Michigan Football Program & Ticket Guide

Collector Ken Magee visit the Pigpen recently to discuss his upcoming book, The Michigan Football Programs and Ticket Guide. Ken has the largest collection of University of Michigan Football memorabilia in all the land and he shares it in this new book and with us on the podcast in this episode!

We had the great privilage of having collector and author Ken Magee visited the Pigpen recently to discuss his upcoming book, The Michigan Football Programs and Ticket Guide. Ken you see has the largest collection of University of Michigan Football memorabilia in all the land. He has been collecting for decades, as he grew up in Ann Arbor and was great friends since childhood with the family of Coach Bo Schembechler. You see Maize and Blue are in his blood and this passion spurned him to want to own pieces of the program's history, so as he could he added, and added and added until his collection was enormous.

Ken has learned so much of not only Michigan Wolverines football lore through his collection but also of the very game itself. He wants to share the legacy of these pieces of history with the world so with co-author Brian Snider and a team of others they have assembled and over 600 page book of some 2500 images depicting a collection of Michigan Football history in ticket stubs and game programs and scorecards. He has also solicited the help of some of the finest football historians specializing in Wolverines football to write up some short pieces about each image group to write a legacy of University of Michigan Gridiron history.

Ken during our interview found above in the podcast, shared with me three very special pieces of his collection that are in the book.

• An 1881 scorecard from the Michigan at Yale game (A "Western" team competes with one of the top teams team of the stocking cap era)
• An 1898 Michigan versus Chicago ticket stub (Michigan upsets Amos Alonzo Stagg's midwest powerhouse team)
• A 1902 Tournament of Roses game Ticket , Michigan versus Stanford (The 1st Rose Bowl game in essence) 

The book is beautiful as you can see from the photos here. The Michigan Football Programs and Ticket Guide is available for pre-order (releasing August 12, 2022) and orders by going to Ken's website, UMichFootball.com. You can also find ways to get some of Ken's other books on football history as well at the website. There is a special bonus card for those that purchase the book on pre-order as Ken describes in the podcast interview, so don't delay getting your copy on order!

The banner photo is of Ken Magee's book cover of  The Michigan Football Programs and Ticket Guide.

A Very Special thanks to information obtained from Ken Magee and his knowledge of Michigan Football history.