RIP #11 Albert "Ox" Wistert
Per the Michigan Football Twitter page, Albert "Ox" Wistert has passed away at age 95. He was an All-American in 1942 and was the second of the three Wistert brothers to play for Michigan.
He was a teammate of Tom Harmon in 1940. Quite a great time.
95 years is a wonderful life. RIP #11.
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you should know it now. That it does not matter what WD posts even an obituary it simply doesn't matter he will get negged. Why this is? I have no idea you could find the meaning of life before you find out why he gets negged every single post. There must be a WD posse out there that has meetings weekly to neg his every post. It would be frightening if it weren't so damn funny.
A true legend and he will be missed.
Hopefully you'll be remembered more as a great alumni student-athlete of the past rather than a lame, start-up tradition that upset most of our fanbase.
I'd say in my case, I'd never heard of them until the Legends jersey program. I didn't care for Brandon, but I did like the idea of the Legends jersies...I just don't think they did a good job waiting to hand them out to special players.
All he said is that he hadn't heard of the Wisterts before the legends tradition. Never put any blame on UM from what I can tell.
If you think that most UM fans had heard of them before, that's on you. Not the fanbase.
I hate that one of the more recent memories of him is that small video of him wishing the Wolverines luck against MSU only for the punt disaster to occur 5 minutes later in the game.
Smh.
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He had a long life, without a doubt.
95 is a good life
harmon.
I tell those kids, "When you say, 'HAIL,' you throw that fist out there (/punches sky). You just don't perfuctorily do this (/lamely raises fist twice). THROW that fist out there!" And I still do.
The final end of a great family legacy of Michigan Football. RIP Albert "the Ox" Wistert.
It amazes me that he wasn't drafted during WWII. I wonder how that happened.
He was 95 and he still had "it." A great life for a great man. RIP.
Fucking Legend. Rest in peace.
and there is nothing wrong with that. We all became UM fans for our own reasons, but we did so knowing we had something special.
Lots of books in print about UM and its storied tradition. For any of you interested in learning of him, his brothers and other UM legends since the inception of the program, I recommend Tradition, by Bo. Probably at every public library now. Of course I knew about Oosterbann, but only because we share the same home town and a few others, but perusing this book will not only make you aware of the players but also everything else that made Bo feel so privileged to be entrusted with the honor of leading this very special program.
RIP Big Man. A wonderful life.