Happy 138th birthday, Michigan Football!
138 years ago today at White Stockings Park in Chicago, Michigan took on Racine in the first game in Michigan Football history.
Irving Pond scored the first TD in Michigan history, and captain David DeTarr scored the winning goal kick to give Michigan the 1-0 win.
TDs didn't count unless you made the goal kick.
http://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/images/1879/racine1879.pdf
The heat was oppressive, but despite the heat, about 500 students of Racine and citizens of Chicago witnessed, what we may call, the finest game of Rugby foot-ball ever played this side of the Alleghanies.**********A rest of ten minutes given the teams, during which Mr. Keeler and other graduates amused themselves with a few kicks, but they only succeeded in covering themselves not with glory, but with dirt. The second inning opened by a good kick-off by Captain DeTarr.**********In a short time a touch-down was made by our team and a kick was made by Captain DeTarr for the goal, which, according to the referee's deicision, missed ; but our umpire and the whole team and the spectators declared the goal was safely made ; however, we did not wish to dispute with the referee, yet, we must suggest, he is as liable to be mistaken as anyone else.
Captain David DeTarr
Happy return to the board WD!!! He's alive!
No, I'm not "back" on mgoblog.
— † W.D. Mike † (@UMichWD) May 30, 2017
This is a post I do every year on this special day. Every Michigan fan needs to know today's significance https://t.co/gXQmzNpcxF
Our long national nightmare persists another day.
Probably not have to think about buying Jordan socks?
What did I miss? Was WD wronged?
He got his maize and blue onesie in a bunch and slowed down his posting.
Onesie or romper!?
Dude - the guy is so full of himself on Twitter over being mentioned in a John Bacon book!
"I am one man who once made a difference"
His pinned tweet is a pic of him pointing to the sentence that mentions him in the book.
And the profile pic be like
The guy forwards an email and thinks he's heaven's gift to Michigan.
I asked Brian & crew to run a search against the IP address for the parody account that drove WD off the board in the first place and this is what they found:
Toys“R”Us, Inc.
One Geoffrey Way
Wayne, NJ 07470
Making a fake account?
I can't imagine why anybody would do that...
I guess Michigan's tradition of getting screwed by refs also started 138 years ago today!
He looks like he was 40.
A man.
Let's focus on the positive. Hail!!
Great stuff. Thanks WD.
A quote traditionally attributed to Michigan great Horace Prettyman.
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"According to the referee's deicision, missed ; but our umpire and the whole team and the spectators declared the goal was safely made ; however, we did not wish to dispute with the referee, yet, we must suggest, he is as liable to be mistaken as anyone else."
we shouldve made the playoff this last season.
That ref must have been from Ohio.
They played with!
GO BLUE!!
Thanks!
Thanks for posting this. I've been going to UM football games for about 40 years and had no idea that we shared a birthday.
"Innings", "Rugby foot ball", 1 point for a "touch down" . . . the game was just beginning to find its identity.
I grew up with Detarr's in A2 in the 60's and 70's, can't remember their first names anymore, wait, John was one maybe? Does anyone know them and if they're related to the Captain?