Research paper on Michigan vs Ohio Rivalry

Submitted by 615Wolverine on

Anybody know any good websites or books that detail the history of this rivalry? Any help would be appreciated. 6 page paper due Wednesday. Thank you

Charlie Chunk

April 23rd, 2012 at 7:14 PM ^

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TH CONGRESS

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ST SESSION H. RES. 460

Congratulating The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan

on the 100th football game between the two teams and recognizing

their rivalry as the greatest sports rivalry in history.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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OVEMBER 20, 2003

Mrs. J

 

ONES of Ohio (for herself, Ms. PRYCE of Ohio, Mr. DINGELL, Mr.

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IBERI, Mr. TURNER of Ohio, Mr. OXLEY, Mr. GILLMOR, Mr. STRICKLAND,

Ms. K

 

APTUR, Mr. KUCINICH, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mr.

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ATOURETTE, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. NEY, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. UPTON,

Mrs. M

 

ILLER of Michigan, Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. LEVIN, Ms. KILPATRICK,

Mr. C

 

ONYERS, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. HOBSON, and Mr. FORD) submitted

the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Education

and the Workforce

RESOLUTION

Congratulating The Ohio State University and the University

of Michigan on the 100th football game between the

two teams and recognizing their rivalry as the greatest

sports rivalry in history.

Whereas The Ohio State University and the University of

Michigan began their football rivalry in 1897 when the

Michigan Wolverines defeated the Ohio State Buckeyes

by a score of 34 to 0 in Ann Arbor, Michigan;

MGoStudent

April 23rd, 2012 at 7:21 PM ^

This sounds great - I love the history of the Michigan-Ohio rivalry.

If you really want to take it back to the beginning, the roots obviously run through the Toledo War (when the Michigan militia was quartered in Ann Arbor, and the Ohio militia in Columbus), and the leader of Michigan's Militia, "Boy Governor" Mason, who's still the youngest state governor in American history, and who also made the monumentous decision to move the University from a cramped location in Detroit to the spatious lands in Ann Arbor.  Supposedly the ragged Ohio militia came back saying "those damn men fight like Wolverines!"  Good stuff.

If you REALLY want to take it back (which I don't entirely recommend for a paper), the earliest cause predates the history of the United States by 26 years, when the Lord of Halifax commisioned John Mitchell to draw up a map of the British and French colonies, famously messing up the location of Toledo to Lake Erie, which led to Ohio incorrectly claiming the land when it became a state.  Honestly, the Michigan-Ohio rivalry has such a great history - and this is without even getting into football!

jwfsouthpaw

April 23rd, 2012 at 7:24 PM ^

The 100-Yard War:  Inside the 100-Year Old Michigan-Ohio State Football Rivalry by Greg Emmanuel (book).  Might be a little much for Wednesday, but a good read nonetheless.

MichiWolv

April 23rd, 2012 at 7:50 PM ^

Don't know if this will help with your paper or not, but I saw an old MGoBlog post and found it interesting

http://mgoblog.com/content/bos-death-vs-woodys-death

Breaks down how each team did in their next 25 games after Bo and Woody passed.  We were 12-13 and they were 12-12-2.  Some of it was because of a certain coach being hired, but even that, we were 11-0 and then lost our next 4 games after Bo's passing.  Ohio and USC in the '06 season, and then obviously I don't need to tell you how '07 started.

WolverLaker

April 23rd, 2012 at 7:52 PM ^

War as they knew it.  It's about Bo and Woody.  Also, I've read the 100 yard war.  That one has a lot of good information in it, too.  There are some tidbits about the rivalry in If These Walls Could Talk by John Falk and in Bo's Lasting Lessons by Bo and John Bacon.

AVPBCI

April 23rd, 2012 at 8:10 PM ^

wikipedia, google, research the war over toledo between michigan and ohio i think  what 1817 ????

 

watch that hbo special on the rivalry, that provides good stuff also

the script

 

Michigan dominated early

 

then Ohio did for a little bit

the 10 year war

and then since the 10 year war til now

 

 

michelin

April 23rd, 2012 at 8:19 PM ^

Make sure you go back far enough in history and geography to understand the many sources of conflict in the rivalry—some of it stemming from the long history of thievery in Ohio.   Such thievery goes way beyond that of Tressell, who is said to have essentially “stolen” lottery prizes from unheralded recruits and to have stolen recruits from other schools with free cars and pay for no-show jobs.   Indeed, it goes beyond the accusations of Dantonio and Beliema, who accused Meyer of being unethical in the way he stole recruits from them. 

In fact, thievery has a rich tradition in Ohio.

