ESPN Insider declares 1948 team greatest ever
For Michigan though, not in CFB history
http://www.espn.com/college-football/insider/story/_/id/19027676/rankin…
ESPN Donkeys. 1901 team literally made people quit and go home at halftime.
Wasn't even the best team in the 40s. Mad Magicians the year before were.
Tell us more about how we looked back then. What was the defense like? How big was the O-Line in person?
Here are the heights and weights of the starting line in 1901
- Curtis Redden, 6-0/166
- Hugh White, 5-11/180
- Dan McGugin, 5-11/175
- George Gregory, 6-2/188
- Ebin Wilson, 5-6/185
- Bruce Shorts, 6-1/190
- Albert Herrnstein, 5-11/168
Any real MGoBlogger has to respect this level of dedication to the craft.
March 29th, 2017 at 10:38 PM ^
Hahaha, can you just a imagine a 5-11/168 lb OL lining up accross from Hurst and Gary. Imagine the pure fear in that OL player.
How about Ebin Wilson?
5-6/185 RIGHT GUARD
Playing as a Law Student after graduating from Normal (EMU) he was UM's heavyweight wrestling champion and expert boxer!
unlike many of their opponents including Stanford in the 1902 inaugural Rose Bowl.
I am going to make a journey to Tournament Park later this summer to see where Yost's team became legend. Of course he was the Stanford coach the year before which is another odd piece of trivia.
This recap of the game is interesting:
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/sports/20131223/how-the-first-rose-bowl…
Nope.
He was actually the head coach of Oregon at age 27, just four short years after he left Michigan.
March 29th, 2017 at 10:40 PM ^
March 30th, 2017 at 12:21 AM ^
when Wilson was measured at the NFL combine, he was only 5'3" 160. To his credit, he did complete the most reps with the medicine ball and the chest expander.
Some of those games in 1901. I remember Michigan played Livonia Stevenson and trucked them. Just after getting off a close 98-3.5 victory over the Albion Teachers Union.
considering the man the school is named after, Adlai Stevenson, was age one at the time.
A crazy time in general.
That 1901 team was so nasty that they could have stormed the Normany beaches on D-Day
.... if they hadn't been senior citizens by then
March 29th, 2017 at 10:38 PM ^
Misleading title...
March 29th, 2017 at 10:50 PM ^
I usualy still read some his articles I admit with his effort he put in with his "statistical analysis" but I barely ever tend to follow his fantasy advice. Seems to be wrong the most out of all the "experts"
March 30th, 2017 at 12:24 AM ^
'47 scored 140 more points over the course of the season than the '48 team, and on top of that pounded the snot out of #8 USC in the Rose Bowl while the '48 didn't go to a bowl game. Plus the Mad Magicians had a legit war hero in Chappuis leading them. That ESPN writer has his head up his ass.
I'm guessing the writer just looked at the national championships each school has won and picked from among those teams. We were AP #1 in 1948 and AP #2 in 1947 behind Notre Dame.
ESPN writers aren't known for their thorough research. If you want an actual thoughtful breakdown of historical team strength, read Bill Connelly at SBNation.