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Fritz and Chap Down the Hawks | This Week in Michigan Football History

This week we take a trip back to postwar America, specifically 1946 as Fritz Crisler’s Wolverines, featuring the great Bob Chappuis, took on Saturday’s opponent – the Iowa Hawkeyes. Clip:

Catch this on the WTKA 1050AM Keybank Countdown to Kickoff Saturday morning starting at 8am EDT sharp! Ira, Sam and Steve always kill it inside the Go Labatt Blue MVictors lounge :)

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1946 holds a special place in Wolverine football lore, as it was in August of that year that we lost Michigan’s Grand Old Man, legendary coach and athletic director Fielding H.