Yes, if Brian Kelly can convince both teams to go up on a lift to film the game.
Just remember you forced me to do this:
The series you listed would qualify for those teams playing more, however that does not disqualify the Michigan-ND series a rivalry especially since it started in 1887. Lastly, I am not speaking to those, I am speaking specifically to Michigan-ND.
Then you didn’t play for like 80 years. You can’t say you have a “long standing rivalry when you have only played 40 times in 130 years of football.Just remember you forced me to do this:
George DeHaven wrote to Brother Paul at Notre Dame in October 1887, describing the new game being played at Michigan.
The first game took place in November 1887. Michigan had been playing football since 1879. Two players on Michigan's 1887 team, George Winthrop DeHaven, Jr. and William Warren Harless, had previously attended Notre Dame. In October 1887, DeHaven wrote to Brother Paul, who ran Notre Dame's intramural athletics program, telling him about the new game of football. Michigan had planned a game in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day, and the three men, DeHaven, Harless and Brother Paul, persuaded their respective schools to play a football match on the Notre Dame campus on the day before Thanksgiving.[9]
On November 22, 1887, the Michigan football team departed from the Michigan Central Railroad Depot in Ann Arbor on the late train. After breakfast in Niles, Michigan, the team changed trains and arrived in South Bend between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m.[10][11][12] The team was greeted by Father Superior Walsh and spent two hours touring the university buildings and departments of Notre Dame.
The game was the first played by a Notre Dame football team, and the Michigan team was credited with teaching the Notre Dame team the game before play began.[9][13] The Notre Dame student newspaper, Scholastic, reported: "It was not considered a match contest, as the home team had been organized only a few weeks, and the Michigan boys, the champions of the West, came more to instruct them in the points of the Rugby game than to win fresh laurels."[14] The proceedings began with a tutorial session in which players from both teams were divided irrespective of college.[12] For the first 30 minutes, the teams scrimmaged in a practice game with Michigan "exchanging six men for the same number from Notre Dame."[11]
After the practice session, the Michigan and Notre Dame teams played a game that lasted only half an hour which was described by The Chronicle (a University of Michigan newspaper) as follows: "The grounds were in very poor condition for playing, being covered with snow in a melting condition, and the players could scarcely keep their feet. Some time had been spent in preliminary practice; the game began and after rolling and tumbling in the mud for half an hour time was finally called, the score standing 8 to 0 in favor of U. of M."[10]
Between 400 and 500 students watched the game.[11] After the game, the team ate at the Notre Dame dining hall. The Notre Dame student newspaper reported on the gratitude of Notre Dame officials for Michigan's tutorial in the game of football: "After a hearty dinner, Rev. President Walsh thanked the Ann Arbor team for their visit, and assured them of the cordial reception that would always await them at Notre Dame."[12] Brother Paul arranged for carriages to take the team to Niles in time to catch the 3:00 train to Chicago.[11]The Notre Dame paper reported: "At 1 o'clock carriages were taken for Niles, and amidst rousing cheers the University of Michigan football team departed, leaving behind them a most favorable impression."[12]
You are in way over your head...just step away from the thread and no one gets hurt
So Michigan has a long standing rivalry with Hillsdale college?
You already have me pegged as an idiot for some reason, so I am going to indulge your question and say YES INDEEDY!!!!!
Actually, I have never attended or played for either school. So it would be "THEY" since we are really watching syntax on here
Yes I hate those sons a bitches!!!
Speaking of Hillsdale College....not too shabby for a college women basketball team
It’s not syntax it’s knowing what a word actually means. Long-standing does not mean that it just started a long time ago and hasn’t existed for most of that time. You haven’t played roughly 90 of the 130 years since that first game. It’s absolutely a rivalry, it’s just not a long standing one.
As a Sparty fan will YOU watch Michigan and Notre Dame Saturday? Its a long standing rivalry
Oh, and again I never played..it would be "THEY"
Unfortunately my wife made plans for us to ruin the weekend by going to her parents. Happy birthday to me.
fucking Michigan fans.
injuries suck
