~This Week in Michigan Football History~

Since 2010 as part of WTKA 1050AM’s Key Bank Countdown to Kick-off pregame show, ‘This Week in Michigan Football History’ examines a game, player, coach or season in U-M football lore.

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2022 | Season #13

Week 1: GOAT Watch! And 43 to 1. (2016, 1898)
Week 2: Pass the Remy (1944, 1994)
Week 3: How Michigan Kept AC Warm (1979)
Week 4: Foiling A Spartan Plot | (1949)
Week 5: Bo Rejects Texas A&M (1977, 1981)
Week 6: Kramer of Michigan (1955)
Week 7: LC, The First Script Ohio, Touchdown Manningham (2022, 1997, 1932, 2005)
Week 8: The Paul, The George, and The Dickinson System (1892, 1932, 1953)
Week 9: Yost Gets His Stadium. Stagg Gets Stalled. (1927)
Week 10: The Original 7, Edison Films it, The Legend of Lytle (1904, 1978)
Week 11: Leaving the Big Ten Conference (1907, 1910, 1977)
Week 12: Hail Haskins, Roasting Stagg, Beating Ohio

2021 | Season #12

Week 1: Carr Chooses…Wisely (1999 Notre Dame)
Week 2:
Denard’s Nod to Ron Kramer (2010); Bo Blasts Badgers (1976)
Week 3: Tar Heel Heat (1965), Hello Mike Hart (2004)
Week 4: The Legend of Bennie Oosterbaan (1948)

Week 5: The Featherweight Fullback, John Maulbetsch (1914, 1926)
Week 6: Yost Faces Michigan; Leads Bugeaters (1897, 1898)
Week 7: The Groundbreaker – George Jewett (1890-1894)

Week 8: Braylonfest! (2004)
Week 9: The Rise and Fall of Harry Kipke (1929-1937)
Week 10: The U.S.S. Michigan Helps Sink Penn (1909)

Week 11: Michigan Rocky’s Start in the Big Ten (1896-1917)
Week 12: Ohio State Traditions and That Team Up North
Week 13*: The Yost-Stagg Trophy? *Special B1G Championship edition
Week 14*: Tom Brady Breaks Bama *Special CFP Playoff, Orange Bowl edition

2020 | Season #11 (See video versions here).

Week 1: Fielding Yost busts the Galloping Ghost (1925)
Week 2: Disdain for Paul Bunyan, Small historic Crowds, and more.
Week 3:
Dropping a Seventy Burger on Mike White
Week 4: Irish On, Off and Back on Again (1910, 1942)
Week 5: Stuffing Stagg on Thanksgiving (1903)
Week 6: Terrible Tommy Harmon nabs his Heisman (1940)

2019 | Season #10
Week 1: The Brabbs! (2002)
Week 2: Boys vs. Men – Fritz Crisler goes to the Platoon (Army 1945)
Week 3: Bo is Still Bo (1985)

Week 4: Enter Fielding H. Yost (1901)
Week 5: Fritz and Chappuis Take Down The Hawks (1946)
Week 6: The Life and Career of Chalmers “Bump” Elliott
Week 7: Yost vs. his B.F.F. (1907)

Week 8: Ron Johnson dials up 347 (1968)

2018 | Season #9
Week 1:  Teaching the Irish, 9/11 and more
Week 2: 
The Legend, Bennie Oosterbaan
Week 3: 
Yakety Sacks
Week 4: 
Stanford and later, the 1973 Big Ten Vote 
Week 5: 
Michigan and the Slippery Rock Score Tradition
Week 6:  Neil Snow Likes Beer
Week 7:  Until another 100 Years of Michigan Football is Played (1979)
Week 8:  The Willis Ward game (1934)
Week 9:  Yost’s Field House (1923)
Week 10:
A Banner Idea (1962)
Week 11: Platooning (1945)
Week 12: The Inspiration of 1898

2017 | Season #8

Week 1: Into a Frenzy and Into M Football Val Halla (1995)
Week 2:  Willie Heston…the GOAT?
Week 3:  Bo Reloads! (1972)
Week 4: “The Reunion Game” – Notre Dame 1978  and Bonus: Rick Leach reacts to this episode
Week 5:  John ‘The Human Cannonball’ Maulbetsch (1914-1916)
Week 6:  1939 Iowa, Nile Kinnick vs. Tom Harmon
Week 7:  1922 The Original #1, Paul Goebel Dedicates Ohio Stadium
Week 8:  1899 and Gustave Ferbert’s Million Dollar Touchdown
Week 9:  JUG! (also the 1910 ND/UM game cancellation)
Week 10: 1933 Iowa and national championship
Week 11: 1905, Wisconsin game, stands collapse
Week 12: Bogus Votes & The Snow Bowl (1950, 1973)

2016  | Season #7
Week 1: This is Harbaugh (2015)

Week 2: Remy Steals Wonderboy’s Thunder (1994)
Week 3:  Hairspray and Hurricanes (1988)
Week 4: Spartan Plots FOILED! (1949)
Week 5: Bo Stays (1977)
Week 6: Kramer of Michigan (1955)
Week 7: Can You Dig It??? (1927)
Week 8: > Point a Minute (1904)
Week 9: Another Fritz Fixer-Upper (1938)
Week 10: “Inspiring ‘The Victors’ (1898)
Week 11:  Going Indoors (1896) 

