The MVictors History Show: Recent Episodes
Greg Dooley
This Week is dedicated to the great Yost-era back Willie Heston, born (and passed) on this day in Meechigan football 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.
How Fielding H. Yost won the battle to build Michigan Stadium (and its iconic tunnel!) in 1927. Conversely, how Chicago's Grand Old Man Amos Alonzo Stagg failed. Go Blue!
We jump around a bit in Saturday's edition of TWIMFbH starting with the 1892 match-up between Michigan and Northwestern which featured the first African-American to play for a future conference team - George Jewett. We then fast forward to 1932 and Fritz Crisler's visit to the Big House and how an Illinois Professor devised a system to determine a national champion. Finally, the Paul Bunyan Trophy - we didn't want it, and I don't get it!
A call into WTKA 1050AM with the M Zone crew Jamie Morris, Matt Leach, and Matt Missler to discuss the history of the Michigan-Michigan State series, the Big Ten, the Paul Bunyan Trophy, and much more. The segment aired October 25, 2022 on WTKA 1050AM Ann Arbor.
Saturday's edition of This Week in Michigan Football History is a special one. We hit a few worthy topics starting with the recognition of the new Lloyd Carr Michigan Stadium Tunnel, before noting the 90th anniversary of the Michigan Marching Band visiting Columbus and teaching Ohio State their beloved "Script Ohio." We also get into this day in 2005 that gave us what is evermore known simply as, 'TOUCHDOWN MANNINGHAM!' Dig it:
This week's history lesson takes a brief look at Michigan's successful attempt to break an all-time winless streak against the Army Cadets on October 8, 1955. We then celebrate the career of multi-sport superstar Ron Kramer and share a toast to #87.
As part of WTKA 1050AM's 'Fantastic Friday', Steve Clarke and Greg Dooley chat with legendary Michigan kicker Remy Martin Hamilton and of course, spend a lot of time talking about his famous game-winning kick against Notre Dame in 1994. (And yes Remy, we owe you a drink next time you are in town).
As part of WTKA 1050AM's 'Fantastic Friday' in 2022, Steve Clarke and Greg Dooley chat with Randy and Jason Sklar about their careers, Michigan fandom, their latest projects and much more.
As part of WTKA's 'Fantastic Friday' in 2022, Steve Clarke and Greg Dooley chat with legendary Detroit Lions and Michigan Football voice Jim Brandstatter. We talk about his career, his relationships and even about his father - a Michigan State football legend in the 1930s.
In November 2012, I sat down with Michigan and Detroit Lions head coach Gary Moeller in the studio at WTKA 1050AM Ann Arbor with Ira Weintraub who handled the production. We cover a lot of ground including his greatest teams, memories of Bo Schembechler, the start of his career, Woody Hayes, 1991’s ‘The Catch’ with Desmond Howard, his time with the Detroit Lions, the 1990 MSU game, and much more.
This week step back to 1977 on this day 45 years ago, as Bo Schembechler’s third-ranked Wolverines crushed epic fifth-ranked Texas A&M. But the story didn't end there, as just a few years later millionaire Texan Bum Bright led a push to lure General Bo away from Ann Arbor. Here's that story!
This Week in Michigan football returns for season XIII with another double dip, first to 2016 against Hawaii, then all the way back to 1898 when your blue-stocking clad warriors dropped Chicago and Amos Alonzo Stagg and inspired Louis Elbel to write The Victors.
This Week in Michigan Football History takes a double dip, first to 1944 to note the first Michigan night game, then we take a trip to 1994 where a gent named Remy Martin Hamilton left the game in Notre Dame, IN never having to buy a drink again.
This Week in Michigan Football History offers up a huge happy birthday to Wolverine legend Anthony Carter. Hear it live inside the glorious new Bud Light Victors Lounge aka Joe Simon's garage, as part of the WTKA 1050AM Countdown To Kickoff. This week we share a story from the final days of the 1979 recruiting period as we tried to land AC. We conclude, naturally, a few months later when Bo Schembechler's men faced Lee Corso's Indiana Hoosiers with Bob Ufer on the call.
How local Ann Arbor police foiled a plot by Michigan State students to block the Engineering Arch on campus. And much more.