Note! The Bentley Library will be open for special extended hours on November 8th (this Friday, before the Nebraska game) from 5pm to 8 pm EST. At 5:00 pm Bentley archivists Greg Kinney and Brian Williams will give a special presentation on “Michigan Football Firsts,” using rare original documents, photographs, and publications from the University of Michigan archives to highlight some of the notable firsts across 134 years of Michigan football — the first team and first game, first coach, first airplane trip and much more. The hour-long presentation will be followed by extended viewing hours for the exhibit, “Harmon of Michigan” profiling the career of Michigan great Tom Harmon, along with showings of “One Saturday Afternoon,” a 1965 television feature celebrating the 25th anniversary of Harmon’s Heisman trophy winning season. The 30 minute long “One Saturday Afternoon” features Harmon game footage and interviews with Harmon, Fritz Crisler and Forest Evashevski. The U-M Bentley Historical Library is located at 1150 Beal Avenue in Ann Arbor.
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Sights & Sounds | Oh Brother, What Now? (Michigan State 29, Michigan 6)
I saw that coming but that didn’t make watching it any easier. I called it 31-16 in a contest to score one of Bennie McCready’s awesome Michigan football prints on The Fort…Bennie tells me I took second out of over 400 responses. Weee for me. The team played hard and the defense made hits. All that will be remembered is that we couldn’t handle the heat and took a brutal beating. Maybe it was the green uniforms against the field, but at times I swear there were a baker’s dozen Spartans in the box. It felt like 4th and 48 more than the one time it was really 4th and 48. What’s next? Another Come to Jesus meeting? JC is Platinum on Delta by now. That’d be #4 in 2013 according to my unofficial count. Feels like splitting the next 4 games would be a great result. Mood > Battered: That’s 98% The Blockhams, and 2% MVictors (black eye). That’s a cheerful trend: Uniforms > Nothing of note beyond Dr. Sap’s concern about the helmets in low light. Clear now that LHS will remain through the season. Uniform Timeline here for your reference. Bruce Gets a Paul > One Michigan Man took home a Paul Bunyan Trophy and that’s longtime #1000SSS media man Bruce Madej who was honored by the…
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Dr. Sap’s Decals | Ducking for Cover Edition
Sap is back with one caveat: “After a game like that, there are no Champions – only three Hustlers and one Uniform CHUMP.” OFFENSIVE HUSTLER DEVIN FUNCHESS – Dude was doing his best to give Michigan a spark through the air – tough at times to do when your QB is lying on his back, or not getting the ball out early enough. DEFENSIVE HUSTLER JAKE RYAN – He’s still not 100% back physically, but he is emotionally and energetically. The D did get a turnover, but in this game they needed to score points – too much to ask for Saturday. SPECIAL TEAMS HUSTLER MATT WILE – Not a good sign when your punter has to kick the ball 25 times (ok, it was only 8 times, but it sure felt like 25). His 49-yard field goal gave Michigan their only lead of the day – WOO HOO! UNIFORM CHAMP CHUMP GOLD FLAKES – Maybe it was my foul mood caused by the score, but I didn’t like the way the yellow color looked on the U-M helmets in East Lansing. In low lighting or in Saturday’s case, the absence of sunshine, the gold flakes in the Michigan helmets gave off a decidedly dark yellow look – certainly not the bright yellow color they have given off on bright,…
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Fourth and Forty-Eight (Michigan-Michigan State 2013)
Here’s a look, from the 2013 Michigan trip to Michigan State where Devin Gardner was sacked 100 times. One series set up a 4th and 48. Yes, 48-yards to go:
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Provisioning – Spartan Stadium Style
Notes: 1. Paul replica. Packing in case I have to give it back to @DaBangStick after the game 2. MiFi. Just in case. 3. Vintage M logo mints. Someone in the neighborhood handed these out. Kids put them in my office. 4. M ring. Don’t break it out too often. 5. MaraWatch. Showing East Lansing a little something called style. 6. Meal Tickets. Love it. Two tickets, good for 1 hotdog OR brat upstairs. Drinks are covered, media pays for everything else. 7. Binoculars. As you can see on the credential, I’m on level 8. 8. HTTV H&H. Hoops and Hockey edition in tow during the timeouts. 9. Credential and lanyard. Got the ESPN lanyard when GameDay came a few years ago, good for road games. 10. Sugar Bowl tag. Almost end of life, my Sugar Bowl bag tag on the backpack. Not shown: Phone, keys, phone charger, laptop, game face. Follow MVictors on Twitter
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TWIMFbH: Track Meet Cures Depression (1935)
Wire photo from the 1935 Penn game. That’s U-M’s Stark Ritchie toting the pigskin. (via eBay) Harry Kipke was an All-American start on Fielding Yost’s squads in the early 1920s, and then took a shot a coaching, first as an assistant at Missouri, then took the head coaching job up the road at Michigan State in 1928. When the head coaching job came free in Ann Arbor, Yost brought Kipke home and he got off to a fast start. But then 1934 hit: [display_podcast] That 16-6 win over Penn in 1935 was probably Kipke’s last great win of his coaching career. You can find more on the Willis Ward vs. Jesse Owens match-up here, and if you can stomach it, the run down of why Kipke was fired here. And if you need more on the 1934 Georgia Tech game controversy, grab Stunt3 Multimedia’s epic documentary today. You can catch all of the This Week in Michigan Football History clips here….sponsored in 2013 by Ziebart of Yspilanti. And don’t forget to catch it live today on the KeyBank Countdown to kick-off on WTKA 1050AM. Related: I’ll be shoving off to East Lansing so check back here and on Twitter for sights, snark, and sounds.
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How It Started: Minnesota Madmen 6, Michigan Machine 6
One headline in the November 1, 1903 Sunday edition of the Minneapolis Tribune declared, “VICTORY, THOUGH THE SCORE IS TIED." Further down toward the fold it blared, “YOST AND MICHIGAN PRACTICALLY BEATEN.” Here's what happened in the famous 6-6 tie between Michigan and Minnesota in 1903
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Osmond’s Five Dollar Jug
October 31 marks the 110th anniversary of the famed 6-6 tie that inspired your favorite trophy game. Fifty years after that 1903 game apparently a gent named Osmond Culp challenged his pal Hoiman Young to a $5 wager on the 1953 edition of the Little Brown Jug game. Culp took our beloved Wolverines…and lost….because the Gophers trounced Bennie Oosterbaan’s crew 22 to zip. How do I know this? Thanks to this eBay auction, we know about this wager and more specifically, the creative route our man Os took to pay off his wager. Love it! (Call me crazy but it seems a little light of the $5, although the seller admits some of the coins have been replaced.) The bidding on the Jug-inspired payoff starts at $45.00. Follow MVictors on Twitter there, get your Little Brown Jug Lore here.