2015 | Season #6
Week 1Let’s Finally Play (Most of) A Football Game. Fergodsakes. (2011)
Week 2: Winning the September Heisman (2009)
Week 3: Bo Bears Down (Arizona 1970)
Week 4: “Turtle Slow” Tom Brady takes on Nick Saban’s Spartans (1998)
Week 5: A Booze Raid, a Double Header and Battling The Depression (1931)
Week 6: Wrecking Roger, Swindling Sparty, & Wiping Out Woody (1964)
Week 7: Yost Returns to Bust the Galloping Ghost 1925 | This Week in Michigan Football History
Week 8: Little Brown Jug History in < 4 Minutes | This Week In Michigan Football History
Week 9: Bo the Merciless (1981) | This Week in Michigan Football History
Week 10: Natural Rivalry Resumed (1942) | This Week in Michigan Football History
Week 11:  Harmon Wins the Heisman (1940) | This Week in Michigan Football History

2014 | Season #5
Week 1: Chips, the 51 Club & Beating Sweatervest McCheatypants (2003)

Week 2: The RichRod Era and To Hell With Notre Dame (2008+)
Week 3: Grabbing Glory from the Brink | TWIMFbH (1980)
Week 4: Debuts: Bo and Canham’s Carpet | TWIMFbH (1969)
Week 5: Bennie O. to Bump, and the Unforgettable 1964
Week 6: Neil Snow Wants Beer, Gets Beer | (1902)
Week 7: Getting Wild About Harrys | 1930 #TWIMFbH
Week 8: Blame Lee Corso? | This Week in Michigan Football History
Week 9: Horace Prettyman Breaks Hearts | TWIMFbH (1879-1883)
Week 10: Judgment Day (1997) | TWIMFbH

2013 | Season #4
Week 1: Why We Love Brabbs (Washington 2002)

Week 2: Harmon and Howard Launch Legendary Seasons (1940, 1991)
Week 3: Bay City Rolling The Hawkeyes 24-7 (1974)
Week 4: Smothering The Gamecocks (1985)
Week 5: You Gotta Hand it to Chap (1946)
Week 6: Introducing Fielding Harris Yost (1901)
Week 7: Flattening the Mountaineers (1904)
Week 8: Track Meet Cures Depression (1935)
Week 9: Relief from The Crash (1929)
Week 10: Ron Johnson Rolls Up 347 (1968)
Week 11:  (Live in studio!) Old 98’s Magnum Opus (1940)
Week 12: Angus Goetz the Bucks (1918)

2012 | Season #3
Week 1: Dreisbach to Hayes & Punching a Ticket to Football’s Valhalla (Virginia 1995)

Week 2: Bo Shows ‘The U’ How We Do Things (Miami 1984)
Week 3: Yakety Sacks (Michigan 38, Notre Dame 0–2007)
Week 4: Stanford, ‘73 and a Salute to the Big Ten
Week 5: Case Closed, Ghost Trapped, Yost Opened (1923)
Week 6: Playing for Kegs and The Homecoming Tradition (2001)
Week 7: Live! Willis Ward, Gerald Ford and 1932
Week 8: Huskers Here, Huskers There (1905, 1911, 1917)
Week 9: Avenging Ithaca and Forming the League (1894)
Week 10: Fifty Years of The Banner (1962)
Week 11: Platooning to Stop Davis, Blanchard (1945)
Week 12: Beat Chicago (1898)
Week 13: Beating the Irish in the Beauty Contest (1947)

2011| Season #2
Week 1: Northern Illinois vs. U-M – September 3, 2005 (including Yakety Sax)

Week 2: This Week in Michigan Football History – Remy Steals Powlus’ Thunder (audio)
Week 3: The Canes stun Bo and the Wolverines in 1988
Week 4: Spartan Vandals invade Ann Arbor (1949)
Week 5: Bo Rejects Texa$ A&M – This Week in Michigan Football History (audio)
Week 6: Crushing The Cadets and “Kramer of Michigan” (1955 – audio)
Week 7: TWIMFbH – Really, really Little Brother & Shorty’s Pooch (1910)
Week 8: Kipke, Crisler and The Dickinson System (1932!)
Week 9: Crisler Gets it Back on Track with Winged Helmets and Super Sophs (1938)
Week 10: Shiny New Big House Welcomes Navy (1927)
Week 11: Buckeye Fumblerooski Fails, Wolverines Prevail (1983)
Week 12: Climate Controlled Conditions in Chicago (1896!)
Week 13 (Bowl): A Rosy Conclusion (1988)

2010| Season #1
Week 1:  Notre Dame v. Michigan September 4, 1999

Week 2:  Wisconsin v. Michigan September 11, 1976
Week 3:  Michigan v. San Diego State September 18, 2004
Week 4: Michigan vs. Michigan State  September 25, 1948 – The Incomparable Bennie Oosterbaan

Week 5:  Michigan v. Oklahoma A&M  October 2, 1926 – Yost, President Coolidge and ’26 Wolverines
Week 6:  Michigan vs. Case October 9, 1909 – Jug, Shorty Longman and Wrecking Penn!
Week 7:  Michigan at Penn State October 16, 1993 – Mo’s Men make a Stand!  (includes Keith Jackson audio)
Week 8:  Live in Studio! (during the Penn State pregame show)
Week 9:  Shame and Scandal in the Family – November 6, 1937
Week 10:  Bo Gets by the Spoilermakers – November 13, 1971

Week 11: This Week in Michigan Football History: The Student becomes The Master (1976 Ohio State)

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