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597:"Detwiler, Clancy, Sygar So Good: U-M Kills Off Bucks, 17-3"
495:"Key Buckeye-Wolverine games sprinkled through every decade"
643:. The Regents of the University of Michigan. March 31, 2007
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579:"Jim Detwiler Out for Year"
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1175:Woodson
1150:Burkett
1115:Vessels
1006:Bo Rein
103:College
1470:Nelson
1465:Hooker
1450:Werner
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1395:Morris
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