 In a now infamous Michigan-Ohio border dispute, Ohioans stole the port of Toledo from Michigan and even tried to block Michigan’s statehood to achieve their evil ends.  Indeed, not only did Ohioans steal Toledo from Michigan—they actually stole the name of Toledo from Spain.   

Yes, just think about it for a minute.....Ohio has for centuries been an international den of thieves, who have stolen names from cities all over the world.  Consider just a few of the names of Ohio cities:

Dublin:  an Irish town founded as a Viking settlement, which became the island's principal city following the Norman invasion.  (I guess that it when the Oklahoma Sooners came to town for a home-and-home)

Avon: stolen from Stratford-on-Avon, the home of a playwright who rediscovered in the modern world of drama, who may be the greatest writer ever , and who now even has his own site on facebook*

Athens: stolen from Greece (also turned the names of Greek senators into mascots, such as “Brutus”)

I could go on and name countless other stolen city names: eg  Sidney: misspelled and then stolen from Sydney, Australia;  Toronto: stolen from a Canadian city that was ransacked in the Battle of York; (East) Liverpool: stolen from a metropolitan borough east of the Mersey Estuary in England….as well as other cities from Cambridge to  London to Oxford to Lima, Peru and Geneva, Switzerland, and Medina: the second holiest site in Islam, lying in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia …..

Besides, not only has this unholy state—Ohio—stolen the holiest  names of international cities: they have stolen for their cities the names of US states, like Oregon, and Canadian provinces, such as Ontario, as well as large swaths of the entire world.  They have stolen for their cities the names of holy regions, such as   (East) Palestine from the middle east,, Madeira from the European Union, Macedonia from the Balkans, Troy from the Greeks, and Lebanon from the region between the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian hinterland—the only known area to have been ravaged by as many battles as Toledo, at the border of Ohio and Michigan

 

Now, some bonehead will probably try to list names that Michigan, Massachusetts, and other states have stolen from other cities and then claim:

”Everybody does it.”

“Every body steals”. 

and, in the words of Terrelle Pryor, “Everybody Murders”  too.

…to which I say: “that does not make it OK.”  

Just give that flimsy excuse to the tough-as-nails NCAA, which-- while giving only lip service to more serious offenses-- has for decades punished schools severely for stealing native-American names for their mascots.

….So, go ahead....search deeply...and be sure to include in your history of the rivalry an expose of thievery in Ohio

....then I’ll be waiting patiently for that NCAA hammer to come down.

/s

 

*http://www.facebook.com/pages/William-Shakespeare-Bard-of-Avon/23619556…

BlueMan80

April 23rd, 2012 at 8:27 PM ^

Fielding H Yost and the building of Michigan Stadium by Robert M. Soderstrom has some good background on the early days of the rivalry and how it became an important Big Ten rivalry.

UMxWolverines

April 23rd, 2012 at 9:41 PM ^

I wish I could have chosen that topic for my high school senior research paper. I would've been done in a day. Instead I got the opportunity to explore the duties of Ulysses S. Grant's wife. 

El Jeffe

April 24th, 2012 at 12:09 AM ^

My little cousin Timmy has leukemia and I told him about your paper and he just had one request, which I hope you'll grant. He said:

"Please, Mister, don't call it "Ohio" in your paper. Just use the regular name of the school. Calling it "Ohio" is the stupidest fucking thing ever."

#ThatsReallyWhatHeSaid

#WellNotReally

#IDontHaveaCousin

#CometoThinkOfItYesIDoButHesNotLittleAnymore

#AndHisNameIsntTimmy

cseeman

April 24th, 2012 at 10:04 AM ^

You can use the resources from MLibraries.  Here is a link to a search for Michigan Ohio State football Rivalry - This includes all formats. You can limit to electronic resources - which might be good since it is due tomorrow:

http://www.lib.umich.edu/articles/search?kw=michigan+ohio+state+football+rivalry&local=0&fulltext=0&scholarly=0&newspapers=0

Here is the same search limited by magazines - which can provide some good material:

http://www.lib.umich.edu/articles/search?kw=michigan+ohio+state+football+rivalry&local=0&fulltext=0&scholarly=0&newspapers=0&facet[0]=addFacetValueFilters%28ContentType%2CJournal+Article%29

Good luck on your research.

rederik

April 24th, 2012 at 12:29 PM ^

If you're so inclined, please post when you're done. I don't have any particularly helpful links for you, but if you're feeling proud once you're all done and you're willing to share, please post it here. I'm sure I speak for the rest of the board when I say a freshly-minted piece on The Rivalry is always a great read.