney selected two Harvard players as first-team members of his All-America team: Burr and tackle Charles Osborne.


1906 Haskell Indians football team
The 1906 Haskell Indians football team was an American football team that represented the Haskell Indian Institute  (now known as Haskell Indian Nations University) as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach John H. Outland, Haskell compiled a 2–5 record and was outscored by a total of 96 to 53. Coach Outland was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and is the namesake of the Outland Trophy.


1906 Haverford football team
The 1906 Haverford football team was an American football team that represented Haverford College as an independent during the 1906 college football season. The team compiled a 7–0–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 138 to 33. Norman Thorn was the head coach. He had been the captain of the 1903 Haverford team.


1906 Helsinki bank robbery
1906 Helsinki bank robbery was an armed robbery on 26 February 1906 in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland. A branch of Russian State Bank was robbed by members of the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party to fund Bolshevik revolutionary activities in Russia.


1906 Helsinki bank robbery
The robbery was organized by Russian revolutionary Nikolay Burenin and executed by a gang of 15 Latvian revolutionaries who killed a guard and escaped with 170,743 rubles (equivalent to around US$1.7 million in 2013). Burenin was a concert pianist who was playing in Tampere on the same evening. On their way to meet him, three gang members were captured in the village of Kerava after one Russian gendarme was shot dead. The gang leader Jānis Čoke and three other robbers were able to reach Tampere where they handed the money over to Burenin. He later fled with it to the United States on Maxim Gorki's fund raising trip as his personal secretary.


1906 Helsinki bank robbery
Jānis Čoke was captured three days later in Tampere. He managed to kill three people including one policeman before he was arrested. Čoke was sentenced to three life sentences plus 19 years. He died of pneumonia in June 1910.


1906 Hillsdale Dales football team
The 1906 Hillsdale Dales football team represented Hillsdale College in the 1906 college football season.


1906 Holy Cross football team
The 1906 Holy Cross football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross in the 1906 college football season.


1906 Holy Cross football team
In their only year under head coach George W. King, the Crusaders compiled a 4–3–1 record. George S.L. Connor returned for a second year as the team captain.


1906 Holy Cross football team
Holy Cross played its home games at the Fitton Field baseball stadium on the college campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.


1906 Home Nations Championship
The 1906 Home Nations Championship was the twenty-fourth series of the rugby union Home Nations Championship. Six matches were played between 13 January and 17 March. It was contested by England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.


1906 Home Nations Championship
The 1906 Championship was little more than a footnote to the 1906 season, overshadowed by the excitement and excellence of the Original All Blacks, who had almost completed an "invincible" tour of the British Isles. This was to be followed in late 1906 by the first Springbok tour. The South Africans lacked the tactical finesse of the New Zealand team but they brought new standards of fitness, physique and blistering running pace.


1906 Home Nations Championship
The 1906 season is normally classified as a draw, but technically is given to Ireland as they scored the highest in-game points, despite a worse points difference than Wales.


1906 Home Nations Championship
Although not officially part of the tournament until 1910, a match was arranged with the French national team which was played during the Championship against England. This was the first encounter between France and England.


1906 Home Nations Championship, Results, Scoring system
The matches for this season were decided on points scored. A try was worth three points, while converting a kicked goal from the try gave an additional two points. A dropped goal was worth four points, while a goal from mark was reduced from  four to three points this season. Penalty goals were worth three points.


1906 Hong Kong sanitary board election
The 1906 Sanitary Board Election was supposed to be held on 22 January 1906 for the 2 unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong.


1906 Hong Kong sanitary board election
Only ratepayers who were included in the Special and Common Jury Lists of the years or ratepayers who are exempted from serving on Juries on account of their professional avocations were entitled to vote at the election.


1906 Hong Kong sanitary board election
There were only two candidates therefore there was no formal election was held.


1906 Hong Kong typhoon
The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon was a tropical cyclone that hit Hong Kong on 18 September 1906. The natural disaster caused property damage exceeding a million pounds sterling, affected international trade, and took the lives of around 15,000 people: about 5% of the then Hong Kong population (a total of 320,000 people).


1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Meteorological history
The Hong Kong Observatory recorded the 1906 typhoon as having a velocity of 24 miles per hour (39 km/h) when the eye of the typhoon was 30 nautical miles (56 km) distant and it had a wind force of 6 Bft taken as limit, about 100 miles (160 km) in diameter.


1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Meteorological history
The Royal Observatory had recorded the 1896 typhoon (29 July) with a velocity of 108 miles per hour (174 km/h) when the eye of the typhoon was of 47 nautical miles (87 km; 54 mi) distant, and with a wind force 6 taken as limit, about 500 miles (800 km) in diameter.


1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Preparations
The Royal Observatory Hong Kong gave less than a thirty-minute warning of the typhoon, in which time it was already close to Hong Kong waters. A black drum (an official warning to be issued for tropical cyclones from Hong Kong Observatory since 1884) was hoisted at 8:40 am, before the typhoon gun was fired for its harbour warning. By 9:00 am, the ferries had ceased to operate and quite a few of the foreign steamer captains and their sailors were stuck on land, unable to quickly reach their vessels to take any necessary precautions. The barometer showed a rapid drop from 29.74 inHg to 29.28 inHg between 8:00 am and 10:00 am, within two hours.


1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Preparations
There were two reports from Shanghai observatory regarding an advance warning of the 1906 typhoon:


1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Impact
Within two hours of high tide, property damage occurred to the housing properties on the land and the shipping vessels in the port, and an estimated 4,000–10,000 lives might have been lost in the colony.


1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Impact, Hong Kong
Broken glass and roof tiles were thrown everywhere. Tree branches were torn and some trees were even uprooted. The tram lines on Hong Kong Island stopped operation when some of its electric wiring bars were obstructed. The Peak Tram's service was also discontinued for two hours after 10 am, due to the signalling cables getting damaged and the track along Bowen Road being covered. The Botanical Gardens had their trees and flowering plants broken down while the glass house and the zoological department were intact among the havoc.


