Tom Slade
*Tom was born in Detroit and came to Saginaw after being adopted.
*Fittingly, he was raised on Carter Street, exactly 200 yards from the doors to Saginaw High School where he played football, basketball and tennis for the Trojans.
*He earned all-state honors in football as a strong-armed signal caller and also an accurate kicker for SHS.
*He fulfilled his childhood dream when the University of Michigan recruited him to play football.
*In his first game start he quarterbacked the Wolverines in a nationally-televised game against Michigan State University.
*Michigan would go on to win all 11 regular season games that year, earning a trip to the Rose Bowl where they lost to Stanford 13-12 in the final 13 seconds.
*Now a dentist in the Ypsilanti area, Slade worked for a number of years on the Wolverines' radio network as a color analyst.
