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The Distinguished Digit, The Sacred Seat | Origins of the 1 in Michigan Stadium capacity

[Ed. 10/18/21: With the talk of Tradition in the crisp Ann Arbor air, a repost from 2010. And this one makes some people mad.]

ESPN blogger Adam Rittenberg’s been running down some of the Big Ten’s finest football gameday traditions, you might have read his breakdown of your Wolverines posted on Monday. While I hope there’s nothing new in Rittenberg’s piece for any readers of this site, any pub for Michigan’s greatest asset on ESPN is all right with me.

NATURALLY, I found a couple of flaws.

First, call it a misdemeanor but the name of our fight song is of course ‘The Victors’, not ‘Hail To the Victors’.