Happy New Year, and happy game day! Here’s the final installment of This Week in Michigan Football History, this time a look back the season of 1988 and more specifically, the Rose Bowl played on January 2, 1989. After a rocky start, things got rosy real fast as Michigan busted through the Big Ten scheduled and landed once again in Pasadena to face Heisman Trophy runner-up Rodney Peete and the USC Trojans. As always, you can listen to it out before the KeyBank Countdown to Kick-off on WTKA 1050AM later today, or click play now: [display_podcast] You can hear all of the This Week… clips here. Follow MVictors on Twitter. Beat Hokies!
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Is Michigan Back? Hoke: “Michigan Never Left” (Full Sugar Bowl presser)
It’s a first class operation here in New Orleans. Follow me on Twitter for coverage tomorrow. Here’s a couple photos from today’s press conference and the full transcript. Beamer and Hoke sharing a chuckle, looking sharp: Here’s a look at the Sugar Bowl trophy: Full transcript from the press conference today: THE MODERATOR: We’ll go ahead and get started with coach Brady Hoke, Michigan head coach. Coach, just a few thoughts on how your preparations have gone for the game, and we’ll open the floor for questions. COACH HOKE: Well, first, on behalf of the University of Michigan and Team 132, our kids, the staff, trainers, the marching band, everybody, we can’t tell you how thrilled we are to be here and how much we appreciate the great hospitality the city of New Orleans has given us and the Bowl committee, the Sugar Bowl committee, and all their people and their efforts. It’s been great. I want to thank Tulane and the opportunity to use their facilities. They were tremendous, and really as a team I think we’ve had good preparations starting back in Ann Arbor, navigating finals and all those things that are a part of it. And then coming down here, I think our team has really done well. I think we’ve gone out every day and…
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Live From the Sugar Bowl (Hoke Press Conference)
Brady Hoke Sugar Bowl Presser Jan-2
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Greg Mattison–Sugar Bowl Press Conference
Via Sugar Bowl media relations: (File photo) THE MODERATOR: We’re joined by Michigan Defensive Coordinator Greg Mattison. Opening comments? COACH MATTISON: First of all, I can tell you on behalf of the Michigan football program we’re really honored and proud to be here. This is a tremendous Bowl. And I know you couldn’t tell by looking at me but I have been in a lot of Bowl games, and the Sugar Bowl is one that I haven’t been in, and it’s really a great Bowl. The people down here have been tremendous, and I know our players would echo that. You can tell by how they’ve acted and how they responded, and they really have enjoyed themselves down here. THE MODERATOR: Questions? Q. Asking about the novelty of facing an ACC team. These conferences don’t tend to get together during the regular season. You guys like the fact that it is a novelty game going against the Hokies? COACH MATTISON: I don’t know if I would look at it as the Big Ten versus the ACC. I think it’s more Michigan having the opportunity to play a team like Virginia Tech. You know, Virginia Tech has a great tradition. They have had tremendous success. And you can see why they have been so good. And it’s going to be a…
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Bacon Goes Nationwide (Rome audio 12-29)
John U. Bacon graced the national airwaves today, joining the Jim Rome show hosted by U-M grads, Jason and Randy Sklar. Bacon discussed Three and Out with the Sklars and shared the situation on the ground in Ann Arbor in the aftermath of the first season of the Hoke era: [display_podcast] HT to Matt for providing the audio Follow MVictors on Twitter
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Touch Down in New Orleans (Opening Presser Quotes)
Quotes from Michigan upon arrival at Louis Armstrong airport in New Orleans, via Sugar Bowl media relations: Michigan Head Coach Brady Hoke (Opening Statement) “We are very excited and feel very welcome coming to New Orleans and having the opportunity to play in the Allstate Sugar Bowl. This is something we have been looking forward to and our players have done a good job preparing to this point. We are going to play a tremendous opponent and we think it is going to be a heck of a football game.” (On playing in a BCS bowl game) “This is where Michigan should be. It is an expectation for Michigan to be in BCS bowl games.” (On getting team prepared for the Allstate Sugar Bowl) “You can look at it a lot of different ways. I think the one thing that is important for us is that we don’t do too much. We don’t want to wear our team out too much. We’ve got a great city that we are in and there are probably some distractions to that. I think our guys, our seniors and our captains have done a tremendous job making sure we are sharp.” (On the possibility of the team getting distracted) “There are always rules. We have high expectations on how we are going to act…
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When Toe Met Leather—Traditional Michigan Football Kick-off Times
A couple of readers reacted to my recent post featuring the 1969 pocket schedule, here’s one: Interesting that the home games started at 1:30 p.m. in 1969 and not at noon. I remember Carr (I think it was him) at Bo’s eulogy/celebration saying that Bo wanted all games to start at Noon. (Something about toe meeting leather at noon . . . .) This prompted an email from Michigan football memorabilia collector Jack Briegel, the man who owns a ticket stub to each game played at Michigan Stadium. Jack walked through his collection, some pre-dating the Big House, and picked off the start time listed on the ticket and relayed it below. I added a few additions via the stubs on display at ticketmuseum.com. These are just home games: Ferry Field era: 1908 OCT. 31 VANDERBUILT KICK OFF WAS 2:30. NOV.13 PENNSYLVANIA WAS AT 2:00. 1909 OCT. 30 SYRACUSE GAME WAS 2:00. (Michigan scored 44 points, <wink>)* 1910 NOV. 19 MINNESOTA GAME WAS 2:00. 1911 NOV. 18 PENN GAME WAS 2:00 1917 NOV. 10 CORNELL WAS AT 2:00. 1919 OCT.25 OSU WAS AT 2:30. 1923 OCT. 20 OSU WAS AT 2:00 1924 NOV. 8 NORTHWESTERN WAS AT 1:30 1925 AND 1926 KICKED OFF AT 2:00 Michigan Stadium era: 1927 OHIO WESLEYAN 1:00, MSC 2:00, OSU 2:00, NAVY 1:30, MINNESOTA 1:30.…
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1900s Michigan Football Walking Cane
See the above photo, this was recently offered up on eBay. Please tell me the top screws off to hold whiskey. The seller offered little to explain how old it is or what it was used for beyond this: I was told this cane probably dates back to around 1900 to 1920 & it was probably some kind of silver plated metal, I got this from a woman who was from Michigan and she said that her Grandfather had it and she was pretty old herself. I was trying to do some research on this cane and I did read that the seniors use to make their own canes as early as the late 1800’s but in the 1920’s the seniors strutted around campus on “CANE SUNDAY” and I do not know why or what this cane is about maybe some famous coach or player used it. Thankfully Michigan Today writer Jim Tobin, in this April 2010 piece, explored the history of canes at the University of Michigan. I’ll have to swing by the Bentley Library to check out their collection of these canes. Follow MVictors on Twitter
