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The Wolverbear Mystery? [Solved!]

For this quick episode of the MVictors History Show I took a look at interesting Michigan Football uniform changes over the years. In particular, I examine the wolverine or ‘wolverbear’ patch U-M wore on its uniform for most of the 1962 season. It started with the game against Army played on October 6, 1962 in Ann Arbor.

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Bump Elliott’s Michigan team finished just 2-7 that year but beat #10 Army in the game that debuted the “wolverbear” patch.

Here’s the full story, or at least as much as I know:

So why did we wear this?