Michigan Wolverines football
The Michigan Wolverines football team represents the University of Michigan in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. The team is known for its distinctive winged helmet, its fight song, and its many rivalries, particularly its annual, regular-season-ending game against Ohio State. Michigan began competing in intercollegiate football in 1879. The Wolverines joined the Big Ten Conference at its inception in 1896 and have been members since.
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The Michigan Wolverines football team represents the University of Michigan in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. The team is known for its distinctive winged helmet, its fight song, and its many rivalries, particularly its annual, regular-season-ending game against Ohio State. Michigan began competing in intercollegiate football in 1879. The Wolverines joined the Big Ten Conference at its inception in 1896, and other than a hiatus from 1907 to 1916, have been members since. Michigan has won or shared 42 league titles, and, since the inception of the AP Poll in 1936, has finished in the top 10 a total of 38 times. Three Wolverines have won the Heisman Trophy: Tom Harmon in 1940, Desmond Howard in 1991, and Charles Woodson in 1997. The program’s fortunes declined under the next two coaches, Rich Rodriguez and Brady Hoke, who were both fired after relatively short tenures. Following Hoke’s dismissal, Michigan hired Jim Harbaugh on December 30, 2014. Harbaugh is a former quarterback of the team, having played for Michigan between 1982 and 1986 under Bo Schembechler. In 1881, Michigan played against Harvard in Boston, the game that marked the birth of inter-sectional football. On their way to a game in Chicago in 1887, Michigan players stopped in South Bend, Indiana and introduced football to students at Notre Dame. A November 23 contest marked the beginnings of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football program and the beginning of the Michigan–Notre Dame rivalry.
The final game of the 1898 season was 9–1–1; Michigan won 12–11, capturing the Western Conference championship. By 1898, Alonzo Stagg was at work at turning the University. of Chicago football program into a powerhouse. Before the end of the 1998 season, the two teams decided the final game between the Chicago Maroons and Michigan was 9-1–0; a game that was decided on the final day of the season. The game was the first time in collegiate football history that a western school defeated an established power from the east. In 1998, Michigan defeated Cornell, which was the first time a western university defeated an east-side school. In 2000, the Wolverines won the national championship, most recently that of the 1997 squad voted atop the final AP Poll. In 2002, Michigan won the Rose Bowl, the first college football bowl game ever played. In 2003, the team won its second national title and Michigan’s second Rose Bowl win. In 2007, the Michigan Wolverine team won the Big 10 Conference championship and the national title for the third time in its history. In 2008, the program won its fourth national title, and the third in a row. In 2009, Michigan was the only team to win three consecutive Big Ten titles. In 2010, Michigan became the first team to finish the season with a winning record of at least 10 wins and two losses in a single season. In 2011, the school won its fifth national championship.
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