Why we are Wolverines
I always thought we were named after a comic book character.
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Further proving their inferiority complex.
Michigan was actually called the Athens of the West.
Here is the third verse of The Victors that not many know about:
Hail! to our Alma Mater!
Hail! to dear old Ann Arbor!
Hail! Hail to Michigan
The Athens of the West!
Although those lyrics were found in some university files, nobody actually thinks those are realy lyrics that Elbel wrote.
Is that book serious calling Michigan and Notre Dame the "fiercest rivals" in college football?
It came out in 2006. The whole thing is more about the off the field hi-jinx going on between the two and how they have more of a history NOT playing each other than they do playing each other.
Kryk should do another updated edition to document the latest set of hi-jinx.
If anyone dares to downvote WD for this information, the lose their Wolverine status, and are relegated to being a common weasel.
sounds little bro-y enough
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In exchange for conceding the Toledo Strip to Ohio, Michigan was granted the remaining 75% of the UP - we already had the eastern 25%. I had thought it belonged to Ohio but upon researching a bit it looks like it was just US territory
Yep. The one injury, as I remember, was the Monroe County (MI) sheriff, who had come to Toledo to arrest Benjamin Stickney (for whom Stickney Avenue in Toledo is named). Stickney stabbed the sheriff but the wound was not life-threatening.
Michigan's compensation was the Upper Peninsula, of course - considered worthless at the time but as it turns out, rather rich in copper and iron.
with a pen knife, was named "Two"
Politics was even more messed up than today in the early 1800's.
No, the OP is because of the UP
I haven't worn OP shorts since I was 11.
They sell OP-like substance (or did) at Target and Kohls. I don't know if that's hip or not. My head will explode trying to figure this out on a monday morning.
Doesn't matter now. He's all grown up and making Hollywood moving pictures. But he sure had a great pa and all.
And we're sure that "wolverines" weren't named after the Michigan nickname right?
Sorry to be a dick, can never pass it up. The settlement of the war was us receiving the UP and Ohio receiving Toledo...which, okay...Ohioans displayed high predictive intelligence and negotiating skills even in the 1800's. Michigan State actually got the name Spartans after they switched from the Aggies, from their time as Michigan Agricultural College. There was a short period where they didn't really have a nickname until two greek brothers approached the athletic department with the story of the Spartans at Thermopylae (300). So yeah, fun history thread guys.
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The Wolverine Way by Douglas Chadwick. Great nature book that documents one of the most fierce, free and gutsy animals in the world: The Wolverine.
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And don't forget Primo and Secondo from Big Night!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3hs2M_0vLEIt was actually the "Sport Ons" while they were trying to figure out what to be called since they dropped the Aggies. Their AD was inspired when two greek brothers told him the story of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae
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General Custer also referred to his troops as Wolverines so there's that too.
The truth is that there is no truly known reason why the Wolverine was chosen as a nickname. However, there are several theories.
The great Michigan football coach Fielding H. Yost had a theory for the nickname, which he wrote about in the Michigan Quarterly in 1944. Yost felt the reason for the nickname concerned the trading of wolverine pelts which occurred in Sault St. Marie for many years. The trading station served as an exchange between the Indians and other trappers and fur traders, who would eventually ship the products of to the Eastern United States. Because many of the furs were in fact wolverine pelts, traders may have referred to them as "Michigan wolverines", leading to the state nickname and ultimately to the University of Michigan representation.
Eight years later in the Michigan Quarterly Review of 1952, Albert H. Marckwardt presented another theory for the "wolverine" name. Marckwardt's reasoning is based when Michigan was first settled by the French in the late 1700s. The appetites of the French who made up a sizable portion of the settlers were judged to be gluttonous or "wolverine-like" and therefore, the title wolverines was set upon them.
The last theory surrounds the border dispute between Michigan and Ohio in 1803. While the two sides argued over proper setting of the state line, The Michiganders were called wolverines. It was unclear, however, whether the Michigan natives pinned the name upon themselves to show their tenacity and strength or whether Ohioans chose the name on account of the gluttonous habit of the wolverine. From then on, Michigan was labeled "the Wolverine state: and when the University of Michigan was founded, it simply adopted the nickname of the state it represented.