[6] At a meeting in the College Chapel on February 12, 1867, Pattengill's committee made the following report:Your committee, appointed to select emblematic colors for our University, unanimously agree in presenting as their choice, Azure Blue and Maize, and recommend that the following resolution be adopted: 'Resolved, that Azure Blue and Maize be adopted as the emblematic colors of the University of Michigan.

With Pattengill playing in the outfield, the college team from Ann Arbor "pulled off a stunning upset," defeating the Detroit club by a score of 70 to 18.

Yost's first Michigan team in 1901 outscored its opposition by a margin of 550-0 en route to a perfect season and victory in the inaugural Rose Bowl on January 1, 1902.

[22][23] Jordan described Fielding Yost as the "czar of Michigan's system" and accused him of traveling across the country "soliciting expert players" who were not true student athletes.

[22] One week after Jordan's article attacking Yost was published, Michigan's four-year unbeaten streak ended in the last game of the season, a 2-0 loss to rival Chicago.

The controversy surrounding college football continued in December 1905, as Eastern football expert Caspar Whitney wrote that the problems at Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin were due to "crooked alumni, flabby facilities, and coaches looking for reputations", and asserted that if Pattengill of Michigan, Vann Hise of Wisconsin and Northrop of Minnesota "had any backbone such conditions would not exist.

"[27]The conference (known as the Angell Conference) was held in Chicago from January to March 1906 and resulted in a series of reform resolutions, including placing university faculty in charge of gate receipts,[28] a prohibition on summer training and the "training table," and a limit on the admission price to college athletic events to a maximum of fifty cents.

As chairman of the Board in Control he devoted untiring energy to the betterment of athletic conditions, to encouraging a spirit of manliness and fair play and to looking after and solving justly the perplexing problems that constantly arose.

But could anything be in more harmony with the finest traditions of Greek culture than Professor Pattengill's efforts for the establishment of collegiate and intercollegiate athletics on a high plane of sportsmanship and essential manliness?

He was a tower of strength through the earlier days of Michigan's athletic history; to him, more than to any other one man, must be ascribed the inception and success of the Western Conference.

He was the moving spirit in the [Western] Conference through many years; and to him, more than to any other, Michigan owes, not only the present effective organization of athletics, but the securing of Ferry Field and its equipment.

"[33] Pattengill married Annie Warden Ekin (U-M Class of 1876) in February 1878; she died 17 months later in November 1879, "having been preceded to the grave by an infant son.

Patengill died suddenly at his home in Ann Arbor in March 1906; the cause of death was reported as "heart trouble.

"[3][35] In his obituary, a legend concerning Pattengill's baseball hitting ability was recounted:"To this day the students relate a tradition as to how he batted a home-run once from a point 100 feet south of North University avenue, so that the sphere landed on the skylight on top of the old medical building.

This prompted the Detroit Journal to publish an article on the "Lot of the College Professor" which included the following comments: The filing for probate of the will of Prof. Albert H. Pattengill of the university of Michigan revealed the existence of an estate valued at $10,000.

What Prof. Pattengill's estate might have been had he devoted the intellect, force, persistence and energy that he abundantly demonstrated in his career to those professions or activities whose ideal if flatly the accumulation of wealth makes interesting speculation.

Does the spectacle of such a reward as this induce the student deliberately to choose the career of scholar with its dignified penury in these days of great salaries and satisfying dividends?