lqqlmlmmmp' The Michigan Daily-Saturday, Sept COACHES CARRY WINNING TRADITION: Blue football: a By BOB MILLER May 30, 1978 might have been a day set aside for honoring a school, its football team and many of the people that made its name famous. But instead, the day slipped by with none of the pomp and circumstance usually surrounding 100 year anniversaries. You see, on that date in 1979, Michigan defeated Racine College in the first gridiron venture ever for a Wolverine squad. Therefore, one would assume that football found its way to the Ann Arbor campus a century ago. Actually it did, but because there was no lteam (and obviously no games) in 1882, Michigan will have to wait until next year, the 101st year Wolverine football has existed, to have a centennial celebration. Still, in all those years, Michigan has more fables, folklore and legends i its tradition-laden history to last a second hundred years. For instance, many people already are aware that Michigan represented the midwest in a football game against Stanford in 1901 which spawned the first Rose Bowl. But how many people know that the game was halted with 10 minutes left and the Wolverines leading 49-0 because the Maize and Blue were embarrassing their hosts? The 1901 team went 11-0 and outscored their opponents 550-0 to earn the nickname "The Point-A-Minute Team." Needless to say, that team, with such stars like All-American Neil Snow, won the mythical national championship. ia '01 98 for Michigan, Tom Harmon, wheels around left end in a game in Michigan Stadium. Harmon starred for the Maize and Blue in 1938-39-40 and was recently inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Currently he eats Grape Nuts cereal on TV commercials and does the radiosbroadcast of UCLA football games. IRONICALLY, IT was almost a carbon copy performance 46 years later. Coach Fritz Crisler had a team loaded with talent including All- Americans Bob Chappuis and Chalmers "Bump" Elliott, who would later coach the Wolverines. Crisler piloted the team to a Big Ten championship, an undefeated season, and its first berth in the Rose Bowl since Michigan appeared in the initial New Year's Day classic. The result was also the same: 49-0, Michigan over Southern Cal and another national championship in the polls. Crisler stepped down from his coaching position after the season and Michigan's only three-time All- American, Bennie Oosterbaan, moved right in without missing a single beat. OOSTERBAAN'S first team went 9-0, repeated as conference kinds and topped a wire service poll: The Wolverines idn't go to the Rose Bowl, however, as the league had a rule back then prohibiting the same team from making a return trip to Pasadena. Incidentally, that was the last time any Wolverine squad went undefeated in the regular season until 1971 when Bo Schembechler coached the Maize and Blue to an 11-0 mark. In between Yost and Schembechler there have been numerous other people who have added to the luster of Michigan football. People like Bob Ufer, who although starred in track here, has made a name for himself as the vociferous and emotional game announcer; Gerald Ford-former President and standout center; and of regal C course, Tom Harmon. Harmon was simply an All-Ameican halfback in 1939 and again the next year. He led the team in scoring both years, once ran for 206 yards vs. Yale and another time gained 280 total yards against Ohio State. ALL IN ALL, Harmon rushed 398 times in his career for 2134 yards and took part in 631 plays culminating in 3438 yards of total offense, all among the leaders in Michigan history. Harmon's 33 lifetime touchdowns and 237 points scored as a Wolverine still rank as the standard for Wolverine gridders. For all his efforts, Harmon was the recipient of the Heisman Trophy, as of yet the only Michigan football player to be so honored. And to all that, add Harmon's name as one of the charter inductees into the College Football Hall of Fame. More recently, high caliber players like Don Dufek, Sr., and Jr., Jack Clancy, Ron Johnson, Jim Mandich, Paul Seal, Randy Logan, Dave Gallagher, Dave Brown, Calvin O'Neal and Rob Lytle highlight the parade of people down the years who have shone during their stints in a Michigan uniform. In a storied past such as Michigan has had, it is not just players and coaches that make up the total history albeit they play the biggest part. 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