Michigan Football: Wolverines Will Continue Streak of Hall-of-Fame Inductees
It's practically routine for College Football Hall of Fame to induct former Michigan players into its hallowed halls; 30 Wolverines have already been enshrined in South Bend, second only to pigskin resident Notre Dame.
It should come as no surprise, then, that this year's 84-man ballot, revealed on Tuesday by the National Football Foundation, features three proud former members of the Maize and Blue: Rob Lytle, Jumbo Elliott and Erick Anderson.
Lytle, who played running back in Ann Arbor between 1973 and 1976 and passed away in 2010, is eighth on the school's all-time list in rushing yards (3,317) and single-season touchdowns (14) and seventh in single-season rushing (1,469).
Elliott served as an offensive tackle under Bo Schembechler from 1984 to 1987, during which time he was an All-American and helped the Wolverines reel in a Big Ten title before winning a Super Bowl with the New York Giants.
Anderson's easily the most decorated of the bunch. He won the Butkus Award in 1991 and finished his four years in Maize and Blue as the school's third-most prolific tackler, behind only Ron Simpkins and Jarrett Irons.
Earning entry certainly won't be a cinch for any of these three, not with the likes of Tommy Frazier, Raghib Ishmael, Jonathan Ogden, Vinny Testaverde, Orlando Pace, Jimmy Johnson and Derrick Thomas also on the ballot.
But considering Michigan's Hall of Fame pedigree and their two-year streak of sneaking people in—Desmond Howard in 2010, Lloyd Carr in 2011—it's not all that difficult to imagine the voters hailing to at least one of the victors when all is said and done.
