What It Means to Be a Wolverine Michigan's Greatest Players Talk About Michigan Football

by Allen, Kevin; Regner, Art; Brown, Nate; Schembechler, Bo

• ISBN13: 9781572436619
• ISBN10: 1572436611
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Triumph Books

Summary

Michigan football is many things. It's 111,000 fans crowding into hallowed Michigan Stadium. It's the famed winged helmet. It's Fielding Yost, Fritz Crisler, Tom Harmon, Gerald Ford, Bennie Oosterbaan, Rick Leach, and Bo Schembechler. It's the rousing strains of "Hail to the Victors." It's the sublimity of a brisk, sun-splashed autumn Saturday in Ann Arbor. But most of all it's the utter dependability of an institution that delivers success as regularly as the leaves change colors in southeastern Michigan. Regardless of the decade, the coach, the players, changes to the rules, or social and political upheaval, the University of Michigan Wolverines win on the gridiron-40 conference titles, 34 bowl game wins, 11 national championships, and not one coach in its history with a losing record.

Author Biography

Kevin Allen has been writing about hockey at every level for over two decades. He is the author or coauthor of numerous sports books, including Without Fear. He is the president of the Professional Hockey Writers Association. He lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Nate Brown is a writer and author. Art Regner is a sports radio broadcaster and author who has been on the Detroit sports airwaves with WDFN and WXYT for over a decade. He is a coauthor with Kevin Allen of What it Means to Be a Red Wing. He lives in Detroit, Michigan. Bo Schembechler is a retired head football coach for the University of Michigan. Under his leadership, the team won over 10 Big Ten Conference titles and he was named Big Ten Coach of the Year six times. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach. He lives in the Detroit area.

Table of Contents

Foreword: What It Means to Be a Wolverine	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
The Thirties	p. 1
The Forties	p. 17
The Fifties	p. 75
The Sixties	p. 107
The Seventies	p. 157
The Eighties	p. 223
The Nineties	p. 309
The New Millennium	p. 339
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