Season Post Title Memorabilia featured 1879 Michigan Football Turns 100 1879 Did Irving Pond really Score 1st? Accounts of first Michigan game 1895 Driving a Tally-Ho Through It Old, old wire photo repro 1896 1896 Lehigh Program Vintage program 1896 Climate Controlled in Chicago Playing indoors in 1896 1896 The H is for Handlebar Pic of Yost rocking Mustache 1897 Vintage, Vintage Yost Yost, Ohio Wesleyan Team Pic 1898 The Inspiration of 1898 Win that inspired The Victors 1898 Send that to the Bentley Library Unrecorded 1898 Team Photo! 1899 Can You Spot the Ringer? Heston, 1899 San Jose St Photo 1900 Elephants at Michigan & Trumbull Iowa vs. Michigan in 1900 1900 How about Willie Heston? Willie Heston history, Yost 1900 Turn of Century Walking Cane Cane with Football, U-M logo 1901 Cryptanalyst Needed: 1901 Menu 1901 Team Menu – Awesome 1901 Baird Calls Cal, Stanford Yellow 1901 M Athletics Schedule 1901 1901 Season Football Pass Season pass to Yost’s inaugural 1902 1902 Usher’s Ribbon Vintage M Usher’s badge 1902 Rah-Rah-Rah Rose Bowl Rout First Rose Bowl pin? 1902 Some Vintage Rose Bowl Cheer Entire team in Rose Parade 1903 Brown Jug Lore: Spinning Myths Little Brown Jug history 1903 Pioneering Play-by-Play Wiring in game updates 1904 1904 and the Mountaineer Romp The Victors sheet music 1904 Was ‘The…
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Scouting the Iowa Hawkeyes (2006)
A couple of weeks ago on eBay, a seller offered up what was described to be a folder belonging to a Michigan coach. The photos were blurry, but the description claimed it belonged to someone on the Wolverine staff and held diagrams, notes, plays, and whatnot related to the game against the Iowa Hawkeyes held October 21, 2006 in Ann Arbor. Michigan won the game 20-6 thanks to a solid defensive effort and a strong game from Henne and Hart. If you read Brian Cook’s Hail to the Victors 2008 before the season, you got a little insight into the Carr coaching staff with the wonderful article titled ‘Rock Star’ by author Craig Ross. Ross wiggled his way into a quarterbacks’ meeting led by former QB coach Scot Loeffler, here’s a snippet: Loeffler: “What are the boys doing to us? Chad Hen-ne. (It eventually becomes clear that “the boys” means “the defense.”)Henne: “They are skying us and we are in chili with a dino.”Loeffler: “Rock Star!!!!” Ross later described his head as all this was happening: My head was spinning. I was trying to write notes as quickly as I could and still pay some attention, trying to learn something from what was going on. I was lost. It was hopeless. It felt a bit, perhaps exactly, like Ross after…
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Mark Harmon Faces Michigan, MSU
With the rumors that have Ryan Mallett and quarterbacks coach Scott Loeffler heading to UCLA, it’s a good time to look at the next item in the eBay watch series. Many of you know that Michigan legend Tom Harmon is the father of actor Mark Harmon and that the younger Harmon played quarterback at UCLA. What you may not know is that Mark’s Bruins actually faced his old man’s team in the early seventies and they both returned to Michigan the following year to battle the Spartans. Here are the programs for each game that were recently auctioned on eBay: There were a couple of storylines leading into the Wolverines trip to Los Angeles in 1972. The week prior UCLA started their brutal schedule with a huge win over #1 Nebraska, snapping the Huskers’ 32-game winning streak. It was Harmon’s first game for the Bruins, and a wishbone offense was installed to suit the new quarterback. Mark was named the MVP of the game and finished with 71 rushing yards. A headline in Sports Illustrated that week declared, “YOUNG HARMON MAKES HIS MARK: From Out of Hollywood Comes the Saga of Mark Harmon, Handsome, Articulate, the Son of Old No. 98”. Geez SI, take a cold shower. The other storyline for the game was of course the son playing his legendary…