1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Impact, Hong Kong
At West Point many warehouses, including those from Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Jebsen & Co. were unroofed and their main door and front walls were stripped out. The mat-shed roof covering from Blake Pier, Queen's Statue Wharf and Star Ferry Wharf in the Central District collapsed. The bamboo scaffolding structure for the, then-new, General Post Office completely crashed to block the approaching road nearby. Similarly, the then-new Supreme court building also had its site erection suffering from damage to its structure.


1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Impact, Offshore incidents
Along the praya from West Point (Sai Wan) to East Point (Causeway Bay), many sampans and lighters were damaged and broken down into pieces, the sea passage was obstructed by the floating objects from boat wreckage. Within two hours of the typhoon strike, some European and Chinese bystanders rescued more than 700 people that had fallen from the capsized boat at Wan Chai and East Point (Causeway Bay) areas. From the Kowloon Wharf, the Docks to Sham Shui Po waterfront, sampans and cargoes could not escape the damage and destruction, scattering down the praya.


1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Impact, Offshore incidents
There were casualties in shipwrecks near Kowloon Star Ferry Wharf, such as from two river steamers of Kwangchow and Hong Kong, both sunk in the storm with crews and passengers aboard, causing the loss of 300–400 lives. The Wingchai ferry, heading for Macao with 200 passengers on board, was driven back by the typhoon and took refuge at Stonecutters Island and later drifted to the rocks; about twenty of those died.


1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Impact, Offshore incidents
A few local steamers were sunk outside the Hong Kong harbour. The Mirs Bay ferry (Albatross) sank near the Ninepin islands, with 120 passengers dead. The Sam-chun ferry (Ying Fat) sank near Kap Shui Mun, with 100 passengers dead. A Macao steamer, Heungshan, drifted to Sau-chau, near Lantau Island with 500 passengers on board, and was rescued the next day, with a few casualties. Another Macao steamer, Kinshan, was grounded ashore near Castle Peak. A third Macao steamer, Perseverance, having discharged all its passengers at Chung Chow, sank upon its return and only one crew member survived.


1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Impact, Offshore incidents
It was estimated that nearly half of the Chinese boating population and their 5,000 licensed watercraft in the colony were struck in this natural disaster. Many people living in houseboats with their families in fishing villages along the coast were mostly affected. Once the typhoon abated, the police and military rescues began as they searched for the injured and retrieved the dead. The Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, a charitable organisation, donated coffins for the burial of the corpses uncovered from the ruins and shipwrecks. There were said to be more than 1,500 unclaimed bodies by the end of September 1906.


1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Aftermath
The governor praised the deeds from many European and Chinese citizens to perform life-saving rescues, and agreed to develop an early warning system to be in place for the Hong Kong Observatory for future typhoon alerts. The governor reported they had received emergency relief funds from overseas Chinese in San Francisco of HK$10,000 and local Chinese donations of HK$80,000 within just few days of the calamity, among many others, from the efforts of the Tung Wah Hospitals Group, Po Leung Kuk, and the District Watchmen Committee. Initial contemporary reports estimated a loss of life of 'about 10,000', and later reports suggest it was 16,000, or '5% of the 320,000-strong population in Hong Kong at that time'


1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Aftermath
The British military authority approved a team of 150 people to help the colonial government clear up the wreckage in the port. Meanwhile, the 1906 typhoon had exerted a great blow and delay to the Hong Kong cargo shipping business, an estimated 2,983 fishing boats and 670 ocean-going vessels were broken up and the wharf and warehouse facilities damaged, suffering from a million dollar loss.


1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Aftermath
A report of committee appointed to enquire whether earlier warning of the typhoon of 18 September 1906 could have been given to shipping was chaired by Sir Henry Spencer Berkeley, KC (Hong Kong Attorney General of 1902‒1906) and together with three more members (Lieutenant Butterworth of the Royal Navy, Mr Skottowe of Eastern Extension Telegraph Co., and Captain Sommerville, Steamship Master of SS Tean), they met and gave their findings to the Hong Kong Governor on 23 October 1906.


1906 Hong Kong typhoon, Aftermath
The committee reviewed the conflicting evidence, and reported that they did not find any indication of a typhoon approaching Hong Kong before 7.44 am on 18 September (Tuesday morning), and that warning by the hoisting of the Black Drum (indicating an existence of a typhoon to the east of the Hong Kong within 300 miles) on the Tuesday morning was performed as soon as possible.


1906 Huddersfield by-election
The Huddersfield by-election was a Parliamentary by-election. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.


1906 Huddersfield by-election, Vacancy
Sir James Woodhouse had been Liberal MP here  since the 1895 General Election. He resigned upon his appointment as the Rail and Canal Traffic Commissioner.


1906 Huddersfield by-election, Electoral history
The seat had been Liberal since Woodhouse re-gained it in 1895. It had been a marginal seat but Woodhouse had won with a bit to spare in 1895 and 1900. They narrowly held the seat at the last election, following the intervention of a labour candidate;


1906 Huddersfield by-election, Candidates
The local Liberal Association selected 43 year-old temperance campaigner Arthur Sherwell to defend the seat. The Conservatives retained 38 year old journalist John Foster Fraser as their candidate. 37 year old Thomas Russell Williams who had stood as a candidate of the Labour Representation Committee at the general election also re-stood, but this time as the candidate of the Labour Party. Although Huddesfield raised, he worked as a Mill manager in Keighley.


1906 Huddersfield by-election, Campaign
Polling Day was fixed for the 28 November 1906. The Conservative and Labour challengers started with an advantage as their names were known from having contested the constituency nine months earlier. The Liberals had received a setback, losing Cockermouth to the Conservatives in a by-election three months earlier. Liberal candidates in other by-elections had also seen their vote share fall from its general election high-point. In Huddersfield, since the general election, the Liberal association had undergone re-organisation and had substantially increased its membership.


1906 Huddersfield by-election, Campaign
Williams the Labour candidate was regarded as a quasi-Marxist socialist and struggled to relate his stances to local trade unionists who wanted firm policy commitments from him. Sherwell, the Liberal candidate supported giving women the vote. Despite this, the Women's Social and Political Union set up a local campaign office to campaign against him.


