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During his four years at Michigan, Heston was known as a work-horse of the Wolverines' offense. In a 1903 game against the Chicago Maroons, the Michigan team gained 267 yards rushing, and Heston accounted for 237 of them. [6] Noting the frequency with which Heston carried the ball, Ring Lardner wrote, "Michigan called Heston's signal. Maybe it ...
The 1940 team featured one of the greatest backfields in Michigan football history with all four principal starters going on to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as either a player or coach. Left halfback Tom Harmon was a consensus All-American and the winner of the Heisman Trophy as the best overall player in college football.
This is a list of Michigan Wolverines football players who have attained notability through their performance in the sport of American football and other endeavors. The list includes over 750 players, including more than 50 All-Americans, three Heisman Trophy winners (Tom Harmon, Desmond Howard and Charles Woodson), six U.S. Congressmen, and a President of the United States (Gerald Ford).
Harmon played college football as a halfback for the Michigan Wolverines from 1938 to 1940. He led the nation in scoring and was a consensus All-American in both 1939 and 1940 and won the Heisman Trophy , the Maxwell Award , and the AP Athlete of the Year award in 1940.
Robert Richard Chappuis (/ ˈ tʃ æ p i ə s / CHAP-ee-əs; [1] February 24, 1923 – June 14, 2012) was an 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.
Detwiler was born in 1945 in Bluffton, Ohio.He was an all-city, all-state and All-American running back as a senior at Toledo's DeVilbiss High School in 1962. [2]One of the most sought after players in Ohio in 1962, Detwiler "refused an invitation to visit Ohio State, prompting Coach Woody Hayes to harangue him on the telephone one night for more than half an hour about being disloyal to the ...
Halfback: MVP 1953 Michigan football team; Leading rusher for Michigan, 1953 and 1955 Jerry Burns: 1947: 1950: Quarterback: Later became head coach at University of Iowa and in NFL for the Packers and Vikings Gene Derricotte: 1946: 1948: Halfback, Quarterback: Holds Michigan's single season record for punt return average Donald R. Deskins: 1958 ...
As a junior in 1967, Johnson became the Wolverines' starting halfback, gaining 982 rushing yards on 210 carries for an average of 4.7 yards per carry. [6] On October 7, 1967, in his third game as a starter, Johnson eclipsed the Michigan and Big Ten Conference single-game rushing records with 270 rushing yards on 26 carries, for an average of 10 ...