Latest from the socially distant MVictors History Show, a short video about the when the Little Brown Jug went missing in 1931: If you dig this videos, like/subscribe/share/comment. As always, get all of your Little Brown Jug Lore here…
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Yost plays his BFF after leaving B1G – This Week in Michigan Football History
A decade after being a founding member of the Western Conference, Michigan up and left to go independent. Now it had to find someone to play. On this Saturday 112 years ago, that someone was the Vanderbilt Commodores, coached by Yost's former player, brother-in-law, neighbor and all-around BFF.
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1917, 2012 and The Willis Ward Game (1934) – This Week in Michigan Football History
For Saturday’s epic battle against the Spartans, we start briefly with a game in 1917 when the Spartans were the Aggies of M.A.C. We then fast forward to nearly a decade later to 2012 when four field goals got the job done, and on that day we honored Willis Ward – the African American star who was forced to sit out the 1934 Georgia Tech game.
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The Brilliance of 1901, Michigan Football
Friends, fans, or mere passers-by of this site. Read this excerpt. Buy Stagg vs. Yost. This is a masterpiece that will be read and taught through the ages, and Kryk has offered up an exclusive morsel to you – the readers of MVictors. A huge thanks to John and his publisher and the U-M Bentley Historical Library for this exclusive including several of the photos – I know you will love it: – – – – Yost’s 1901 Wolverines: perfection and roses Fielding H. Yost’s first Michigan team in 1901 smacked Amos Alonzo Stagg’s Chicago Maroons by the largest score so far in the 10-year series, 22-0 — the Wolverines’ eighth win in eight tries, all by shutout. Afterward, Stagg acted as he usually did after a team clobbered him on the field: he counter-punched as hard as he could off it. Days after the Nov. 16 game, Stagg filed a protest to UM authorities, charging that starting Wolverine left end Curtis Redden was a professional, for evidently pocketing an $11 prize as a youth after having won sprint races at a town sports meet. UM authorities mulled the matter while Redden on the following Saturday played in Michigan’s 15-touchdown, 89-0 destruction of Beloit in 30-minute halves — a near repeat of the 128-0 University of Buffalo slaughter. Upon launching…
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Shorty Longman’s Ruse (1909)
Check out this news clipping from the November 6, 1909 Detroit Free Press. Astute Notre Dame fans should cherish this date: it marks the first win by the Irish over Michigan, the team that taught the Irish how to play football in the late 1880s.
