Tag Archives: Michigan football

Heritage

Tom Harmon is Missing

Kim Clarke | October 13, 2021

Tom Harmon’s legs were on fire. These were the legs that had carried him and a football into the Michigan end zone time after time, racking up touchdowns and making him the leading scorer in the country. Now, the greatest player in Michigan history was being burned alive from the legs up in the cockpit of his World War II fighter.

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Bentley Historical Library

Michigan Football was Never the Same

by Emily Swenson | October 2018

A bleacher collapse during a 1908 game forever changed the way Wolverines played ball and eventually led to the construction of the Big House that fans know and love today.

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