MGoTrivia Tuesday
What two Michigan QBs on the current roster don't go by their actual first name? And what is their actual first name?
Prior to 2015, when was the last time Michigan beat a team currently in the Pac-12? What year, who was the opponent and what was the score?
Michigan Stadium was the first stadium to use an electronic scoreboard. What year was it installed and when was said-scoreboard removed?
Michigan Stadium had a grass field surface from its inception until 1968. What was the name of the surface and type of field surface that replaced it in 1969?
What were the names of the two live Wolverine mascots we had in 1927?
Edit 8:23pm Answers:
- Robert Wilton Speight III, Michael Brandon Peters
- 2002, W 10-7 vs Utah
- 1930; 1968
- Tartan Turf (artificial turf)
- Bennie & Biff
M Gulo Gulo was the closest with 4/5. #2 was a trick question.
If only there were a resource, updated periodically, that compiled such information. Like in three ring binders. A comprehensive compendium of all things relate to Michigan sports. If only.
One can dream, can't one?
(One of the live wolverines was Biff, and he was ornery.)
Wilton and idk his real name. and maybe O'Korn ?
Oregon ?
installed 1968 ?
Astroturf?
Willi and fitz ?
This is what happens when you do not use google lol.
Im guessing the same
thread
True.
Michigan Stadium was the first stadium to use an electronic scoreboard. What year was it installed and when was said-scoreboard removed?
I'll say 1953 to 1998
Michigan Stadium had a grass field surface from its inception until 1968. What was the name of the surface and type of field surface that replaced it in 1969?]
Tartan turf - basically Astroturf but a competitor to the name brand known as ASTROTURF
Michael Brandon Peters
Robert Wilton Speight III
Robert Wilton Speight III
Michael Brandon Peters
August 31 2002 vs Washington 31-29
1930 removed and replaced in 1968
Tartan Turf - Artifical turf
Bennie and Biff
So close. 4/5
Speight and Peters
Sept. 21, 2002 vs Utah, 10-7
Installed 1930, replaced 1968
Tartan turf
Bennie and Biff the wolverines.
Prior to 2015, the last Michigan win over a current Pac 12 team was a depressing 10-7 win over Utah in 2002.
The grass was replaced with Tartan turf.
I believe the electronic scoreboard was installed the same season, 1969. It was replaced in 1998 as a part of the renovations that included the infamous Halo. However, I may be inadvertently discounting the previous scoreboard, which used an analog clock but may have had electronic features as well, in which case that scoreboard was taken out for the 1969 season.
1969 seem way too late for the first ever electronic scoreboard. I'm thinking 1930ish.
Seems late to me, too (I recall footage of Ohio Stadium with that small electronic board they had in the south endzone that I am almost positive predates Michigan's 1969 board) thus the caveat. I'm confident about the dates of the scoreboard(s) I listed, but not its status vis a vis electronics.
Chillicothe Raymonce "John" O'Korn
Shit, that's what I was going to say.
The 1969 turf was called tartan turf. It was still there when I was a freshman in 1979 and for quite a few years later, as I recall.
The electronic scoreboard was new in about 1968. It is the first one I ever knew. I've seen pictures of the earlier one that had the clock with hands. The 1968 scoreboard lasted until about the early 90s, when the first video scoreboards were installed. (Those were probably the ones prior to the current huge video screen.
Looks at other questions . . .
I know we beat UCLA in 1989 (in the Rose Bowl stadium for a regular season game). I was at that game. Was that the last one prior to 2015? Probably not, but maybe??
I don't know the 1927 mascots' names, but can tell you that the little dogs that pushed the ball up and down the field during halftime in the late 1960s and early 1970s were Whiskey, and then later his pup, Brandy.
on the sidelines, courtesy of greg robinson (YTGR).
I thought this blog belonged to Brian Cook.
It's WD's blog, we just live in it.
Astroturf, my ass. That stuff was Canhams Carpet! That is all.
don't know.
Game show host!
Look out, Alex Trebeck.
Extra Credit: When was the first time Keith Jackson referred to Michigan Stadium as 'the Big House?'
(I'm actually asking this for myself as I don't know the answer.)
late 70s-early 80s i think
It didn't really catch on until the early 90s with gameday and the media, etc
referring to the O and D Lines as the "Big Uglies up front, butting heads!!!"
I thought it was cars Tuesday?