There are...
...days until Dan Dworsky (LB 1945-1948) sees the 2021 Michigan Football season begin on September 4th against WMU at the Big House.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Dworsky
Go Blue.
For today's video, we continue showcasing some classic 70s player intros – featuring a notable #59 in George Lilja...
Thanks Dr. Sap. Enjoy!
I would ESPECIALLY recommend this wiki link, perhaps over any other player this year. A little known fact, today's #59 would go on to have an architectural career – featuring works (among many others) such as the iconic Block M in the Michigan Stadium, and...Crisler Arena.
In place of the usual football ticket stub, especially in light of yesterday's exciting hoops news – how about a basketball media guide from the final season before the inaugural one in what we refer to today as Crisler Center?
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There are 0 minutes until I leave the stratosphere
Wow, JWG. Thanks for the tip below to open this link. I had no idea about Dworsky, as a major football player or a major architect.
A few thoughts reading the article:
• It struck me what I hadn't considered before, that Crisler Arena still looks good after 50 years. It looks neither dated nor, maybe more importantly, like a now old-fashioned attempt to look "modern."
• It's notable that a well-known athlete/graduate of a university also was able to design an iconic building of that university.
• It surprised me that Frank Gehry went public with criticisms of Dworsky, forcing him to respond. I'd have assumed that at such a high level in the profession, both architects would have kept disagreements private.
I'd have assumed that at such a high level in the profession, both architects would have kept disagreements private.
I've got a bachelor's degree from U-M's architecture school, and while I ultimately chose graphic design as my career, I've worked with a number of architects as clients or co-workers, including several years as an in-house designer with a major Detroit architectural firm back in the late 1980s. Based on my experience, architects are frequently interesting people with a wide variety of talents and capabilities, and those I worked with personally were almost uniformly great people too. But it's still the case that architects can be as petty, vindictive, and arrogant as people in any other high-profile and demanding profession.
I know that I've heard his name associated with Crisler Arena, but that blurb on the Walt Disney Concert Hall controversy - another place I've actually been inside (albeit twice, as compared to countless trips to Crisler, of course) - was interesting, to say the least.
Ain't the Disney cool? Though I haven't heard a concert there, only toured it, it's fun inside and out.
How many days til fall camp? The off-season flies once we get there.