Here is another great wire photo, this time from the late 1930s featuring my dream girl. It’s the Tournament of Roses Queen Barbara Dougall posing with her crown holding a team photo of none other than Fielding Yost’s first and perhaps finest team, the 1901 squad that started the Point-A-Minute reign of terror at the turn of the 20th Century. Check it out:
Babs, you’re my kind of gal!
Digging around a bit in the Google News Archives, it appears as though the large 1901 team photo was donated by a “E.H. Rathburn, Michigan Alumnus”. Well done.
Michigan didn’t participate in the 1939 Rose Bowl (USC beat Duke 7-3) so I’m not positive why Dougall choose to flash this great photo. A guess? It looks like this was the 25th time they held a football game as part of the Tournament of Roses, and someone had the idea to take a nostalgic look back at the first Rose Bowl game and its champion, namely Yost’s perfectly dominant Wolverines.
Act fast, the auction ends soon and the photo is listed for $9.99.
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