The campus landmark that once led to Ferry Field today connects 150 years of athletics to academics, and past to present. Plus: First-known photos of U-M football.

In this excerpt from “Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football,” John U. Bacon, BA ’86/MA ’94, breaks down U-M’s game-changing play of 2014

Emmy-winning director Haley Geffen, BA ’99, takes her creative playbook to one of the biggest fields in sports today.

In the years after the Civil War, springtime in Ann Arbor generated U-M’s first sporting craze: “base ball.”

Coach Jim Harbaugh draws a huge crowd for spring football and lights up Twitter with the new documentary photo series “365 Days of Michigan Football” by Stamps professor David Turnley.

Bookish historian Alice Dalligan, AM ’48/AMLS ’51, became a bona fide baseball nut when sportscaster Ernie Harwell donated his archive to the Detroit Public Library in ’66.

Pilot program succeeds in encouraging student-athletes to seek help for depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions.

Go deep at MGoBlue.com for extras and exclusives on Jim Harbaugh, former Wolverine quarterback and the football program’s 20th coach.

In 1925 two lonely rebels said no to the formidable Fielding Yost in a contest of ideas that still echoes today.