• Instant Michigan Football Program Collection

    June 10, 2012 /

    A slice of Briegel’s basement Local uber-U-M memorabilia collector Jack Briegel is offering a portion of his collection to the public.  You know Briegel as the man who owns a ticket stub from every game played at Michigan Stadium, dating back to the opener in 1927.  It turns out he’s working to clean out a small portion of his collection and is offering a program from each of the 233 home games since 1975, stored in a clear polyethylene holder, for $1165 (that’s $5 each).  You must buy the entire collection. Interested?  Shoot me an email. Related: The House that Jack Built: The Ultimate Wolverine Den When Toe Met Leather—Traditional Michigan Football Kick-off Times   Follow MVictors on Twitter MVictors on Pinterest?  Believe it

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  • Righteous Stubs

    April 28, 2012 /

    I don’t feature ticket stubs very often on eBay Watch but this one is special.   On its face, this musty, chewed up stub from the 1943 Michigan-Michigan State game doesn’t look very valuable, does it?  I’m guessing the seller had no idea and is wondering why as of Saturday afternoon it had 17 bids, the tops at $330.   It was a very nice season by Fritz Crisler’s crew, going 8-1, sharing the conference title and finally beating freaking Minnesota whom they hadn’t beaten since 1932. Readers of this site might recall that this is a very rare find, so rare, in fact is that it was the final stub that local Jack Briegel needed to complete his collection of every game played at the Big House (dating back to ‘27).    Thanks to a gift of this stub in 2011 from fellow collector Ken Magee, Jack got that final piece of the puzzle. It’s rare for a few reasons as I explained in an earlier post: The ticket to that September 25 game actually lists Michigan State as the opponent.   But the Spartans did not field a team that season as it was common for teams to shut down their football squads that year due to obligations to the war effort.  Folks seemed to have better things to do that fall…

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  • When Toe Met Leather—Traditional Michigan Football Kick-off Times

    December 28, 2011 /

    A couple of readers reacted to my recent post featuring the 1969 pocket schedule, here’s one: Interesting that the home games started at 1:30 p.m. in 1969 and not at noon. I remember Carr (I think it was him) at Bo’s eulogy/celebration saying that Bo wanted all games to start at Noon. (Something about toe meeting leather at noon . . . .) This prompted an email from Michigan football memorabilia collector Jack Briegel, the man who owns a ticket stub to each game played at Michigan Stadium. Jack walked through his collection, some pre-dating the Big House, and picked off the start time listed on the ticket and relayed it below.  I added a few additions via the stubs on display at ticketmuseum.com.  These are just home games: Ferry Field era: 1908 OCT. 31 VANDERBUILT KICK OFF WAS 2:30. NOV.13 PENNSYLVANIA WAS AT 2:00. 1909 OCT. 30 SYRACUSE GAME WAS 2:00.  (Michigan scored 44 points, <wink>)* 1910 NOV. 19 MINNESOTA GAME WAS 2:00. 1911 NOV. 18 PENN GAME WAS 2:00 1917 NOV. 10 CORNELL WAS AT 2:00. 1919 OCT.25 OSU WAS AT 2:30. 1923 OCT. 20 OSU WAS AT 2:00 1924 NOV. 8 NORTHWESTERN WAS AT 1:30 1925 AND 1926 KICKED OFF AT 2:00 Michigan Stadium era: 1927 OHIO WESLEYAN 1:00, MSC 2:00, OSU 2:00, NAVY 1:30, MINNESOTA 1:30.…

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  • The House that Jack Built: The Ultimate Wolverine Den

    April 2, 2011 /

    There are a few places in Ann Arbor where you can view some of the finest Michigan football memorabilia in the land. If you can get inside, the museum at Schembechler Hall features helmets, jerseys and other relics from the early days of the program. Up on North Campus the wonderful archives at the U-M Bentley Historical Library contain an extensive array of documents, photos and news clippings covering the history of Michigan athletics. Neither collection is quite like what lifelong Ann Arbor resident Jack Briegel has at his home.

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