For the CFP playoff game against Georgia, we take a trip back nearly 22 years to the 2000 Orange Bowl, when Lloyd Carr, Tom Brady, David Terrell, and crew took down the Alabama Crimson tide in overtime.
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Terrible Tommy Nabs His Heisman | This Week in Michigan Football History
This Week In Michigan Football History, as played during the WTKA 1050AM 'Countdown to Kickoff' held November 28, 2020 before the Michigan-Penn State game. Michigan has three Heisman Trophy Winners (Tom Harmon, Desmond Howard and Charles Woodson). We consider former Michigan players that probably WOULD have won the Heisman has it been awarded prior to 1935 - including Willie Heston, Bennie Oosterbaan, and Harry Newman. And finally we look at Tom Harmon's brilliant career and in particular the 1940 season, concluding with his dominant performance against Ohio State.
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Stuffing Stagg on Thanksgiving (1903) | This Week in Michigan Football History
This Week In Michigan Football History, as played during the WTKA 1050AM 'Countdown to Kickoff' held November 21, 2020 before the Michigan-Rutgers game. We start with the conclusion of the glorious 1964 Michigan Wolverines season and their 10-0 triumph over Ohio State, as well as their dominant conclusion over Oregon State in the Rose Bowl. We then roll back to 1903 with a brief review of the beating of Oberlin College that set up the Thanksgiving Day battering of Amos Alonzo Stagg and the Chicago Maroons, 28-0 at Marshall Field.
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Irish On, Off and Back On Again | This Week in Michigan Football History
This Week In Michigan Football History, as played during the WTKA 1050AM 'Countdown to Kickoff' on November 14, 2020 before the Michigan-Indiana game. We discuss the on-again, off-again, on-again history of the Notre Dame rivalry from the 1910 cancellation, up to the resumption of the series in 1942:
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Playing on Halloween, Tiny Crowds, Indifference for Paul | This Week in Michigan Football History
For the home opener of this unique year, This Week in Michigan Football History discusses Halloween, small Big House crowds, and one reason why Michigan fans aren't down with the Paul Bunyan Trophy. This Week in Michigan Football History.
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Yakety Sacks | This Week in Michigan Football History
Crowe and SI redo via me (MVictors_, Hart in 300 via CC on Autumn Thunder The Horror. Sucks Unlimited. Michigan, a supposed national title contender is spinning out of control at 0-2. Enter Charlie Weis and his 0-2 Fighting Irish and we had a media circus to witness the cripple fight. Save us Russell Crowe! Help me Tom Cruise Mike Hart! Inspire us Bo! Here’s Saturday’s edition of TWIMFbH Ahh and here’s a look at Yakety Sacks: Yakety Sacks aka “Jimmy Clausen for Heisman” #thebest Listen to it “live” tomorrow afternoon on the KeyBank Countdown to kick-off on WTKA 1050AM….or inside the Go Labatt Blue Victors Lounge!
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Little Brown Jug History in < 4 Minutes | This Week In Michigan Football History
Wooo! If you want your Jug History dished out slowly over 1,000s of words, read every post in Little Brown Jug Lore here. If that’s not your speed, here’s the history of the jug CRAMMED into a 3:45 audio clip: [display_podcast] You can listen to all 6 years of This Week In Michigan Football History here. And don’t forget to catch the whole KeyBank Countdown to Kickoff on WTKA 1050AM starting 4 hours before each game, and of course live in the Bud Light Victors Lounge tomorrow starting at 11:30am. Follow MVictors on Twitter
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TWIMFbH: Track Meet Cures Depression (1935)
Wire photo from the 1935 Penn game. That’s U-M’s Stark Ritchie toting the pigskin. (via eBay) Harry Kipke was an All-American start on Fielding Yost’s squads in the early 1920s, and then took a shot a coaching, first as an assistant at Missouri, then took the head coaching job up the road at Michigan State in 1928. When the head coaching job came free in Ann Arbor, Yost brought Kipke home and he got off to a fast start. But then 1934 hit: [display_podcast] That 16-6 win over Penn in 1935 was probably Kipke’s last great win of his coaching career. You can find more on the Willis Ward vs. Jesse Owens match-up here, and if you can stomach it, the run down of why Kipke was fired here. And if you need more on the 1934 Georgia Tech game controversy, grab Stunt3 Multimedia’s epic documentary today. You can catch all of the This Week in Michigan Football History clips here….sponsored in 2013 by Ziebart of Yspilanti. And don’t forget to catch it live today on the KeyBank Countdown to kick-off on WTKA 1050AM. Related: I’ll be shoving off to East Lansing so check back here and on Twitter for sights, snark, and sounds.
