1918 Michigan Wolverines football team

1918 Michigan Wolverines football
National champion (Billingsley)
Co-national champion (NCF)
Big Ten co-champion
ConferenceBig Ten Conference
Record5–0 (2–0 Big Ten)
Head coach
CaptainTad Wieman
Home stadiumFerry Field
Uniform
Seasons
← 1917
1919 →
1918 Big Ten Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Michigan + 2 0 0 5 0 0
Illinois + 4 0 0 5 2 0
Purdue + 1 0 0 3 3 0
Iowa 2 1 0 6 2 1
Minnesota 2 1 0 5 2 1
Northwestern 1 1 0 2 2 1
Wisconsin 1 2 0 3 3 0
Indiana 0 0 0 2 2 0
Ohio State 0 3 0 3 3 0
Chicago 0 5 0 4 6 1
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1918 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1918 Big Ten Conference football season. The team's head football coach was Fielding H. Yost in his 18th season with the program. The 1918 team played in a season shortened by World War I travel restrictions and the 1918 flu pandemic. They shared the Big Ten Conference championship with Illinois and finished with a perfect record of 5–0, outscoring opponents 96 to 6. Although no formal mechanism existed in 1918 to select a national champion, the 1918 Michigan team was retroactively selected as the national champion by the Billingsley Report and a co-national champion with Pittsburgh by the National Championship Foundation.[1] The Wolverines played their home games at Ferry Field.

Fullback Frank Steketee was selected by Walter Camp as a first-team All-American and was one of the top kickers in the game during the 1918 season. Center Ernie Vick and left tackle Angus Goetz were both selected as first-team All-Big Ten players.

  1. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2016.