Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Big Ten Conference football championship in the 1950 college football season was on the line. The Wolverines were playing also for a berth in the 1951 Rose Bowl game. Ohio State had gone the previous year; the Big Ten Conference had a no-repeat rule regarding the Rose Bowl representative at that time. If Michigan had lost this game, the likely Rose Bowl representative would have been second place Wisconsin, which finished with a 5-2 record.If the game had not been played, which was a proposal put forth at game time, Ohio State would have been the Big Ten champion