History of Michigan Wolverines football in the Crisler years
Players
Table:
Name

Start Year

Last Year

Position(s)

Notes

John Brennan
1936
1938
Guard
Voted "queen" of UM's 1939 ice festival; played for the Green Bay Packers (1939).

Jim Brieske
1942
1947
Placekicker, center
Set collegiate, Big Ten, Rose Bowl, and Michigan placekicking records

Jerry Burns
1947
1950
Quarterback
Served as coach at Iowa (assistant, 1954–1960, head coach, 1961–1965) and for the Minnesota Vikings (assistant, 1968–1985, head coach, 1986–1991)

Bob Callahan
1945
1946
Center, Tackle
Played for the Buffalo Bills (AAFC) (1948)

Jack Carpenter
1946
1946
Tackle
Played for the Buffalo Bills (AAFC)(1947–1949), San Francisco 49ers (1949), Hamilton Tiger-Cats (1950–1951) Toronto Argonauts (1952–1954).

George Ceithaml
1940
1942
Quarterback
All-Big Ten quarterback, 1942; Crisler called him "the smartest player he ever taught"; served as an assistant coach at Michigan and USC

Bob Chappuis
1946
1947
Halfback
Shot down over Italy in World War II; All-American and 2nd in Heisman Trophy voting (1947); played for Brooklyn Dodgers (AAFC) (1948) and Chicago Hornets (1949)

Bill Daley
1943
1943
Fullback
All-American, 1943; Played for the Brooklyn Dodgers (AAFC) (1946), Miami Seahawks (1946), Chicago Rockets (1947), and New York Yankees (AAFC) (1948)

Fred Dawley
1939
1941
Fullback
Played for the Detroit Lions (1944) and Los Angeles Bulldogs (1945)

Robert Derleth
1942
1946
Tackle
Played for the Detroit Lions (1947)

Gene Derricotte
1946
1948
Halfback, Quarterback
Served as a Tuskegee Airman during World War II; holds Michigan's single season record for punt return average

Wally Dreyer
1943
1943
Halfback
Played for Chicago Bears (1949) and Green Bay Packers (1950); head football coach for the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Panthers.

Dan Dworsky
1945
1948
Fullback, Center, Quarterback
Played for the Los Angeles Dons (1949); later became an architect and designed Crisler Arena and Drake Stadium (UCLA).

Bump Elliott
1946
1947
Halfback
Michigan's head coach, 1959–1968; inducted into College Football Hall of Fame, 1989

Pete Elliott
1945
1948
Quarterback, Halfback
Later served as head football coach at Nebraska(1956), California (1957–59), Illinois(1960–66), and Miami (1973–74); inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, 1994

Forest Evashevski
1938
1940
Quarterback
All-Big Ten quarterback three straight years; head football coach at Iowa 1952–1960; inducted into College Football Hall of Fame in 2000

Henry Fonde
1945
1947
Halfback
Threw a 47-yard touchdown pass in 1948 Rose Bowl; Head coach at Ann Arbor Pioneer HS for 10 years; Asst. coach at Michigan for 10 years

Len Ford
1945
1947
End
Played 11 years in the AAFC and NFL with the Dons, Browns and Packers; inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1976

Julius Franks
1941
1942
Guard
First-team All-American 1942; Michigan's first African-American All-American

