Mike Knode

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Kenneth Thomson "Mike" Knode (November 8, 1895 – December 20, 1980) was an American football and baseball player. Knode was born in Westminster, Maryland, in 1895. He attended both the University of Maryland and University of Michigan, playing football and baseball at both institutions. At Michigan, he was the starting quarterback of the undefeated 1918 Michigan Wolverines football team that was recognized as the national championship team of the 1918 college football season. He scored Michigan's final touchdown against Michigan Agricultural College in 1918 on a 30-yard run after faking a pass. In 1915, Knode began playing professional baseball for the Martinsburg Champs of the Blue Ridge League. Knode played under the alias of Kenny Thompson in order to keep his college eligibility. A second baseman, it was widely known by the local newspapers that Thompson was in reality Knode, but this information never reached the Midwest. At that time, Knode also was the team captain of the University of Michigan football eleven. In the dead ball era of the early twentieth century, Knode's three home runs tied him for third place in the Blue Ridge League in 1915. In 1916, he played pro

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