Fritz Crisler/university of Michigan Athletic Director 1941-1968

Famous quotes containing the words fritz, university and/or athletic:

    “Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang’s feeble imagination.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)

    “The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.”
    —Allan Bloom (1930–1992)

    “Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
    —Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)