^The result of this game is disputed. New York sources have this as victory for Stevens by a score of 5–1. Michigan sources have this as 17–5 Michigan win. Bentley Historical Library site describes the dispute and includes four links, two describing Michigan version and two describing New York version.[2]
^Harry Bitner was born approximately 1861 in Illinois. He was listed as a resident of Mount Carroll, Illinois, in the 1870 and 1880 U.S. Censuses. He was the son of Harry Bitner, born c. 1829, a farmer, and Emma E. Bittner, born c. 1830.
^Hugh P. Borden was born in August 1858 in Indiana. He was listed as a resident of St. Joseph County, Indiana (either Olive or New Carlisle) in the 1870, 1900 and 1930 Censuses. In 1900, he was a farmer in Olive, residing with his wife Edith and children Clinton and Floyd. In 1930, he was engaged in general farming at New Carlisle.
^Robert Campbell Gemmel was born on July 5, 1863, in Port Matilda, Pennsylvania. He received a degree in engineering from Michigan in 1884 and returned to Salt Lake City, where he was the assistant managing director of the Jackling allied porphyry mining properties. He died on October 25, 1922, while traveling from Hurley, New Mexico to Los Angeles. Biography published in the journal Mining and Mtallurgy, Number 192, at pp. 36-37.
^Raymond Walter Beach, born November 29, 1863, in Percival, Iowa, formed the Beach & Beach law firm in Chicago with his brother, Elmer Beach. He was also the brother of noted novelist Rex Beach.
^Mahon became a lawyer. He practiced in Detroit and later Duluth, Minnesota. He died in 1908 from rheumatism of the heart. [5] His daughter, Winifred Mahon Sanford, was a noted short story writer in the 1920s and 1930s.
