Miracle Moments in Michigan Wolverines Football History: Best Plays, Games, and Records

by Derek Kornacki, Steve Kornacki, Glenn E. "Shemy" Schembechler (Foreword by)

Overview

With the most victories and highest winning percentage in college football history, the University of Michigan Wolverines have a long and storied history. They have won forty-two Big Ten championships, eleven national titles, and twenty-one bowl games. These accomplishments and more are celebrated in Miracle Moments in Michigan Wolverines Football History. Derek and Steve Kornacki detail many of the Wolverines' greatest moments including legendary coach Fielding Yost's 1901 "point a minute" team that posted a perfect 11–0 record and outscored their opponents, 550–0; the opening of Michigan Stadium, "The Big House" in 1927; the hard-fought "Snow Bowl" victory over Ohio State in 1950; the 1969 victory over Ohio State that broke the Buckeyes' twenty-two-game winning streak and launched "The Ten-Year War;" the 1998 Rose Bowl victory over Washington State that clinched their first National Championship since 1948; and much more. All the great players and coaches are highlighted in Miracle Moments in Michigan Football History, a must-have for all fans of the maize and blue.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683584612
Publisher:	Sports Publishing LLC
Publication date:	08/02/2022
Series:	Miracle Moments
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	628,187
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Derek Kornacki covered coach Jim Harbaugh’s Wolverines as a blogger, and has been published in the Tampa Tribune and other publications as a freelance writer. He studied screenwriting at Columbia College in Chicago and resides in Plymouth, Michigan.

Steve Kornacki has covered the University of Michigan Wolverines for five decades for the Ann Arbor News, Detroit Free Press, and most recently for MGoBlue.com, the university’s official athletics website.

Glenn Edward "Shemy" Schembechler III has been a scout for the Washington Redskins, Kansas City Chiefs, Seattle Seahawks, and Chicago Bears. He also was the assistant recruiting coordinator at the University of Michigan. He has worked with renowned coaches such as Joe Gibbs, Marty Schottenheimer, Gary Moeller, Lloyd Carr, and his father, Michigan Hall of Fame coach Bo Schembechler. Shemy now heads GES Advisory Company, which scouts and works to place high school football recruits with schools from NAIA to Division I. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife, Megan, and their son, Glenn Edward "Bo" Schembechler IV.

Table of Contents

Dedication vi

Introduction vii

Foreword Glenn E. "Shemy" Schembechler III x

Part 1 The Beginnings and Yost

Michigan Teaches Notre Dame How to Play Football in 1887 2

Elbel Writes The Victors' After Inspirational Win in 1898 3

The Story Behind the Little Brown Jug 6

Coach Fielding H. Yost 8

Benny Friedman to Bennie Oosterbaan Passing Combo Revolutionizes Game 11

Michigan Stadium: The Vision and Building of the Big House 15

Part 2 Crisler and the Modern Era

Tom Harmon, 1940 Heisman Trophy Winner 24

Coach Fritz Crisler 28

The Mad Magicians" 34

Roses Bloom in the Snow Bowl 38

Ron Kramer, Tight End Prototype 40

Part 3 "The Team! The Team! The Team!"

1969: A Monumental Upset of No. 1 Ohio State 44

Coach Bo Schembechler 49

The Block M: Michigan's Outstanding Offensive Line Tradition 62

1973: Tie with Ohio State Broke Hearts, Broke Ground 71

Rob Lytle, Tailback Extraordinaire 75

Rick Leach, "Guts and Glue of the Maize and Blue" 79

Wangler to Carter: The Indiana Miracle 86

Anthony Carter, No. 1 in Every Way 91

Jim Harbaugh Begins a Quarterback Tradition 94

Part 4 The Tradition Continues

Coach Gary Moeller 104

Elvis to Desmond: Fourth-Down Magic Against Notre Dame 108

Desmond Howard, 1991 Heisman Trophy Winner 111

Tyrone Wheatley's Rose Bowl Romp 116

Coach Lloyd Carr 119

Biakabutuka Runs Wild Past Buckeyes 127

Revisiting the 1997 National Champions 130

Charles Woodson, 1997 Heisman Trophy Winner 135

Brian Griese's Emotional Journey with His Father and Their Pasadena Hug WO

Tom Brady: Learning to Believe in Himself 144

Braylon Edwards, Record-Breaking Receiver 150

Coach Jim Harbaugh 155

Eight Great Days 160

"Hutch for Heisman!" 168

Sources 179

Acknowledgments 180

About the Authors 180