The Snow Bowl is a college football game played on November 25, 1950 between the University of Michigan team and the Ohio State University. The Michigan Wolverines defeated the Ohio State Buckeyes, 9-3, earned the Big Ten Conference championship and a place in the 1951 Rose Bowl. This game is one of the best known in the storied history of the State of Michigan-Ohio football competition.
Video Snow Bowl (1950)
What's at stake
The Big Ten Conference soccer championship in the 1950 college football season is at stake. The Wolverines also played for a place in the 1951 Rose Bowl game. Ohio State had passed the year before; The Big Ten Conference had a no-repeat rule about the Rose Bowl representation at the time. If Michigan loses this game, the possibility of Rose Bowl representation will be second place Wisconsin, which finished with a 5-2 record. If the game has not been played, which is the proposal submitted during the game, Ohio State will be the Big Ten champion.
Maps Snow Bowl (1950)
Game summary
The game is played at the Ohio Stadium, in Columbus, Ohio under adverse weather that changes the normal game of the game dramatically. The condition is depressing with temperatures at 10 degrees, winds blowing up to 28 miles per hour from the northwest and snowing at two inches per hour. The snow banks lined the field, the yard line was obliterated and sometimes so, the goalposts.
Before the game, Ohio State coach Wes Fesler and OSU athletics director Dick Larkins went to speak with Michigan athletic director Fritz Crisler and coach Bennie Oosterbaan about whether or not to play the game. Both Fesler and Oosterbaan want to play the game and Crisler points out that Michigan will miss but will not reschedule the game. Larkins will not accept the loss and the game runs on schedule.
The game is set to be played in front of 50,535 fans, some of whom build small bonfires in the stands to keep warm. Others sat with boxes above their heads to protect from the cold, with cut holes to peek out. When the game begins, the field crew struggles to get a tarp from a frozen field with four feet of snow on it. Local Boy Scouts and fans should help with tarpaulins, finally removing them 2:21 hours late.
Michigan won the 9-3 game, despite never getting the first down, failing on all nine pass and punting trials 24 times. The Buckeyes only had the first three downs, graduating for a total of 18 yards, rushing for 16 yards (11 fewer than UM) and sped 21 times, four of which were blocked. Overall, the teams did 45 times during the game, sometimes on the first down under the strategy that both teams feel better to have the ball in their opponent's hands near the end zone and hopes to slip a slippery ball. In the end Ohio State Halfback Vic Janowicz (who later won the Heisman Cup) was seized for 685 yards while Michigan Chuck Ortmann shot 723 yards.
The first score of the game came when Buckeye Bob Momsen's defense, blocked Ortmann's kick and fell over him in the 8-yard line of Michigan late in the first quarter of the game. The Buckeyes ran three straight-running games that went for minus 13 yards, putting the ball back to the 21st. Janowicz was called on to kick the 38-yard field goal into the wind spinning with a barely visible goalpost. He managed to give Buckeyes a 3-0 lead. The kick would later be called one of the "Greatest Victories in American Sports," by the sports writers panel.
In the second quarter, Michigan overcame Al Wahl blocked Janowicz kicks deep inside the State of Ohio. The blocked ball rolled from behind the end zone for safety, giving Michigan their first score of the game and slashing the Buckeyes leadership to 3-2. Michigan scored what proved to be a winning touchdown when with 20 seconds remaining in the first half, Janowicz attempted a third punt, only to have Michigan's Tony Momsen (brother of Ohio States Bob Momsen) break through the line and block the kick. Momsen falls on the ball in the final zone for touchdown and UM kicks the extra-point for a 9-3 ride. OSU coach Fesler could have played another game instead of pedaling on the third down and letting the clock end in half, but he was afraid there would be a mistake (there were 10 days) that would be restored as a touchdown by Michigan.
Both teams will not threaten to score again, and Michigan goes on to win a 9-3 game and claim a conference title and a chance to go to the Rose Bowl. The loss was Fesler's fourth straight to Michigan and 18 days later he submitted his resignation. Fesler was replaced by legendary coach Woody Hayes.
Other uses
This nickname has also been used to refer to various other games, including the 2000 Independence Bowl, a 43-41 overtime victory by the State of Mississippi over Texas A & amp; M. The 1992 meeting of Penn State and Notre Dame at Notre Dame Stadium is also sometimes referred to as the "Snow Bowl." The thick snow slows both teams, with Notre Dame coming from behind to win, 17-16. The famous record was filmed by two employees of Ohio State University, one of whom is Professor Emeritus, Robert Wagner, who is the Chair of the Department of Photography and Cinema.
References
External links
- The Snow Bowl: The Ohio State University Archives
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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