Portal:Michigan/Did you know/1


 * ...that Garland Rivers (pictured) was the only true freshman to earn a varsity letter on the 1983 Michigan Wolverines football team?
 * ...that William Revelli, director of the University of Michigan Marching Band for 36 years, was the first to synchronize music and movement, in place of traditional rigid military-style formations?
 * ...that despite a requirement from the Michigan Legislature that a railroad connect three counties within ten years of its founding, after 21 years the St. Joseph Valley Rail Road had completed only 7.5 mi of track, all in St. Joseph County?