Ralph Fritz
1939
1940
Guard
Played 1 year in the NFL for the Eagles

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John Carter Jack Brennan ( September 28 , 1913 - March 1982 ) 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 .
The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay , Wisconsin . They compete in the National Football League ( NFL ) as a member club of the National Football Conference ( NFC ) North division . It is the third-oldest franchise in the NFL , dating back to 1919 , and is the only non-profit , community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States . [ a ] Home games have been played at Lambeau Field since 1957 . The Packers are the last of the small town teams which were common in the NFL during the league 's early days of the 1920s and 1930s . Founded in 1919 by Earl Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun , the franchise traces its lineage to other semi-professional teams in Green Bay dating back to 1896 . Between 1919 and 1920 , the Packers competed against other semi-pro clubs from around Wisconsin and the Midwest , before joining the American Professional Football Association ( APFA ) , the forerunner of today 's NFL , in 1921 . Although Green Bay is by far the smallest major league professional sports market in North America , Forbes ranked the Packers as the world 's 27th most valuable sports franchise in 2019 , with a value of $ 2.63 billion . The Packers have won 13 league championships , the most in NFL history , with nine pre-Super Bowl NFL titles and four Super Bowl victories . The Packers won the first two Super Bowls in 1967 and 1968 and were the only NFL team to defeat the American Football League ( AFL ) prior to the AFL-NFL merger . The Vince Lombardi Trophy is named after the Packers ' coach Vince Lombardi , who guided them to their first two Super Bowls . Their two subsequent Super Bowl wins came in 1996 and 2010 .
James F. Brieske ( May 4 , 1923 - November 29 , 1968 ) was an American football placekicker . He played college football for the University of Michigan in 1942 , 1946 and 1947 . He set Michigan , Rose Bowl , Big Ten Conference , and national collegiate placekicking records and was the second leading scorer on Michigan 's undefeated 1947 Michigan Wolverines football team . For more than two decades , he held the Michigan records for most successful point after touchdown ( PAT ) conversions in a career ( 107 ) , season ( 52 ) , and game ( 9 ) . Brieske 's college football career was interrupted by service in the United States Navy during the 1944 and 1945 football seasons . His kicking foot was amputated in 1967 due to cancer . He died the following year at age 45 following surgery to remove growths from his lungs .
Jerome Monahan Burns ( born January 24 , 1927 ) is a former American football player and coach . He served as the head football coach at the University of Iowa , from 1961 to 1965 , compiling record of 16-27-2 , and for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League ( NFL ) from 1986 to 1991 , tallying a mark of 52-43 in the regular season , and 3-3 in the postseason .
The Iowa Hawkeyes football team represents the University of Iowa in college football . The Hawkeyes compete in the West division of the Big Ten Conference . Iowa joined the Conference ( then known as the Western Conference or Big Nine ) in 1899 and played their first Conference football season in 1900 . They are currently a Division I Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ) member of the NCAA . The Hawkeyes play their home games in Iowa City , Iowa at Kinnick Stadium , with a capacity of 69,250 . The Hawkeyes are currently coached by Kirk Ferentz , who is in his 21st season as the head coach and is the longest current tenured head coach in NCAA Division I FBS .
The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis , Minnesota . The Vikings joined the National Football League ( NFL ) as an expansion team in 1960 , and first took the field for the 1961 season . The team competes in the National Football Conference ( NFC ) North division . During the 1960s , the Vikings ' record was typical for an expansion franchise , but improved over the course of the decade , resulting in a Central Division title in 1968 . In 1969 , their dominant defense led to the Vikings ' league championship , the last NFL championship prior to the merger of the NFL with the AFL . The team plays its home games at U.S. Bank Stadium in the Downtown East section of Minneapolis .
Robert Francis Callahan ( September 26 , 1923 - March 10 , 2011 ) was an American football player . He was born in St. Louis , Missouri and attended Beaumont High School where he was the captain of the football and basketball teams . He played college football as a center for the University of Missouri in 1942 , but his education was interrupted by two years in the United States Marine Corps during World War II . After being discharged from the Marines , Callahan played football as a tackle and center for the University of Michigan in 1945 and 1946 . In January 1947 , Callahan announced that he was leaving school and hoped to play professional football . He was drafted by the Chicago Cardinals in the 31st round ( 289th overall pick ) of the 1947 NFL Draft . He opted instead to sign with the Brooklyn Dodgers in April 1947 , but he did not appear in any games . In 1948 , he signed with the Buffalo Bills in the All-America Football Conference . He appeared in seven games as a center and linebacker for the Bills during the 1948 AAFC season . Callahan died in March 2011 . His last listed residence was in Orange County , California .
The Buffalo Bills were an American football team , based in Buffalo , New York , that played in the All-America Football Conference from 1946 to 1949 . During its first season in 1946 , the team was known as the Buffalo Bisons . Unlike the Cleveland Browns , San Francisco 49ers , and Baltimore Colts , the franchise was not one of the three AAFC teams that merged with the National Football League prior to the 1950 season . It was named after Buffalo Bill . After only one year , owner James Breuil held a name-the-team contest in hopes of choosing a more distinctive nickname ; Bisons had been the traditional nickname for Buffalo teams for many years . The winning choice was Bills , which was a play on the name of the famed Wild West showman Buffalo Bill Cody . Coincidentally a barbershop quartet who would achieve fame a few years later was formed with the same name that year . The team was the successor to the Buffalo Tigers/Indians team from the 1940 American Football League ; that league had folded as a result of World War II . There was some controversy over Buffalo 's exclusion from the enlarged NFL . Buffalo had experienced more success on the field and at the gate than Baltimore , and was also a larger market at the time ( and would not have to share their territory with an established team as Baltimore would with the Washington Redskins ) . Additionally , the original three-team plan would have left the league with 13 teams , not only an odd number and prime number that made making equal divisions impossible , but also one considered to be bad luck . The move had left Buffalo as the only AAFC market without an NFL team post-merger , and one that had outdrawn the NFL average in fan attendance .
Jack C. Carpenter ( July 29 , 1923 - October 16 , 2005 ) was an American football player . He played at the tackle position for the University of Michigan in 1946 . He played professional football for the Buffalo Bills of the All-America Football Conference from 1947 to 1949 and for the San Francisco 49ers of the AAFC in 1949 . He also played five years in the Canadian Football League for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats ( 1950-1951 ) and Toronto Argonauts ( 1952-1954 ) .
The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area . They compete in the National Football League ( NFL ) as a member of the league 's National Football Conference ( NFC ) West division . The team currently plays its home games at Levi 's Stadium in Santa Clara , California , located 38 miles ( 61 km ) southeast of San Francisco in the heart of Silicon Valley . Since 1988 , the 49ers have been headquartered in Santa Clara . The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ) and joined the NFL in 1949 when the leagues merged . The 49ers were the first major league professional sports franchise based in San Francisco . The name 49ers comes from the prospectors who arrived in Northern California in the 1849 Gold Rush . The team is legally and corporately registered as San Francisco Forty Niners . The team began play at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco before moving across town to Candlestick Park in 1970 and then to Levi 's Stadium in Santa Clara in 2014 . The 49ers won five Super Bowl championships between 1981 and 1994 , led by Hall of Famers Joe Montana , Jerry Rice , Ronnie Lott , Steve Young , and coaches Bill Walsh and George Seifert . They have been division champions 20 times between 1970 and 2019 , making them one of the most successful teams in NFL history . The 49ers have been in the league playoffs 27 times : 26 times in the NFL and one time in the AAFC .
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a professional Canadian football team based in Hamilton , Ontario , Canada . They are currently members of the East Division of the Canadian Football League ( CFL ) . The Tiger-Cats play their home games at Tim Hortons Field . They were founded in 1869 as the Hamilton Football Club ( nickname Tigers ) . In 1950 , the Tigers merged with cross-town upstart Hamilton Wildcats and adopted the nickname Tiger-Cats . Since the 1950 merger , the team has won the Grey Cup championship eight times , most recently in 1999 . The Hamilton Tiger-Cats Football Club also recognizes all Grey Cups won by Hamilton-based teams as part of their history , which would bring their win total to 15 ( the Hamilton Tigers with five , Hamilton Flying Wildcats with one and Hamilton Alerts also with one ) . However , the CFL does not recognize these wins under one franchise , rather as the individual franchises that won them . If one includes their historical lineage , Hamilton football clubs won league championships in every decade of the 20th century , a feat matched by only one other North American franchise in professional sports , the Triple-A Minor League Baseball team Rochester Red Wings of the International League . None of these three teams won a championship in the first two decades of the 21st century . In their first forty years of existence the Tiger-Cats qualified for the playoffs in all but three of those years and won seven Grey Cup championships . They are one of six teams in the modern era to win the Grey Cup at home and were the first to accomplish this when they did it in 1972 .
The Toronto Argonauts ( officially the Toronto Argonaut Football Club , commonly referred to as the Argos ) are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League ( CFL ) . Based in Toronto , Ontario , the team was founded in 1873 , and is the oldest existing professional sports team in North America still using its original name , and they are the oldest-surviving team in both the modern-day CFL and East Division . The team 's origins date back to a modified version of rugby football that emerged in North America in the latter half of the nineteenth century . The Argonauts played their home games at Rogers Centre ( originally known as SkyDome ) from 1989 until 2016 when the team moved to BMO Field , the fifth stadium site to host the team . The Argonauts have won the Grey Cup a record 17 times and have appeared in the final 23 times . Most recently they defeated the Calgary Stampeders 27-24 in the 105th Grey Cup in 2017 . The Argonauts hold the best winning percentage in the championship game ( 73.9% ) and have the longest active winning streak in games in which they have appeared , at six . The Argonauts have faced every current western CFL team at least once in the Grey Cup , while their most celebrated divisional rivalry has been with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats . The team was founded and owned by the Argonaut Rowing Club for its first 83 years , and has been owned by a series of business interests since 1956 . The Argonauts were a fixture on the Toronto sports scene for decades , with attendance peaking in the 1970s . In May 2015 it was announced that a consortium of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment 's Larry Tanenbaum ( via the Kilmer Group ) and Bell Canada would acquire the team . The sale included a scheduled move to MLSE run BMO Field for the 2016 season , which has long been proposed given attendance under-utilization at Rogers Centre and announced plans to install natural grass at the domed stadium , rendering it unfit for football .
George Frank Ceithaml ( /ˈsaɪhæməl/ SY-ham-əl ; February 10 , 1921 - May 24 , 2012 ) was an American football quarterback and coach . He was the starting quarterback for Fritz Crisler 's University of Michigan football teams in 1941 and 1942 . Crisler later called Ceithaml the smartest player he ever taught . Ceithaml was selected as the quarterback on the 1942 All-Big Ten Conference team , the captain of the 1942 All-American Blocking Team , and was the 19th player selected in the 1943 NFL Draft . He later served as an assistant football coach at Michigan and the University of Southern California .
Robert Richard Bob Chappuis ( /ˈtʃæpiəs/ CHAP-ee-əs ; 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 . Chappuis flew 21 missions as a radio operator and aerial gunner on B-25 bombers in the European Theater . His aircraft was shot down in February 1945 in the Lombardy region of Northern Italy . Chappuis parachuted from the plane before it crashed , and Italian partisans rescued him by hiding Chappuis and two other crew members for the final three months of the war . After the war , Chappuis returned to Michigan where he broke the Big Nine Conference record for total offense in 1946 and then broke his own record in 1947 . He led the 1947 Michigan team known as the Mad Magicians to an undefeated season and a 49-0 win over the USC Trojans in the 1948 Rose Bowl game . Chappuis was a unanimous All-American selection in 1947 and was named the Most Valuable Player of the 1948 Rose Bowl . His picture appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1947 in connection with a feature article about Chappuis and the 1947 Wolverines . He placed second in the 1947 Heisman Trophy balloting . During his career he established many football records that lasted for over a generation and became an All-American . He continues to hold the Big Ten Conference single-season passer rating record and the Michigan Wolverines single-season yards/completion records .
The Brooklyn Dodgers was an American football team that played in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ) from 1946 to 1948 . The team is unrelated to the Brooklyn Dodgers that played in the National Football League from 1930 to 1943 . The team folded prior to the 1949 season and was merged with the New York Yankees to form the Brooklyn-New York Yankees .
The Chicago Rockets were an American football team that played in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ) from 1946 to 1949 . During the 1949 season , the team was known as the Chicago Hornets . Unlike the Cleveland Browns , San Francisco 49ers , and Baltimore Colts , the franchise did not join the National Football League ( NFL ) prior to the 1950 season . The Chicago Rockets franchise was owned by Chicago trucking executive John L. Jack Keeshin , president of the National Jockey Club that owned and operated Sportsman 's Park race track in Cicero , Illinois . He originally attempted to purchase the Chicago White Sox from the Comiskey family but was turned down . Chicago Tribune sports editor Arch Ward suggested starting a pro football team in the AAFC . In a market where the NFL Chicago Bears and Chicago Cardinals were already well established , Keeshin stood little chance of success . He did cause a stir by attempting to sign Chicago Bears stars Sid Luckman , George McAfee and Hugh Gallarneau without success . The Rockets played their home games at Soldier Field .
William Edward Bill Daley ( September 16 , 1919 - October 19 , 2015 ) was an All-American fullback who played for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers from 1940-1942 and for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1943 . The Gophers were National Champions in his freshman and sophomore years . He enlisted in the United States Navy in 1943 and was assigned to the V-12 Navy College Training Program at the University of Michigan . He played football for the Wolverines in 1943 where he rushed for 817 yards in just six games before being reassigned by the Navy . Based on his performance in 1943 , he was named an All-American and finished sixth in the Heisman Trophy voting . Daley has the unique status of having played in and won Little Brown Jug games for both Minnesota and Michigan , compiling a record of 4-0 in those contests . After active service in the Pacific Theater during World War II , Daley played professional football for three years in the All-America Football Conference with the Brooklyn Dodgers ( 1946 ) , the Miami Seahawks ( 1946 ) , the Chicago Rockets ( 1947 ) , and the New York Yankees ( 1948 ) . He later was one of the radio announcers for Minnesota Golden Gophers football for ten years and for the Minnesota Vikings when they first arrived in Minnesota . Since 1973 , he has owned and operated the Daley Illustration Gallery in downtown Minneapolis , Minnesota .
