This Week in Michigan Football History is back for Season 9, featuring a sweeping look of Meechigan football over several decades including – 1887, and the origins of the Notre Dame rivalry.  And a several of canceled games: 2001 and the response to and reschedule following 9/11 1963 reschedule after Thanksgiving following the Kennedy assassination. 1918 handling WWI and the wicked worldwide flu epidemic Audio: Check it out Saturday on the WTKA 1050AM pregame show, live from Soaring Eagle Casino.  Props to Ira Weintraub on the 1s and 2s, and To Hell With Notre Dame!  Go Blue. Script: Tonight we renew the on-again, off-again, on-again storied rivalry with our Natural Enemy, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.  The history of our prestigious pigskin institutions is very much intertwined starting with your beloved Wolverines traveling to South Bend to teach them how to play this sport back in 1887. Immediately after that lesson we taught them another lesson, beating them 8-0 – providing an early jump on the all time win percentage race.   The rivalry really heated up 2 decades later after the Irish (coached by Yost protege’ Frank “Shorty” Longman) finally won a game in 1909, then due an eligibility dispute the 1910 game was ABRUPTLY CANCELLED, literally hours before the scheduled kickoff.  Things would never, and I mean EV-ER – be…