Today's Tidbit... Football On The Wayne (State)

Sometimes a college football pocket schedule is just a college football pocket schedule; other times, it goes much further, illustrating how a football program or even a school's existence is never assured. That latter is the case with a pocket schedule printed in advance of the Wayne State Tartars 1970 season.

1970 Wayne State pocket schedule (Personal collection)

Wayne State traces its origins to the founding of Detroit Medical College in 1868 and is now a public university with 24,000 students in Midtown Detroit, just west of downtown. The Tartars, now Warriors, compete at the DII level as a Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Association (GLIAC) member. They have played football since 1918 and claim only three conference championships, though they reached their heights by losing the 2011 DII national championship game.