Tom Maentz

A native of [[Holland, Michigan]].

A native of [[Holland, Michigan]].

==University of Michigan==

==1955 season==

===One of Michigan’s “touchdown twins”===

Maentz and Kramer became known in 1955 as Michigan’s “touchdown twins.”<ref name=Iowa/> Michigan coach [[Bennie Oosterbaan]] called them “the two greatest ends in the country.”<ref name=Iowa>{{cite news|author=John Barbour|title=Coaches Heap Praise Upon Great Ends|publisher=Council Bluffs Nonpareil|date=1955-10-30}}</ref> They appeared together on the cover of ”[[Sports Illustrated]]” on November 12, 1956, the first Michigan players to receive the honor.<ref>{{cite news|author=Ernie Harwell|title=Michigan Has Covered SI 67 Times|publisher=Detroit Free Press |date=2004-06-07}}</ref> Some 45 years after their appearance on the cover, ”Sports Illustrated” published a profile of the pair: “It seems they’ve done everything together since coming to Ann Arbor from different sides of the state. Maentz was the quiet kid from western Michigan, the son of a banker; Kramer was the unpolished Detroiter. But, says Kramer, they found a ‘common denominator’ in football and lived in the same dorms and at the Sigma Chi fraternity house for four years.”<ref>{{cite news|author=Tim Alan Smith|title=Tom Maentz And Ron Kramer|publisher=Sports Illustrated|date=2001-12-17|url=http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1024531/index.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121203043218/http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1024531/index.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 3, 2012}}</ref>

Maentz and Kramer became known in 1955 as Michigan’s “touchdown twins.”<ref name=Iowa/> Michigan coach [[Bennie Oosterbaan]] called them “the two greatest ends in the country.”<ref name=Iowa>{{cite news|author=John Barbour|title=Coaches Heap Praise Upon Great Ends|publisher=Council Bluffs Nonpareil|date=1955-10-30}}</ref> They appeared together on the cover of ”[[Sports Illustrated]]” on November 12, 1956, the first Michigan players to receive the honor.<ref>{{cite news|author=Ernie Harwell|title=Michigan Has Covered SI 67 Times|publisher=Detroit Free Press |date=2004-06-07}}</ref> Some 45 years after their appearance on the cover, ”Sports Illustrated” published a profile of the pair: “It seems they’ve done everything together since coming to Ann Arbor from different sides of the state. Maentz was the quiet kid from western Michigan, the son of a banker; Kramer was the unpolished Detroiter. But, says Kramer, they found a ‘common denominator’ in football and lived in the same dorms and at the Sigma Chi fraternity house for four years.”<ref>{{cite news|author=Tim Alan Smith|title=Tom Maentz And Ron Kramer|publisher=Sports Illustrated|date=2001-12-17|url=http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1024531/index.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121203043218/http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1024531/index.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 3, 2012}}</ref>