A wite photo that recently popped up on eBay features one of my favorites – the great Michigan quarterback Benny Friedman. Go grab HTTV 2014 and checkout Craig Ross’s wonderful piece on Friedman. Ross first covers the history of the passing game in football, then gets into Friedman’s career (how he defined/revolutionized the passing game and his ridiculous numbers for the era) and closes with Benny’s legacy.
Thanks to his dominance in the early days of pro football some go as far to label Friedman the Babe Ruth of football. And related to the Bambino, did you know Benny used to swing the bat in Ann Arbor?
Check out this great shot of him on eBay right now:
Here he is as well in the 1926 baseball team photo on the Bentley Library site:
Elsewhere –on eBay, a man (at John Kryk’s suggestion) I put on my list of the Top 25 Wolverines of all-time. The All-American beast Julius Franks:
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