Looks like at least a few folks at the athletic department agreed with my analysis on the score of the 1909 game against Syracuse.  Back in March, I discovered (while researching a piece for Brian Cook’s HTTV 2009) that it appeared as though the official score of the October 30, 1909 tilt should have given Michigan forty-four points in the contest.  The Michigan Daily noted that the scorekeeper inadvertently failed to tally one of the Wolverines’ extra points. I just checked the Bentley Library record for the season and it’s been changed with a footnote: As silly as this seems, I love it.  It looks like the great archivist at the Bentley, Greg Kinney, took the research a bit further digging into the “Dope Books” and Michigan Alumnus.  Thanks to Kinney for following up on this.    It means much to yours truly. Here’s the entire original post, reprinted, explaining my take on the matter: I’ve made a couple trips over to the Bentley Library researching a story on the 1909 season. I’ll probably have more on that later. But in between digging through the Michigan Daily archives, letters and contracts from the athletic department, and of course the online records, I uncovered a little oddity concerning the ‘09 season. According to the Bentley web page for the 1909 season, and this link…

Check out this authentic jersey and pants from 1952: The seller claims the jersey belonged to center Wayne Melchiori came to Ann Arbor from Stambaugh, Michigan, a town just east of the Wisconsin border in the Upper Peninsula.  He went on to be a legendary high school football coach in nearby Ironwood and won quite a few honors: He also was Tri-State football coach of the year, Michigan-Wisconsin Conference Coach of the year three times, U.P. Football coach of the year twice, U.P. Athletic Director of the year, State of Michigan Area Athletic Director of the year, and a charter member induction to the Michigan High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame and the U.P. Sports Hall of Fame. The 1952 slate was an up and down one for coach Bennie Oosterbaan and crew, opening with a 27-13 loss to former M assistant Biggie Munn and his #1 ranked Michigan State Spartans.  The team then dropped a game at Stanford before winning five of their final seven games. I actually had a chance to catch up with Melchiori, who lives today up in Ironwood where he became a high school coaching legend. Melchiori told me that longtime equipment manager Henry ‘Hank’ Hatch used to make the jerseys himself.  “He would pick the numbers out and sew them on, right there…

Gordie Howe takes in old Yost.  Photo credit: me Sweet. One clarification, the application offers the opportunity to buy additional tickets to The ‘17th Annual College Hockey Showcase’ games at Yost against Minnesota (11/27) and Wisconsin (11/28) for $30/each. According to the U-M ticket office, these games are included in the regular season ticket packages, they are just offering extra seats (at a steep price) for those interested.  I don’t know where the extra seats came from, but since these games are right after Thanksgiving, perhaps they didn’t offer these as part of the student ticket package?

Another gem, this time published in the October 20, 1920 Michigan Daily.   Apparently a team of South American soccer players had to have some action on this American football-crazed campus.  Tellez somehow convinced the Daily staff to post this notice smack dab at the top of the Sports page: Early wagering line:  South American soccer team completely jonesing for a game: -7.

WTKA 1050AM morning show host Sam Webb phoned in for a rare afternoon segment today to talk about the commitment of hoopster Tim Hardaway, Jr., and the state of basketball recruiting vis a’ vis Coach Izzo. Here’s the audio (give it a few seconds to start): [display_podcast] Sam explains that Hardaway is not a chip off the old killer crossover; this version of Tim Hardaway is a shooter and a great fit for Beilein’s offense.  While he’s at it, Webb provides some other updates across the recruiting map.

Great to see this story by Jeff Arnold in the Ann Arbor News.  Student basketball season ticket sales jumped through the roof, from less than five hundred last season to over 2,000 for the 2009-10 schedule.  Marty Bodnar and company came up with a great idea; they allowed student to buy the tickets “in conjunction with their season football tickets”. One beef I have with the story is this paragraph: In addition to bigger numbers, the university will, for the first time, release Maize Rage seating on a first-come, first-served basis, which Bodnar said was the most fair way to allow students into the sections right behind the benches. It’s a great concept but it’s definitely not the first time they’ve done this, in fact, I guess I assumed the student section of GA all the time.   While we didn’t call ourselves the ‘Maize Rage’, as a student ticket holder during the Fab Five era the entire side of the court was completely general admission for the entire season.  We didn’t even have a section or designation.  Show up early and wait, and you were in the Blue.  Show up late and you were up top.  That was the deal.  You didn’t have the quite the feel of the Krzyzewski-ville or whatever they call it, but you did have folks…

One of the side effects of trolling through old newspapers is that you occasionally see something like this.  In October 1934 the Ann Arbor Daily News shared that the parents of young Spartans could take advantage of this service before their game against Marquette:

A lot of sports radio hosts are trying to deal with how to present Michael Jackson’s death, and it’s interesting listening to them struggle with the topic.  A common, tired theme is the whole “Do you remember where you were when X person died.”  Here’s my little MJ moment: I slept out one night on the sidewalk outside Wherehouse Records in East Lansing for tickets to his concert at The Palace (I believe it was the first show ever at the facility).  Still scratching my head on how I cleared that one with my parents. Anyway, a call today into WTKA evoked one incredibly sad memory from my younger days, much sadder than even this.  Distinguished professor, author and radio host John U. Bacon dialed into WTKA this morning and challenged readers ($1) to read his latest blog post without shedding a tear.  Bacs talked about his experience at a YMCA camp up at Torch Lake and the influence of the camp patriarch Pat Rode.  It’s a wonderful post, not much to do with sports, but give it a read. As far as Bacon’s challenge, there’s no bet coming from me.  That’s because of this passage in the post: At camp I learned how important it is to be needed.  When a young camper lost his mother in a car…