Week #7 – Michigan State Will Hagerup: 4 decals: coffin-corner punts Out of Bounds at MSU 10, 5, 5 and 15-yard lines – Outstanding! Harry Kipke would be proud! Desmond Morgan: 4 decals – 3rd QTR Fumble Recovery; 4th QTR Fumble Recovery; 4th QTR Tackle For Loss, and +1 editor’s choice, for a strong showing from his family in the A lot before the game! Denard Robinson: 2 decals – 15-yard TD run in 1st QTR; 34-yard TD pass to Roundtree in 4th QTR Devin Gardner: 1 decal, editor’s choice, for the Benny Hill run at the end of the game. Will Heininger: 2 decals for two 4th QTR Tackles For Loss Vincent Smith: 1 decal for 26-yard run in 1st QTR Drew Dileo: 1 decal for fake FG run for a 1st down in 1st QTR Brendan Gibbons: 1 decal for the nice seal block on the fake field goal in the first quarter. Roy Roundtree: 1 decal for 34-yard TD reception in 4th QTR Junior Megatron Hemingway: 1 decal for 29-yard reception in 1st QTR Thomas Gordon: 2 decals: 1 for 3rd QTR Forced Fumble, 1 for the nice open field tackle on Keshawn Martin. J.T. Floyd: 1 decal for fourth quarter forced fumble Jeremy Gallon: 1 decal for 32-yard reception in 4th QTR Will Campbell: 1 decal…

Here’s the only pic I could find with something on Brady Hoke’s head other than a headset, and I’m positive pretty sure it was Photoshopped:   Some guys don’t like to wear hats or visors, I get that.  My buddy Scotty Mudbowl has a small coconut and lids make him look like a little kid.  Some fellers with big heads (me) have trouble finding a hat that is comfortable (yes, even the adjustable ones).  Hoke clearly doesn’t have the pea head issue so I’m guessing it’s a comfort thing. It may seem like a silly question but I’m guessing the topic has come up once or twice behind closed doors on State Street.  Adidas sells a lot of hats and as you recall, we all made a fuss over a couple special edition hats Rich Rod wore last season (in support of the troops and the fight against breast cancer) that I’m guessing sold big time.  Fans want to own the hat that the coach wears. There’s also a historical element here, but it’s certainly far from a Michigan “tradition”.  Just about every Michigan coach wore a hat on the sidelines: Fielding Yost in 1905, George Little (from his Miami, OH days, but we’ll go with it), Tad Wieman Kipke, Crisler, Oosterbaan Bo’s ordering a new Fridge from France (“..and…

I get a lot of great emails from readers and as you can imagine, they are usually related to history or some piece of memorabilia.   Enough over the past week to prompt a post: Vintage Henne? First up, a question on an item from reader Rachel: …I picked up a football practice jersey at the garage sale on Saturday. It was different from most of the other jerseys there, and I’m curious if it’s older than most of what was available. It is what i think of as ‘old school maize’ – that deeper goldenrod.  I know that you just covered the whole ‘has maize really changed’ debate, but this definitely isn’t the lighter color of the last few years. It also is not Nike or Adidas – the brand is Tri County Sports, which I did Google to find out it’s a local sports equipment manufacturer. It’s a looser fit, very different than the current ones that stretch over pads. There is elastic at the waist and end of the sleeves. My question is if you know (or you know someone who does) when Michigan got practice jerseys from that company rather than part of their deal with Adidas or Nike. I looked at Ebay and didn’t see anything similar. In the interest of full disclosure, it’s #7 with…

You didn’t hear me this morning?   That’s probably because I was on with Ira on WTKA 1050AM at 7 a.m. and you were still sawing logs.   But have no fear my well-rested friend, the podcast goes here (give it a few seconds to load up): [display_podcast] It’s a segment of nearly 25 minutes of uninterrupted Michigan football history, talking about Harry Kipke and the wild 1930s.  We hit on just about everything and of course there was caller Ed at the end of the segment. For more context on several of the items discussed today: The charity Game with Wisconsin (1931) When the Little Brown Jug disappeared from 1931-1933 Whitey Wistert, the first of the great  #11 Wistert brothers (1931-..) The fall of Harry Kipke (1937) Keeping Tom Harmon at Michigan (1938) The Willis Ward Protests (1934) Speaking of the Willis Ward/Gerald Ford and the 1934 Georgia Tech game, I mentioned on air that the documentary created by the guys at the Emmy-nominated Stunt3 Multimedia is scheduled to debut sometime around August (still waiting on official word).  I understand that Stunt3 is accepting new investors for their projects if you or someone you know wants to get into the film game—contact them here if interested.

  If you missed it, a bronze statue of Gerald Ford was unveiled at the US Capitol last Tuesday.  To mark the event, NBC News aired an interview with Tom Brokaw and President Ford’s son Steven.   (Per one of my spies, this piece originally planned to run Tuesday but was pushed out, I assume thanks to the work of the SEALs.)  As you can see from the lead photo, they delved into Michigan football a bit and in particular Ford’s role in the Willis Ward incident of 1934.  Here’s the segment (ht: to mgoblog’s dnak438 for finding an embeddable version), love the backdrop: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy My man Steven fumbled on the record of the 1934 team (they went 1-7, not 1-8), but who’s counting? Later this year we’ll get to see the work of the Emmy-nominated fellas from Stunt3 Multimedia in their documentary ‘Black and Blue’, which will cover this outstanding story.   A blogger you know might even show up discussing the event in the final piece, trailer:   Related: * Harry Kipke and the Fall of 1934 * The Willis Ward Protests