1906 Huddersfield by-election, Result
The Liberals held the seat with a slightly reduced majority;


1906 Huddersfield by-election, Aftermath
The Labour party decided that after two contests, Williams was not a good candidate, so changed him for another for the next election, only to see their share of the vote drop further. The Huddersfield Liberals were able stifle the growth of the Labour Party up to the First World War.


1906 Hungarian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary between 29 April and 8 May 1906. The parties of the allied opposition received 87.96% of the vote. The main party of the opposition, the Party for Independence and '48, received an absolute majority alone (61.26%). However the party failed to govern effectively as cleavages in the party led to several splits and due to the compromise made with Franz Joseph I of Austria.


1906 Idaho gubernatorial election
The 1906 Idaho gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Incumbent Republican Frank R. Gooding defeated Democratic nominee Charles Stockslager with 52.18% of the vote.


1906 Illinois Fighting Illini football team
The 1906 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1906 college football season. In their second non-consecutive season under head coach Justa Lindgren, the Illini compiled a 1–3–1 record and finished in fifth place in the Western Conference. Halfback Ira T. Carrithers was the team captain.


1906 Indiana Hoosiers football team
The 1906 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 1906 college football season. In their second season under head coach James M. Sheldon, the Hoosiers compiled a 4–2 record, finished in a tie for seventh place in the Western Conference, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 109 to 46.


1906 Intercalated Games
The 1906 Intercalated Games or 1906 Olympic Games was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated in Athens, Greece. They were at the time considered to be Olympic Games and were referred to as the "Second International Olympic Games in Athens" by the International Olympic Committee. However, the medals which were distributed to the participants during these games are not officially recognised by the Olympic Committee and are not displayed with the collection of Olympic medals at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.


1906 Intercalated Games, Origin
The first Intercalated Games had been scheduled by the International Olympic Committee in 1901 as part of a new schedule, where every four years, in between the internationally organised Games, there would be Intermediate Games held in Athens.


1906 Intercalated Games, Origin
This was a compromise: after the successful Games of Athens 1896, the Greeks suggested they could organise the games every four years. Since they had the accommodation and had proven they could hold well-organised games, they received substantial public support. However, Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the International Olympic Committee, opposed this: he had intended for the first Games to be in Paris in 1900. After Paris had lost the premieré Olympics, de Coubertin did not want the games to be permanently hosted elsewhere.


1906 Intercalated Games, Origin
Unfortunately, the 1900 Games were overshadowed by the Exposition Universelle, whose organizing committee disagreed with de Coubertin's ideas to such an extent that he resigned. The organization of the 1900 Games was haphazard by today's standards, and although some events, such as archery, drew widespread attention, many others were poorly attended. Historians' opinions still differ over which events should be considered "Olympic".


1906 Intercalated Games, Origin
Consequently, the IOC supported the Greek idea by granting them a second series of quadrennial games in between the first series. All of the games would be International Olympic Games: the difference was that half of them would follow Coubertin's idea of "organisation internationale", while the other half would follow the Greeks' idea of a permanent home with the Greek NOC as experienced organisers.


1906 Intercalated Games, Origin
This was a departure from the ancient schedule, but it was expected that, if the ancient Greeks could keep a four-year schedule, the modern Olympic Movement could keep a two-year schedule. As 1902 was now too close to be logistically workable, and Greece experienced political and economic difficulties, the 2nd Olympic Games in Athens were scheduled for 1906, and the IOC as a whole gave the Greek NOC full support for the organisation.


1906 Intercalated Games, Improvements
The 1906 Games were quite successful: unlike the Games of 1900, 1904 or 1908, they were not stretched out over several months, and unlike 1900 and 1904, they were not overshadowed by an international exposition. Their crisp implementation was most likely instrumental in the continued existence of the Games.


1906 Intercalated Games, Improvements
The Olympic Games of 1906 will go down in athletic history as the most remarkable festival of its kind ever held. They exceeded in every way the successful Olympic Games of 1896 ... The scenes and incidents and everything in connection with the Olympic Games of 1906 made an impression that will never be forgotten and it is hoped that future Olympic Games will be up to the standard of the ones of 1906.


1906 Intercalated Games, Improvements
These, along with various other changes, are now accepted as tradition.


1906 Intercalated Games, Games
The Games were held from 22 April to 2 May 1906, in Athens, Greece. They took place in the Panathenaic Stadium, which had already hosted the 1896 Games and the earlier Zappas Olympics of 1870 and 1875. The games excluded several disciplines that had occurred during the past two games; it was unclear whether they ought to have been part of the Olympic Games. Added to the program were the javelin throw and the pentathlon.


1906 Intercalated Games, Games, Opening
The games included a real opening ceremony, watched by a large crowd. The athletes, for the first time, entered the stadium as national teams, marching behind their flags. The official opening of the games was done by King George I.


1906 Intercalated Games, Games, Closing ceremony
Six thousand schoolchildren took part in possibly the first ever Olympic closing ceremony.


1906 Intercalated Games, Participating nations
854 athletes, 848 men and 6 women, from 20 countries, competed at the 1906 Intercalated Games.


1906 Intercalated Games, Medals awarded
78 events in 14 disciplines, comprising 12 sports, were part of the 1906 Games.


1906 Intercalated Games, Medal count
These medals were distributed but are no longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee.


1906 International Cross Country Championships
The 1906 International Cross Country Championships was held in Caerleon, Wales, at the Caerleon Racecourse on 10 March 1906. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.


1906 International Cross Country Championships
Complete results, medallists,  and the results of British athletes were published.


1906 International Cross Country Championships, Participation
An unofficial count yields the participation of 44 athletes from 4 countries.


1906 International Lawn Tennis Challenge
The 1906 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the sixth edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup. As defending champions, the British Isles team played host to the competition. For the first time, the ties were not all played at the same location. The "World Group" ties were played at the Newport Athletic Club in Newport, Monmouthshire, England from 7–9 June, and the final was played at Worple Road (the former site of the All England Club) in Wimbledon, London, England on 15–18 June. Britain retained the Cup for their fourth championship.


