Showing posts with label Alice's ashes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alice's ashes. Show all posts

Monday, November 21, 2016

North vs. South Endzone update

As I had posted previously we put some of my mother's ashes in the south endzone of Michigan Stadium while the field was being resurfaced in 2003. My dad wanted me to keep track how many points were scored against Michigan in each endzone, convinced that her ashes would help stop the opposition.
This was a good year for my mom. the opposition only manages 22 points in the south endzone vs. 61 in the north endzone. This brings the total since 2003 to 996 in the north vs 842 in the south.

My dad passed away this summer and we haven't managed to get his ashes down on the field yet. But I'm sure we'll find a way and more importantly, find a way to track what difference his ashes are making for the Wolverines.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

North Endzone vs. South Endzone - Defense

My mom passed away in 2003. In May of that year my dad was in town for the 50th anniversary of his graduation from the Michigan College of Pharmacy. Coincidentally, Michigan Stadium was converting form a grass field back to artificial turf. Along with my sister we somehow got into the stadium and were able to place some of my mom's ashes in the South Endzone, just to the right of the goal post (the flag pole side). The turf had not been laid down, so her ashes are actually now covered by the turf.

My dad has asked me to determine if her presence in the South Endzone has helped make that end better defensively than the North End. Here are the results.
DateOppNorth South
8/30/2003CMU70
9/6/2003Houston03
9/13/2003Notre Dame00
9/27/2003Indiana143
10/18/2003Illinois77
10/25/2003Purdue03
11/22/2003OSU147
9/4/2004Miami (OH)73
9/18/2004San Diego St714
9/25/2004Iowa143
10/9/2004Minnesota1014
10/30/2004MSU1413
11/13/2004Northwestern1010
9/3/2005Northern Illinois710
9/10/2005Notre Dame710
9/17/2005EMU00
10/8/2005Minnesota203
10/15/2005Penn St.223
11/12/2005Indiana014
11/19/2005OSU196
9/2/2006Vanderbilt70
9/9/2006CMU170
9/23/2006Wisconsin76
10/7/2006MSU76
10/21/2006Iowa60
10/28/2006Northwestern03
11/4/2006Ball St1610
9/1/2007Appalachian St2410
9/8/2007Oregon1821
9/15/2007Notre Dame00
9/22/2007Penn St.36
10/6/2007EMU139
10/13/2007Purdue714
10/27/2007Minnesota37
11/17/2007OSU140
8/30/2008Utah169
9/6/2008Miami (OH)33
9/27/2008Wisconsin1213
10/4/2008Illinois1035
10/11/2008Toledo103
10/25/2008MSU1421
11/15/2008Northwestern714
9/5/2009WMU07
9/12/2009Notre Dame313
9/19/2009EMU314
9/26/2009Indiana1221
10/17/2009Delaware St33
10/24/2009Penn St.1322
11/7/2009Purdue2117
11/21/2009OSU147
9/4/2010Connecticut010
9/18/2010Massachusetts1423
9/25/2010Bowling Green210
10/9/2010MSU331
10/16/2010Iowa2117
11/6/2010Illinois5213
11/20/2010Wisconsin1434
9/3/2011WMU37
9/10/2011Notre Dame2110
9/17/2011EMU03
9/24/2011San Diego St70
10/1/2011Minnesota00
10/29/2011Purdue014
11/19/2011Nebraska143
11/26/2011OSU1717
9/8/2012Air Force1015
9/15/2012Massachusetts013
10/13/2012Illinois00
10/20/2013MSU73
694623
47.30%
Her endzone is slightly better, just under  over 47% of the points Michigan's opponents have scored have come in the South Endzone.
The only score I can't account for is the 4th quarter score by AJ Harris of Northern Illinois. I can't find any second half highlights from that game and mgoblue.com doesn't have a working link to the pdf of the play-by-play. So this is the best I can do for now dad.

Thanks to jiMpossible for finding the M-NIU Michigan Replay from 2005.