Recently I had a chance to visit the incredible personal U-M memorabilia collection at the home of Kenn Domerese. In Part I we start with a brief interview followed-up by a look at a few items from his collection. This episode includies Michigan helmets from the 1910s and 1930s, a vintage cane that once belonged to Irving Pond (the man who scored the first touchdown in U-M history), original sheet music from The Victors, a 1930s "Schedule Bot", a 1901 cloth item dedicated to Fielding H. Yost's first team, and much more:
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Instant Michigan Football Program Collection
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
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…
