This Week in Michigan Football takes a look back to Saturday October 8, 1955, when Michigan took on Army in front of 97,000 at the Big House. Michigan prevailed that day 26-2 for its first win over Army. I touch on the game but talk a bit about the legend Ron Kramer who passed away last fall. As always, you can listen to it out before the KeyBank Countdown to Kick-off on WTKA 1050AM tomorrow, or click play now: [display_podcast] You can hear all of the This Week… clips here. For more on Kramer’s life, check out his book, co-written with Dan Ewald, That’s Just Kramer!
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Under the Lights in 188 seconds
Thanks to Brad from the Alumni Association for passing this along. It’s a time-lapse video from the Notre Dame game, very well done! While we’re at it, I can’t forget this epic piece of MS Paint collateral from reader Dan F:
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Ye Ol’ Freddy J
Funny stuff from the MZone, my fav:
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Dr. Sap’s Decals – Minnesota
A lot of business to take care of but first, here’s a rundown of the original criteria for awarding the footballs via Dr. Sap: Bo Schembechler criteria announced on September 23, 1969 for determining how Wolverines would earn a helmet award sticker, according to a report the next day in the Ann Arbor News: ON OFFENSE: 1) An outstanding block, catch or run 2) TD pass or run over 25 yards 3) Outstanding second effort 4) Four crossfield blocks in one game 5) TD-saving tackle on punt return 6) Scoring TD with first down between the eight and 10-yard lines (all offensive players get one) 7) Making first down starting from inside our two-yard line 8 ) Scout player doing best job against defense ON DEFENSE: 1) Pass interception 2) Blocked kick 3) Key tackle inside 20-yard line 4) Causing fumble or interception 5) Recovering a fumble 6) Stopping opposing team inside the 10-yard line (all) 7) When defense scores a touchdown (all) 8 ) Outstanding second effort or great hit 9) Making following number of tackles, including assists — ends, tackles and backs, 9; middle guard and rover back, 12; and linebackers, 16 10) Scout player doing best job against offense We don’t use all those metrics of course (at least until they let us in practice). So here…
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Now It’s Official – The Jug is Ready for 2012
I’ve seen so many cool things over the past few years covering this team and its great history. This is right up there. Here’s local artist Jil Gordon making things official on the Minnesota game: Gordon started this wonderful assignment in 1974. Much more on this later but I had to get a few photos up there.
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Jug Security and The Misc.
Here’s my new ringtone…Hoke’s response when asked if the team practiced handling the jug during the week: [display_podcast] I’m not sure if this is some sort of punishment, or an attempt to one-up Denard or a shout-out to Prince given that Minnesota was in town, but Will Hagerup was rocking purple shoelaces: Denard telling Gardner about Hagerup’s purple laces: Serves Molk right for cracking a smile. Shortly after I took this shot, a teammate delivered a hockey-style stinky glove face wash: Hoke revealed after the game that the numbers on the helmets will remain through the rest of the season. What do you think? Related: Shut-Out Saving My Jug Runneth Over (Michigan 58, Minnesota 0) Little Brown Jug Radio (WTKA audio) Poll: Resolving the Space Quandary Follow MVictors on Twitter
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Shut-Out Saving
I did catch one epic non-jug related photo from the game. That’d be this one of Courtney Avery scooping up the shut-out preserving fumble which he took due north to the House (that’s really his shadow BTW, which looks like a Tim Burton character or one of those hellcats from the movie Ghost): Sadly, this is what I saw:
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My Jug Runneth Over (Michigan 58, Minnesota 0)
Photos from the 2011 Michigan-Minnesota postgame - players with the Little Brown Jug:
