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Well if you can't tell I am absolutly nuts about Michigan Football. Yes I know what you are thinking "you live in Indiana" so what I have good taste when it comes to football. I love the football tradition of MICHIGAN. Plus who couldn't like those awesome winged helmets.
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Michigan's famed winged football helmet dates back to 1938, when Fritz Crisler arrived from Princeton University with his penchant for detail and style.
"Michigan had a plain black helmet and we wanted to dress it up a little," Crisler recalled. "We added some color (maize and blue) and used the same basic helmet I had designed at Princeton."
There was one other consideration. Fritz thought this unique helmet could be helpful to his passers as they tried to spot their receivers downfield. "There was a tendency to use different-colored helmets just for receivers in those days, but I always thought that would be as helpful for the defense as for the offense," offered the former Wolverine football coach and athletic director.
My Favorite Sports Moment:
| Bowl Game
Appearances & Scores |
| Year |
Bowl |
Opponent |
Result |
Score |
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| 1902 |
Rose |
Stanford |
W |
49-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1948 |
Rose |
Southern California |
W |
49-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1951 |
Rose |
California |
W |
14-6 |
Go Blue! |
| 1965 |
Rose |
Oregon State |
W |
34-7 |
Go Blue! |
| 1970 |
Rose |
Southern California |
L |
3-10 |
|
| 1972 |
Rose |
Stanford |
L |
12-13 |
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| 1976 |
Orange |
Oklahoma |
L |
6-14 |
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| 1977 |
Rose |
Southern California |
L |
6-14 |
|
| 1978 |
Rose |
Washington |
L |
20-27 |
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| 1979 |
Gator |
Southern California |
L |
10-17 |
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| 1979 |
Rose |
North Carolina |
L |
15-17 |
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| 1981 |
Rose |
Washington |
W |
23-6 |
Go Blue! |
| 1981 |
Bluebonnet |
UCLA |
W |
33-14 |
Go Blue! |
| 1983 |
Rose |
UCLA |
L |
14-24 |
|
| 1984 |
Sugar |
Auburn |
L |
7-9 |
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| 1984 |
Holiday |
Brigham Yougn |
L |
17-24 |
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| 1986 |
Fiesta |
Nebraska |
W |
27-23 |
Go Blue! |
| 1987 |
Rose |
Arizona State |
L |
15-22 |
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| 1988 |
Hall of Fame |
Alabama |
W |
28-24 |
Go Blue! |
| 1989 |
Rose |
Southern California |
W |
22-14 |
Go Blue! |
| 1990 |
Rose |
Southern California |
L |
10-17 |
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| 1991 |
Gator |
Mississippi |
W |
35-3 |
Go Blue! |
| 1992 |
Rose |
Washington |
L |
14-34 |
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| 1993 |
Rose |
Washington |
W |
38-31 |
Go Blue! |
| 1994 |
Hall of Fame |
North Carolina State |
W |
42-7 |
Go Blue! |
| 1994 |
Holiday |
Colorado State |
W |
24-14 |
Go Blue! |
| 1995 |
Alamo |
Teaxas A & M |
L |
20-22 |
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| 1997 |
Outback |
Alabama |
L |
14-17 |
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| 1998 |
Rose |
Washington State |
W |
21-16 |
Go Blue! |
| 1999 |
Florida Citrus |
Arkansas |
W |
45-31 |
Go Blue! |
Teams I Love:
Michigan Wolverine
Football
The Questions
1) What team has won more games than any one
else in the history of football?
2) What team has been ranked more often in the wire
service polls than any other?
3) What current NCAA Division-IA team won the first game
against another team currently in NCAA Division-IA?
4) What is the only team outside of the ivy league to
have played against Harvard, Yale, and Princeton in the
same year (let alone ever!)?
5) What team has played in front of more fans than any
other has?
6) Which team's games has been televised more than any
other has?
The Answers
1) The Michigan wolverines with 786. (note the
Chicago bears are 1st in the NFL with 650)
2) The Michigan wolverines with 57 "top 10's" (33
- "AP" and 24 - "UPI/CNN"), and 82
"top 25's" (46 - "AP" and 36 - "UPI/CNN").
3) The Michigan wolverines beat Notre dame 8-0 in 1887
4) The Michigan wolverines in 1881.
5) The Michigan wolverines have been playing in front of
at least 80,000 fans per home game since 1927, and at
least 102,000 since 1975 for a total of about 53,900,000
fans (with an "all time" record of 32,940,891
of them in the "big house").
6) The Michigan wolverines with 270. (USC is in second
with 246, Texas is third with 245, and Notre dame comes
in 4th with 239. Unless any of these teams get put on
probation, all of their games will be on TV and none of
them will ever catch Michigan.
Miscellaneous Information
 Michigan has won more games than any team in
the history of football! (Including any team in the NFL!)
Michigan has produced more "top 10"
and "top 25" poll finishes that anyone else!
Michigan began winning Division-IA games
before anyone else!
Michigan has played in front of more people
than anyone else has! (Including any team in the NFL!)
