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Formal protrait of the U-M football team in 1890.

“We must work off our surplus animal spirits”: 19th-Century Origins of Athletic Competition at the University of Michigan with Greg Kinney and Brian Williams

Event Details

date and Time

Thursday, December 19, 2019, 7:00pm – 8:30pm

Event Type

In-person

Location

Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory 1398 E. Ann Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Sports play a key role in college life, particularly at the University of Michigan whose athletic teams are famous not just in the United States, but around the world.

But how did they get their start? Join us to hear from Bentley Historical Library archivists Brian Williams and Greg Kinney as they share the origins of U-M’s athletic teams in the nineteenth century.