The 2nd athlete in the MGoUsers Poll is...
Tom Harmon
Harmon was a halfback for the Michigan from 1938 to 1940. He led the nation in scoring and was a consensus All-American in both 1939 and 1940 and won the Heisman Trophy, the Maxwell Award, and the AP Player of the Year award in 1940. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954.
During World War II, Harmon served as a pilot in the US Army Air Corps. In April 1943, he was the sole survivor of the crash of a bomber he piloted in South America en route to North Africa.
After the war, Harmon played two seasons of professional football for the Los Angeles Rams. He later pursued a career in sports broadcasting. He was the play-by-play broadcaster for the first televised Rose Bowl in the late 1940s and worked for CBS from 1950 to 1962.
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#3 - Desmond Howard
#4 - Anthony Carter
#5 - Tyrone Wheatley
#6 - Denard Robinson
#7 - Braylon Edwards
#8 - Jake Long
#9 - Mike Hart
#10 - Bennie Oosterbaan
#11 - Tom Brady
#12 - Jim Harbaugh
#13 - Glen Rice
#14 - Cazzie Russell
#15 - Rick Leach
#16 - Steve Hutchinson
#17 - Chris Webber
#18 - Ron Kramer
#19 - Sierra Romero
#20 -Trey Burke
#21 - Michael Phelps
#22 - Lamar Woodley
#23 - Dan Dierdorf.
#24 - Benny Friedman
#25 - Anthony Thomas
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September 1st, 2016 at 12:37 AM ^
Charles Woodson, come on down ...
September 1st, 2016 at 12:44 AM ^
Dicks out
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September 1st, 2016 at 7:37 AM ^
I'd say you're full of shit.
September 1st, 2016 at 8:59 AM ^
Is it Sam McGuffie?
September 1st, 2016 at 9:34 AM ^
Marquis Slocum. Obviously.
Or Garrett Rivas.
September 1st, 2016 at 12:38 AM ^
If Woodson isn't #1 you should be banned forever for ever posting this list.
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September 1st, 2016 at 12:40 AM ^
Thanks for the love and support, I wouldn't have made it without you!
September 1st, 2016 at 6:37 AM ^
I do not believe this list is his opinion. The results are from the community.
September 1st, 2016 at 9:59 AM ^
Needs to be killed. He saw the list and chose to publish it. Not only that, he chose to drag it out over 25 days.
I say grab the torches and pitchforks.
September 1st, 2016 at 6:51 AM ^
I don't know, man, this is MGoBlog - what would normally happen is that a second, similar poll will appear about a month later asking you what the most underrated Michigan athletes of all time were, and most of those replies will directly reference the previous poll. It ends up being the inevitable subtly sarcastic response to something on which opinions were quite divided.
September 1st, 2016 at 8:37 AM ^
I refuse to acknowledge such a list that doesn't name Ralph Rose as the most underrated.
September 1st, 2016 at 12:38 AM ^
Ol' #98 . . . His highlight reel is amazing! Must watch! He was so dominant!
September 1st, 2016 at 1:43 AM ^
Look it up.
September 1st, 2016 at 8:20 AM ^
Here's a primer. I'd have put him #1 with Woodson #2 (in part due to service to country plus 2 being Woodson's number), but it's splitting hairs.
Also, bubble screen at 1:07. Al Borges, are you watching?
September 1st, 2016 at 5:38 PM ^
Gotta love the pursuing defender's diving effort at 0:44. Almost!
September 1st, 2016 at 12:39 AM ^
1 more day... hell yes
September 1st, 2016 at 12:39 AM ^
And I'll be looking forward to seeing Mr. Charles next.
September 1st, 2016 at 12:51 AM ^
He was my #1 but hard to argue against Woodson.
September 1st, 2016 at 12:53 AM ^
Avery Queen coming up!
September 1st, 2016 at 12:57 AM ^
Pilots Also Pray, which is (understandably) out of print. I've had it on my list for a few years but struggle to drop over $100 on an unknown. Anyone here read it?
