OSU vs. Michigan

[snopes]

Comment: For at least 35 years a rumor has floated around the Mid west
relating to the football rivalry between Ohio State University and the U.
of Michigan. Reportedly one of the coaches was driving back from an
appointment thru the opponent's state. Rather than pay taxes on any fuel
purchased in "enemy territory" either OSU's Woody Hayes or U of M's Bo
Schlemblecler refused to stop. With the fuel gauge on 'E' the story could
only end with the coach running out of gas a few miles short of his
stubborn goal. Which coach got stranded trying to get back across their
home stateline? All that really matters now, of course, is which set of
fans gets to poke fun at the other team assuming there is any truth to
either version. Whadda you say happened?

[epdenny200]

FWIW (which is really nothing)...I grew up hearing this story about Woody Hayes, but never that the bus ran out of gas.

[RBCal]

Woody was famous for his hatred for Michigan and anything that had to do with the state (he referred to it, of course, as "that state up north" or "that team up north") . One night on a recruiting trip in the state of Michigan, an assistant noticed that the car he was driving was going to run out of gas. He let Woody, who was dozing in the passenger seat, that he had to pull over for gas. Woody refused, and the assistant drove on. The assistant, who saw the weather was starting to get bad, began to become worried about getting stuck in the middle of nowhere, and once again stressed his desire to pull over and get gas. Woody erupted: "No, goddammit! We do NOT pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you exactly why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddam drop of gas in the state of Michigan! We'll coast and PUSH this goddam car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money!" The assistant knew he wasn't kidding, and they barely made it across the border and sputtered into the first gas station they found in Ohio.

http://www.bucknuts.com/osuhistory/coachhayes.htm

[tagurit]

I didn't think it was Bo. Bo would've just figured, oh well, OH needed all the help they could get.