Homecoming Tidings (Moe’s, Mud Bowl update)

Sorry to be the bearer of these tidings, but if you are heading back to town this weekend for the Homecoming game there’s a couple things missing on campus:

  • There will be no SAE Mudbowl this Saturday.   Organizers plan to hold the annual pigskin slopfest on November 3, 2018 and the event once again benefits Mott.  You can support it here.   I’m confident they will NOT be crowning a Mud Bowl “queen” either like they did in ’54:
Michigan Daily, October 22, 1954 [via U-M Bentley historical archives]
  • Moe’s is closed.  Yes, the iconic Moe Sports Shops on North University, a mainstay of campus for over 100 years, closed in June.  

To cheer you up, here’s a Homecoming sign from 1947 posted up on East Quad:

1947 – outside East Quad [via U-M Bentley digital archives]