For Saturday’s edition of This Week in Michigan Football History takes us back to the special year of 1927 – the season the Big House was first open for business. Can you dig it? Yost could and did! [display_podcast] 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 after the jump:
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Toasting Yost | October 19, 1940
In 1940 "The Toast to Yost from Coast to Coast" was held at Waterman Gymnasium. Fielding H. Yost was honored by a host of dignitaries - (Willie Heston, Tom Harmon and Louis Elbel to name a few) in an event that was broadcast on NBC radio around the country. The Bentley Library has the original recording of that tribute. It's a tad choppy in spots but well worth a listen if you have the means. The highlight for me is certainly hearing the voice of Yost as he addresses the audience.
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Ufer Classic Returns Saturday
God bless your maize and blue fedora-covered ears, old Ufe returns Saturday! Continuing an awesome tradition, toe meets leather at noon Saturday as WTKA 1050AM will air another game from the Bob Ufer radio archives. This time it’ll be the 1977 battle between your #1 ranked Wolverines and the undefeated (5-0) #14 Wisconsin Badgers in Ann Arbor. So after weeks of ignoring those important in your life I suggest you tune in while you are making good with your spouse, friends, family or putting rake to leaf in the yard. You can support the Ufer Foundation here. Follow MVictors on Twitter
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Sights & Sounds | Michigan 78, Rutgers 0
A few Sights & Sounds from Michigan's colossal beatdown of Rutgers - 78-0.
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Pepscataway | Dr. Sap’s Decals
Here are the Decal Champions for Week Six by Steve “Dr. Sap” Sapardanis: OFFENSIVE CHAMPION – At 4pm, Saturday afternoon, I sent out this tweet: I just had this feeling that Jabrill Peppers was going to have a monster of a game. Sure he was coming back home and was playing in front of a lot of family & friends, but I didn’t think he would look as smooth as he did in the offensive backfield. I mean, he looked like a veteran option QB back there!! Decisive. Quick. Deceptive, but more importantly, smart. He knows what to do when the ball is in his hands. DEFENSIVE CHAMPION – When you realize that this game was somewhat close – in the first few minutes and in the rain – the defense needed to step up and deny Rutgers any chance of gaining any momentum. Jabrill Peppers made sure that was not going to happen on his watch and during his homecoming. His ability to make tackles in open space and get to the quarterback is very reminiscent of Charles Woodson, some 20 years ago. SPECIAL TEAMS CHAMPION – Seriously, is another team ever going to kick to Jabrill Peppers again? Even though his punt return TD was called back, (and that was NOT a block in the back on Jourdan…
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Kramer of Michigan | This Week in Michigan Football History
For Saturday’s edition of This Week in Michigan Football History we take a couple trips, first back to 1994 when we retired the #48 jersey of President Gerald Ford, then down the dial to 1955 as the Wolverines took on Army in the premier match-up in the college football world. This provided a great opportunity to remember the great Ron Kramer. On the gridiron the Michigan legend played offensive & defensive end, running back, quarterback, kicker, and receiver– sometimes all within the same game. Off the gridiron, Kramer was a 9-time letterman and set Michigan’s all-time scoring record on the hoops squad and he excelled in the high jump for the track team. Here’s more: 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. script – October 8 is a special day in Meeechhigan football lore, as it was on this day in 1994 that the Big House welcomed someone even more famous than Michael Jordan and Tom Brady. 22 years ago today President Gerald Ford was honored and had his #48 retired. Ford played for the back-to-back national champion teams…
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Bo Stays | This Week In Michigan Football History
For Saturday’s edition of This Week in Michigan Football History we headed back briefly to October 1st in 1927 and 1938 to acknowledge the first game at Michigan Stadium and the first time the Wolverines donned the coveted winged helmet respectively. From there we went to 1977 on this day exactly four decades ago, as General Bo Schembechler’s third-ranked Wolverines were set for an epic clash in Ann Arbor against fifth-ranked Texas A&M. The game was a blow-out, but A&M was enamored with Bo and later tried to lure him to college station. Here’s how it went down: [display_podcast] As always, this segment appeared on 1050AM WTKA and 1330AM WTRX’s epic KeyBank Countdown to Kickoff prior to each game. 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. October 1st marks a very special anniversary in Meeechigan football lore for two of our most enduring traditions.First, Fielding Yost’s dream came to fruition on October 1st, 1927, as it marked the first game in Michigan Stadium, a 33 to nothing shutout of Ohio Wesleyan. Eleven years later on this day in 1938, Fritz Crisler made his Wolverine coaching debut and outfitted the maize and blue with the iconic Winged Helmet for the first…
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Wiscons-out | Dr. Sap’s Decals
Here are the Decal Champions for Week 5 by Steve “Dr. Sap” Sapardanis: OFFENSIVE CHAMPION – If you are going to be anything in life, be clutch. Why? Because clutch is king! I’ve played and coached in enough sporting events to realize that you are not going to steamroll every opponent you face. You are not going to ace every test you take. Eventually you will play some one, some team, some coach, who is just as good as you are. When that happens, you gotta be clutch. Why? Because, you will have to scratch and claw and fight for every point you get. Invariably the difference will come down to one key play and when that play presents itself to you, you gotta make a clutch throw, clutch move and clutch catch. Just like Wilton Speight and Amara Darboh did in the final minutes against Wisconsin. Clutch throw. Clutch catch. Clutch! DEFENSIVE CHAMPION – With Channing Stribling the next man up due to injury, you just knew that the Badgers were going to throw to his side of the field to see what kind of game he had. In a close contest where turnovers & field position were key, #8 came up with TWO HUGE INT’s! The quality depth in the Michigan Secondary this year is starting to show its…
