The MVictors History Show

This Week is dedicated to the great Yost-era back Willie Heston, born (and passed) on this day in Meechigan football history.

This week is back for your gameday download of history!

A bonus clip - Dooley's appearance on WTKA with Sam Webb on Wednesday June 28, 2023 - enjoy!

Prof. Greg Dooley joined WTKA to discuss sights and sounds from the 2023 NIL Summit in Atlanta, and a brief State of the Union on Michigan Athletics and NIL, and where opportunities might exist. 

MVictors listeners!  I’m proud to share a new venture between me and longtime Ann Arbor sports talk radio host Steve Clarke: Professor and The Pundit podcast available wherever you get your podcasts.  Here's a sample episode (S1 Ep3).  If you like it, please subscribe!  We’ll cover a range of topics related to Michigan athletics including fandom, rivalries, culture, and current issues (e.g., NIL, transfer portal). We hope you like it.

For the epic CFP semi-final in the Fiesta Bowl, we start with a brief look at our first and only previous trip to this prestigious game in 1986.   We then take a deeper dive and historic winning runs given Coach Harbaugh and crew have won a stunning 25 of 27 games heading into this one.  You know the names:  Yost, Yost again, Kipke, Crisler and of course Bo.  Go Blue!

Oh boy, it's a big one in Indy once again this season as Michigan attempts to earn B1G title #44!   We examine the brief history of teams that achieved records of 12-0 during the year (1905 and 1997).  We then turn to the significance of the last two victories over Ohio State and bring out the chisels - to add a fourth face to Michigan football's "Mount Rushmore" of coaches.

This week we salute Hassan Haskins, and note previous huge match-ups played on Thanksgiving Day.  

We take a look at the conference reforms that led Michigan to leave the Big Ten in the early 1900s.  But while we were an Independent, we managed to schedule Minnesota.  And thank goodness we did - those non-conference match-ups with the Gophers launched the Little Brown Jug rivalry.   Michigan returned to the conference in 1917 and it didn't take long to return to our winning ways. 

Today we welcome the Nebraska Cornhuskers with whom we've shared a ton of history over the years.  In fact the GodFather of Michigan Athletics-- Fielding H. Yost -- actually coached for the Huskers.  We then hit the epic 1904 clash between Chicago (Stagg) and Michigan (Yost) and conclude with a tribute to the great Schembechler back Rob Lytle.