Michigan's football team hasn't played in a Rose Bowl game since the first Tournament of Roses game in 1902. It was a sizzling New Year's Day in Pasadena, but Michigan's eleven "iron men" lasted the whole game, without using any of the four subs they had brought along.
The other team, Stanford, found the going harder. One banged-up Stanford man after another was helped off fielduntil there were no subs left. A third-quarter dialogue between Michigan's captain and Stanford's has been preserved though perhaps in slightly altered form in Michigan's annals. Said the Michigan...