What key details about william cunningham -lrb- american football -rrb-  can be extracted from the following bio?  Bio: william ralph cunningham -lrb- july 13 , 1872 -- september 1957 -rrb- was an all-american football center for the michigan wolverines football team of the university of michigan . cunningham was born at volant , pennsylvania in july 1872 . his father , valentine cunningham , was a native of grove city , pennsylvania . cunningham was a 5-foot , 9-inch , 180-pound native of grove city , pennsylvania who played center for the university of michigan wolverines from 1897-1899 . chosen as an all-american in 1898 , he was the first university of michigan football player to be so honored . the 1898 wolverines went 10-0 and won the western conference -lrb- now known as the big ten conference -rrb- championship . the first great michigan football team , the 1898 group outscored its opponents 205 to 26 . they shut out michigan agricultural college -lrb- 39-0 -rrb- and notre dame -lrb- 23-0 -rrb- before traveling to chicago for a final game against amos alonzo stagg 's university of chicago team on november 24 , 1898 . led by cunningham , michigan came out on top , 12-11 , for its first western conference championship . a newspaper account described michigan 's victory this way : `` the western football championship goes to michigan . on a field that was simply perfect for fast football , and before a crowd of 12,000 the maroons of chicago went down before the maize and blue of michigan today by a score of 12 to 11 ... . the michigan line , in which big holes were torn by the light northwestern team , was simply impregnable today , with the exception of about ten minutes in the second half , when the chicago men pushed their opponents aside with an apparent ease . '' another article noted : `` michigan , with the exception of one or two double passes , relied almost altogether on straight football , line bucking and runs around the end . chicago , on the contrary , used trick plays throughout but the team work was of a high order , as shown by both teams . '' based on his performance in the chicago game , stagg...
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- death place is grove city , pennsylvania- class is graduate- death date is september 1957 -lrb- aged 84 -rrb-- pastschools is michigan -lrb- 1897 -- 1899 -rrb-- currentposition is center- birth date is 13 july 1872- school is michigan wolverines- name is william r. cunningham- image size is 180px- image is william cunningham.jpg- birth place is volant , pennsylvania