Schedule

Players

• Jim Brieske
  Jim Brieske
  James F. Brieske was an American football placekicker. He played college football for the University of Michigan in 1942, 1946 and 1947. He set Michigan, Rose Bowl, Big Ten Conference, and national collegiate placekicking records and was the second leading scorer on Michigan's undefeated 1947...
  
   - placekicker, and 1 game as starter at center
• Bob Callahan
  Bob Callahan (American football)
  Robert Francis Callahan is a former American football player. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Beaumont High School where he was the captain of the football and basketball teams...
  
  
• Jack Carpenter - 4 games at right tackle
• Bob Chappuis
  Bob Chappuis
  Robert Richard "Bob" Chappuis is a former American football player who played halfback and quarterback for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1942, 1946, and 1947. His college years were interrupted by service in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II...
  
   - 4 games at left halfback
• Ralph L. Chubb - 2 games at right halfback
• Robert Derleth
  Robert Derleth
  Robert J. "Bob" Derleth was an American football lineman. He played college football for the University of Michigan Wolverines football teams in 1942, 1943, 1945 and 1946—missing the 1944 season due to military service...
  
   - 3 games at left tackle
• Gene Derricotte
  Gene Derricotte
  Eugene "Gene" Derricotte is a former American football player who played with the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1944 to 1948. He was one of the University's first African American athletes in the era when NCAA Division I college football was beginning to integrate...
  
   - 5 games at left halfback
• Dan Dworsky
  Dan Dworsky
  Daniel Leonard Dworsky has been a leading Southern California architect since the early 1950s. He is a longstanding member of the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows. Among other works, Dworsky designed Crisler Arena, the basketball arena at the University of Michigan named for...
  
   - 1 game at fullback
• Bump Elliott
  Bump Elliott
  Chalmers W. "Bump" Elliott is a former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played halfback at Purdue University and the University of Michigan...
  
   - 3 games at right halfback
• Pete Elliott
  Pete Elliott
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   - 1 game at quarterback
• Len Ford
  Len Ford
  Leonard Guy Ford, Jr. was an American football defensive end. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1976.He played two years for the Los Angeles Dons of the All-America Football Conference...
  
   - 4 games at left end
• Bruce Hilkene
  Bruce Hilkene
  Bruce L. Hilkene was the captain and starting left tackle of the undefeated 1947 Michigan Wolverines football team. The team defeated the USC Trojans 49-0 in the 1948 Rose Bowl and has been selected as the greatest Michigan football team of all time...
  
   - 6 games at left tackle
• George Kraeger - 5 games at right guard
• 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...
  
   - 7 games at right end
• Bob Mann
  Bob Mann (American football)
  Robert "Bob" Mann was an American football end. A native of New Bern, North Carolina, Mann played college football at Hampton Institute in 1942 and 1943 and at the University of Michigan in 1944, 1946 and 1947. He broke the Big Ten Conference record for receiving yardage in 1946 and again in 1947...
  
   - 2 games at left end
• Edward D. McNeill - 3 games at left end
• Bill Pritula - 5 games at right tackle
• Art Renner - 2 games at right end
• Quentin Sickels
  Quentin Sickels
  Quentin Brian "Quent" Sickels is a former American football player. He played college football for the University of Michigan in 1944 and from 1946 to 1948. He played on Michigan's undefeated 1947 and 1948 national championship teams...
  
   - 3 games at right guard
• Dominic Tomasi
  Dominic Tomasi
  Dominic Tomasi was an American football player who played guard for the University of Michigan Wolverines. He was a four-year starter and was selected as both the captain and Most Valuable Player of the National Champion 1948 Michigan Wolverines football team.-High school:A native of Flint,...
  
   - 9 games at left guard
• Harold Watts
  Harold Watts
  Harold M. Watts was a former American football player. He played at the center position for the University of Michigan from 1943 to 1946. He was chosen as the Most Valuable Player on the 1945 Michigan Wolverines football team and received the award in absentia after being transferred off the...
  
   - 2 games at center
• J.T. White - 6 games at center
• Paul White
  Paul White (American football)
  Paul Grover White was an American football lineman. He played college football for Fritz Crisler's University of Michigan Wolverines football teams in 1941, 1942, 1943, and 1946 — missing the 1944 and 1945 seasons due to military service. He also played professional football for the Pittsburgh...
  
   - 3 games at right halfback
• Bob Wiese
  Bob Wiese
  Robert Lee Wiese was an American football player. He played college football for Fritz Crisler's University of Michigan Wolverines football teams in 1942, 1943, 1944 and 1946—missing the 1945 season due to military service...
  
   - 6 games at fullback
• Jack Weisenburger
  Jack Weisenburger
  John Edward "Jack" Weisenburger is a former American football and baseball player. He played college football for the University of Michigan from 1944 to 1947 and was the starting fullback for the undefeated 1947 Michigan Wolverines football team that became known as the "Mad Magicians" and has...
  
   - 3 games at quarterback, 2 games at fullback, 1 game at right halfback
• Stu Wilkins
  F. Stuart Wilkins
  F. Stuart "Stu" Wilkins is a former American football player, lawyer, and businessman. He played at the guard position for the University of Michigan football team from 1945 to 1948 and was a starter on the Wolverines undefeated teams in 1947 and 1948. He practiced law for more than 50 years...
  
   - 1 game at right guard
• Howard Yerges
  Howard Yerges
  Howard Frederick Yerges, Jr. was an American football player who played quarterback for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team in 1943 and the University of Michigan Wolverines football teams from 1944 to 1947...
  
   - 5 games at quarterback

Awards and honors

• 1946 All-Americans
  1946 College Football All-America Team
  The 1946 College Football All-America team was composed of college football players selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers...
  
  : 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...
  
  
• All-Conference: Elmer Madar, Bob Chappuis
  Bob Chappuis
  Robert Richard "Bob" Chappuis is a former American football player who played halfback and quarterback for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1942, 1946, and 1947. His college years were interrupted by service in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II...
  
  
• Most Valuable Player: Bob Chappuis
• Meyer Morton Award: Bob Ballou

Coaching 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: Jack Blott
  Jack Blott
  Jack Leonard Blott was an All-American football center and place kicker for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1922–1923. He was also a baseball catcher for the Wolverines from 1922–1924. After a two-game Major League Baseball career with the Cincinnati Reds in 1924, he worked as...
  
  , Forrest Jordan, Cliff Keen
  Cliff Keen
  Clifford Patrick Keen was an American coach who served as the head coach of the University of Michigan collegiate wrestling team from 1925 to 1970. He led the Michigan Wolverines to 13 Big Ten Conference championships, and coached 68 All-American wrestlers...
  
  , Ernest McCoy, 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...
  
  , Arthur Valpey
  Arthur Valpey
  Arthur L. Valpey was an American football player and coach.A native of Dayton, Ohio, Valpey was an all-state halfback at Dayton's Steele High School. Valpey enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1934, where freshman football coach Wally Weber moved him to the end position...
  
  , 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: Max Kogen

External links

• 1946 Football Team -- Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Athletics History