Photo collage of images of Wisconsin football player Matt Vanden Boom with Camp Randall 100 logo

General News Mike Lucas

Camp Randall 100: Matt Vanden Boom

Safety’s three interceptions keyed ‘ambush’ of top-ranked Michigan

General News Mike Lucas

Camp Randall 100: Matt Vanden Boom

Safety’s three interceptions keyed ‘ambush’ of top-ranked Michigan

Camp Randall 100 logo
The Camp Randall 100 is an exclusive list celebrating 100 people who have shaped Camp Randall Stadium's history across the realms of sports, music, culture and beyond. A new honoree will be revealed each day over the final 100 days leading up to kickoff of the Wisconsin football team's season opener with Utah State on Friday, Sept. 1. The Camp Randall 100 reveal is part of a year-long celebration of the history of the iconic stadium, which opened in 1917.
 

MADISON, Wis. — Michigan made its place in the college football pecking order clear upon arrival at Camp Randall Stadium for a 1981 meeting with Wisconsin.

Behind chants of "We're No. 1," some members of the top-ranked Wolverines squad set out to intimidate a UW team that had been shut out in its previous four meetings with Michigan.

Four quarters and three interceptions later, Matt Vanden Boom had the Wolverines singing a different tune as they walked off the field following a 21-14 upset by the Badgers.

Read more in Vanden Boom's Camp Randall 100 profile.


Camp Randall 100 profiles through August 15, 2017:
Print Friendly Version