Favorite M Football Pics Thread - Historical Edition
The success (and front-page mention) of the last picture thread, which focused on pictures from the 2011 season, inspired me to start another - this time with pictures spanning as far back as Fielding H. Yost. Enjoy, and please post your own favorites!
but 30+ frigging years later this still makes my blood boil. He's not even close to the endzone man.
1979 Rose Bowl
For you younguns' that's USC's Charles White 'scoring' a TD against Michigan in which he fumbled the ball at the TWO friggin' yardline and Michigan recovered yet somehow the Pac 10 ref on the side called it a TD. USC won 17-10
There is still a picture of this in Crisler Arena with a better more conclusive angle.
There's also a picture of it on the wall at the Cottage Inn.
Boo.
Great timing on this thread (at least for me). My parents just came across this old photo from an uncle who passed a few years ago (Michigan Alum). He's got a few great bits of Michigan parafanalia (hoping to get my hands on some of it).
Since I was 4 when this occurred, I had to dig a bit to figure out what this play was. When I read about the controversy, it became quite obvious why there was so much outrage after looking at where the ball in this picture is bouncing!
I was 20 and remember it VERY well. There is a pic I cannot find of the B1G ref signalling first down Michigan next to the Pac 10 ref signalling Touchdown USC. Needless to say the home team's officials won that test of wills.
If it's any consolation (and it's not to me) ESPN rated the 10th worst call in SPORTS history so that's saying a lot.
http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/worstcalls/010730.html
Yes. Still pissed.
I was nine at the time so I have no memory of the game but my dad still brings this one up once in a while. And he's still pissed about it too.
possible
1901 National Champions 11-0-0 Record
1902 National Champions 11-0-0 Record
1903 National Champions 11-0-1
1904 National Champions 11-0-0
1918 National Champions 5-0-0
1923 National Champion 8-0-0
1932 National Champions 8-0-0
1933 National Champions 7-0-1
1947 National Champions 10-0-0
1948 National Champions 9-0-0
1973 National Champions 10-0-1
1997 National Champions 12-0
I like how you included 1973. A year we should've won one under Bo, as well as '71 and '85. Those were some damn good teams!
1971 Michigan lost to stanford, so I can see why the weren't selected.
1985, despite the selected champion oklahoma having one double digit blowout loss to an unranked team and Michigan having only one loss to the Big Ten champion on the road, who scored 12 points in FGs to win. Michigan tied illinois 3-3. If they would have won that game, I think they would have been picked to be national champions.
What absolutely breaks my heart and pisses me off is the 1973 team. They got screwed not on the field, but by politics. By asshole suits and ties of butthurt big ten ADs who got spanked so hard by Michigan, they wanted to see them not play.
There are a few organizations that recognize Michigan as national champions including the NCF. But the university needs to STEP UP AND RECOGNIZE IT AS A NATIONAL TITLE. There is no shame in recognizing titles after the fact. Hell, USC recognized a their 1939 team....in 2004.
It would mean the world to the players and coaches on that team, especially Bo.
Louis Elbel conducting "The Victors" at Homecoming in 1952.
Brady Hoke and players storm the field after beating Notre Dame in 1999...
I always liked this shot of Woodson's punt return because David Boston is in the shot looking angry.
Woodson tries to strike the Heisman pose ala-Desmond but can't complete the task as 2 players are already jumping on him....
"I just beat your ass 47-21."
Crowd storms the field after beating the Buckeyes in 1985...
Colorado's FAIL MARY in 1996...
Young Jim Harbaugh congratulates Rick Leach for scoring a touchdown against Duke in 1978...
Rick Leach and Bo celebrate a third straight win over the Buckeyes...
Anthony Carter catches a 50 yard TD pass over 2 Purdue players in his last game at the Big House in 1982...
Anthony Carter's game winner against Indiana in 1979....
...and Lee Corso wasn't happy about that...
Just because...
Phil Brabbs kick against Washington in 2002...
...made it onto the south end zone uprights when we stormed the field after the 1985 OSU victory. It got rocked, but the cops knocked enough students down who tried to join the fray that it didn't get pulled down.
When was the last time a Michigan crowd pulled down a set of uprights?
Breaking ground on Michigan Stadium.
Harmon on the cover of Life.
http://www.annarbor.com/assets_c/2010/09/BROCK-MEALER-1-thumb-310x465-5…
But the real question is: "Why is the penis bird attacking ass mountain?"
No one ever will truly understand Kluneberg.
Is this Tom Harmon? It looks like him, but he's not wearing "Old 98"...
It's Harmon. MVictors did a story on this photo a while back. The assumption is that the photographer wanted to take a few shots at the end of practice, but his normal jersey was quite dirty, so he grabbed a clean one that wasn't his usual number.
Beating Oregon State 34-7 in the 1964 Rose Bowl...
George Gregory and Willie Heston
Construction of the Big House. Home sweet home...
for that time period. People must have thought they were crazy to build it so big and so far away from campus.
Harry Newman, QB of the 1932 National Championship team and the winner of the Douglass Fairbanks award. The equivalent to the Heisman trophy before it was invented. Harry never gets ANY credit from the university as a legend.
You boys have done well; some good selections.
It is hard to choose just one. But if I had to, this is the one that I would make my keeper. Has there ever been a better photo? This one is magical. Complete with autograph (I am guessing that the negative for this amazing photo is lost to history, and a single, signed print survived only as part of Fritz Crisler's personal effects; I've never seen a print of this photo without the autograph.)
To Fritz. From Tom.
I'm sitting right next to that photo that I bought from the MGoPhotostore.
God Bless your cotton pickin' maize and blue heart
Billy Taylor scores winning 1971 TD in the first win over tOSU that I was old enough to remember
Anthony Carter TD seals the first Rose Bowl win I experienced
Leroy Hoard leads M to a 22-14 Rose Bowl win over USC
Tyrone Wheatley goes for 235 in just 15 carries in the 38-31 win over Wash
Ty Streets takes it to the house after Shawn Springs Slips
John Navarre shows off his scat-back skills as he scores in the largest M comeback win ever
Someone should photoshop that photo with the new boxes, it would look as if Bo is looking into the futrure.
But it's great to see.
out of so very many great pictures???