1906 Iowa Hawkeyes football team
The 1906 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1906 college football season. This was Mark Catlin Sr.'s first season as head coach of the Hawkeyes.


1906 Iowa Senate election
The 1906 Iowa State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 1906 United States elections. Iowa voters elected state senators in 22 of the state senate's 50 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Iowa State Senate.


1906 Iowa Senate election
A statewide map of the 50 state Senate districts in the 1906 elections is provided by the Iowa General Assembly


1906 Iowa Senate election
The 1906 elections were the last in Iowa before primary elections were established by the Primary Election Law in 1907. The general election took place on November 6, 1906.


1906 Iowa Senate election
Following the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa Senate with 42 seats to Democrats' 8 seats.


1906 Iowa Senate election
To claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to net 18 Senate seats.


1906 Iowa Senate election
Republicans maintained control of the Iowa State Senate following the 1906 general election with the balance of power shifting to Republicans holding 36 seats and Democrats having 14 seats (a net gain of 6 seats for Democrats).


1906 Iowa State Cyclones football team
The 1906 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In their fifth and final season under head coach A. W. Ristine, the Cyclones compiled a 9–1 record, shut out seven of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 268 to 30. The Cyclones won their first four games by a combined score of 194 to 0, and their only loss was to Minnesota by a 22-4 score. R. E. Jeanson was the team captain.


1906 Iowa State Cyclones football team
Between 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library. The field was known as State Field; when the new field opened in 1914, it became known as "New State Field".


1906 Iowa gubernatorial election
The 1906 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Incumbent Republican Albert B. Cummins defeated Democratic nominee Claude R. Porter with 50.18% of the vote.


1906 Italian Athletics Championships
The 1906 Italian Athletics Championships  were held in Milan. it was the 1st edition of the Italian Athletics Championships.


1906 Kansas Jayhawks football team
The 1906 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In their third season under head coach A. R. Kennedy, the Jayhawks compiled a 7–2–2 record and outscored opponents by a combined total of 148 to 55. The Jayhawks played their home games at McCook Field in Lawrence, Kansas. Prentiss Donald was the team captain.


1906 Kansas State Aggies football team
The 1906 Kansas State Aggies football team represented Kansas State Agricultural College during the 1906 college football season.


1906 Kansas gubernatorial election
The 1906 Kansas gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Incumbent Republican Edward W. Hoch defeated Democratic nominee William Alexander Harris with 48.24% of the vote.


1906 Kentucky Derby
The 1906 Kentucky Derby was the 32nd running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 2, 1906. The field was reduced to six competitors when Creel was scratched.


1906 Kentucky Derby
It was the first Kentucky Derby timed to fifths of a second instead of fourths.


1906 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team
The 1906 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team represented Kentucky State College—now known as the University of Kentucky—during the 1906 college football season. The team was coached by  J. White Guyn.


1906 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
The 1906 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 18th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.


1906 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
Mooncoin won the championship after being awarded the title by the County Board. They had earlier drawn with Tullaroan in the final. This was their third championship title overall and their first in six championship seasons.


1906 LSU Tigers football team
The 1906 LSU Tigers football team represented the LSU Tigers of Louisiana State University during the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.


1906 Lafayette football team
The 1906 Lafayette football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Alfred E. Bull, the team compiled an 8–1–1 record, shut out six opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 223 to 36. Erastus Doud was the team captain. The team played its home games at March Field in Easton, Pennsylvania.


1906 Latrobe Athletic Association season
The 1906 Latrobe Athletic Association season was their eleventh season in existence. The team finished 3-1.


1906 Lehigh Brown and White football team
The 1906 Lehigh Brown and White football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In its first season under head coach Byron W. Dickson, the team compiled a 5–5–1 record and was outscored by a total of 150 to 108. The team played its home games at Lehigh Field in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.


1906 Leicester by-election
The Leicester by-election of 1906 was held on 30 March 1906. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Liberal MP, Henry Broadhurst. It was won by the Liberal candidate Franklin Thomasson.


1906 Liechtenstein general election, Electors
Electors were selected through elections that were held between 18 and 21 July. Each municipality had two electors for every 100 inhabitants.


1906 Liechtenstein general election, Results
The election of Oberland's Landtag members and substitutes was held on 28 July in Vaduz. Of Oberland's 118 electors, 115 were present. Oberland elected seven Landtag members and three substitutes.


1906 Liechtenstein general election, Results
The election of Unterland's Landtag members and substitutes was held on 30 July in Mauren. Of Unterland's 74 electors, 73 were present. Unterland elected five Landtag members and two substitute.


1906 Liverpool City Council election
Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 1 November 1906.


1906 Liverpool City Council election
One councillor was elected for each of the thirty-four wards. A total of fourteen councillors were elected unopposed, and twenty councillors were elected in contested elections.


1906 Liverpool City Council election
The Liverpool Protestant Party lost all three of the seats that they had won in the 1903 elections.


1906 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results
Comparisons are made with the 1903 election results, as the retiring councillors were elected in that year.


1906 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic elections, Aldermanic Election 5 December 1906
Caused by the death of Alderman Thomas Evans (Conservative, elected 9 November 1901).


1906 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic elections, Aldermanic Election 5 December 1906
In his place, Councillor Louis Samuel Cohen (Conservative, Breckfield, elected 1 November 1905) was elected by the Council as an alderman on 5 December 1906


1906 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic elections, Aldermanic election
The death of Alderman Joseph Ball JP (Conservative, elected as an alderman on 9 November 1901) on 11 August 1907 was reported to the council on 4 September 1907.


1906 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 6 Breckfield, 23 January 1907
Caused by Councillor Louis Samuel Cohen (Conservative, Breckfield, elected on 1 November 1905) being elected by the Council as an alderman on5 December 1906.


1906 London local elections
Local government elections took place in London on 1 November 1906.


1906 London local elections
All council seats in all 28 metropolitan boroughs were up for election.


1906 London local elections
The results were a landslide victory for the Conservatives, who stood as Municipal Reformers. Prior to the election, a central Municipal Reform Committee had been formed in September 1906, and the new organisation absorbed the former Moderate Party, who formed the opposition to the Progressives on the county council, as well as groups on the borough councils that opposed what they termed the "Progressive-Socialist Party".


