Spearheaded by the request of Michigan’s president James B. Angell, officials from the schools representing the Western Conference (U-M, Chicago, Minnesota, Iowa, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana) met in Chicago in January 1906 to discuss major reforms. Their target? Michigan football and its coach Fielding H. Yost. Here's how it played out.
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Bob Ufer is Still With Us | This Week In Meechigan Football History
For tonight's epic revival of our series against our natural enemy Notre Dame, we salute the memory of Michigan's iconic radio voice Bob Ufer. We lost him on this day in 1981 and while the Wolverine broadcasts will never be the same, old Ufer will never be forgotten and heard as long as Michigan football is played.
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Fritz and Chap Down the Hawks | This Week in Michigan Football History
This week we take a trip back to postwar America, specifically 1946 as Fritz Crisler's Wolverines, featuring the great Bob Chappuis, took on Saturday's opponent - the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Enter Yost | This Week in Michigan Football History
For Saturday's Rutgers game we head waaay back to 1901 as it was on that day that Fielding H. Yost coached his first game in Ann Arbor. The 50-0 drubbing of Albion got 'Hurry Up' off on the right foot, and set the pace for the Point-A-Minute era where his Meechigan wouldn't lose a game until 1905.
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Chicken Choked
I sit across from the heart of the Yost student section and it wasn’t hard to make out one particular young mind on Friday night: the dude dressed as a chicken screaming into a megaphone. Turns out that crazy chicken was Andy Reid, sports editor of the Daily. He made an encore appearance Saturday night but things didn’t go as planned: Saturday night, I got kicked out. Not cool, dude. Amidst an entire student section doing the same thing [the vulgar C-YA chant], an usher grabbed my elbow and told me it was time to leave, unless I wanted to be led out of the stadium in handcuffs. I will admit that I stood out from the other Children of Yost. I may or may not have had a megaphone. And I may or may not have been, ahem, dressed up — if you went to the game, you might have seen a six-foot chicken standing against the glass in section 18. But that’s even more reason to not kick me out. How is the team supposed to focus and be motivated without a yellow, fuzzy chicken standing behind the glass? Reid suggests other things could be done to curb the nasty chant (which is delivered when opposing players are sent to the penalty box) including a message from Red…
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A Hard Combination to Beat (1905 Michigan Football)
Another vintage Michigan football item showed up this week on eBay, this time a post card celebrating Fielding Yost and his fine 1905 squad. The team is assembled in a line with Yost in the middle, standing on a large sign in the shape of a football that reads 'Western Championship'. Atop the photo is a block letter title, 'A HARD COMBINATION TO BEAT'.
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Michigan completes Spartan Sweep, Kampfer injured (YouTube)
A great night up at old Yost again tonight save for the final few minutes where it got very ugly. A few highlights from up in Section 22 including a clip of the Michigan students dropping f-bombs on the Spartans after Kampfer was injured.
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Photos of the Yost Ice Arena damage, repair
sue was discovered by one of the mason's working on the new indoor practice facility next door and the University decided to postpone Friday's game scheduled against Miami, OH to investigate and mitigate any risk of injury to passers-by or hockey fans.