[Ed. Bumped 11/24/22. Happy Thanksgiving and Go Blue!]
Thanksgiving football! Forget about the Lions and Cowboys. Like football in general, it all started in the college game and your Wolverines had a big hand in the tradition.
From 1885 to 1905 Michigan football played regularly on Thanksgiving. And most of those were HUGE match-ups in the Windy City with then-rival Amos Alonzo Stagg and his Chicago Maroons.
Here’s a snapshot of Michigan football’s Thanksgiving Day games – each played on the last Thursday in November:
All told U-M played 17 games with Michigan and came out on top 9 times.