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Michigan brings the
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Little Brown Jug
Michigan stops
Minnesota at half-
yard line on final
play to win, 29-26
By MAX BULTMAN
Daily Sports Editor
MINNEAPOLIS — It came
down to one play, a few inches
and a lesson Jim Harbaugh
hopes his players carry with
them for the rest of their lives.
After a goal-line stand on
the game’s final play, the No. 15
Michigan football team escaped
TCF Bank Stadium with a win
over Minnesota, 29-26.
“It feels tremendous for the
way the players played, and a
phenomenal learning experi-
ence for our men to be able to
win a tough one,” Harbaugh
said. “It’s a great learning expe-
rience because it reinforces
everything you tell them about
never giving up and fighting ‘til
the end.”
With 19 seconds remaining,
Golden Gophers’ quarterback
Mitch Leidner connected with
Drew Wolitarsky for 22 yards
and what looked like a go-ahead
touchdown. But a booth review
showed that Wolitarsky’s knee
touched at the half-yard line,
forcing Minnesota to hurry back
to the line and try to punch it in.
The clock began running
as the Golden Gophers made
a formation shift, splitting a
receiver out wide to pass after
initially lining up in a running
formation. Leidner’s throw was
incomplete, though, and by the
time the ball hit the ground, 17
seconds had run off the clock.
Just two remained.
Trailing by three, conven-
tional wisdom would have told
Minnesota to kick a field goal.
But in an emotional contest
See MICHIGAN, Page 3B
Crisler Center hosts
10th annual Army vs.
Navy matchup to kick
off Veteran’s Week
By EMILY ROBERTS
For the Daily
The Crisler Center played host to
a different kind of basketball game
on Sunday.
Instead of the Michigan men’s
basketball
team,
wheelchairs
glided up and down the court dur-
ing the 10th annual Army v. Navy
Wheelchair Basketball Game.
The teams are co-ed and made
up of experienced wheelchair
basketball players, as well as Uni-
versity student veterans, ROTC
students, and occasionally, local
law enforcement. Sunday’s game
ended with a 45-40 Army victory.
Gerald Hoff, the event’s founder
and an insurance representative at
the University Health System, said
the game aims to raise awareness
about living with a disability.
“The
Wheelchair
Basketball
game is the only University-spon-
sored disability related sporting
event,” he said. “This event show-
cases the skills of people with dis-
abilities; it showcases the ability
within disability.”
Run entirely by volunteers, the
event also featured performances
by several student groups along
with the game, including the Men’s
Glee Club, the Michigan Dance
team and the Michigan Cheer
Team.
The game is also part of Veter-
ans Week at the University, which
includes several panels covering
the experiences of veteran as well
as appreciation events.
Jerry Sarasin, a long-time wheel-
chair basketball player and instruc-
tor who played for the Army team,
said the win had been a long time
coming for his team, which had lost
in the past few years.
Sarasin added that many char-
acteristics of the game, like pacing,
are very similar to a game played by
able-bodied teams. He noted that
part of the value of hosting this
event is also demonstrating that
similarity to the University com-
munity.
“If more people came out to
the games, wheelchair basketball
would really grow as a sport, we
know this because the sport is huge
in places such as Europe,” he said.
“There are other colleges that have
wheelchair teams, and it’s sad that
athletes have to go out of state to
play at the collegiate level.”
Kinesiology senior Jon Mendi-
celli, president of the University’s
Student Veterans Association, said
he always enjoys playing in the
games.
“The real wheelchair basketball
players do a great job of getting all
of us to play as a team, and making
us look good on the court,” he said.
Mendicelli, a Marine Corps vet-
eran, played for the Navy team. He
said the game was important for
student veterans, especially those
with disabilities.
“Disabilities often come with
a stigma, but at this game we can
See WHEELCHAIR, Page 3A
Fourth annual
‘Day of the Dead’
ball celebrates
tradition, culture
By JACKIE CHARNIGA
Daily Staff Reporter
The University’s chapter
of the Lambda Theta Alpha
Latin Sorority, Inc. concluded
annual celebrations for LatinX
Heritage month Friday night
with its fourth annual Dia de
los Muertos Ball.
In partnership with the
office of Multi-Ethnic Stu-
dent Affairs and the Michi-
gan Latin@ Assembly, the
Founders Room of the Alumni
Center hosted face-painting,
traditional food and a perfor-
mance by the Detroit-based
ballet troupe Folklorico de los
Renacidos.
The aim of the ball is to
educate students about the
history and cultural traditions
of Dia de los Muertos and cel-
ebrate the work of the LatinX
Heritage planning committee.
Dia de los Muertos, which
translates in English as “Day
of the Dead,” is a Latin holi-
day celebrated every Nov. 1 to
honor the dead with food and
festivities. Traditional cer-
emonies commonly honor the
EMILIE FARRUGIA/Daily
Ballet Folklorico de los Renacidos, a Mexican folkloric dance group based in Detroit, performs at the fourth Annu-
al Dia de los Muertos Ball sponsored by the Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority at the Alumni Center on Friday.
Organizers aim to
bolster donations as
part of competition
against OSU
By MEGAN DOYLE
For the Daily
Hundreds of people streamed
in and out of the Michigan Sta-
dium on Sunday as part of the
fifth annual “Be a Hero at the Big
House” blood drive, an event that
kicked off the 34th annual Wol-
verine vs. Buckeye Challenge for
Life.
The blood drive competition
will run until Thanksgiving and
encourages people to donate
blood and register as organ
donors in competition with Ohio
State University. Last year, the
University beat OSU in registered
organ donors by 43,857 people,
but collected only 2,298 pints of
blood to Ohio State’s 2,414.
Sunday’s event was co-spon-
See LATINX, Page 3A
See BLOOD, Page 3A
GRANT HARDY/Daily
Jeffrey Dennis, a player on the Navy team, reaches for the ball in the 10th annual
Army vs. Navy Wheelchair Basketball Game in the Crisler Center on Sunday.
ALLISON FARRAND/Daily
Redshirt freshman quarterback Wilton Speight entered Saturday’s game when fifth-year senior starting quaterback Jake Rudock was injured. Michigan trailed
at the time, but Speight eventually led the Wolverines to victory on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
Wheelchair ball
raises disability
awareness
LatinX month concludes
with ‘Dia de los Muertos’
Big House
blood drive
starts 34th
Blood Battle
Goal-line stand helps
‘M’ hold off Gophers
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