Retired Michigan numbers...

Submitted by Helloheisman on
I was trying to find this online but couldn't... the only one I could think of was ol 98 is there more?
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Terminate Carr

June 17th, 2009 at 5:53 PM ^

Yes. I don't know what they are. Someone will tell you. + 1 MGoPoint, Thank You MGoBoard Love, TC

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WolvinLA

June 17th, 2009 at 5:55 PM ^

11 - The Wisterts 47 - Bennie Oosterbaan 48 - Gerald Ford 87 - Ron Kramer 98 - Tom Harmon I googled it, took me longer to type them than to find it. Very first link that came up.

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MichiganStudent

June 17th, 2009 at 8:15 PM ^

I'd like to comment on this thread but I have no idea what to say. So, I guess this gets me another meaningless point.

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Six Zero

June 18th, 2009 at 8:06 AM ^

I'm just really glad no one played the arrogant route and gave him the whole "you don't know? How can you call yourself a Michigan Man? etc." Kudos to my ol' friend WolvinLA and the rest for just helping someone learn more about the UM lore. There's some really good stories wrapped up those names, and not many people take the time to learn about all of the history wrapped up in the Wisterts, in Harmon's amazing war career, and how legit of a player Ford was. Good stuff.

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rdlwolverine

June 18th, 2009 at 10:31 AM ^

I got picked up hitchhiking from campus home to Toledo by one of the Wistert brothers and learned from him that another of the brothers lived just a few blocks from me in Toledo.

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ScoobyBlue

June 18th, 2009 at 10:38 AM ^

I wish UM would have a consistent policy on retiring numbers. If they still do it, why no talk about eventually retiring a number for Woodson, Howard, maybe Leach or Long? If they don't believe in retiring jerseys anymore, then make all 99 numbers available again, and give the older players a special recognition in some other way.

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jmblue

June 18th, 2009 at 2:24 PM ^

They're not going to retire any more. There actually was discussion about retiring #21 in honor of Desmond, but they decided that they were starting to run out of numbers. If they could do it over, they probably wouldn't have retired any, but what's done is done.

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Koyote

June 18th, 2009 at 10:48 AM ^

So reading through that article on mgoblue. It seemed like a lot of the players that got their jersey's retired were two way stars and a Heisman trophy winner. To me, it would seem like Woodson's # would be a prime candidate to be retired at some point. Though we have to remember that it took a long time for some numbers to be retired (like Ford's). So even if it is a good candidate, it may not be retired for many many years. Other guys who are strong candidates IMO Desmond AC/Braylon

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Helloheisman

June 18th, 2009 at 11:58 AM ^

more than 30 min's from Michigan Stadium I was raised maize and blue... I know the history, but retired numbers just don't seem to be the top of our priority list.

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Koyote

June 18th, 2009 at 12:12 PM ^

Could always do something odd like Va Tech. They retired Vick's jersey, but still give the number out to players. Don't ask me how that works...

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