WML Project: Pete and Bump Elliott

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12/17/61 Pete and Bump Elliott, two brothers who were the head coaches at Illinois and Michigan at the time. Bump's Michigan teams played Pete's Illinois teams every year from 1960-66 and Bump won the first six before Pete finally beat him. Illinois had lost all nine games they played in 1961 but two years later they won the Rose Bowl. Michigan won the Rose Bowl the year after that.

 

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Both Brothers had played for Michigan's national championship teams of 1947-48. Pete was the quarterback and Bump, (Chalmers), the halfback.


Wikipedia: Elliott and his younger brother, Pete Elliott, were teammates at Bloomington High School in 1943 and again at Michigan in 1946 and 1947. After his discharge from the military, Bump joined Pete at Michigan, where Pete played quarterback and Bump was the right halfback for the undefeated 1947 team.[5] Before the 1948 Rose Bowl, one article noted that the two brothers roomed together at Michigan and arranged their programs so that their classes were identical. The article observed: "They look alike, act alike and think alike and in Ann Arbor, Mich., when they walk down the street any Michigan student can recognize Bump and Pete, the inseparable Elliott Brothers, Wolverines right half and quarterback respectively."

 

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Pete's Illinois team beat Washington, 17-7 in the 1/1/64 Rose Bowl:

 

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And Bump's Michigan team crushes Oregon State, 34-7 a year later: