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team that represented the

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. In its 19th season under head coach

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, the Wolverines compiled a 3–4 record – the only losing season in Yost's 30-year career as a head football coach. The team was outscored by a total of 102 to 93 and finished in a tie for seventh place in the Big Ten. After winning three of four games to start the season, the team lost its final three games against

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. Left tackle

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was the team captain. Other notable players included quarterback Cliff Sparks, center/fullback

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, halfback

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, left end Robert J. Dunne.

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, who later served as Governor of Michigan in the early 1940s, also started one game at left guard.

Schedule

Players

Letter winners

*John C. Cary - end (Grand Rapids, Michigan) *Elmer W. Cress - end (Grand Rapids, Michigan) *William R. Cruse - started 2 games at left halfback, 2 games at right halfback, 2 games at fullback (Detroit, Michigan) * Frank Culver - started 3 games at center, 1 game at left guard (Detroit, Michigan) *Frank T. Czysz - started 1 game at right tackle (Dunkirk, New York) *Roland Glenn Dunn - started 3 games at right tackle, 1 game at right guard (Muskegon Heights, Michigan) * Robert J. Dunne - started 6 games at left end (Chicago, Illinois) *Donald A. Finkbeiner - tackle (Perrysburg, Ohio) * William Fortune - started 3 games at left guard (Springfield, Illinois) *Gerald W. Froemke - started 1 game at right halfback (Sheldon, North Dakota) *

- started 7 games at left tackle (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan) *J. Vinton Hammels - tackle (Glendale, Arizona) *William P. Henderson - started 1 game at right end (Detroit, Michigan) * Roy W. Johnson - started 2 games at center, 1 game at left guard (Grand Rapids, Michigan) * Kenneth T. Knode - started 1 game at quarterback, 1 game at right halfback (Martinsburg, West Virginia) * Alvin Loucks - guard (Grand Rapids, Michigan) *Willard L. Peach - started 2 games at right end, 1 game at left end, 1 game at right tackle (Fremont, Ohio) *Harold Rye - started 3 games at right end (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan) * Cliff Sparks - started 6 games at quarterback, 1 game at right halfback (Jackson, Michigan) *

- started 4 games at fullback, 2 games at center (Toledo, Ohio) *

- started 2 games at right halfback (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan) *Hugh Wilson - started 4 games at right guard, 2 games at right tackle, 1 game at left guard (Grand Rapids, Michigan)

Non-letter winners

*John M. Barnes - halfback (Washington, D.C.) *James V. Campbell - tackle (Ann Arbor, Michigan) *Charles Eades - started 1 game at fullback (Conneaut, Ohio) *Robert E. Hamilton - center (Erie, Pennsylvania) *Earle Magrath - started 1 game at right end (Oak Park, Illinois) *Barry Stuart - fullback (Grand Rapids, Michigan) *Theodore Timchac - tackle (Saginaw, Michigan) *

- started 1 game at left guard (Pontiac, Michigan) *Arthur A. WeadockArthur A. Weadock, born February 23, 1897. After graduating from Michigan, he returned to Saginaw, Michigan as an attorney. Died January 1981,

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. - quarterback (Saginaw, Michigan) *Charles O. Wilson - fullback (Muskegon, Michigan)

Awards and honors

*Captain:

*All-Conference:

Coaching staff

*Head coach:

*Assistant coaches:

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Ernest Allmendinger Ernest John "Aqua" Allmendinger (August 25, 1890 – May 7, 1973) was an American football player and coach. He played college football as a guard for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1911 to 1913. He was also selected to Walter Cam ...

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, Edwin Mather *Manager: Leland N. Scofield

References

External links

1919 Football Team -- Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Athletics History

1919-1920 Michigan Alumnus - includes accounts of each game

1920 Michiganensian
{{Michigan Wolverines football navbox

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