1919 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1919 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan in the Big Ten Conference during the 1919 college football season. In its 19th season under head coach Fielding H. Yost, the Wolverines compiled a 3–4 record – the only losing season in Yost's 30-year career as a head football coach. The team was outscored by a total of 102 to 93 and finished in a tie for seventh place in the Big Ten. After winning three of four games to start the season, the team lost its final three games against Chicago, Illinois, and Minnesota.
Left tackle Angus Goetz was the team captain. Other notable players included quarterback Cliff Sparks, center/fullback Ernie Vick, halfback Archie Weston, left end Robert J. Dunne. Murray Van Wagoner, who later served as Governor of Michigan in the early 1940s, also started one game at left guard.Schedule
Players
Letter winners
- John C. Cary - end
- Elmer W. Cress - end
- William R. Cruse - started 2 games at left halfback, 2 games at right halfback, 2 games at fullback
- Frank Culver - started 3 games at center, 1 game at left guard
- Frank T. Czysz - started 1 game at right tackle
- Roland Glenn Dunn - started 3 games at right tackle, 1 game at right guard
- Robert J. Dunne - started 6 games at left end
- Donald A. Finkbeiner - tackle
- William Fortune - started 3 games at left guard
- Gerald W. Froemke - started 1 game at right halfback
- Angus Goetz - started 7 games at left tackle
- J. Vinton Hammels - tackle
- William P. Henderson - started 1 game at right end
- Roy W. Johnson - started 2 games at center, 1 game at left guard
- Kenneth T. Knode - started 1 game at quarterback, 1 game at right halfback
- Alvin Loucks - guard
- Willard L. Peach - started 2 games at right end, 1 game at left end, 1 game at right tackle
- Harold Rye - started 3 games at right end
- Cliff Sparks - started 6 games at quarterback, 1 game at right halfback
- Ernie Vick - started 4 games at fullback, 2 games at center
- Archie Weston - started 2 games at right halfback
- Hugh Wilson - started 4 games at right guard, 2 games at right tackle, 1 game at left guard
Non-letter winners
- John M. Barnes - halfback
- James V. Campbell - tackle
- Charles Eades - started 1 game at fullback
- Robert E. Hamilton - center
- Earle Magrath - started 1 game at right end
- Barry Stuart - fullback
- Theodore Timchac - tackle
- Murray Van Wagoner - started 1 game at left guard
- Arthur A. Weadock - quarterback
- Charles O. Wilson - fullback
Awards and honors
- Captain: Angus Goetz
- All-Conference: Ernie Vick
Coaching staff
- Head coach: Fielding H. Yost
- Assistant coaches: Prentiss Douglass, Ernest Allmendinger, Carl Lundgren, Edwin Mather
- Manager: Leland N. Scofield
