Saturday Night Football: 1995 Michigan vs Miami Redskins
A game I've been waiting to do for a long time now.
This was a game that featured pick sixes by both defenses and a ton of special teams blunders.
After Michigan cruised to a 31-0 halftime lead, Miami U capitalized on multiple boneheaded mistakes to score 19 straight points and make it a game in the 3rd quarter.
This game has some very interesting notes.
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Most obviously: Miami U was still called the Miami Redskins. They changed their name to the Miami RedHawks in 1997.
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This was Michigan's first game against a MAC team in 52 years. Their last prior to this was a replacement game against WMU in 1943. Michigan was supposed to play Michigan State on 9/25/1943, but MSU cancelled their season due to WWII, so WMU filled in. The tickets were already printed when the schedule change took place, so the tickets for that game against WMU said Michigan vs MSU on them.
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Randy Walker was MU's head coach. He would later take over at Northwestern after Gary Barnett left for Colorado. Walker passed away after the 2005 season and assistant Pat Fitzgerald took the head coaching job over for 2006.
- Mercury Hayes' spectacular diving catch for a TD that nobody ever talks about at 09:30
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Grew up watching Larry Osterman and Jim Northrup cover games when WDIV was not covering the Tigers on a given night. Actually, I gained a fair amount of popularity on my street because we were the only family with PASS. Fred McLeod had the Pistons call for years, as I recall - those were some good times indeed.
I was at this game and couldn't remember anything in particular except for that great catch by mercury!
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great catch by Hayes and thinking he was destined to be our next Heisman winner (remember, he had that game winner vs the Virginia Caviliers in the first game of '95).
Other than that, it was a frustrating game to watch, as our sloppy play allowed Miami to get within striking distance in the 2nd half.
Redskins, huh? I had nearly forgotten that used to be Miami's nickname. Washington should have followed Miami's lead years ago.
I bet you have to be even nicer in person!!!
at all. If the Washington NFL franchise was named after redskin peanuts and had something like these guys
...depicting their mascot since the inception of the team, then fine. But they don't.
I have (and had) absolutely no problem with colleges that were named after tribes, such as the CMU Chippewas and EMU Hurons. Those names honor tribes. But "Redskins" is not a tribe; instead, it's a derogatory term toward a race of people.
In this day and age, what is to be gained by using such a demeaning nickname? Would it be OK for teams to call themselves other obviously offensive nicknames, such as "The Darkies" or "The Yellowskins" for instance?
I'm pretty sure that Florida State is the last school that has a Native nickname and that's because they got approval apparently.
D1 schools that have changed their names-
- Dartmouth Indians to Big Green
- Colgate Red Raiders to Raiders
- Stanford Indians to no nickname and then Cardinal in 1981
- UMass Redmen to Minutemen
- Eastern Washington Savages to Eagles
- William & Mary Indians to Tribe
- St. Bonaventure Brown Indians/Squaws to Bonnies
- Siena Indians to Saints
- Eastern Michigan Hurons to Eagles
- Marquette Warriors to Golden Eagles
- St. John's Redmen to Red Storm
- Quinnipiac Braves to Bobcats
- Louisiana-Monroe Indians to Warhawks
- Seattle Chieftains to Redhawks
- Arkansas State Indians to Red Wolves
- North Dakota Fighting Sioux to TBA
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is still known as the Chippewas, unless you know something the rest of us don't.
Their official athletic website is
The top of the home page says "The Official Site of Chippewa Athletics".
And the WMU Broncos are gonna beat the Chippewas this fall!
Utah Utes
That's New Yorker for "youths"
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Well then. I suppose you can admire that they really went for the gold on most racist mascot
Miami Redskins....
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Miami had a pretty decent team that year, too. They went 8-2-1, with a win at then #25 Northwestern, and an average margin of victory against MAC opponents of 21 points. Their only other loss was a 2 point loss in the season opener against Ball State.
Holy shit I completely forgot that this Miami U team was the only team Northwestern lost to in the 1995 regular season.
They lost to MU a week after upsetting Notre Dame on the road.
One of the commentators was talking about how that stop on the final play of the game will help Michigan next week. The next week was the loss to that Northwestern team that played in the Rose Bowl.
potatoes unite!
I was a little over 2 months old. I was born a month exactly before the comeback against Virginia.
Tomorrow is the 20th birthday for me.
The marshmallows. Holy crap the marshmallows.
HBD WD. May you not find yourself on a brewery tour in Milwaukee that offers free samples, for at least another 12 months.
Wait a min..did I hear 'Offensive Co-Ordinator FRED JACKSON' after that double reverse early in the game? I think I knew this but it still surprised me. How long was he the OC? I take it that he was 'demoted' to RB coach at some point.
A couple really, really frustrating years before Mike DeBord.
I'm 99% sure I was at this game, but remember virtually nothing about it.
He was OC in 1995 and 1996. Double reverses left with him apparently because I don't remember any after 1995.
Feel like Carr and DeBord ran about one a game with Calvin Bell in the early 2000s...