“The Big House”

The Michigan Wolverines’ football stadium, affectionately known as “the Big House,” is the largest football stadium in North America and one of the largest sports stadiums in the world. Fielding Yost, one of the most famous and successful coaches in the school’s history, purchased the land for the stadium in 1925. Finally built in 1927, the massive football stadium would later come to be known as “the house that Yost built” (“Building Michigan Stadium,” Go Blue: Competition, Controversy, and ...