September 1st, 2016 at 8:32 AM ^
From what I've heard, the book was written and published during WWII, so is assuredly a propoganda piece that may or may not have been written by Harmon. That's not a criticism of Harmon, but during our nation's greatest struggle any such book was - properly - heavily censored and likely heavily edited.
I'm glad he wrote the book and it's undoubtedly interesting and assuredly has Harmon's fingerprints all over it at the very least. But given the time of publication, it is probably devoid of juicy tidbits that the Axis would also have found interesting. If you buy it with all of that in mind, it should be a good read.
September 1st, 2016 at 12:59 AM ^
My money is on Tyrone Butterfield.
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September 1st, 2016 at 1:10 AM ^
This would please me very much.
September 1st, 2016 at 1:05 AM ^
Boren?
September 1st, 2016 at 1:05 AM ^
I always knew #1 would go to Tate Forcier. One of the best quarterbacks of our generation and the only Michigan athlete who truly deserves the to spot on this list.
September 1st, 2016 at 2:02 AM ^
Are we sure it's not Dave Brandon?
September 1st, 2016 at 1:20 AM ^
Where's Charles?
September 1st, 2016 at 8:29 AM ^
He's in charge
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September 1st, 2016 at 2:10 AM ^
Where's Willie Heston?
Part of the thing about Michigan is its long history, and he and Yost really put Michigan football on the map.
September 1st, 2016 at 8:52 AM ^
Maybe we can get an honorable mention list sometime after the Hawaii game.
September 1st, 2016 at 2:17 AM ^
Justin Feagan
September 1st, 2016 at 2:51 AM ^
The obvious #1 is deserving of the top spot but this list is so tainted by the confusion many had that this was football only. Honestly, why did you even go through with it after that? Could you not see that the data was corrupted when the top 12 were all the same sport?
Rice, Burke, Cazzie and (in my opinion) Webber are all too low. Michigan Basketball has had more serious flirtations with national championships than Michigan Football has in the last half-century.
September 1st, 2016 at 8:01 AM ^
How did you not understand 'greatest athlete in Michigan History'? Well, how did nobody understand that, is the better question. But this is a football-centric board...
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September 1st, 2016 at 3:08 AM ^
Some controversial placements on this list, but I think this one is right. Harmon was an absolute monster in all phases of the game, definitely deserves to be very high up. I actually wear #98 for my rec league teams to honor him, so definitely a personal favorite. Still gotta go with Woodson for the top spot, though. What he delivered as the headliner of the 97 defense/team as a whole is unparalleled.
September 1st, 2016 at 10:04 AM ^
that is referred to as "The house that Charles built", maybe I will agree with you.
September 1st, 2016 at 3:08 AM ^
Driving my Toyota in anticipation.
September 1st, 2016 at 3:11 AM ^
Sooo, Matt Sheridan then for number 1?
September 1st, 2016 at 7:56 AM ^
had singular perfromances at QB.
September 1st, 2016 at 8:03 AM ^
I've always thought Russell got a raw deal from his teammates against Nebraska. But thank God his performances were, in fact, singular...
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September 1st, 2016 at 3:50 AM ^
Number one? Why, it's longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace, of course.
September 1st, 2016 at 6:49 AM ^
Would loved to have seen Bob Ufer on that list.
September 1st, 2016 at 6:51 AM ^
Top two were obvious.
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September 1st, 2016 at 7:03 AM ^
poor damn Devin Gardner.
September 1st, 2016 at 7:23 AM ^
Brendan Morrison or Red Berenson somewhere in the top 15-25.
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September 1st, 2016 at 8:39 AM ^
And I agree with you BTW
September 1st, 2016 at 7:41 AM ^
#1: Jeter
No, wait, it's Madonna. Definitely Madonna.
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September 1st, 2016 at 9:38 AM ^
If sex were a sport, Madonna would definitely be recognized as one of the world's greatest athletes. Her achievements in that field were record setting at the time.
September 1st, 2016 at 7:46 AM ^
You don't get much better than 2 through 5.