High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Albert Henderson Pattengill (February 26, 1842 – March 16, 1906) was an American professor of Greek. For 40 years, Pattengill was also a leader in athletics at the University of Michigan. He played on Michigan`s 1867 baseball team and was part of a three-person committee that selected "azure-blue and maize" as the university`s colors. He was also one of the leaders behind the formation and early development of the Big Ten Conference.