A special edition of the MVictors History Show, recorded in the mancave of author, super collector and historian Jon Stevens. Items include Yost Field House doors, a 1905 Ohio State-Michigan program, the vintage U-M scrapbook owned by Michigan superstar Neil Snow, and much more. Also, check out the piece of history from 1898 that made my jaw drop!
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Enter Yost | This Week in Michigan Football History
For Saturday's Rutgers game we head waaay back to 1901 as it was on that day that Fielding H. Yost coached his first game in Ann Arbor. The 50-0 drubbing of Albion got 'Hurry Up' off on the right foot, and set the pace for the Point-A-Minute era where his Meechigan wouldn't lose a game until 1905.
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It’s Alive! Michigan Mascots
A brief history of Michigan football's living mascots, or at least creatures associated with the football program. Mascot, Yost's version of "Mike, Whiskey & Brandy and more:
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When Michigan Canceled The Notre Dame Series | November 4, 1910
On Friday, Nov. 4, 1910, Michigan authorities cancelled the showdown football game scheduled for the next day between the Wolverines and the University of Notre Dame. In a nutshell, the Wolverines contended that at least two Fighting Irish players were ineligible under the rules of the game contract, and when Notre Dame refused to sit them out, Michigan pulled the plug.
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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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Yost on Drinking at Games: Inconceivable!
On eBay right now, a series of football ticket applications from the early 1930s, with one including this message from #1000SSS from The Grand Old Man himself: This wasn’t the only time that Yost spearheaded a message on the ills of drinking at games during this era. Back in 2008, I noted this cartoon that appears in the 1934 yearbook: While we know folks found a way to drink during Prohibition, the law ended with the ratification of the 21st Amendment on December 5, 1933. That said, Michigan state law approved the sale of 3.2 percent alcohol earlier that year and I’m sure more than a few bottles of the good stuff found their way to and through the gates of Michigan Stadium.
