Rob Lytle was the white running back for Michigan probably the last one ever until after the war happens
They also had a white speedster receiver Jon Kolasar a few years back, OSU fans may remember him as he burned them for a long TD to break open a tight UM/OSU game.
Here's the deal on Michigan. When Carr became head coach he had been the main recruiter for Bo for years as an assistant. He was just following trends in recruiting blacks as was nearly everyone else. What happened though were a couple of things that directed UM to the recruiting process they now have.
Ohio State was losing a lot of Ohio HS players to Michigan because Bo was a native Ohioan and for a while Michigan was beating OSU. Plus the UM basketball team took off with a national championship and then the Fab Five. That made Michigan a popular national program so instead of recruiting Ohioans, many of them white, and competing against their instate school (OSU), Michigan went national.
Michigan is a national recruiting powerhouse. For some reason kids from California and Texas and Florida want to play for the winged helmet and live in Ann Arbor. Why? I cannot imagine, having lived there myself but that is how it is. The UM roster is dotted with lots of kids from Texas and Ohio and Florida.
Michigan got beat by some black teams from the SEC a few years back and that made them think that they had to recruit from Florida to compete. Or at least recruit black kids from the south. I don't know how it is where you are at but in Michigan football fans think that rural blacks are the best football players. Better even then the blacks in the many ghettos of Michigan. Why? They probably ascribe to the Jimmy the Greek idea that slaves were bred for physical activity and must think that blacks in Alabama etc, are still pickin' cotton.
Michigan has been getting out recruited by the gangster friendly Florida schools down there and now looks to Texas to get most of their black players.
Ironically most good black players from Detroit, Flint, Lansing etc. go to MSU, probably because of the success of their basketball teams which are now much better then Michigan's.
I'm talking the ball handling positions and defense when I say Michigan recruits blacks. At QB, offensive line and TE, Michigan is usually completely white. They are a prototypical caste system football program with the positions strictly segregated by race. They probably have "black only" and "white only" drinking fountains, it is so segragated there.
Leave the white ball handlers to OSU, Iowa, and Wisconsin, Michigan wants nothing to do with them.
Michigan is also the school that convinced the Supreme Court to overturn the equal protection clause and totally void the constitution (thanks Sandra Day O'Conner) in the case concerning race preferences in student admissions. They should be rooted against every chance you get except when they play the especially vile all black programs.