[3] One news report noted: "A 17-year-old lad with a great high school reputation he was touted as a regular starter before the '45 season opened.

[7] With Wahl and Wistert leading the way, the 1949 Wolverines went 6-2-1, finished in a tie for the Big Ten Conference football championship, and were ranked #2 in the final Associated Press poll.

Badly battered through the first half and trailing the California Bears, 6-0, at the intermission, team captain Wahl stood before his mates as they rested at halftime and told them of Michigan's winning tradition.

In the 1950 season, Wahl played a key role in the famed Snow Bowl game against Ohio State on November 25, 1950.

The Snow Bowl was played in Columbus in a blizzard, at 10 degrees above zero, on an icy field, and with wind gusting over 30 miles per hour.

The ball bounced erratically to the right of the onrushing Maize and Blue lineman and was floundering less than a foot outside the end zone border when speedy Al Jackson caught up with it.

[5] Wahl was eligible for the 1949 NFL draft, and was selected by the Chicago Bears in the 16th round,[14] but opted to stay at Michigan for the 1949 and 1950 seasons and earn his degree.

"[15] In 1981, The New York Times published an article about Wahl's recovery of an inscribed watch that was a memento of Michigan's victory in the 1951 Rose Bowl.

[16] Wahl reported that he lost the watch during a street fight in Chicago in 1953, while he was running an Army prison at Fort Sheridan, Illinois.

[5] In 2005, Wahl was selected as one of the 100 greatest Michigan football players of all time by the "Motown Sports Revival," ranking 32nd on the all-time team.

[18] From 1997, Wahl was an independent business consultant and director of Phazar Corp., a company in Mineral Wells, Texas that makes antennas, wireless mesh network solutions and other products.