1938 UM-Illinois game honoring Louis Elbel and 1898 team
I really enjoyed WD's vintage M stadium video and it reminded me of a recent find that I hope you enjoy from 1938. Around the two minute mark you see the halftime show that was a 40th anniversary tribute to Louis Elbel and the 1898 team who won the Western Conference. They beat Amos Alonzo Stagg's University of Chicago Maroons team 12-11 in a last minute victory.
An inspired student Elbel wrote "The Victors" which was first played publicly by John Phillip Sousa and replaced the old fight song " There Will be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight". The 1898 team was 10 - 0 and outscored opponents 205 to 26 including shutouts of Michigan State Normal (EMU), Michigan Agricultural (MSU) and Notre Dame.
Besides Elbel, I'm not sure who else is in the video from 1898. I think Coach Gustave "Dutch" Ferbert is in the clip. He left the 1900 team to prospect for gold in the great Alaskan Klondike rush. He came back in 1909 a millionaire (supposedly). Who had it better than him?
click here : https://youtu.be/bBMiXUwC_U4
EDIT: Here is the full 30 minute video which was made to encourage women to enroll at UM in 1938. Great shots of Fielding Yost, Alice Lloyd, Dean Bursley, campus landmarks and campus life. It's corny as hell but precious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMA3cUmgewk
Wow, Mosher Jordan looks like it's brand new.
Oh, wait . . .
basically consisted of a lukewarm sarsaparilla, gathering around the piano to sing "My Old Kentucky Home" and if you were lucky you'd get a sight of some lady's ankle.
of toe clevage, too. That plus ankle was way too much to handle back then.
1898...REMEMBER THE MAINE! Fucking Spanish cocksuckers... (Or faulty boilers, or whatever...)
I've often wondered what it would be like to go back in time with a Playboy--to a time (or sooner) when ankle was all that could be exposed. Would people drop dead of a heart attack on the spot? Would I be hanged as the devil?
Um, people still had naked sex back then. They just didn't have their thong showing in public ;-)
Are you sure? Didn't they just open a one inch hole in their 40 layers of clothing and have efficient, German, non-stimulating sex?
You know what? You are 100% correct, I have no idea. For some reason, it would not shock me to learn that my grandparents conceived my father via highly impersonal sex through a hole in a wall that maintained their virgin eyeballs while allowing procreation, sort of a 1940's version of a Glory Hole...
Exactly. I'm pretty sure my parents conceived me without having sex at all.
It was an elaborate exercise involving private masturbation, turkey basters, and a whole lot of awkward stares... This is rare, but I am actually LOLing...
EDIT: This all reminded me of the classic UCB skit, "Hole in the Sheet". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRNlxBuB9jM
Damn would I love to be able to light-up a nice stogie during halftime with all of my well-dappered compatriots.
I really wish Fedoras would make a comeback. I'm of the age where a baseball cap looks a littly silly on me, but I really like wearing hats.
Get after it. A trend has to start somewhere.
I don't recall hearing that There Will Be A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight was our fight song before Elbel's grand contribution. Not a bad predecessor, especially when we played the University of Chicago (too soon?):
in the 1970's. I went to Maple Leaf Gardens and the Montreal Forum in the 80's and 90's and suits were still the norm in the lower bowl. It was pretty cool. Smoking cigars, drinking great beer, an occaisional fight on the ice while dressed up like you were going to church,lol.
Isn't that something? They aren't just thin, they're super thin.
Not a lot of diversity in that crowd either.
This is beyond cool!
Sometime in 2038 they will honor Tom Brady and the other team of '98 at halftime.
/does some math on the calculator . . .
Yeah, you're old.
Love the windmill the band did.
there wasn't any audio. I'm certain the "YOU SUCK" cheer would have been as awesome as it is now. /s
Go Blue!