• Booze Raid Snags Michigan Football Captain (1931)

    Not that alcohol is celebrated by local authorities on campus today, but in 1931 we were still a couple years from the end of Prohibition.  This was a little more serious. Word of the raid made the front page of the February 12, 1931 Chicago Tribune which provided some of the spicy details of the “Rum Raid” including a pretty lengthy listing of the more prominent students arrested.   Among them (and the first listed) was James "Ducky" Simrall--the captain of the 1930 football team and a Phil Delt.