| Michigan's football program is among the
most successful in college football history. Michigan won the first Rose
Bowl game in 1902, has won an NCAA-record 877 games and has an all-time
winning percentage of .741, also an NCAA record. The Wolverine football
program has claimed 11 national titles.
Michigan's 11 National Championships have come under the direction of 5 coaches. Six of Michigan's National Titles were garnered by the Wolverines first coaching superstar, Fielding H. Yost. Yost directed his point-a-minute teams to 4 consecutive National titles from 1901-04 while going 41-0-1. Yost also led Michigan to National Titles in 1918 and 1923. It was Yost who was instrumental in the creation of Michigan Stadium, and who designed it to permit its expansion to expand to a capacity of over 150,000. Yost's legacy also lives on with Yost Ice Arena, where Michigan's men's ice hockey team plays their home games. Michigan has won 5 more National Titles since Yost permanently retired in 1926. The Wolverines won back-to-back titles under Harry Kipke in 1932-1933, Fritz Crisler, then his successor, Bennie Oosterbaan, in 1947-48. Most recently, Michigan won its latest national title behind Lloyd Carr in 1997. Michigan's famous football coaches include: Fielding Yost, who came to Michigan from Stanford University in 1901 (see above). Fritz Crisler, who guided Michigan to a pair of Big Ten Titles and the above National Titles and still has his name carried by the home of Michigan's men's Basketball team. Glenn E. "Bo" Schembechler who won 13 Big Ten Titles in his 21 seasons as head coach. Those titles include 1969 when he beat his good friend and mentor Wayne Woody Hayes 24-12 in the beginning of "The Ten Year War". Lloyd Carr won 5 Big Ten titles in his 13 seasons as the leader of Michigan Football and posted a winning percentage of .753. His winning percentage of .779 in Conference play trails only Bo Schembecher in Michigan history. (That includes Fritz Crisler and Fielding Yost.) Their current coach is Rich Rodriguez, who was hired after former head coach Lloyd Carr announced his retirement on November 19, 2007. |
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The men's basketball team plays its games at Crisler Arena. The Wolverines have won 12 Big Ten regular-season conference titles, as well as the inaugural Big Ten Tournament in 1998, which it later forfeited due to NCAA violations. The team has appeared in the NCAA Final Four on six occasions (1964, 1965, 1976, 1989, 1992* and 1993*) and won the National Championship in 1989 under Steve Fisher. The program later forfeited its 1992 and 1993 Final Four appearances due to NCAA violations. Other notable players who played for Michigan include Roy Tarpley, Loy Vaught, Gary Grant, Terry Mills, Glen Rice, Jalen Rose, Rumeal Robinson, Antoine Joubert, Jamal Crawford, Juwan Howard, Chris Webber, Jimmy King, Cazzie Russell, Daniel Horton, Bernard Robinson, and Mark Hughes. |
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| The Wolverines ice hockey team, which is a member of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, plays its home contests at Yost Ice Arena. It is coached by Red Berenson, a former UM player. Altogether, the program has won nine NCAA national championships (1948, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1964, 1996, 1998), which is also an NCAA record. In 2010, the team was invited to the NCAA tournament for a record 20th year in a row. Michigan has reached the national semi-finals (now referred to as the "Frozen Four") an unprecedented 23 times. |
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