Wolverine football greats, alphabetically

Submitted by OHbornUMfan on

In an effort to create a wonderful learning device for my young children, I am in the process of creating a Michigan Football alphabet book.  I enjoy Scott Van Pelt, and like him I tend to make lists and completely overlook somebody obvious.  While I am hoping to make connections to current and recent teams as well as some of the all-time greats, I also don't want to ignore great performers from before my time (football awareness ca. 1988).  I am attempting to use some first and last names to avoid some of the unfortunate letter overlaps (for example, D is for Desmond allows H to be for Harmon).  I would love you to spend some of the time you might ordinarily spend snarking to help my children grow up as fully elucidated as possible.  Of course, you can snark me instead if you want; it's Amurca, we're all free to make choices.

Thanks in advance.

To make this better, here's what I have.  Tell me where I'm wrong (in some places I'm using place fillers)

Avant, Braylon, Charles, Desmond, Elvis, Ford, Gardner, Harmon, I, Jansen, Kovacs, Lewan, Mike (Hart), Neinberg, Oosterbaan,  P, Quarterbacks, Reimersma, Sword, Tom, U, Victors, Woodley, Xavier, Yost, Zoltan.

M-Wolverine

April 26th, 2013 at 12:36 PM ^

If you're not going to do the Carter/Woodson switch then Anthony needs to be A. (Erick Anderson might be good too).

If you're doing coaches B, G, or S needs to be Bo.

Braylon could then be Edwards. Or E could be Jumbo Elliott or Evashevski.

G Brandon Graham.

I, as said above, Irons.

K, Mike Kenn, who was in the NFL like 17 years and a multiple pro-bowler.

L Long.

M Mandich, Messner,.

N Navarre, Harry Newman.

P Bubba Paris. Chris Perry.Barry Pierson.And of course, Horace Prettyman.

Q...good question.

R Jon Runyan. Marcus Ray. Rob Renes. Garrett Rivas.

S Schembechler, Ron Simpkins, Adolf Schulz, Tom Slade, Skrepenak, Aaron Shea, Shazor, Buster Stanley.

U...uhhh..Underwood?

V Vada Murray.

willirwin1778

April 26th, 2013 at 1:36 PM ^

It's not easy to break through the Oosterbaan/Charles/Carter blockade at the C position.  However, that being said, Calvin brought a dominating intensity to the Linebacker spot that made him one heck of an All American during Bo's early years.