Schedule

Starters

• William Barclay - 3 games at right halfback
• John Brennan
  John Brennan (American football)
  John Carter "Jack" Brennan was an American football player. He played at the guard position for the University of Michigan from 1936 to 1938 and for the Green Bay Packers in 1939.-Early years:...
  
   - 7 games at left guard
• Douglas Farmer
  Douglas Farmer
  Douglas Alexander Farmer was an American football player, medical doctor, and professor of medicine. He was a quarterback for the University of Michigan football team, attended Harvard Medical School, and later served as a professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and as chief of the...
  
   - 8 games at quarterback
• Elmer Gedeon
  Elmer Gedeon
  Elmer John Gedeon is one of only two Major League Baseball players killed in action during World War II. He was also a multi-sport star in college at the University of Michigan...
  
   - 2 games at left end
• Ralph Heikkinen
  Ralph Heikkinen
  Ralph Isaac “Hike” Heikkinen was an All-American guard for the University of Michigan Wolverines football team from 1936-1938. He was a consensus All-American in 1938, the first player from the Gogebic Range area of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to win the honor...
  
   - 7 games at right guard
• Fred Janke
  Fred Janke
  Fred C. Janke was an American football player, business executive and politician. He played football for the University of Michigan from 1936 to 1938 and was the captain of the 1938 Michigan Wolverines football team under first-year head coach Fritz Crisler. He later became the president and...
  
   - 2 games at left tackle
• John Kinsey - 1 game at fullback
• Archie Kodros
  Archie Kodros
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   - 7 games at center
• George Marzonie - 1 game at right guard
• John Nicholson - 6 games at left end, 1 game at right end
• Fred Olds - 1 game at left guard
• Norm Purucker - 1 game at right halfback
• 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...
  
   - 3 games at right halfback
• Joseph M. Rinaldi - 8 games at center
• Stark Ritchie - 1 game at center; 3 games at left halfback
• Roland Savilla - 2 games at right tackle
• Don Siegel - 6 games at left tackle
• Dan Smick - 6 games at right end
• William Smith - 6 games at right tackle
• Edward Stanton - 7 games at fullback
• Fred Trosko
  Fred Trosko
  Fred Trosko was an American football player and coach. He played at the halfback position for the University of Michigan football team from 1937 to 1939...
  
   - 5 games at left halfback
• 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...
  
   - 1 game at right end

Awards and honors

• Captain: Joe Rinaldi
• All-Conference: Ralph Heikkinen
  Ralph Heikkinen
  Ralph Isaac “Hike” Heikkinen was an All-American guard for the University of Michigan Wolverines football team from 1936-1938. He was a consensus All-American in 1938, the first player from the Gogebic Range area of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to win the honor...
  
  
• Most Valuable Player: Ralph Heikkinen
• Meyer Morton Award: Fred Trosko

Coaching staff

• Head coach: Harry G. Kipke
  Harry G. Kipke
  Harry George Kipke was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He was the head football coach at Michigan State College in 1928 and at the University of Michigan from 1929–1937, compiling a career record of 49–30–5...
  
  
• Assistant coaches: Heartley "Hunk" Anderson
  Heartley Anderson
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  , Franklin Cappon
  Franklin Cappon
  Franklin C. "Cappy" Cappon was a college athlete and coach. He played football and basketball at Phillips University and the University of Michigan and coached basketball and football at Luther College , the University of Kansas , the University of Michigan , and Princeton University .The son of a...
  
  , 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...
  
  , 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: Fred Colombo, John Fecknay (assistant), Ralph Dubois (assistant), Warren Slater (assistant), Philip Woodworth (assistant)

External links

• 1937 Football Team -- Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Athletics History