Michigan - Ohio State: The Ultimate Rivalry
On October 17, 1897, two college football teams met on the field in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The Ohio
State Buckeyes had made the trip North to Ann Arbor to play the Michigan Wolverines.
The game
garnered little...
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Michigan - Ohio State: The Ultimate Rivalry
On October 17, 1897, two college football teams met on the field in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The Ohio
State Buckeyes had made the trip North to Ann Arbor to play the Michigan Wolverines.
The game
garnered little attention at the time, the Wolverines defeated the Buckeyes 34 to 0 on that day.
None
of the players involved in that Fall contest could have imagined, but they were all a part of the
opening salvo of college football s greatest rivalry.
Over the course of the following 114 years, Michigan and Ohio State would face each other on the
gridiron 108 times.
As of the time of this writing, the University of Michigan holds the lead with a
record of 58-43-6, not that I am counting.
The "game", as it is often called, is played on the final
weekend of the Big Ten schedule and the date is circled on calendars in Columbus and Ann Arbor.
History buffs know the "Toledo War" was a boundary dispute between Ohio and Michigan that took
place in 1835
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