1906 London local elections
The Municipal Reformers won 22 boroughs. This compared to three for the Liberals, who stood as Progressives, two for Independents and the nascent Labour Party losing its only borough, Woolwich.


1906 Los Angeles mayoral election
The 1906 election for Mayor of Los Angeles took place on December 4, 1906. Arthur Cyprian Harper was elected.


1906 Louisiana Industrial football team
The 1906 Louisiana Industrial football team was an American football team that represented the Louisiana Industrial Institute—now known as Louisiana Tech University—as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Zack T. Young, Louisiana Industrial compiled a record of 2–1–3. The team's captain was H. T. Hair.


1906 Maine gubernatorial election
The 1906 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 10, 1906.


1906 Maine gubernatorial election
Incumbent Republican Governor William T. Cobb was re-elected to a second term in office, defeating Democratic candidate Cyrus W. Davis.


1906 Major League Baseball season
The 1906 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 12 to October 14, 1906. The Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox were the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The White Sox then defeated the Cubs in the World Series, four games to two.


1906 Major League Baseball season, Season information
The Chicago Cubs won a record 116 games while losing only 36. Their .763 winning percentage remains the highest in the modern (two-league) era. They were led offensively by third baseman Harry Steinfeldt whose 176 hits, .327 batting average and 83 RBIs were all a team-best; Steinfeldt also had 29 stolen bases. The Cubs' pitching staff consisted of Ed Reulbach, Carl Lundgren, Mordecai Brown and left-hander Jack Pfiester.


1906 Manasi earthquake
The 1906 Manasi earthquake (玛纳斯地震), also known as the Manas earthquake occurred in the morning of December 23, 1906, at 02:21 UTC+8:00 local time or December 22, 18:21 UTC. Its estimated magnitude was 7.9–8.3 on the moment magnitude scale and 8.3 on the surface-wave magnitude scale. The epicenter of this earthquake is located in Manas County, Xinjiang, China. An estimated 280 to 300 people died and another 1,000 more were injured by the earthquake.


1906 Manasi earthquake, Tectonic setting
The Tien Shan mountains in Central Asia formed as a result of the thrusting and folding of continental crust during the Late Cenozoic era. Around this time, the Indian subcontinent is colliding with Asia along a 2,500 km long convergent boundary known as the Main Himalayan Thrust. The ongoing collision of India into the Eurasian Plate has resulted in extreme internal deformation of the continental crust. Deformation has induced large-scale intraplate shear and thrust faulting far from the plate boundary. Thrusting along the Tien Shan mountains has shortened the crust by an average velocity of 13±7 mm/yr. In some areas such as the Western Tien Shan, the shortening rate is as high as 23 mm/yr, however in the northern region, that rate is much slower at just 6 mm/yr.


1906 Manasi earthquake, Earthquake
The earthquake occurred as a result of thrust faulting within the fold and thrust belt beneath the northern flanks of the Tien Shan range. Specifically, it occurred on the Southern Junggar Thrust, a 45° south-dipping thrust fault that becomes a detachment fault, and later a steep reverse structure as it dips further beneath the Borohoro Mountains, a subrange of the Tien Shan. The fault is part of the Huoerguosi‐Manas‐Tugulu fold and thrust belt, and breaches the surface with three segments, laterally offset by 5 to 10 km.


1906 Manasi earthquake, Earthquake
Modern interpretion of the rupture believes it broke all three segments of the fault. Research suggests that the Manasi earthquake had a 150 km by 75 km rupture area and an average fault slip of 3.5 ± 2 meters at depth. This would correspond to a moment magnitude in the range 7.8 to 8.3, the most plausible magnitude for the event. The earthquake's focal depth is not well known due to the lack of local seismic instrumentation at the time, values from Chinese earthquake catalogues give a range from 12 to 30 km depth. An analysis of focal depths for other earthquakes in the area published in 2004 obtained an average figure of 20 km, therefore the 1906 earthquake likely nucleated at this depth. The same research also proposed that the earthquake rupture initiated on the steep reverse fault and later onto the detachment.


1906 Manasi earthquake, Earthquake
Paleoseismology has revealed that very few earthquakes on the scale of the 1906 event has occurred in the past. The average recurrence interval for large earthquakes is estimated at 5,000 to 6,000 years.


1906 Manasi earthquake, Earthquake
The deep blind reverse fault responsible for the rupture triggered small surface scarps with heights 0.2–0.5 meters to form at the surface. These surface breaks are associated with the Huoerguosi‐Manas‐Tugulu fold and anticline zone. During the deep earthquake rupture process, the fold and anticline zone began picking up motions, resulting in a surface rupture. In addition to the surface scarps, zones of uplift and folding were also observed 45 km away from the epicenter.


1906 Manasi earthquake, Impact
The earthquake had a maximum intensity of X (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale. In the villages of Shizijie, Bajiahu, Niujuanzi, Zhuanglangmiao, Xidatang, Shichang, in Boluotonggu, and the mountain areas around Dazimiao and Reshuiquanzi, many wood and mud houses collapsed while those that remained intact were tilted. More than 2,000 homes were destroyed, resulting in more than 280 people dying. Many temples were also completely destroyed. Surface fissures tore through the ground, ranging from 0.2 meters to one meter wide, and up to several kilometers long. The earthquake also triggered landslides and opened wide cracks near the mountains. The earthquake also caused slumping channel banks some 5 to 15 km long.


1906 Manasi earthquake, Impact
In Shawan County, an estimated 30% of all residential infrastructures collapsed but there were no fatalities. The nearby city of Changji reported some damage to its temples during the shaking. In Wusu, many homes constructed of mud and wooden beams also collapsed. The walls of some old homes cracked as a result of the earthquake.


1906 Manukau by-election
The Manukau by-election was a by-election in the New Zealand electorate of Manukau, a seat in the north of the North Island.


