Sap is back with one caveat: “After a game like that, there are no Champions – only three Hustlers and one Uniform CHUMP.” OFFENSIVE HUSTLER DEVIN FUNCHESS – Dude was doing his best to give Michigan a spark through the air – tough at times to do when your QB is lying on his back, or not getting the ball out early enough. DEFENSIVE HUSTLER JAKE RYAN – He’s still not 100% back physically, but he is emotionally and energetically. The D did get a turnover, but in this game they needed to score points – too much to ask for Saturday. SPECIAL TEAMS HUSTLER MATT WILE – Not a good sign when your punter has to kick the ball 25 times (ok, it was only 8 times, but it sure felt like 25). His 49-yard field goal gave Michigan their only lead of the day – WOO HOO! UNIFORM CHAMP CHUMP GOLD FLAKES – Maybe it was my foul mood caused by the score, but I didn’t like the way the yellow color looked on the U-M helmets in East Lansing. In low lighting or in Saturday’s case, the absence of sunshine, the gold flakes in the Michigan helmets gave off a decidedly dark yellow look – certainly not the bright yellow color they have given off on bright,…
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Fourth and Forty-Eight (Michigan-Michigan State 2013)
Here’s a look, from the 2013 Michigan trip to Michigan State where Devin Gardner was sacked 100 times. One series set up a 4th and 48. Yes, 48-yards to go:
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Provisioning – Spartan Stadium Style
Notes: 1. Paul replica. Packing in case I have to give it back to @DaBangStick after the game 2. MiFi. Just in case. 3. Vintage M logo mints. Someone in the neighborhood handed these out. Kids put them in my office. 4. M ring. Don’t break it out too often. 5. MaraWatch. Showing East Lansing a little something called style. 6. Meal Tickets. Love it. Two tickets, good for 1 hotdog OR brat upstairs. Drinks are covered, media pays for everything else. 7. Binoculars. As you can see on the credential, I’m on level 8. 8. HTTV H&H. Hoops and Hockey edition in tow during the timeouts. 9. Credential and lanyard. Got the ESPN lanyard when GameDay came a few years ago, good for road games. 10. Sugar Bowl tag. Almost end of life, my Sugar Bowl bag tag on the backpack. Not shown: Phone, keys, phone charger, laptop, game face. 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.
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How It Started: Minnesota Madmen 6, Michigan Machine 6
One headline in the November 1, 1903 Sunday edition of the Minneapolis Tribune declared, “VICTORY, THOUGH THE SCORE IS TIED." Further down toward the fold it blared, “YOST AND MICHIGAN PRACTICALLY BEATEN.” Here's what happened in the famous 6-6 tie between Michigan and Minnesota in 1903
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Osmond’s Five Dollar Jug
October 31 marks the 110th anniversary of the famed 6-6 tie that inspired your favorite trophy game. Fifty years after that 1903 game apparently a gent named Osmond Culp challenged his pal Hoiman Young to a $5 wager on the 1953 edition of the Little Brown Jug game. Culp took our beloved Wolverines…and lost….because the Gophers trounced Bennie Oosterbaan’s crew 22 to zip. How do I know this? Thanks to this eBay auction, we know about this wager and more specifically, the creative route our man Os took to pay off his wager. Love it! (Call me crazy but it seems a little light of the $5, although the seller admits some of the coins have been replaced.) The bidding on the Jug-inspired payoff starts at $45.00. Follow MVictors on Twitter there, get your Little Brown Jug Lore here.
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Shakedown 1979
Continuing an awesome bye week tradition, today WTKA 1050AM will air another game from the Bob Ufer radio archives, this time the 1979 battle against #16 ranked Michigan State played in East Lansing on October 6. On this day in 1981 we lost the great Ufe. I thought it’d be cool opp to take a look at the 1979 home game program and naturally I chose the IU game. The theme was heavily focused on celebrating the 100th year of Michigan football: Wow Commemorative Mirror Go Moe’s! The family truckster
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U-M Football Schedule Updates
Via media Relations: U-M Athletics Announces Additions to 2016-18 Football Schedules ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The University of Michigan Athletic Department announced Wednesday (Oct. 23) some additions and changes to the non-conference football schedules for the 2016 through 2018 seasons. The Wolverines have reached agreements with three institutions to play games at Michigan Stadium. Michigan will host Central Florida at the Big House on Sept. 10, 2016, in what will be the first meeting between the two institutions on the gridiron. The Ball State game, originally slated for Sept. 24, 2016, will be played at a future date yet to be determined. Michigan will play three straight home games to open the 2016 season, bookending the Hawaii (Sept. 3) and Colorado (Sept. 17) games around the match-up with Central Florida. The Wolverines will have an open date before starting the nine-game Big Ten Conference schedule. In 2017, the Air Force Academy will make its third trip to Ann Arbor for a Sept. 16 game. The Wolverines have won both previous match-ups against the Cadets at Michigan Stadium, including a 31-25 contest in 2012. Michigan previously announced a Sept. 9 contest with Cincinnati at the Big House, and has one open date left to fill during the 2017 season. The agreement with Air Force also includes a men’s basketball game between…
