Biff was a wolverine who served as a team mascot at University of Michigan football games and was later kept in a small zoo at the University of Michigan in the 1920s and 1930s. In the mid-1920s, before the acquisition of a live wolverine, the University of Michigan used a mounted and stuffed wolverine, also named "Biff", as the team mascot.

2023年11月24日 · In 1924, Yost found a stuffed Wolverine to be the mascot. “Biff” was the school’s mascot until 1927, when Yost’s luck (if you want to call it that) changed. The Detroit Zoo acquired 10 live wolverines from Alaska, and Yost quickly slid in to strike a deal with the zoo.

The Michigan Wolverines is one of the few college sports teams that does not have a live or costumed mascot, largely for reasons of tradition. [87] In the late 1920s, the Wolverines did have an unofficial mascot – Biff, the Michigan Wolverine. The first Biff was a stuffed wolverine.

2011年6月16日 · It’s not quite true that Michigan never had a mascot. Fielding Yost himself introduced Biff and Bennie in 1927. But the creatures were so feral they lasted only a year before being shipped off to zoos. (Photo courtesy U-M Bentley Historical Library.)

2018年9月28日 · The Wolverines won the game 7-3 and the mascot was an instant success. Today, we know the mascot as Murderwolf, but the original name is somewhat of a mystery. Some claim it was named “8-ball” or simply “Wolvy.”

2024年1月8日 · Here's what the National Wildlife Federation has to say, and no, it has nothing to do with the Marvel superhero. A wolverine is the largest land-living species in the weasel family, donning...

2021年11月10日 · It has been nearly a century since the University embraced the wolverine as its mascot. In 1923, U-M football coach Fielding Yost was inspired by a University of Wisconsin tradition of players carrying along live badgers when the team entered the stadium. But unlike the Wisconsin badgers, wolverines are not native to the state of Michigan.

2024年3月4日 · Back in 1923 Michigan’s football coach at the timem Fielding Yost, wanted to have a live Wolverine after seeing the University of Wisconsin have a live Badger as the mascot of its football team. He sent out letters to 68 trappers asking for a live Wolverine but later expanded the search to just a Wolverine no matter what.

Willy the Wolverine mascot. Photo by A.M. Eler. In the fall of 1987, a furry phenomenon stepped into the Maize-and-Blue zeitgeist in the form of Willy the Wolverine: an anthropomorphic critter with a friendly, proud demeanor and an M-emblazoned sweater.

2023年12月29日 · A group of three Michigan students — Adam Blumenkranz, Eric Lefkofsky and David Kaufman — went outside the box and created as mascot on their own, without involving the university.