1906 Manukau by-election, Background
The by-election was held on 6 December 1906, and was precipitated by the death of sitting MP Matthew Kirkbride who had held the seat since the 1902 election. The election was won by Frederic Lang who stood as an independent conservative. His sole opponent was George Ballard of the Liberal Party, who contested in the Government's interests.


1906 Marshall Thundering Herd football team
The 1906 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented Marshall College (now Marshall University) in the 1906 college football season. Marshall posted an undefeated 4–0–1 record, outscoring its opposition 56–5. Home games were played on a campus field called "Central Field" which is presently Campus Commons.


1906 Maryland Aggies football team
The 1906 Maryland Aggies football team represented Maryland Agricultural College (later part of the University of Maryland) in the 1906 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach Fred K. Nielsen, the Aggies compiled a 5–3 record and were outscored by all opponents, 98 to 73. Coach Nielsen had a full-time job with the State Department while coaching football.


1906 Massachusetts Aggies football team
The 1906 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1906 college football season. The team was coached by George E. O'Hearn and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. The 1906 season was O'Hearn's only as head coach of the Aggies. Massachusetts finished the season with a record of 1–7–1.


1906 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
The 1906 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1906. Incumbent Republican Governor Curtis Guild Jr. was re-elected for a second one-year term, defeating Suffolk District Attorney John B. Moran.


1906 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Party nominations
John B. Moran won the Prohibition Party, Independence League, and Democratic Party nominations by acclimation. Incumbent Governor Curtis Guild Jr. won the Republican nomination without opposition.


1906 Massachusetts legislature
The 127th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1906 during the governorship of Curtis Guild Jr.. William F. Dana served as president of the Senate and John N. Cole served as speaker of the House.


1906 Massillon Tigers season
The 1906 Massillon Tigers football season  was their fourth season in existence. The team finished with a record of 10-1 and won their fourth Ohio League championship in as many years. However a scandal, revolving around the Tigers championship game against the Canton Bulldogs, tainted the 1906 title and, along with escalating player salaries, reportedly helped ruin professional football in Ohio until the mid-1910s.


1906 Meishan earthquake
The 1906 Meishan earthquake (Chinese: 1906年梅山地震; pinyin: 1906 nián Měishān Dìzhèn) was centered on Moe'akhe (Chinese: 梅仔坑; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Môe-á-kheⁿ), Kagi-cho, Japanese Taiwan (modern-day Meishan, Chiayi County, Taiwan) and occurred on March 17. Referred to at the time as the Great Kagi earthquake (Chinese: 嘉義大地震; pinyin: Jiāyì Dà Dìzhèn), it is the third-deadliest earthquake in Taiwan's recorded history, claiming around 1,260 lives. The shock had a surface wave magnitude of 6.8 and a Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent).


1906 Meishan earthquake, Earthquake
The earthquake struck at 06:43 local time on 17 March 1906, at a focal depth of 6 kilometres (4 mi). The event created the Meishan fault, a fault with a length of 25 kilometres (16 mi) stretching through modern-day Chiayi County. Aftershocks continued throughout the day, hampering rescue efforts.


1906 Meishan earthquake, Damage
Reports vary slightly, but according to the official Central Weather Bureau summary, the casualties and damage were as follows:


1906 Meishan earthquake, Damage
Fusakichi Omori, a pioneering seismologist from Japan who arrived shortly after the earthquake believed that the high number of casualties was due to the construction of the local houses. Loosely cemented with mud, the combination of sun-dried mud brick walls and heavy roofing beams was thought to be responsible for many dwellings collapsing, killing or injuring the inhabitants. He also found evidence of soil liquefaction, and stated that the town of Bishō (Meishan) had been completely destroyed by the quake.


1906 Meishan earthquake, Damage
Omori's figures give slightly different casualty rates, and very different statistics for building damage:


1906 Meishan earthquake, Reaction
I was there soon after, and had a profound feeling of sadness on seeing whole streets covered with fallen beams and other debris; on seeing, too, so many traces of the awful suffering on every side. Within Ka-gi city, and a limited area around, 1,216 persons were suddenly thrust out into the eternal world. Not fewer than 2,306 persons were seriously injured, and 13,259 houses laid low. The great mysterious Power then tore the earth into deep, open chasms in several places.


1906 Meishan earthquake, Reaction
The Japanese colonial authorities in Taihoku (Taipei) sent teams of medical personnel to assist, and Campbell reported that shortly after the earthquake reconstruction efforts were well advanced. At the time some writers suggested a link between the Meishan quake and the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which occurred a month later, while some religious groups linked it not only with the San Francisco disaster, but also an earlier earthquake in Cambria, Italy and other natural disasters as a sign of the end-times.


1906 Mercer Baptists football team
The 1906 Mercer Baptists football team represented Mercer University in the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. They finished with a record of 1–4 and were outscored by their opponents 32–163.


1906 Mesopotamia uprising
The 1906 Mesopotamia uprising was an uprising of Mesopotamian tribes in the Ottoman Empire, fought due to the refusal of the Ottoman government to allow for 10 day truce to investigate losses in the Yemeni Expedition of 1905. The uprising saw tribes holding up navigation across the Tigris River.


1906 Miami Redskins football team
The 1906 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University during the 1906 college football season. Led by coach Arthur H. Parmelee in his first year, Miami compiled a 1–5–1 record, being outscored 16 to 55.


1906 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team
The 1906 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team represented Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) in the 1906 college football season. In their fourth year under head coach Chester Brewer, the Aggies compiled a 7–2–2 record and outscored their opponents 195 to 28.


1906 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team
The 1906 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1906 college football season. In their first season under head coach Henry Schulte, the Normalites compiled a record of 5–0–1, shut out four of six opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 52 to 11. Leroy N. Brown was the team captain.


1906 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team
Henry Shulte began his association with Michigan Normal in 1905 as the school's track coach. He had been a football player at the University of Michigan on Fielding H. Yost's "Point-a-Minute" teams from 1903 to 1905.


