scUM Football Hall of Fame and Museum

[LordJeffBuck]

Welcome to the University of Michigan Football Hall of Fame and Museum! In the hallowed halls of our institution, you will find biographies of many famous and accomplished Wolverines, and you will see many items reflecting the storied history of the Michigan football!

Some of the players profiled include:​

Shawn Crable: Three times Shawn made huge plays that led to Ohio State victories in The Game. In 2005, he was trucked at the goal line by a reserve tight end as Antonio Pittman scored the game-winning touchdown. The following season, his helmet-to-helmet late hit on quarterback Troy Smith gave the Buckeyes a fresh set of downs on the game-clinching touchdown drive. In 2007, Crable completed the trifecta by missing an arm tackle on Beanie Wells' long touchdown run that iced the victory for the Buckeyes. To top off his fine career, Shawn's whiff allowed Appalachian State to block a last-second, game-saving field goal attempt, as the Mighty Men of Michigan, in the biggest upset in college football history, lost to a Division I-AA team by the score of 34 to 32.

Prescott Burgess: When making their respective college choices, many recruits factor family and friends into the equation, but Burgess is undoubtedly the only prospect ever to choose Michigan because an Ohio State player stole his girl friend. In high school, Prescott was the top safety in the nation, and in Ann Arbor he blossomed into a slow, overweight, mediocre linebacker. Burgess joined teammate Shawn Crable in being pancaked by a reserve tight end on Antonio Pittman's game winning touchdown run in 2005.

Morgan Trent: Boasting a 4.13 forty, Trent had the blazing speed necessary to run himself out of position on nearly every play. Although he was rarely seen in the vicinity of the ball carrier, Morgan still made the most of his infrequent opportunities, as he led the Wolverines in missed tackles each of his final three seasons. Trent owns the distinction of giving up the game-clinching touchdown in the 2006 version of The Game ... but at least he had an excellent view of Brian Robiskie's reception, as he was lying on his ass in the end zone.

Sam McGuffie: According to Wolverine fans, McGuffie was a mini-Superman, and he really could leap over tall offensive linemen in a single bound. However, at 5' 2", 120 pounds, McHoppie was a tad slightly built to play running back in the Big Ten, as his freshman season made perfectly clear. After getting his bell rung in the 2008 Game, Sam left Michigan for the friendlier confines (and better blocking) of Rice University.

Ryan Mallett: Mallett was the baddest bad ass to come out of the state of Texas since Chuck Norris, and the former Wolverine quarterback has a legend nearly as long as the Rio Grande. To hear Wolverine fans tell the tale, the Texarkana native could throw a football from Fort Worth to Amarillo and still hit his receiver in stride. Before he even set foot on campus, the Michigan faithful had already anointed Ryan the savior of the program. However, at six-foot-seven, the statuesque Mallett couldn't run the spread-option (despite his devasting stiff arm), so he high-tailed it back to Arkansas, where he currently runs the Razorbacks offense.

Rich Rodriguez: Some say that Rodriguez is so slick that he could sell hair plugs to a snake oil salesman. While every coach has his own bag of tricks, last season RichRod donned his wizard hat to accomplish some mighty special achievements at the University of Michigan - he lost more games in one season than any other Michigan coach in 121 years of football, and he ended the program's streak of consecutive winning seasons at forty, and their streak of bowl games at thirty-three. But at least he kept one streak alive, namely Ohio State's winning streak in The Game, which now stands at five. This year, Rodriguez is trying to do something that no one else has ever done in Ann Arbor, namely get the Wolverine football team put on probation for major rules violations.

And here are a few of the interesting items that grace our museum:​

Mike Hart's exercise bike

Marlin Jackson's beer bottle

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Chad Henne's golden sombrero

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Justin Turner's high school diploma

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Tate Forcier's jazz hands

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Denard Robinson's shoe laces

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RichRod's paper shredder

Gabe Watson's collection of diet books (currently on loan to Will Campbell)

A statuettte of Braylon Edwards' hands (made of stone, of course)

Sugar Shane Morris's moped

Marques Slocum's Facebook page

Jordan Glasgow's kitty cat sweater

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Please feel free to donate your favorite items of Michigan memorabilia to our institution, and share your fondest memories of Big Blue's finest heroes of the gridiron. Welcome, and do visit us often!

 

[NFBuck]

I'd like to add Mike Barwis' wolves to the display.

