For Saturday’s This Week in Michigan Football History we headed back 78 years to 1938, the year Fritz Crisler made his coaching debut in Ann Arbor.  Fritz was brought in to do a fixer-upper, as the Harry Kipke-era left the program in a shambles: As always, this segment appears on 1050AM WTKA and 1330AM WTRX’s epic KeyBank Countdown to Kickoff prior to each game.  During home games you can hear it live inside the Go Labatt Blue Light Victors Lounge starting 4 hours prior to kickoff.  Go Blue! You can listen to all of This Week in Michigan Football History clips here. Follow MVictors on Twitter script: This week we head back to 1938, a season when many changes were afoot in Ann Arbor both on and off the field.   On this Saturday 78 years ago first year coach Fritz Crisler led his 4 and 1 Wolverines against one-time powerhouse Penn in a game played at the Big House.   Michigan lured Crisler from Princeton where he successfully turned around the once proud Tiger program winning  a pair of national titles..   Fritz would be tasked with another fixer upper in Ann Arbor, as previous coach Harry Kipke had managed only 10 wins over the four year stretch since Michigan’s 1933 national championship.  That stretch included four straight losses over Ohio State where U-M was outscored, cover your…

By Steve “Dr. Sap” Sapardanis   A couple of months ago I crossed off an item on my Bucket List when I became a member of the National Football Foundation.  For those of you not familiar with the NFF, they are the organization that oversees the College Football Hall of Fame. Why did I want to become a member of the NFF?  Simply put, I was tired of seeing other players get voted into the College Football Hall of Fame instead of some of the all-time greats of Michigan.  So instead of sitting around and complaining, I did something about it.  I am now a voting member, and while there are some great Michigan players and coaches enshrined (see below), there are several other deserving M-Men that need to get their due. According to the Bentley Historical Library, there have been 128 first team All-Americans at U-M.  But only 25 players have been inducted so far! While it was great to see Rob Lytle finally get recognized for his achievements last Saturday, you might ask why did it take almost 40 years for #41 to get inducted into the CFB HOF?   Part of the reason is that the Michigan Chapter of the NFF has experienced a drop-off of membership due to elderly attrition.   We need to pick up the torch…