Michigan has played more games on television
than anyone else! |
11 National Titles - 42 Big Ten Titles
| Big Ten Titles |
| Year |
Conference Record
(won-lost-tied) |
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| 1898 |
3-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1901* |
4-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1902 |
5-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1903* |
3-0-1 |
Go Blue! |
| 1904* |
2-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1906* |
1-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1918* |
2-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1922* |
4-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1923* |
4-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1925 |
5-1-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1926* |
5-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1930* |
5-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1931* |
5-1-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1932 |
6-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1933* |
5-0-1 |
Go Blue! |
| 1943* |
6-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1947 |
6-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1948 |
6-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1949* |
4-1-1 |
Go Blue! |
| 1950 |
4-1-1 |
Go Blue! |
| 1964 |
6-1-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1969* |
6-1-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1971 |
8-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1972* |
7-1-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1973* |
7-0-1 |
Go Blue! |
| 1974* |
7-1-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1976* |
7-1-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1977* |
7-1-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1978* |
7-1-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1980 |
8-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1982 |
8-1-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1986* |
7-1-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1988 |
7-0-1 |
Go Blue! |
| 1989 |
8-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1990* |
6-2-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1991 |
8-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1992 |
6-0-2 |
Go Blue! |
| 1997 |
8-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1998* |
7-1-0 |
Go Blue! |
| * = shared title |
| National Champions |
| Year |
Record (won-lost-tied) |
|
| 1901 |
11-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1902 |
11-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1903 |
11-0-1 |
Go Blue! |
| 1904 |
10-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1918 |
5-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1923 |
8-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1932 |
8-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1933 |
7-0-1 |
Go Blue! |
| 1947 |
10-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1948 |
9-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
| 1997 |
12-0-0 |
Go Blue! |
History of the U of M
Wolverine Mascot
Since the earliest days of recorded University of
Michigan history (as early as 1861), the students and
alumni have been referring to themselves as "Wolverines".
While this moniker has proven successful for over a
hundred years of intercollegiate sports, what is the
reason for it? And moreover, what exactly is a wolverine?
The simplest reason for the wolverine nickname would be
that the animal was abundant in Michigan for some time.
However, all evidence points otherwise, as there has
never been a verified trapping of a wolverine inside the
state's borders, nor have skeletal remains of a wolverine
been found in the 96,705 square miles that comprise
Michigan.
The truth is there is that there is no truly known reason
why the Wolverine was chosen as a nickname. However,
there are several theories.
The great Michigan football coach Fielding H. Yost had a
theory for the nickname, which he wrote about in the
Michigan Quarterly in 1944. Yost felt the reason for the
nickname concerned the trading of wolverine pelts which
occurred in Sault St. Marie for many years. The trading
station served as an exchange between the Indians and
other trappers and fur traders, who would eventually ship
the products of to the Eastern United States. Because
many of the furs were in fact wolverine pelts, traders
may have referred to them as "Michigan wolverines",
leading to the state nickname and ultimately to the
University of Michigan representation.
Eight years later in the Michigan Quarterly Review of
1952, Albert H. Marckwardt presented another theory for
the "wolverine" name. Marckwardt's reasoning is
based when Michigan was first settled by the French in
the late 1700s. The appetites of the French who made up a
sizable portion of the settlers was judged to be
gluttonous or "wolverine-like" and therefore,
the title wolverines was set upon them.
The last theory surrounds the border dispute between
Michigan and Ohio in 1803. While the two sides argued
over proper setting of the state line, The Michiganders
were called wolverines. It was unclear, however, whether
the Michigan natives pinned the name upon themselves to
show there tenacity and strength or whether Ohioans chose
the name on account of the gluttonous habit of the
wolverine. From then on, Michigan was labeled "the
Wolverine state: and when the University of Michigan was
founded, it simply adopted the nickname of the state it
represented.
While wild wolverines exist in Oregon, Montana,
Washington, Colorado, Wyoming, California, and parts of
Canada, there are no wild wolverines in Michigan. All the
wolverines necessary can be found on the fields, courts
and rinks of Ann Arbor.
Despite the wolverine's ferocity, Fielding Yost set out
to find one in 1923, upon seeing Wisconsin carrying live
badgers along with its football team. Yost's desire met
with difficulty, as the coach had problems finding a
dealer in live wolverines. After a letter to 68 trappers
yielded no mascot for his team. Yost expanded his wish to
any wolverine, alive or dead. Yost finally got word of a
mounted wolverine belonging to Michigan Senator, William
Alden Smith., and made a deal to secure the wolverine for
his team. However, Yost went to Smith's home only to find
that the specimen was actually a coyote.
Yost was able to obtain a mounted wolverine from the
Hudson Bay Fur Company in the fall of 1924, but his quest
for a live one continued. In 1927, 10 wolverines were
obtained from Alaska and placed in the Detroit Zoo. On
big football days, two of these wolverines were brought
to Michigan Stadium and carried around in cages.
However, the animals grew larger and more ferocious, and
as Yost states, " It was obvious that Michigan
mascots had designs on the Michigan men toting them, and
those designs were no means friendly." Therefore the
practice of bring wolverines into the stadium had to be
discontinued after only one year. However, one of the
wolverines was not returned to the zoo. Instead "Biff"
was put in a cage at the University of Michigan Zoo where
students were able to visit him at times. In 1937, the
Chevrolet Motor Company donated a wolverine (as well as a
cage to keep it in), to the University of Michigan. It
was unclear how long this wolverine lasted, but it is
known that no live wolverines have been in the stadium in
the last half century. |
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Where I Like to Watch the Game:
Nothing Beats THE BIG HOUSE!!!
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