Not-so-OT: Digital archive of the Michigan Daily

Submitted by dnak438 on

I caught this over on MVictors; the Michigan Daily now has a full digital archive hosted at the Bentley Historical Library's website: https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/midaily

You can search, download the text, images, or PDFs. It's really pretty amazing.

You can read, for example, about the proposed changes in football rules in the spring of 1895 (https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/midaily/mdp.39015071730654/535) or about the lack of enthusiasm about football in 1894 (https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/midaily/mdp.39015071730654/116):

Yesterday's football practice was in a drizzling rain, and not enough candidates were out to make up two elevens.

The old advertisements are also really neat. It's an amazing resource!

Wolverine Devotee

January 13th, 2017 at 11:29 PM ^

Very excited about this news. Worth the annual donation to get this thing going, because this was one of the big projects they were working on.

Game-changer for the SuperGuides in multiple sports. The athletic department has arguably the worst Baseball history guide of any B1G team. There's no locations on any of the games.

Kind of important. Now I can do this from home without dedicating another trip to Bentley for this and can focus on other sports while there.

mGrowOld

January 14th, 2017 at 8:04 AM ^

Very very cool. I was able to look up myself and re-read all the "nice" things the Daily had to say about me during my campaign for city council back in 1980. Good pic tho....

M-Dog

January 14th, 2017 at 1:54 PM ^

I looked through these a few weeks ago.  They are awesome.

I was trying to find a contempprary acccount of the first Wave done at Michigan Satdium in 1983, and the quote from Bo about it where he said if we fans did not behave ourselves, he would have the stadium cleared out and play the games in front of empty seats.  He was pure.

I did not find anything in the Michigan Daily's so I'll keep looking elsewhere.

 

I loved this quote while I was looking through them:  "Defense Can't Do It All.  Michigan falls in Bowl Game."

No, it was not the 2016 Orange Bowl . . . it was the 1983 season Sugar Bowl.  We held Bo Jackson completely out of the endzone yet still lost on field goals.

Some things never change.

 

michmaiku

January 14th, 2017 at 10:12 AM ^

A search for 1989 NCAA and Rose Bowl turned up this gem of a page.

https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/midaily/mdp.39015071754845/40

Pretty purple prose:

"Since the human race first started to record its history, no school has ever captured the coveted Rose Bowl and NCAA Championship in the same year. In 1989 that all changed though ... this page attempts to capture the jublilant feelings and triumphant emotions all Michigan athletes and fans felt in the year of Rice and roses" 

Also, telling that the Rose Bowl gets first mention and most ink.  

 

 

 

 

LSAClassOf2000

January 14th, 2017 at 10:17 AM ^

I'll have to go back and find some of my letters to the editor, and there were several of those, during my time on campus. I think the first warning sign that I was eventually going to end up modding this blog is that even back then I was finding means to make people hate what I had to say, in fact. It was a perfect fit, but I simply wasn't aware of it at the time. 

jvocke

January 14th, 2017 at 1:09 PM ^

I’m totally flooding in memories of A2 right now.  The other day one of my close friends was talking about Steve Everitt breaking his jaw during the ’91 ND game.  I always remembered the Daily had a picture of him, Monday after the game, getting hauled off the field on a stretcher. So, I went to the website and did a search for the Monday after the M v ND game in ’91, with keyword “Everitt”… Boom.  I just read the whole page again – I’d forgotten that he lost teeth on the play too.  By Thursday of that following week, I saw him eating beef at the training table.  Crazy how just seeing the paper takes me right back to that time in my life.  Go Blue!

https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/midaily/mdp.39015071754878/194