Given the nice offseason bashing back and forth between Ann Arbor and College Station over the voting for the EA Sports College Football cover, a repost of our last offseason incident involving those Aggies. We won that one despite Bum Bright’s righteous wallet. TWIMFBH starts with a discussion on the 1977 Texas A&M vs. Michigan game and ends with more significant challenge from the Aggies, namely their attempt to woo Bo Schembechler to College Station. You can hear all of the This Week… clips here. Related:Don’t forget about Dr. Sap’s epic throwback EA CFB covers like this one:
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Santa Delivers
Here’s Santa himself paying the Michigan football team a visit in Pasadena back on Christmas Day in 1947: Fullback Jack Weisenberger receives a gift from Kris Kringle and one can only assume the old man handed over USC’s offensive and defensive playbook. A few days Fritz Crisler’s magical crew stomped the Trojans 49-0 to seal the national championship. Wiesenberger scored three touchdowns! Merry Christmas and Go Blue! Follow MVictors on Twitter and get it quick
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Mud Bowl 2012: November 10th
[Ed. Just a reminder friends: No Mud Bowl this weekend, it will be November 10th.] Mark your calendars and pack your ear muffs. The annual SAE Mud Bowl is officially slated for Saturday November 10th starting at 9am. The event will once again benefit Mott Children’s Hospital. Northwestern is in town later in the day, kickoff time still TBD. Follow MVictors on Twitter
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Bo Thinks About…Practice
Thanks for reader Jonathan for passing this along. Check out this shot of Bo watching practice on the old practice field off of State Street: Looks like it made page 10 back in the day. It makes page 1 in my book. Update: I’ve been asked a few times if the old style, fitted Bo New Era M hats are still available. Naturally Underground Printing in Ann Arbor has them (and I’m guessing Moe’s). I was in there today:
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1902 Usher’s Ribbon (Michigan-Minnesota)
So you don’t see many authentic items on eBay that fall inside the Yost Point-A-Minute era from 1901 to 1905. There’s one up now. So check out this Usher’s ribbon for the Thanksgiving day game held on November 27, 1902. It’s the last game played between the Gophers and Wolverines that didn’t involve a certain water crock. It wasn’t until the following year, 1903, that the Little Brown Jug was purchased in Minneapolis, left behind after the game, and reclaimed by Michigan in 1909…and the rest is college football history. Looking at the Usher’s ribbon, it looks to be authentic, although I’m not suggesting that someone would have the stones to forge such a thing, but you never know. Having written on this stuff for a while now when I first spotted the ribbon I knew I’d seen that font style before. Sure enough, on this vintage MVictors post from 2006, you clearly see the athletic department favored that print type on official materials including this 1901 season athletic pass that I’d give my right pinky to have on my wall. The usher who donned this silk ribbon watched Michigan take down the Gophers 23-6 in the ‘02 season finale. Yost and crew once again ran the table finishing the season a perfect 11-0, outscoring opponents 644-12 to claim the…
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The Brady Aura (8-20-12 audio)
Check out this clip today from the Jim Rome radio show. Here’s former NFL lineman Ross Tucker with guest host Kyle Brandt chatting about Tom Brady. In the clip Tucker describes a particular nuance Brady brought into the huddle when the two were teammates in New England and what it felt like to play with the legend: [display_podcast] HT to Matt for passing along the clip
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How They Voted for Michigan–AP poll
Collected and distributed via pollspeak.com’s poll stalker, here’s how the AP pollsters voted for Michigan. You can click on the voter to find out where they are from AP Ballots CFB ’12 Week 1: Aug. 18, 2012 Last updated: Aug. 18, 2012 — 11:31 AM Voter Rank Bob Asmussen 1 Ira Schoffel 3 Joe Walljasper 5 Doug Doughty 6 Hays Carlyon 6 John Adams 6 Keith Sargeant 6 Bob Condotta 7 Dirk Facer 7 Harold Gutmann 7 Joe Giglio 7 John Shinn 7 Mark McCarter 7 Seth Emerson 7 Anthony Gimino 8 Austin Meek 8 Chadd Cripe 8 Charles Davis 8 Garland Gillen 8 Greg Auman 8 John Clay 8 Keith Pompey 8 Kyle Meinke 8 Kyle Ringo 8 Ben Frederickson 9 Bill Rabinowitz 9 Carrie Anderson 9 Doug Lesmerises 9 John Silver 9 John Werner 9 Mitch Vingle 9 Rob Long 9 Adam Zucker 10 Ferd Lewis 10 Jon Wilner 10 Josh Kendall 10 Matt McCoy 10 Robert Cessna 10 Brandon Marcello 11 Erik Gee 11 Harry Plumer 11 John Hunt 11 Kirk Bohls 11 Mike Hlas 11 Pete DiPrimio 11 Phil Miller 11 Scott Wolf 11 Brent Axe 12 Cecil Hurt 12 Chris Fowler 12 Jimmy Burch 12 Steve Sipple 12 Tom Murphy 12 Andy Staples 13 Chris Murray 13 Glenn Guilbeau 13 Jeremy Sampson 13 Ray Ratto …
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It Must be the Shoe Laces! Billy Taylor’s Tricked out Pumas
In 1971, one player did something that was so shocking even the flamboyant Fielding H. Yost would have flashed his famous smile. “Touchdown” Billy Taylor wore teal blue shoes with, you guessed it – maize laces! It was in the 1972 Rose Bowl Game against Stanford, and yes, those tricked out Puma shoes have not been photoshopped. Here's the full story:
