Despite the loss, one newspaper wrote: "[T]he wearers of the Crimson have not had such a battle before in years. The boys from Michigan simply covered themselves in glory by their splendid work." Edwin Denby, a Michigan player who later became U.S. Secretary of the Navy, later wrote that Michigan had traveled to "the distant and holy places of the East" and proved "to the reasonable people of the country that the men who came out of the West knew one or two games besides mumblepeg and marbles.""
