Michigan Football: Returns for scores 

Derrick Alexander is the most underrated wr/kr in Michigan football history. Most young Michigan fans these days probably wouldn't know him but growing up in Ann Arbor in the 90s us kids loved him, and of course Desmond, who cast a very large shadow.

I was a student and season ticket holder for all these games in the early 90s. Amazing time. Years later I was sking in new York . On the chair lift, I was sitting next to a lady who asked where I was from. When I said Michigan, she said her son in law went to um, and asked if I knew him. I said, well um is a big school. She said he was QB Elvis gerbac

I watched the tribute vids for the running backs and never heard of wheatley as he was before my time of watching Michigan but after seeing these vids, I would say he’s probably the best running back Michigan has had the last 50 years.

We had Grbac, Alexander, Howard, and Wheatley on the same team how in the Hell did we not win a National Championship?!!

HELLO HEISMAN!!!!! Never gets old...Go Blue!

If there was one thing Desmond took with him to the NFL is Kickoff returns.

Didn't Anthony Carter have some returns for scores? I believe his first time touching the ball as a Wolverine was a punt return for a score

They need to get those old uniforms from the '80s and '90s.

how i miss college football! Can't wait to watch the wolverines once again

Tyrone Wheatley made opposing defenses look like middle school scrubs.

The crowd at 0:23... That is awesome.

4:25 That call on Alexander's punt return is the least exciting call for a kick return that I have ever heard.

@giantkiller56 I'm a student here, so yeah. The Big House isn't built to hold in noise, it is just a hole in the ground. Why do we need some stupid gimmick to be considered good fans? That's just stupid. I suppose you want a mascot too? And we do have something where all the fans get involved, the wave. 114,000 person wave is pretty tricky.

@ 00:24: THAT'S the kind of crowd I miss at the Big House. I don't know what's happened to us over the years, but nowadays you can hear a pin drop in the stands. What happened to all the fan hysteria? Oh, to go back to THOSE days.

I say this as an Illinois fan, we SUCKED IN 2003.

Hail

I forgot Wheatley returned kicks.

Big Ten Network is playing the 2005 Minnesota game this Monday night and will repeat it at least once. I know you don't collect losses but you might want to tape that play.

7:35 So odd to not read "Derrick Alexander" again.

GOODBYE!!! HELLO HEISMAN!!!!

@MLDWoody Seriously? Have you been to a Michigan game lately? Maybe it's because of the lack of "big games" on our schedule...I dunno...but the noise level at the Big House is not commensurate with its size. Also, there isn't a universal crowd involvement. Wisconsin has "Jump Around." Florida has their chomp. Michigan has silence. It's a pretty sad sight for the country's largest attendance.

Time for a new edition??

The first one just reminds me of yet another game where MSU won on horse-ass shenanigans right at the end. Is there a blog somewhere that discusses these sorts of "wins?"

Great vid...What the heck? How fast is Leon Hall? It looks like he is jogging at 10:19

great vid historian!!!!!

@giantkiller56 you mean like how they are at 2:25?

Holy crap are those some ugly MSU uniforms!

@MLDWoody According to researchers, the new addition should adequately capture sound now. We shall see. But, yeah, audience involvement is definitely necessary to capture the full game experience. If some rallying tool is needed (a "stupid gimmick", as you put), so be it. Michigan's size is...and always will be...impressive. But 114,000 people on mute is less fulfilling than 30,000 screaming fans. In this humble commentator's opinion, anyway.

Go Blue!

boston looking all dumbfounded on the sidelines haha

@giantkiller56 I think you are just losing your hearing

haha they coach 1:05