Schedule

Starters

• Norm Call - 1 game at right halfback
• Forest Evashevski
  Forest Evashevski
  Forest "Evy" Evashevski was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played college football at the University of Michigan from 1938 to 1940 and with the Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks in 1942...
  
   - 8 games at quarterback
  Quarterback
  Quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line...
  
  
• Ralph Fritz
  Ralph Fritz
  Ralph C. Fritz was an American football player and coach. A native of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, Fritz attended Kiski Preparatory School before enrolling at the University of Michigan. He played guard for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1939 to 1940. Fritz later played...
  
   - 6 games at left guard
  Guard (American football)
  In American and Canadian football, a guard is a player that lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team....
  
  , 2 games at right guard
• Ed Frutig
  Ed Frutig
  Edward C. Frutig was an American football end who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1938-1940. He was selected as a first-team All-American in 1940 by William Randolph Hearst's International News Service. A teammate of Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon for three years at...
  
   - 5 games at right end, 3 games at left end
• Tom Harmon
  Tom Harmon
  Thomas Dudley Harmon was a star player in American college football, a sports broadcaster, and patriarch of a family of American actors...
  
   - 7 games at left halfback
  Halfback (American football)
  A halfback, sometimes referred to as a tailback, is an offensive position in American football, which lines up in the backfield and generally is responsible for carrying the ball on run plays. Historically, from the 1870s through the 1950s, the halfback position was both an offensive and defensive...
  
  , 1 game at right halfback
• Robert Ingalls - 7 games at center
  Center (American football)
  Center is a position in American football and Canadian football . The center is the innermost lineman of the offensive line on a football team's offense...
  
  
• Reuben Kelto
  Reuben Kelto
  Reuben W. Kelto was an American football player. He played at the tackle position for the University of Michigan from 1939 to 1941. He was chosen as the Most Valuable Player on the 1941 Michigan Wolverines football team.Kelto was born in 1919 in Bessemer, Michigan, the son of Emil and Lilly...
  
   - 7 games at right guard
  Guard (American football)
  In American and Canadian football, a guard is a player that lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team....
  
  
• Archie Kodros
  Archie Kodros
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   - 1 game at center
• Robert Kolesar
  Robert Kolesar
  Robert C. "Bob" Kolesar was an American football player and medical doctor. He played at the guard position for the University of Michigan from 1940 to 1942 and for the Cleveland Browns in 1946...
  
   - 2 games at right guard, 1 game at left guard
• Paul Kromer
  Paul Kromer
  Paul S. Kromer was an American football player. A native of Lorain, Ohio, Kromer enrolled at the University of Michigan where he played halfback for the Michigan Wolverines football teams from 1938 to 1927...
  
   - 1 game at left halfback, 1 game at right halfback
• Harold Lockard - 2 games at right halfback
• David M. Nelson
  David M. Nelson
  David Moir Nelson was an American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, author, and authority on college football playing rules...
  
   - 3 games at right halfback
• Joe Rogers - 5 games at left end, 3 games at right end
• Roland Savilla - 1 game at left tackle
• William Smith - 1 game at right guard
• Milo Sukup
  Milo Sukup
  Milo Frederick Sukup was an American football player and coach. He played college football for the University of Michigan from 1938 to 1940, where he was the running guard and a key blocker for Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon. He sustained a head injury late in his senior year that ended his...
  
   - 4 games at right guard, 1 game at left guard
• Bob Westfall
  Bob Westfall
  Robert Barton "Bullet Bob" Westfall was an American football fullback who played for the University of Michigan and the Detroit Lions . He was a consensus first-team All-American in 1941 and a first-team All-Pro player in 1945...
  
   - 8 games at fullback
  Fullback (American football)
  A fullback is a position in the offensive backfield in American and Canadian football, and is one of the two running back positions along with the halfback...
  
  
• Albert Wistert - 7 games at left tackle
  Tackle (American football)
  Tackle is a playing position in American and Canadian football. Historically, in the one-platoon system a tackle played on both offense and defense. In the modern system of specialized units, offensive tackle and defensive tackle are separate positions....
  
  

Non-starters

• John G. Allerdice, Indianapolis, IN
• Harry F. Anderson, center, Chicago
• Joseph E. Bosza, end, Pittsburgh
• Jack W. Butler, tackle, Port Huron, MI
• George Ceithaml
  George Ceithaml
  George F. Ceithaml is a former American football quarterback and coach. He was the starting quarterback for Fritz Crisler's University of Michigan football teams in 1941 and 1942...
  
  , quarterback, Chicago
• Otto E. Chady, Highland Park, MI
• Leo P. Cunningham, guard, Revere, MA
• Edward W. Czak, end, Elyria, Ohio
• Fred M. Dawley, Detroit
• Frank S. Day, halfback, Detroit
• Theodore E. Denise, guard, Lansing, MI
• Robert L. Flora, tackle, Muskegon, MI
• Harlin E. Fraumann, end, Pontiac, MI
• Paul H. Gannatal, halfback, Detroit
• James Grissen, fullback, Holland, MI
• Clarence S. Hall, end, Raynham, MA
• George H. Hildebrandt, guard, Hamburg, NY
• Glenn V. Ireland, Benton Harbor, MI
• Jack Karwales
  Jack Karwales
  John Joseph "Jack" Karwales was a U.S. American football player. He played at the end and tackle positions for the University of Michigan in 1941 and 1942...
  
