There are...
...days until Harry Newman (QB 1930-1932) supports the Wolverines in spirit as they begin their 142nd season at home on September 4th against Western Michigan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Newman
Go Blue.
Check out Bentley Historical Library's new digitized film of Mr. Newman leading Michigan to victory over Ohio State in 1932...
https://bentley.mivideo.it.umich.edu/media/t/1_f0epidbr
Enjoy!
Some of those plays look eerily familiar, only with better execution.
I didn't realize that placement of the ball could be so close to the sidelines back then—it looked on several snaps that the offense had to be in an unbalanced line because there was no room for an even formation.
You can tell from the video of the stadium that it was a road game at the Horseshoe. Kipke won the NC this season and in 1933. But after 1933 he lost a lot and Yost fired him at the end of the '37 season. He hired Crisler before the '38 season.
In honor of Lawrence Ricks, the backyard brawl from his senior season:
I think we have been running the same offense
Two? 46. Eight!
Who do we appreciate?
Harry! (And JWG.)
Whew! I was sure I’d get massive downvotes for my embarrassing lexicological faux pas, using “who” rather than “Whom do we appreciate?”
Harry was the Douglas Fairbanks College Player of the Year....forerunner of the Heisman.
Douglas Fairbanks?
Named after a Hollywood actor / screenwriter oddly enough
Silent Screen legend, athlete, husband of Mary Pickford, America's Sweetheart and founder, with her and Charlie Chaplin of United Artists, a film production and distribution powerhouse until the late 1960s.
I love these. Getting pumped. Keep it coming. My daily dose of Michigan football history.
Harry owned a Mercury dealership at the end our street at the corner of Van Dyke and Outer Drive in Detroit. We used to go there in the late summer/early fall to watch the new models being delivered.
Ah, I love a swallows-return-to-Capistrano story. It breeds solidity and continuity.