Guess the next closest thing would be back to back games against Detroit Athletic Club in 1893 but not sure if they had a mascot back then. Either way, today’s matchup is likely first repeated mascot in Michigan history then (assuming a non-repeat opponent)
Must have missed his post on that trivia question. I ended researching this question yesterday and found the same answer. 1903 Ferris State and drake. Glad to have it independently verified
So, while watching Harry Potter this evening with my daughter, I decided to explore this question (wikipedia is quite the invention).
I had to go pretty far down the rabbit hole of Michigan football lore before finally coming across what is likely the best candidate of this repeated mascot occurrence. I found all the way in back 1903, Michigan had back to back games against Ferris State (Bulldogs) and Drake (also Bulldogs). Now I am assuming that they were both known as Bulldogs that far back but Wikipedia was not able to clarify this. Also, hoping I didn't miss something obvious in our most recent football history (font is small on my phone)
Other interesting notes... data gets a bit more shaky pre-1900 but there are few occurrences of games we played against the same team back to back... such as the Detroit athletic club in 1893 and Notre Dame in the Spring of 1888 (to hell with them, smoked them twice). However, not sure that should count in this frivolous exercise of mindless trivia.
Outside of repeated matchups, the next closest mascot repeat where we had numerous back to back games against Case Western (Spartans) and Michigan Agriculture College (then Aggies, now Michigan State Spartans) which occurred in 1902, 1907-8, 1910-12, 1920-1. However, Michigan Agriculture College (Lol, MAC... tells you something) was not yet the Spartans so this matchup does not count.
Strange findings of useless knowledge on this journey also include:
1) Michigan State Normal Normalites -> Now Eastern Michigan
2) We played the Quantico Marines Devil Dogs in 1923... bad ass team name
3) Apparently a Detroit Tigers Football Team existed in 1917 as Michigan played them
Excellent write up Brian; however, you did omit a key piece of information (which I am too lazy to look up)... what happened the last time we played teams with the same mascot name on consecutive weeks??
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Guess the next closest thing would be back to back games against Detroit Athletic Club in 1893 but not sure if they had a mascot back then. Either way, today’s matchup is likely first repeated mascot in Michigan history then (assuming a non-repeat opponent)
Must have missed his post on that trivia question. I ended researching this question yesterday and found the same answer. 1903 Ferris State and drake. Glad to have it independently verified
nice win by Michigan today
So, while watching Harry Potter this evening with my daughter, I decided to explore this question (wikipedia is quite the invention).
I had to go pretty far down the rabbit hole of Michigan football lore before finally coming across what is likely the best candidate of this repeated mascot occurrence. I found all the way in back 1903, Michigan had back to back games against Ferris State (Bulldogs) and Drake (also Bulldogs). Now I am assuming that they were both known as Bulldogs that far back but Wikipedia was not able to clarify this. Also, hoping I didn't miss something obvious in our most recent football history (font is small on my phone)
Other interesting notes... data gets a bit more shaky pre-1900 but there are few occurrences of games we played against the same team back to back... such as the Detroit athletic club in 1893 and Notre Dame in the Spring of 1888 (to hell with them, smoked them twice). However, not sure that should count in this frivolous exercise of mindless trivia.
Outside of repeated matchups, the next closest mascot repeat where we had numerous back to back games against Case Western (Spartans) and Michigan Agriculture College (then Aggies, now Michigan State Spartans) which occurred in 1902, 1907-8, 1910-12, 1920-1. However, Michigan Agriculture College (Lol, MAC... tells you something) was not yet the Spartans so this matchup does not count.
Strange findings of useless knowledge on this journey also include:
1) Michigan State Normal Normalites -> Now Eastern Michigan
2) We played the Quantico Marines Devil Dogs in 1923... bad ass team name
3) Apparently a Detroit Tigers Football Team existed in 1917 as Michigan played them
4) Lake Forest Foresters is a thing?
Anyways, back to the movie. Go blue tomorrow!
Excellent write up Brian; however, you did omit a key piece of information (which I am too lazy to look up)... what happened the last time we played teams with the same mascot name on consecutive weeks??
Glad that our program decided to spend the $60,000 to upgrade our running back to titanium over magnesium. Worth every penny!