  , end, Chicago
• Wallace L. Keating, center, Detroit
• Theodore Kennedy, center, Saginaw, MI
• Harry E. Kohl, halfback, Dayton, OH
• Robert C. Krejsa, halfback, Shaker Heights, OH
• John T. Laine, guard, Puritan, MI
• Elmer Madar
  Elmer Madar
  Elmer F. Madar was an All American football player at the University of Michigan in 1942 and 1946. Born in Sykesville, Pennsylvania, Madar played football at Northeastern High School in Detroit...
  
  , halfback, Detroit
• George S. Manalakas, halfback, Detroit
• Michael Megregian, quarterback, Detroit
• William G. Melzow, guard, Flint, MI
• R. Charles Schmeling, Saginaw, MI
• Holbrooke S. Seltzer, guard, Chicago
• Rudolph J. Sengel, tackle, Louisville, KY
• Phillip E. Sharpe, end, Lakewood, OH
• Rudy Smeja
  Rudy Smeja
  Rudolph M. Smeja was an American football player. Smeja played at the end position for the University of Michigan from 1941 to 1943. In November 1943, Smeja intercepted a pass and returned it 35 yards for a touchdown on the first play of the fourth quarter in a 23–6 win over the Indiana...
  
  , end, Chicago
• Robert B. Smith, tackle, Riverside, CA
• Marshall C. Strenger, Lake Forest, IL
• Irving Swayder, Denver, CO
• Robert L. Thomas, guard, Muskegon, MI
• Larry Wickter, fullback, Toledo, OH
• Clifford C. Wise, halfback, Spring Lake, MI
• Louis K. Woytek, center, Johnson City, NY
• Robert Zimmerman, fullback, Chicago

Awards and honors

• Heisman Trophy
  Heisman Trophy
  The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , is awarded annually to the player deemed the most outstanding player in collegiate football. It was created in 1935 as the Downtown Athletic Club trophy and renamed in 1936 following the death of the Club's athletic director, John Heisman The Heisman Memorial...
  
  : Tom Harmon
  Tom Harmon
  Thomas Dudley Harmon was a star player in American college football, a sports broadcaster, and patriarch of a family of American actors...
  
  
• Maxwell Award
  Maxwell Award
  The Maxwell Award is presented annually to the collegiate American football player judged by a panel of sportscasters, sportswriters, and National Collegiate Athletic Association head coaches and the membership of the Maxwell Football Club to be the best football player in the United States. The...
  
  : Tom Harmon
• All-American
  1940 College Football All-America Team
  The 1940 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers. The organizations choosing the teams included: the United Press, the Associated Press, Collier's Weekly, the New York Sun, and the Hearst newspapers...
  
  s: Tom Harmon, Ed Frutig
  Ed Frutig
  Edward C. Frutig was an American football end who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1938-1940. He was selected as a first-team All-American in 1940 by William Randolph Hearst's International News Service. A teammate of Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon for three years at...
  
  
• All-Big Ten: Forest Evashevski
  Forest Evashevski
  Forest "Evy" Evashevski was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played college football at the University of Michigan from 1938 to 1940 and with the Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks in 1942...
  
  , Ed Frutig, Ralph Fritz
  Ralph Fritz
  Ralph C. Fritz was an American football player and coach. A native of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, Fritz attended Kiski Preparatory School before enrolling at the University of Michigan. He played guard for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1939 to 1940. Fritz later played...
  
  , Tom Harmon
• Most Valuable Player: Tom Harmon
• Meyer Morton Award: George Ceithaml
  George Ceithaml
  George F. Ceithaml is a former American football quarterback and coach. He was the starting quarterback for Fritz Crisler's University of Michigan football teams in 1941 and 1942...
  
  

Team players in the NFL

Coaching and training staff

• Head coach: Fritz Crisler
  Fritz Crisler
  Herbert Orin "Fritz" Crisler was an American football coach who is best known as "the father of two-platoon football," an innovation in which separate units of players were used for offense and defense. Crisler developed two-platoon football while serving as head coach at the University of...
  
  
• Assistant coaches: Archie Kodros
  Archie Kodros
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  , Earl Martineau
  Earl Martineau
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  , Ernest McCoy
  Ernie McCoy (athletic director)
  Ernest B. "Ernie" McCoy was an All-American basketball player at the University of Michigan from 1927 to 1929. After graduating, he spent his entire professional career in college athletics, serving as the athletic director at Penn State , the athletic director at the University of Miami , and a...
  
  , Clarence "Biggie" Munn
  Biggie Munn
  Clarence Lester "Biggie" Munn was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator in the United States. He was the head football coach at Albright College , Syracuse University , and most notably Michigan State College , where his 1952 squad won a national championship...
  
  , Bennie Oosterbaan
  Bennie Oosterbaan
  Benjamin Gaylord "Bennie" Oosterbaan was a three-time first team All-American football end for the Michigan Wolverines football team, two-time All-American basketball player for the basketball team and an All-Big Ten Conference baseball player for the baseball team...
  
  , Hercules Renda
  Hercules Renda
  Hercules Gennaro Renda was an American football player and coach. He played for the University of Michigan football team from 1937 to 1939. He was an assistant football coach at Michigan under Fritz Crisler from 1940 to 1941...
  
  , Walter Weber
  Wally Weber
  Walter J. Weber was an American football player and coach at the University of Michigan. He played halfback and fullback for the Wolverines in 1925 and 1926 on the same teams as Benny Friedman and Bennie Oosterbaan. He later became an assistant football coach at Michigan for 28 years from 1931 to...
  
  
• Trainer: Ray Roberts
• Manager: Howarth

External links

• 1940 Football Team -- Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Athletics History