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Bobby Fong

Butler advanced to the Final Four, beating Michigan State before losing to Duke in the championship game.

Dick Bennett

A guard who played several seasons in the NBA, Tony Bennett led the team to its first NCAA tournament berth in 1991, where the Phoenix lost to Michigan State in the first round.

Goran Suton

He has completed his college career with the Michigan State Spartans in 2009.

Herky the Hawk

Herky is also involved in occasional gimmicks, such as the Alumni Herky with a white beard who appears alongside the normal Herky at the annual homecoming game, and in 2010, a special Captain America-themed Herky was introduced during Iowa's football game with Michigan State.

Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball

However, it lost the national title game versus the Magic Johnson-led Michigan State team; and ended the season with a record of 33–1.

Labor and Employment Relations Association

It originally consisted of about 100 researchers (economists; management, human resources, and labor relations researchers; attorneys, historians and sociologists) from 30 universities, including California-Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Illinois, Massachusetts (several campuses), MIT, Michigan, Michigan State, Northeastern, Rutgers, Stanford and UCLA, as well as universities in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Marvin Sanders

Nebraska Defensive Coordinator Bo Pelini subsequently led the team to a 17-3 victory over Michigan State in the 2003 Alamo Bowl to finish the team's season at 10-3, but he and Sanders, along with nearly all of the remaining staff, were let go after Bill Callahan was appointed as Nebraska's 31st Head Football Coach.

Michigan State–Penn State football rivalry

The trophy, designed by former Michigan State coach George Perles, features pictures of Penn State's Old Main and Michigan State's Beaumont Tower.

Nathan Sassaman

In a heralded victory in the annual Army-Navy Game, Sassaman ran for 154 yards and two touchdowns, and later led Army to a rare post-season appearance with a win over Michigan State in the Cherry Bowl.

Nicole Corriero

On March 27, 2005 Corriero tied the all-time collegiate record of 59 goals in a season, set by Michigan State's Mike Donnelly in 1986, with her first goal against St. Lawrence in the Frozen Four.

Penn Quakers men's basketball

The Quakers faced Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Michigan State in the national semifinals in Salt Lake City, Utah, but ultimately were met with defeat, 101–67.


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1930 Michigan Wolverines football team

Michigan's starting lineup against Michigan State Normal consisted of Michigan's first-team players: Bill Hewitt (left end), Tom Samuels (left tackle), Omer LaJeunesse (right guard), Maynard Morrison (center), Francis Cornwell (right guard), Claire Purdum (right tackle), Norman Daniels (right end), Estel Tessmer (quarterback), William Heston (left halfback), James Simrall (right halfback), and Roy Hudson (fullback).

1933 Michigan Wolverines football team

Later in the quarter, John Kowalik recovered a Michigan State fumble at the Spartans' 23-yard line.

1966 College Football All-America Team

Clint Jones, Michigan State (AP, NEA, CP, WC, Time, TSN)

1966 Notre Dame vs. Michigan State football game

For nearly 50 years, Parseghian has defended his end-of-the-game strategy, which left many fans feeling disappointed at the game not having some sort of resolution, Michigan State fans and other Notre Dame detractors calling him a coward, and college football expert Dan Jenkins leading off his article for Sports Illustrated by saying Parseghian chose to "Tie one for the Gipper."

2004–05 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team

The 2004–05 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University in the 2004–05 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

2006 Michigan State vs. Northwestern football game

The comeback was thought to save John L. Smith's career at Michigan State, but on November 1, 2006 the university announced that Smith would not be brought back after the season as the Spartans finished with four more losses after this game.

Michigan State's chances of completing the comeback appeared to be finished early in the fourth quarter when backup quarterback Brian Hoyer had his 6th pass of the drive intercepted by Northwestern a minute in.

Michigan State began the comeback with a nine play, 65 yard drive that was capped off with an 18-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Stanton to running back Jehuu Caulcrick.

2008 Michigan State Spartans football team

Michigan State responded when Otis Wiley intercepted a Nate Longshore pass and returning it for a touchdown, while Cal was able to counter with a touchdown run by Jahvid Best prior to the half.

Alan Haller

In 2006, Haller (along with Athletic Director Mark Hollis, men's basketball coach Tom Izzo, and former athletic director Ron Mason) was a member of the Selection Team that brought Head Football Coach Mark Dantonio to Michigan State.

Bob Dove

The other nine players were Ron Beagle, Navy; Chuck Bednarik, Pennsylvania: Carl Diehl, Dartmouth; Bill Fisher, Notre Dame; Leroy Keyes, Purdue; Tommy Nobis, Texas; Greg Pruitt, Oklahoma; Joe Romig, Colorado; and Charles "Bubba" Smith, Michigan State.

Brian Ottney

Ottney graduated from Michigan State with a bachelor's degree in building construction management in 2003.

Clarence Munn

In 1947, Munn and the Michigan State administration, led by university president John A. Hannah, approached Notre Dame president Father Cavanaugh to have his Fighting Irish play the Spartans for the first time since 1921.

Collins H. Johnston

He was also physician at the Michigan Masonic Home, surgeon to the Butterworth Hospital, president of the Michigan State Anti-Tuberculosis Society, and a member of the Michigan State Board of Health.

