Ahead of one of the biggest editions of THE GAME we salute Mr. Hassan Haskins, who entered Meechigan Football's Valhalla after his five-touchdown performance against the Bucks in 2021. Haskins turns 23 on Saturday so let's hope it's a maize and blue birthday for #25. We also revisit the history of U-M playing on Thanksgiving Day and other recent victories against Ohio including the Ten-Year War. Go Blue!
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The Yost-Stagg Trophy? | This Week in Michigan Football History
In this edition of TWIMFbH, we explore the history of Chicago's legend Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Chicago-Michigan rivalry, and Fielding H. Yost's place in Big Ten History. We end with a question – why isn’t Yost’s name on the B1G trophy? [lead photo: U-M Bentley Historical Library]
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Michigan’s Rocky Start in the Big Ten (1896-1917) | This Week in Michigan Football History
November 20, 1917 marks the official anniversary of The University of Michigan rejoining the Western Conference, and in doing so, gave it the new nickname of 'The Big 10'. Here's the short version of our rocky first two decades with our conference affiliation. The segment airs LIVE on the WTKA 1050AM Keybank Countdown to Kickoff on November 20, 2021.
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The Featherweight Fullback, John Maulbetsch (1914, 1926) | This Week in Michigan Football History
This week’s edition of TWIMFbH covers an underrated figure in Meechigan history, John Maulbetsch. The small running back became a media darling after a 1914 trip to play Harvard, and the east coast newspaper men couldn’t get enough of him. He went on to coaching after his playing career and on this day in 1926, he led the Oklahoma A&M Aggies against Michigan in 1926.
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Small House (Lowest Attendance at Michigan Stadium)
Due to the obvious restrictions tied to COVID, it looks like Saturday's tilt against the Spartans will yield the lowest attendance in the history of Michigan Stadium (1927). People will cite the 1931 Wisconsin game as the lowest on record - but that game might deserve an asterisk.
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Jug 401: Did Yost really want the Little Brown Jug returned?
In this short video, I take a look at the origin story involving Michigan's coach Fielding H. Yost asking for the return of the jug after the 1903 game. I also take a look at the alleged the response from Minnesota that he and Michigan would need "to WIN it back." This story is important to origin story of college football oldest rivalry trophy tradition, but is it really what happened? I examine some of the problems with and much more in this video.
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Yost Busts The Ghost | This Week in Michigan Football History (1925)
To open season 11 of TWIMFbH, it's the story of how Michigan's Fielding H. Yost returned to the head coach position. For a year Yost planned, schemed, and devised a strategy to stifle Illinois' great Red 'The Galloping Ghost' Grange on October 24, 1925. This segment appears on the WTKA 1050AM Countdown to Kickoff, starting four hours before each game.
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The Poison Water Myth
The next nugget of Jug Lore gets into why U-M bought the jug in the first place. Did Michigan and Fielding H. Yost actually fear that Minnesota might taint or poison the Wolverine water supply? Is that really why they bought the jug – to control the source of Willie Heston’s water? Let’s examine this: If you dig this videos, like/subscribe/share/comment. As always, get all of your Little Brown Jug Lore here…
