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New Michigan Stadium? Lackluster. (1927)

[On the anniversary of the first game at the Big House (10/1/1927), a little rival snark via reader Larry, from the October 24, 1927 edition of The Lantern, the Ohio State student newspaper]

This was published on the Monday after Michigan Stadium was officially dedicated on October 22, 1927. On that day over the 84,000 fans who packed the Big House watched Bennie Oosterbaan and the boys shutout the Buckeyes 21-0.

While I’ve never heard anything but glowing reviews of Yost’s shiny new structure, at least one writer from Columbus was unimpressed.