1906 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team
In early October 1906, Michigan Normal reported record enrollment with 1,000 students having enrolled on the first day (quintupling the prior first-day enrollment of 200); total enrollment was expected to reach 1,500.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1906 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1906 college football season. The team's head coach was Fielding H. Yost in his sixth year at Michigan. The team compiled a record of 4–1 and outscored opponents, 72 to 30.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1906 season was played under two sets of new rules. First, the rules governing intercollegiate football were changed to promote a more "open" and less dangerous style of play. The changes included the legalization of the forward pass and allowing the punting team to recover an "on-side" kick as a live ball. Second, the Big Nine Conference enacted new rules, including a rule limiting teams to five games (a drastic reduction from the 13 games played by Michigan in 1905) and prohibitions on the "training table" and pre-season training before the start of the academic year.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team
Also before the season began, university officials ruled that two of the stars from the 1905 team, Germany Schulz and Walter Rheinschild, were academically ineligible to compete in football. Despite the setbacks, Michigan won its first four games by a combined score of 72 to 13. The season opener against Case Scientific School was the first game played on the new Ferry Field. During the bye week before the final game of the season, Michigan's captain Joe Curtis sustained a severely broken leg in a practice game against the "scrub" team. The Wolverines lost their final game to the Penn Quakers, 17–0, at Philadelphia's Franklin Field.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team
Two Michigan players, Joe Curtis and fullback John Garrels, were selected as first-team All-Western players. Garrels, who had broken world records in the discus throw and the high hurdles, was also selected as a second-team All-American by Walter Camp.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case
On October 6, 1906, Michigan opened its season with a 28–0 victory over the team from Cleveland's Case Scientific School. The game was the first played at the newly completed Ferry Field and attracted a crowd estimated at 2,000 persons. The Detroit Free Press called the field "a beauty." The game was the 10th meeting between the two programs. Michigan had won all nine of the prior games by a combined score of 298 to 31.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case
Fullback John Garrels scored the first touchdown on the new Ferry Field. The score was set up when Case's fullback, Wagar, attempted a punt from deep in Case's territory. After a bad snap, Jack Loell broke through the line and tackled Wagar at Case's five-yard line. Garrels then scored on "two straight line bucks." Joe Curtis missed the extra point kick, and Michigan was unable to score again in the first half. Case threatened once in the first half, when Case's quarterback,  Reimenschneider, returned an on-side kick to Michigan's 20-yard line.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case
Wagar's attempt at a field goal for Case was unsuccessful, and Michigan led, 5–0, at halftime. In addition to scoring the first touchdown, Garrels handled punting responsibilities; one of his punts carried 60 yards. He also kicked an extra point and had the longest end run of the game for a 28-yard gain.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case
Michigan scored four additional touchdowns in the second half. Reimenschneider fumbled the opening kickoff to start the second half, and Michigan recovered the ball at Case's 20-yard line. After the turnover, Michigan quarterback Harry Workman ran for a touchdown. Michigan's third touchdown was set up by a poor punt by Case from behind its own goal line. A penalty was tacked on, and Michigan got the ball at the Case 10-yard line. Workman again ran for the touchdown. Clarence Schenk scored Michigan's fourth touchdown on a "cross buck" from the five-yard line.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case
The final touchdown was scored by Arthur "Waukegan" Wright, a substitute right tackle who was described as "the 'pompadour' haired medic from Illinois," on a 35-yard run following an on-side kick. A rule change enacted in 1906 allowed the punting team to recover a punt as a live ball. The Detroit Free Press described Wright's touchdown as follows:


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case
"Garrels made an on-side punt to the Case thirty-five yard line. Wright brought the ball to his breast after the bound as if it was his long-lost child, and was saving it from the kidnappers. Three Case men tried to stop him as he was making the run for his fireside home, but he seemed to have a through ticket without a  punch, and scored the first touchdown of the year on the new rules."


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case
Joe Curtis kicked two extra points, and Garrels kicked one. On defense, Michigan did not allow a first down on the ground, Case's only first downs coming on an on-side kick and off-side penalties against Michigan. Michigan did not attempt a single forward pass against Case, leading the Detroit Free Press to write, "Michigan did not uncan it because it is not fermented enough in this climate to make it look good."


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case
After the game, Case's coach, Wentworth, opined that Michigan's 1906 team was "30 per cent weaker than any other team that Yost has coached here." Yost said, "I am satisfied. My men did as well as I expected. The only star in the game for Michigan was Johnnie Garrels. . . . Not once during the game did Case make its distance on regular football. They tried the forward pass twice, but both times were thrown back for big losses."


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Case
Michigan's lineup against Case was Davis (left end), Curtis (left tackle), Patrick (left guard), Loell, (center), Graham (right guard), Ruby and Wright (right tackle), Embs and Newton (right end), Bishop and Lewis (quarterback), Workman (left halfback), Schenk (right halfback), and Garrels (fullback). Chase of Michigan served as referee. Raymond Starbuck of Cornell was the umpire. The game was played in 20-minute halves.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Ohio State
For its second game, Michigan defeated Ohio State, 6–0, before a crowd of 6,000 spectators at University Park in Columbus. A special train carried eleven coaches full of Michigan fans to Columbus, arriving one hour before the game started. The game was the eighth meeting in the Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry, with Michigan having won six of the prior meetings and tied once.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Ohio State
The game began shortly after 2:40 p.m., on a cool, but not uncomfortable Saturday afternoon. The game was scoreless for the first 56 minutes of play, as Michigan's offense struggled. The Chicago Daily Tribune attributed the sluggish offensive performance to the fact that Michigan's halfbacks, Ivan Steckle and Paul Magoffin, "were not in the best of shape," having arrived in Columbus on an excursion train a few minutes before the game began. They were rushed to the football field in an automobile and arrived in poor condition. Neither Magoffin nor Steckle had played in the season opener against Case.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Ohio State
With four minutes remaining in the game, John Garrels kicked a field goal from a difficult angle at the Ohio State 25-yard line to give Michigan a 4-0 lead. Garrels had attempted four earlier field goals in the game, all unsuccessful. The Chicago Daily Tribune noted, "Evidently the Wolverines placed all their reliance on Garrels, for the big fellow was constantly trying goal shots." With two minutes remaining, Ohio State's fullback, Gibson, attempted a punt from behind his goal line.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Ohio State
Gibson dropped the ball on a poor snap from the sub center, Claggett, and fell on it, resulting in a safety that accounted for Michigan's final two points. On defense, Michigan held Ohio State to four first downs in the game. The Chicago Daily Tribune praised Jack Loell as "a whirlwind at center" who "sustained the heaviest attack of the Ohio backs and drove two of his opponents to the side lines and a third to making the poor pass which gave Michigan the last two points."


