Ski-U-Mah (magazine)

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One of the first issues of Ski-U-Mah, from December 1929.
Ski-U-Mah staff members Clark Craig, John Healy, and Thomas Roberts (1927)

Ski-U-Mah (pronounced sky-you-ma), was the college humor magazine of the University of Minnesota[1] (and named for a U. of M. sports cheer) from about early 1920s to 1950. The magazine was affiliated to the Sigma Delta Chi fraternity in the university.[2] It was modeled on Harvard Lampoon.[3]

Its most prominent writer was Max Shulman,[4] who later wrote the stories that became the television program The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

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