Copper Country Strike of 1913–1914

Douglass Houghton explored the area in 1831 and 1832, and surveyed the peninsula in 1840 as Michigan State Geologist.

Copper mining in Michigan

The Michigan State Geologist Douglass Houghton (later to become mayor of Detroit) reported on the copper deposits in 1841, which quickly began a rush of prospectors.

Dan LeFevour

On September 12, 2009 at Michigan State, LeFevour passed Byron Leftwich to take over as the MAC all-time leader in total offense in a career.

Deanna Nolan

Nolan attended Flint Northern High School where she led her team to back to back Michigan state championships in 1994 and 1995, and was crowned as Michigan's 1995 Miss Basketball.

Don Koivisto

In 1990, Koivisto was elected a Michigan State Senator from the 38th district, succeeding Joe Mack who had represented much of the Upper Peninsula since 1960.

Donald Laverdure

Prior to joining the Michigan State University College of faculty, Laverdure was Executive Director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Drew Stanton

Stanton redshirted through Michigan State's 2002 campaign before serving as the #2 QB behind Jeff Smoker in 2003.

Ernest Green

He later learned that the anonymous donor was John A. Hannah, the president of Michigan State, and ironically, an occasional target of protests by Civil Rights activists including Green.

George Perles

His best team was the 1987 unit, which won Michigan State's last outright conference title in the pre-championship game era and defeated USC in the 1988 Rose Bowl.

MSU president M. Peter McPherson fired Perles before the end of the 1994 season, and ordered the Spartans to forfeit their five wins for that season, resulting in Michigan State's second official winless season of the modern era.

Grandville, Michigan

Allyssa DeHaan, a 2006 graduate of Grandville High School was named Miss Basketball 2005 and went on to attend Michigan State University

Harold M. Ryan

He was a delegate to Michigan state conventions every two years from 1940 to 1970 and a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964.

Highland Park Community College

Among the alumni of Highland Park Community College is Michigan State Senator Martha G. Scott.

Howard McCurdy

McCurdy has also served for a time as Michigan State University's president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Jerome Pathon

He gained 1,299 yards receiving that year, an average of 108.3 yards per game, including 4 receptions for 54 yards in the Huskies' 51-23 victory over Michigan State in the 1997 Aloha Bowl.

Jim Cash

As a professor, Cash met a student at Michigan State University, Jack Epps, Jr., who was from the Detroit area, and who would later become his writing partner.

Kenyon L. Butterfield

He was president of the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (1903-1906); the Massachusetts Agricultural College (1906-1924), and the Michigan Agricultural College, (later Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, which is now Michigan State University) from 1924 to 1928.

Kevin Fickenscher

Early in his career, Dr. Fickenscher pursued an academic career and served as the founder of The Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota, a nationally recognized program dedicated to rural health service, research, and policy analysis, and as the Assistant Dean and President/CEO of the Michigan State University/ Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, one of six campuses for the MSU College of Human Medicine.

Laura Bannon

Bannon studied art in both Michigan and Illinois, earning degrees from Michigan State Normal School (now Western Michigan University) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she later taught.

LIRNEasia

Johannes M. Bauer, PhD: Professor, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, Michigan State University; Director, Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law.

Lou Anna Simon

She served as Michigan State's interim president during the period from May 2003 to May 2004 that then-President M. Peter McPherson served as a representative of President George W. Bush in the reconstruction of Iraq following the toppling of Saddam Hussein's government.

McNair SROP Michigan State University

Michigan State University Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Achievement Program/ Summer Research Opportunity Program (also referred to as the Ronald E. McNair Summer Research Program, or McNair Summer Research Institute, or McNair SROP) is a nationally recognized undergraduate research program named after Ronald McNair, a Space Shuttle Challenger crew member.

Mel Farr

Had a 50-yard touchdown run in UCLA's upset of USC in 1965, securing a berth in the 1966 Rose Bowl, a stunning UCLA upset over #1 ranked Michigan State.

Paracosm

A Michigan State University study revealed that many MacArthur Fellows Program recipients had paracosms as children.

Pere Marquette 1225

The children's book was written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg, who grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and as a child attended every home football game at Michigan State, next to which this engine was on static display.

Perth, New York

Robert P. Aitken (1819–1873), Michigan State Representative and Civil War veteran

Rene Montero

He holds a degree from Michigan State University and lives in San Ignacio, Cayo District.

Thomas J. Ramsdell

Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell (1833-1917), entrepreneur and Michigan State Representative in 1861

Twin Registry

Michigan State University Twin Registry, registry of twins produced by researchers at Michigan State University

Washtenaw County, Michigan

In 1849, the Michigan State Normal School (now Eastern Michigan University) was established in Washtenaw's oldest settlement, the city of Ypsilanti.

William H. Frankhauser

He attended the public schools, Michigan State Normal School (now Eastern Michigan University at Ypsilanti, Michigan, and Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.

William Hartmann

William M. Hartmann (born 1939), physicist, psychoacoustician at Michigan State University

Wisconsin Highway 55

It runs south–north in northeast Wisconsin from a junction with US 151 approximately 1.5 miles north of Brothertown near the eastern shore of Lake Winnebago in Calumet County to the Michigan State line at the Brule River approximately one mile northeast of Nelma in Forest County where it connects to M-73.