In the offseason, former coach Bump Elliott moved into an administrative role within the athletic department. McKenzie: “Jim Mandich was one of the guys that had said to those who were seniors, Ron Johnson and those guys, promised them after that ballgame, because I guess there were a lot of emotions - a lot of emotions and crying going on - that they would beat them.” Bo’s arrival
He tried to stick it up our (expletive) by going for two.”īilly Taylor, running back: “We vowed among ourselves that next year we were going to get revenge.” Reggie McKenzie, offensive guard: “They asked Woody Hayes after the game, 'You had the game in hand, why did you go for two?' He said, ‘Because I couldn’t go for three.’ That really set the table for ’69.
We had to get out of bed at 3 in the morning. On Friday night, we had an alarm at the hotel go off. Nobody at Michigan was pleased and happy with the way Ron went out and Michigan was treated down there, and Woody Hayes with a great team just put it on us.”ĭick Caldarazzo, offensive guard: “We had no hot water in the showers after the game. Jim Brandstatter, offensive tackle: “Ron Johnson was the captain and leader of that team, very well-respected guy. Every day from that embarrassment until we ran out of the tunnel in Ann Arbor, there’s not a player on the Michigan football team that in some point of time over the course of the day that didn’t have a flashback or some Ohio State thought run through your mind. I played exactly one play of the debacle in Columbus. That decision, as well as the loss, stuck with the Wolverines for a long time.ĭan Dierdorf, offensive tackle: “On the very first play of the game, I go out to block a linebacker, I plant my foot to cut and I tear my MCL. The end of the game was marked by Woody Hayes’ decision to (unsuccessfully) go for two points. Although the game was tied at halftime, the Buckeyes pulled away for a 50-14 blowout win. Instead, it was thoroughly humiliated by Ohio State. In 1968, Michigan traveled to Columbus with a chance to win the Big Ten title.
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The Free Press conducted a dozen interviews with players on that Michigan team to paint a picture of the buildup to the game, the win, what it meant for the program and how the 19 seasons are intertwined. Fifty years ago, the Buckeyes had won 22 straight entering Michigan Stadium. Ohio State is once again the unbeaten favorite and carries a 17-game win streak into Ann Arbor. Michigan, after suffering an embarrassing loss in Columbus a year ago, has turned things around over the second half of this season and has just two losses, just as it did in '69. "And to be part of it, to have been part of that, Bo Schembechler’s first-year run and that win, we feel like there’s a foundation for the modern era of Michigan football and the past 50 years."īrandstatter and his teammates believe history could repeat itself Saturday, when the 11th-ranked Wolverines host No.
"As you go on further in history, you realize just what that game did, how that game affected the future," said Jim Brandstatter, an offensive tackle who now serves as Michigan's radio play-by-play voice.
And, of course, they remember the euphoria that came from beating the Buckeyes.Īs they look back on the game now, the players seem to have an even greater appreciation for what they accomplished that day. They remember everything they went through the year leading up to the rematch. The Wolverines still remember the indignity of losing, 50-14, to Woody Hayes at Ohio State in 1968.
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