Glenn Edward “Bo” Schembechler Jr., an American football player, coach, and athletics administrator, was born on April 1, 1929, and passed away on November 17, 2006.

 

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Starting pay for Bo Schembechler at Michigan in 1969 was equivalent to around $140,000 today.

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Bo Schembechler had a career record of 234-65-8 while coaching at Miami University from 1963 to 1968 and the University of Michigan from 1969 to 1989.

Tom Osborne, Joe Paterno, and Nick Saban are the only other major college football coaches with 200 victories in fewer games.

In his 21 seasons as head coach of the Michigan Wolverines, Schembechler’s teams went 194-48-5 and won or shared 13 Big Ten Conference championships.

His Michigan teams never won a national championship, but 16 times, with one exception, they finished in the top ten of both major polls.

He passed away in 2006 at the age of 77, the night before the famous No. 1 versus No. 2 football game between Michigan and Ohio State that year.