Tag: sports history

Central U.P. and NMU Archives

July 3, 2018

Mehrman’s Plumberettes

In our collections at the Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives, we have a phonographic recording of the 1950 softball game between the Mehrman’s Plumberettes, a popular Class A county team from Marquette, and the All-Stars, a special team of the best players from the Class B county teams. We’ve had these phonographs…
Central U.P. and NMU Archives

December 4, 2015

A Little Bit of Hockey History

Since it’s now hockey season, we thought we would share some images with you from a particularly exciting episode in the NMU hockey team’s history. In 1991, Northern won the NCAA hockey title for the first time. We played against Boston University and won 8-7. The game went back and forth between the two teams…