Father-Son Michigan Football Legacies?

Submitted by DISCUSS Man on

Interesting conversation at the work today. Family legacies at Michigan. This topic mainly came up when I was talking about Johnny Wangs son walking on this season. 

Anyone have a list of legacies at Michigan? So far I've come up with off the top of my head-

  • Marty Huff/Ben Huff
  • Forest Evashevski/Forest Jr. and James Evashevski
  • Fielding H. Yost (HC)/Fielding Yost, Jr.
  • Butch Woolfolk/Troy Woolfolk
  • Stan Edwards/Braylon Edwards
  • Don Dufek/Don Jr. and Bill Dufek
  • Mike Boren/Justin Boren
  • Jim Mandich/Mike Mandich

 

Butterfield

May 28th, 2013 at 7:54 PM ^

The Gant family:  Tony ('82-86) and Allen ('12-present)

edit:  beaten to the punch by Crowpuppy - that's what I get for taking the time to look up Tony's years at U-M. 

 

Also:  Robert J. Brown (Center, '23-25) and son Robert M. Brown (End, '61-62) - the only father/son captains in program history. 

M Fanfare

May 28th, 2013 at 8:16 PM ^

Bill (1928) and Jim (1955-7) Orwig. Jim Orwig was the team captain in 1957. Bill Orwig also played on the basketball team from 1928 to 1930. Later, he was an assistant coach at Michigan from 1948 to 1953, after which he was long-time college administrator and served as the AD at Toledo, Nebraska, and Indiana (where he hired Bobby Knight).

M Fanfare

May 28th, 2013 at 9:22 PM ^

Willie Heston (1901-1904), Yost's great halfback, had two sons who played for Michigan as well, John (1931-33) and Willie Jr. (1929-31).

Raoul

May 28th, 2013 at 11:19 PM ^

This is tangential to the specific topic, but I think still worth noting: Dan Dierdorf and his daughter Katie, who played basketball at Michigan.

rdlwolverine

May 31st, 2013 at 5:11 PM ^

Willard H. Hildebrand (1932-34) and Willard R. Hildebrand (1958-60)

Kurt Kampe Jr. (1946-47) and Kurt Kampe III (1974-75) (father and brother of Greg Kampe, long time basketballl coach at Oakland U.

Years indicated are varsity letters.