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Ohio State
Michigan's lineup against Ohio State was Newton (left end), Curtis (left tackle), Eyke (left guard), Loell, (center), Graham (right guard), Patrick (right tackle), Embs (right end), Bishop (quarterback), Magoffin (left halfback), Steckle and Kanaga (right halfback), and Garrels (fullback). Wrenn of Harvard served as referee, and Hoagland of Princeton was the umpire. The game was played in 30-minute halves.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois
On October 27, 1906, Michigan defeated Illinois, 28–9, before a crowd estimated at close to 5,000 persons at Ferry Field. The game was the fifth between the two schools. Michigan had won all four of the prior games by a combined score of 62 to 5. The game was also Michigan's only contest in 1906 with a member of the Big Nine Conference.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois
The game began at 2:37 p.m., and was played on a soggy field resulting from "a constant rain of fourteen hours." The rain continued throughout the game, resulting in a slippery ball and numerous fumbles. Illinois turned the ball over four times on fumbles, and Michigan did so three times. In the Detroit Free Press, Joe S. Jackson wrote: "All during the game there was a heavy rainfall. . . .


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois
With a strong west wind driving this on a slant into the faces of one set of players, and down the necks of all the spectators the joy of the day was not extreme." On the first play of the game, John Garrels ran 90 yards for a touchdown. Joe S. Jackson wrote:


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois
"Seldom does one see a run of ninety yards to a touchdown. . . . On the first kick-off, . . . Garrels got the ball on his own twenty-yard line. For twenty yards he went through the weaving mass of players, practically alone. Then interference began to form. Once or twice he was grabbed at, but shook off the tackler. How he got through is a marvel, unless the rain, beating directly into the faces of the Illini, partially blinded them. . . . He had gone by twenty-one men, friends and foes, when he touched the ball down behind the Illinois goal posts."


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois
Joe Curtis kicked the extra point, and Michigan led, 6–0. Illinois scored a touchdown after a poor punt from deep in Michigan territory gave Illinois the ball at Michigan's 20-yard line. The umpire, Wren of Harvard, then called a 15-yard penalty against Michigan for "sideline coaching," moving the ball within two or three yards of the goal line. From there, Pinckney ran for the touchdown, but Green missed the extra point, and Michigan led, 6-5. The touchdown was the first allowed by Michigan since 1904. Before the half had ended, Joe Curtis scored a second touchdown for Michigan. The extra point failed, and Michigan led, 11–5, at halftime.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois
In the second half, Moynihan kicked a field goal for Illinois from the 40-yard line, narrowing Michigan's lead to 11–9. Michigan responded with three additional touchdowns. Curtis scored on a 20-yard run and then kicked the extra point to give Michigan a 17-9 lead. A short time later, Brooks of Illinois fumbled an on-side kick by Garrels, and  Fred Newton fell on the loose ball behind Illinois' goal line. Michigan's final touchdown was set up by a 60-yard punt by Garrels that rolled almost to the goal line.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois
Brooks was tackled at the five-yard line, and Illinois immediately sought to punt the ball out of danger. Joe Curtis leaped into the air at the 10-yard line, blocked the kick, and recovered the ball for Michigan's final touchdown. The extra point failed, and Michigan led, 28–9. According to Joe Jackson's account, the final ten minutes "was all punting, and enthusiasm began to ooze out as the rain oozed in."


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois
Joe Curtis was Michigan's scoring leader with 18 points on three touchdowns and three extra points. The 1907 Michiganensian  opined that the team was "at its best" against Illinois, with "eleven men in every play." Seward Cramer in the Detroit Free Press wrote that Yost had "three truly great players" in Garrels, Curtis and Loell. He noted the Curtis "played like a fiend" and called Loell "the find of the year." Cramer also expressed surprise at the improvement over the prior week: "Never has any such improvement been seen in a team in seven days time.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois
Last Saturday, at Columbus, Michigan played a loafing, listless game. The backs did not get into their plays with any quickness. Something was wrong with the machinery, and during the past week Yost has taken apart the old machine, rearranged the gearing and put in a new driving wheel that makes the whole thing run so much more smoothly that the team that played Ohio State would look like a traction engine beside an easy running tourist auto." Michigan's trainer, Keene Fitzpatrick opined that the team was 50 to 75 percent better against Illinois than it was the prior week.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois
Michigan did not attempt any forward passes, but Illinois completed two passes "in beautiful style," demonstrating "how good the pass may be if it is gotten away with."


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois
Michigan's lineup against Illinois was Curtis (left end), Loell (left tackle), Eyke (left guard), Clement (center), Graham (right guard), Patrick (right tackle), Newton (right end), Workman and Bishop (quarterback), Magoffin (left halfback), Rumney (right halfback), and Garrels (fullback). McCornack of Dartmouth served as referee with Wrenn of Harvard as umpire and Starbuck of Cornell as linesman. The game was played in 30-minute halves.


1906 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Vanderbilt
On November 3, 1906, Michigan defeated Vanderbilt, 10–4, in front of a crowd of 10,000  at Ferry Field. The game matched Michigan head coach Fielding H. Yost against his former player and brother-in-law, Dan McGugin. McGugin's 1906 team was the dominant team in Southern football, defeating Alabama (78–0), Texas (45–0), Mississippi (29–0), Georgia Tech (37–6), and the Carlisle Indian School (4–0). Between 1905 and 1907, Vanderbilt lost only three games – all three of them to Michigan. On the night before the game, 4,200 students attended a mass meeting at University Hall. McGugin and Yost both spoke to the crowd and agreed that the game would be one of the closest played in Ann Arbor in many years. D. G. Fite, father-in-law of both McGugin and Yost, traveled from his home in Tennessee to watch the game.