Talk:1888 Michigan Wolverines football team

A fact from 1888 Michigan Wolverines football team appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 March 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that during an 1888 visit to Ann Arbor, Michigan, Theodore Roosevelt quipped that it was "not healthy to get in the way of the U. of M. rugby team"?

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Wolverines? Football??

Is is not anachronistic to apply the nickname Wolverines in this era? And references suggest that it was considered a rugby team. Kevin McE (talk) 20:53, 25 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]