 

[buckeyemania11]

Mike Lantry

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKSv322Ww_0]YouTube - Mike Lantry wins the game - Michigan 1974[/ame]

 

[jthorp24]

I have to admit... some of that was pretty funny lol.

 

[BB73]

Larry Harrison's hand lotion and sorority pin.

For Marcus Slocum, I'd add his birdbath.

Mike Hart's bike needs a picture:

Rich Rodriguez's typical recruit:

 

[BB73]

Jason Avant's skills as a headline creator:

The WTF girls and the actual keychains they tried to shake for noise:

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Of course, they were cheering for the 2007 TSUN Offensive Line:

 

[buckeyemania11]

the current first lady of scUM

 

[Jaxbuck]

I nominate Tony Momsen.

"Who the fuck" you ask?

Per Jack Park:

On November 19, 1949 OSU headed up to AA in need of a win or a tie to clinch their first Rose Bowl trip since the B10/Pac 10 agreement started in 1946. It was also the first time The Game was televised.

With 10 minutes left in the game OSU was down 7-0. They took off on a 6 play 80 yard scoring drive and just needed to kick the extra point to go to Pasadena. Place kicker Jimmy Hague promptly shanked the kick BUT the vulvariens had lined up offsides and OSU was awarded another try which Hague promptly nailed.

One of the OSU tackles that played in that game was named Bob Momsen, his brother Tony was scUM's starting center and the dickhead who lined up offsides.

I therefore nominate Tony Momsen and donate his extra large leather helmet to the scUM HOF and museum for their spectacular service during The Game 1949.

 

[localyokel]

And here are a few of the interesting items that grace our museum:

A statuettte of Braylon Edwards' hands (made on stone, of course)

Hmmm, stone...not the modeling material I usually associate with Braylon's hands. I tend to think of them as being more like an Ohio State Fair Butter Sculpture, coated with a liberal dousing of K-Y Jelly.

 

[muffler dragon]

*Just a piece of wall art for people to look at and interpret as they see fit.

 

[Ohiensis]

Augustus Woodward: Previously known mostly for his sloppiness, awkwardness, and lack of friends, in 1817 Woodward established an institution that would eventually become the University of Michigan. He called the institution Catholepistemiad from the Greek for "universal science" and invented names for each of its 13 departments, or didaxiim, as he called them, from combinations of ancient Greek and Latin. By 1821, however, the university's original name, which Michigan Governor Lewis Cass described as "pedantic and uncouth," was exchanged for the much more manageable "University of Michigan." Although the original name lasted only four years, its legacy remains as a defining characteristic of all facets of the university's culture, including its storied football program, which to this day are often described, in so many words, as "pedantic and uncouth."

 

[Gatorubet]

the current first lady of scUM

 

[Dryden]

Ann Moeller: Former U-M head coach Gary Moeller's wife, alleged by numerous sources to have had an affair with then U-M assistant Les Miles sometime in the early-90s. The ripple effect is still being felt within the U-M program today.

The obvious consequence of this tryst was precipitating Les Miles's hasty exit from his alma mater after the 1994 season, where he had happily served as OL coach; and the revelation of the affair which sent poor Gary to seek solace in the bottom of a bottle, leading to his fateful (or awesome) drunken tirade at the Excalibur restaurant where he held a waitress at his table against her will while making sexual advances towards her, then later argued with patrons and staff, and for good measure punched a police officer (repeatedly) while he yelled obscenities directed towards wife Ann.

Moeller would be replaced by Lloyd Carr, another Bo Schembechler disciple and "Michigan Man," while the fallout between Bo and Les ensured Les would never work at U-M again as long as Bo was alive. Not surprisingly, once Bo passed and Lloyd opted out, the now Schembechler-less University took the first available opportunity to hand the keys to dads shiny car over to Les, though Les had other ideas, deciding a big "screw you too," was in order, giving U-M the finger and remaining with LSU.

 

[MaliBuckeye]

Ann Moeller: Former U-M head coach Gary Moeller's wife, alleged by numerous sources to have had an affair with then U-M assistant Les Miles sometime in the early-90s. The ripple effect is still being felt within the U-M program today.

You're right. It definitely inspired the hire of the current head coach.

Yup, that type of thing won't be happening again anytime soon.

 

[wadc45]

Morgan Trent was arguably one of OSU's best players from 2005 to 2007...