1938 Michigan Wolverines football team information
American college football season
1938Michigan Wolverines football
Conference
Big Ten Conference
Ranking
AP
No. 16
Record
6–1–1 (3–1–1 Big Ten)
Head coach
Fritz Crisler (1st season)
Offensive scheme
Single-wing
MVP
Ralph Heikkinen
Captain
Fred Janke
Home stadium
Michigan Stadium
Seasons
← 1937
1939 →
1938 Big Ten Conference football standings
v
t
e
Conf
Overall
Team
W
L
T
W
L
T
No. 10 Minnesota $
4
–
1
–
0
6
–
2
–
0
No. 16 Michigan
3
–
1
–
1
6
–
1
–
1
Purdue
3
–
1
–
1
5
–
1
–
2
No. 17 Northwestern
2
–
1
–
2
4
–
2
–
2
Wisconsin
3
–
2
–
0
5
–
3
–
0
Ohio State
3
–
2
–
1
4
–
3
–
1
Illinois
2
–
3
–
0
3
–
5
–
0
Iowa
1
–
3
–
1
1
–
6
–
1
Indiana
1
–
4
–
0
1
–
6
–
1
Chicago
0
–
4
–
0
1
–
6
–
1
$ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
The 1938 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1938 Big Ten Conference football season. After the firing of Harry Kipke in December 1937, Fritz Crisler took over as Michigan's head coach in February 1938. In the first year of the Crisler era, the Wolverines compiled a 6–1–1 record and outscored opponents 131 to 40, allowing an average of only five points per game. The team's only setbacks were a 7-6 loss to Minnesota and a scoreless tie with Northwestern. The Wolverines finished the season ranked No. 16 in the final AP Poll. In the post-season rankings compiled by Frank Dickinson, the University of Illinois professor who developed the Dickinson System, Michigan ranked sixth in the country.
Michigan's senior guard Ralph Heikkinen was a unanimous All-American in 1938. He also won Michigan's Most Valuable Player award and finished second to Howard Weiss in close voting for both the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy as the most valuable player in the Big Ten Conference.
Three Wolverines, Ralph Heikkinen, halfback Tom Harmon and quarterback Forest Evashevski, were selected as first-team players on the 1938 All-Big Ten Conference football team. Senior tackle Fred Janke was the captain of the 1938 Michigan team.
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