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  • Michigan Today

    Life at Prettyman’s

    Horace Greely Prettyman (1857-1945) was a Michigan football hero in the 1880s, when the sport had scarcely begun. He scored Michigan’s first-ever home-field touchdown, and he was the only Wolverine ever elected captain for three years. But his larger impact came later, as host and father figure to a generation of Michigan students.

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