This week we mark Saturday’s anniversary of the resumption of the Michigan-Notre Dame rivalry in 1942, when your beloved #6 ranked Wolverines traveled to South Bend and crushed on the #4 Irish. But to understand the significance of that day, we first take a trip back to November 1910 to understand why the rivalry was originally cancelled. Go Blue, Beat Irish! [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 Saturday starting at 11:30am. Follow MVictors on Twitter
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North End Zone vs. South End Zone – Biggest Moments in Michigan Stadium (recent) History
In your Michigan football experience, which M stadium endzone has more memorable TDs #goblue
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Jug Updated (2015)
Cheers to the great local artist Jil Gordon and her handiwork (more at TrueBlue365) this morning inside Schembechler Hall.
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Scarlet & Prey: Michigan 49, Rutgers 16 | Sights & Sounds
To head into a game against a team who beat you last year as 4 touchdown favorites and beat them by five-- feels damn good. Sure, it was an imploding Rutgers squad and it was far from perfect, but it's all good.
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5+2 (Pep and lil’ Wood)
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Bo the Merciless (1981) | This Week in Michigan Football History
November 7, 1981 was a day of very mixed emotions in Ann Arbor. For starters, it was the first home game since the passing of the iconic Bob Ufer. Second, the opponent was Mike White and Illinois, a head coach and program that was on a list Bo Schembechler kept that you didn’t want to be on. Game highlights from WolverineHistorian, note back-up QB B.J. Dickey hurling the pigskin down the field late in the fourth quarter: Today we head back 34 years, to November 7, 1981, when Bo Schembechler’s #12 ranked Wolverines welcomed Illinois. Normally a crisp fall football Saturday in Ann Arbor is met with great joy, but on this day there was a somber mood in Ann Arbor as this was the first home game since the passing of the iconic Meeechigan radio voice Bob Ufer. Weeks earlier, he was honored by the student athletes when the coveted GO BLUE banner was redesigned to read BOB UFER. The marching band joined the tribute, creating a formation that spelled out his name upon Canham’s carpet. Before kickoff the fans observed a moment of silence. But there was business at hand and this was a big one – and the opponent created a different type of emotion for Michigan’s head coach. Across that field on the eastern sideline was…
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Everitt Rules! #want
via the mgostore
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Weight, Weight do Tell Me
Update: Refreshed the data with the 2021 weights: Original post: The posting things like the tale of the tape from the epic 1903 Minnesota and Michigan game always sparks a few chuckles. ICYMI: So I took a gander at the Roster Database at the Bentley Historical Library. Notes: The original dataset included a record for every player for every season. After removing rows that didn’t have weight and the bad data (1997 OG Eric “Plankton” Warner weighs 2.5 pounds), we had nearly 10,000 records. Keep in mind the “roster” appears to include everyone who even sniffed the gridiron – ineligible freshman, redshirts, and back-in-the-day second teams, etc. I’m not a data scientist and spent about 14 minutes on this. Chart FWIW: A closer look at the spikes and dips since the late 1980s, kind of looks like welp guy ¯\_(?)_/¯ Updated: Here’s the average height. Despite the big jumps of weight in the 80s and 90s, height has basically remained flat since the late 1960s: Comparing height and weight, here’s how much players weighed per inch of height – the welp pattern is exaggerated since weight jumped up and down, but height stayed about the same: Looking at home states. Stacking up the height and weight based on the listed home state – only shows those States with over 50…
