Michigan's sports teams are called the Wolverines. They participate in the NCAA's
Division I-A and in the Big Ten Conference; its hockey program competes in the
Central Collegiate Hockey
Association. The Michigan football team won the first
Rose Bowl game in 1902, and has won an NCAA-record 841 games
through the 2004 season. The football team is the NCAA's all-time winningest program - in game wins and winning percentage.
Michigan's famous football coaches include Fielding Yost, Fritz Crisler and Bo
Schembechler. Michigan Stadium is the largest football-only
stadium in the world, with an official capacity of 107,501 and with attendance commonly exceeding 110,000.Michigan has a huge rivalry with Ohio State,
considered one of the biggest college rivalries in sports, especially in football. The game against Ohio State is almost always
the last game of the regular season and has provided many memorable games, such as the "Snow Bowl" of 1950. Michigan also has a rivalry with Michigan State, and the schools compete in football for the Paul Bunyan Trophy on a regular basis. The Wolverines also have a long-standing but much less
intense rivalry with Minnesota; the two schools
battle in football for the Little Brown
Jug, a five-gallon jug with the respective schools' "M" on either side and the scores of previous games down the middle. The
Little Brown Jug is the oldest trophy in Division 1-A football, first appearing in 1903. Finally, the
University of Michigan has a rivalry with the University of Notre Dame. According to popular history, the Michigan football team taught the
students of Notre Dame the game of football while spending the afternoon in South Bend, Indiana (location of N.D.) awaiting a train to the University of Chicago. This game usually takes place early in the season, and has seen both
schools play competitive football.The school fight song is "The Victors," and was declared by John
Philip Sousa as "the greatest college fight song ever written." The alma mater song is "The Yellow and Blue." A common rally
cry at Michigan football games is "Let's Go Blue."