Schedule

Starters

• Norm Call - 1 game at right halfback
• Edward W. Czak - 1 game at left end
• 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...
  
   - 6 games at quarterback
• Harlin E. Fraumann - 1 game at right end
• 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...
  
   - 7 games at left 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...
  
   - 4 games at left end, 1 game at right 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 right halfback
• Don Ingalls - 1 game at center, 1 game at quarterback
• Archie Kodros
  Archie Kodros
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   - 7 games at center
• Harry Kohl - 1 game at quarterback
• 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...
  
   - 3 games at left halfback
• John Nicholson - 4 games at right end, 1 game at left end
• Fred Olds - 1 game at left guard
• George Ostroot - 1 game at left tackle
• 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...
  
   - 1 game at left halfback
• Joe Rogers - 2 games at left end, 2 games at right end
• Roland Savilla - 7 games at left tackle
• William Smith - 8 games at right tackle
• 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...
  
   - 8 games at right guard
• 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...
  
   - 4 games at left halfback
• 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...
  
   - 7 games at fullback
• Bob Zimmerman - 1 game at fullback

Non-starters

• Bennett, Arthur L., Schenectady, NY
• Bosza, Joseph, end, Pittsburgh, PA
• Butler, Jack W., G, Port Huron, MI
• Christy, Edward, FB, Gary, IN
• Cunningham, Leo P., G, Revere, MA
• Flora, Robert L., T, Muskegon, MI
• Ford, Thomas G, C, East Grand Rapids, MI
• Funk, William K., HB/QB, Athens, MI
• Galles, James, G, Chicago, IL
• Gannatal, Paul H., HB, Detroit, MI
• Grissen, James, FB, Holland, MI
• Heuman, Philip W., Allentown, PA
• Jordan, Forrest R., G, Clare, MI
• Kelto, Reuben W.
  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...
  
  , T, Bessemer, MI
• Kennedy, Theodore, Jr., E, Saginaw, MI
• Kitti, Walter I., HB, Calumet, MI
• Kuhn, Dennis A., T, River Rouge, MI
• Laine, John T., G, Puritan, MI
• Langstaff, Harold A., Pittsburgh, PA
• Laskey, Derwood D., HB, Milan, MI
• Luther, William A., HB, Toledo, OH
• Mehaffey, Howard H., FB, Pittsburgh, PA
• Melzow, William, G, Flint, MI
• Meyer, Jack, QB, Elyria, OH
• Morrow, Ned, G, Elkhart, IN
• Nelson, David M.
  David M. Nelson
  David Moir Nelson was an American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, author, and authority on college football playing rules...
  
  , HB, Detroit, MI
• Nielsen, Paul, E, Ann Arbor, MI
• Paddy, Arthur, G, Benton Harbor, MI
• Purcell, George A., Marshall, MI
• Roberts, Harris W., QB, Shaker Heights, OH
• Salvaterra, Arnold, HB, Bellaire, OH
• Smith, William A., T, Riverside, CA
• Thomas, Robert L., G, Muskegon, MI
• Tinker, Horace, C, Battle Creek, MI
• Vollmer, William E., T, Manistee, MI
• Weber, Marwood A., HB, Saginaw, MI
• Wicker,Larry D., FB, Toledo, OH
• Wilson, John L., C, Monroe, MI
• Wistert, Albert A.
  Al Wistert
  Albert Alexander "Ox" Wistert is a former All-Pro American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles. He played his entire nine-year NFL career for the Eagles and became their team captain. He was named to play in the NFL's first Pro Bowl as an Eagle...
  
  , T, Chicago, IL
• Zielinski, Ernest P., T, Bay City, MI

Awards and honors

• Captain: Archie Kodros
  Archie Kodros
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• All-Americans
  1939 College Football All-America Team
  The 1939 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, and the New York Sun...
  
  : 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...
  
  
• All-Conference: 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...
  
  , Tom Harmon
• Most Valuable Player: Tom Harmon
• Meyer Morton Award: 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...
  
  

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: Campbell Dickson, Earl Martineau
  Earl Martineau
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  , 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...
  
  , 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: Carl D. Wheeler, Frederick Howarth (assistant), William Blanchard (assistant), Roger Yepsen (assistant), John Durr (assistant)

External links

• 1939 Football Team -- Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Athletics History