• Vintage South U

    Had a great time joining my man Rishi Narayan on his fresh new podcast, South U Stories. I nutshelled a few fun stories involving Chicago's Amos Alonzo Stagg and Michigan's Fielding H. Yost, check it out:

  • Driving a Tally-Ho Through It (Michigan-Chicago 1895)

    Here’s a remarkable wire photo printed in 1929 of a scene from the 1895 Michigan-Chicago game, held in the Windy City on Thanksgiving Day: It appears as though someone did a 1929 version of a photocopy, actually taking a photo of a photo to produce a copy.  I cropped the shot above but in the full version you can see a finger holding down a corner of the old pic alongside a caption: Why didn’t they just use the original photo for this piece?  No idea.  Perhaps the papers required the images be in a certain size, format and/or medium. While the back of the photo says it was reproduced in 1929, it appears as though it ran (perhaps reran) in a 1931 piece in the Chicago Tribune which reproduced the old photo for an article on the life of legendary Chicago coach Amos Alonzo Stagg.  Here’s how it looked in the paper: The caption reads: This is a view of the Chicago-Michigan game, Thanksgiving day 1895.  You will note that the fans came in tallyhos, buggies and sleighs.  It was played at Staff field, then called Marshall Field, after the donor of the ground.  Michigan won the game 12 to 0. The GameDigging deeper, I recovered a recap of the 1895 Michigan victory from the Trib including some beautiful…