The Miami Seahawks were a professional American football team based in Miami , Florida . They played in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ) in the league 's inaugural season , 1946 , before folding . They are notable as the first major league sports franchise in Miami and the state of Florida 's first professional football team . The Seahawks were coached initially by Jack Meagher and then by Hamp Pool . The team faced a difficult schedule filled with many early road games , and finished the 14-game regular season with only three wins . The franchise , which by that time had accrued $ 350,000 in debt , was confiscated by the AAFC after the end of the season , and its assets were purchased by a group of entrepreneurs who reorganized it as the original incarnation of the Baltimore Colts . Florida did not have another major league-level football team for 20 more years , until the ( fourth ) American Football League , organized in 1960 , added the Miami Dolphins in 1966 . The Seahawks name would also come back to relevance with the birth of the Seattle Seahawks , who joined the National Football League in 1976 .
The Chicago Rockets were an American football team that played in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ) from 1946 to 1949 . During the 1949 season , the team was known as the Chicago Hornets . Unlike the Cleveland Browns , San Francisco 49ers , and Baltimore Colts , the franchise did not join the National Football League ( NFL ) prior to the 1950 season . The Chicago Rockets franchise was owned by Chicago trucking executive John L. Jack Keeshin , president of the National Jockey Club that owned and operated Sportsman 's Park race track in Cicero , Illinois . He originally attempted to purchase the Chicago White Sox from the Comiskey family but was turned down . Chicago Tribune sports editor Arch Ward suggested starting a pro football team in the AAFC . In a market where the NFL Chicago Bears and Chicago Cardinals were already well established , Keeshin stood little chance of success . He did cause a stir by attempting to sign Chicago Bears stars Sid Luckman , George McAfee and Hugh Gallarneau without success . The Rockets played their home games at Soldier Field .
The New York Yankees were a professional American football team that played in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ) from 1946 to 1949 . The team played in Yankee Stadium in the Bronx and often played in front of sold-out crowds [ citation needed ] . They were owned by Dan Topping , who transferred the team from the NFL Brooklyn Dodgers , retaining many of the same players . The team 's coach was Ray Flaherty , who had coached the Washington Redskins in the early 1940s . Former NFL player Jim Barber served as an assistant coach under Flaherty . The Yankees appeared in the 1946 AAFC championship game , but lost to the Cleveland Browns by a score of 14-9 . The same two teams appeared in the championship game the following year , with the Browns winning again 14-3 . Before the 1949 season , the Brooklyn Dodgers football team folded and merged into the Yankees , which became the Brooklyn-New York Yankees , but this was the final season of the AAFC , which was then absorbed by the NFL . The Yankees players were divided between the New York Giants and New York Bulldogs , who played as the New York Yanks starting in 1950 .
Frederick Martin Dawley ( March 11 , 1921 - April 13 , 1994 ) was an American football player . Dawley played for Detroit 's Pershing High School before enrolling at the University of Michigan . He played at the fullback position for the University of Michigan from 1939 to 1941 . In October 1944 , Dawley was signed by the Detroit Lions and played professional football for the Lions in the 1944 NFL season . In 1945 , the Lions loaned Dawley for seasoning to the Los Angeles Bulldogs in the Pacific Coast Professional Football League . Playing for the Bulldogs , Dawley kicked extra points and sprinted for an 81-yard touchdown in a game against the Oakland Giants . The Los Angeles Times described Dawley 's touchdown run as follows :
The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit , Michigan . They compete in the National Football League ( NFL ) as a member club of the National Football Conference ( NFC ) North division . The team plays its home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit . Originally based in Portsmouth , Ohio and called the Portsmouth Spartans , the team formally joined the NFL on July 12 , 1930 and began play in the 1930 season . Despite success within the NFL , they could not survive in Portsmouth , then the NFL 's second smallest city . The team was purchased and relocated to Detroit and subsequently renamed the Lions for the 1934 season . The Lions have won four NFL championships . However , their last was in 1957 , which gives the club the second-longest NFL championship drought behind the Arizona Cardinals ( who last won in 1947 ) . They are one of four current teams and the only NFC team to have not yet played in the Super Bowl . They are also the only franchise to have been in operation for all 54 seasons of the Super Bowl era without having appeared in one ( the Cleveland Browns were not in operation for the 1996 to 1998 seasons ) .
The Los Angeles Bulldogs were a professional American football team that competed from 1936 to 1948 ( the last year as the Long Beach Bulldogs ) . Formed with the intention of joining the National Football League in 1937 ( and turned down in favor of the Cleveland Rams ) , the Bulldogs were the first team on the major league level to play its home games on the American West Coast ( the NFL 's Los Angeles Buccaneers and the first AFL 's Wildcats of 1926 were actually traveling teams based in Chicago ) . The 1937 Bulldogs are one of three pro football teams that have gone undefeated and untied during a season , joining the 1972 Miami Dolphins ( 17-0-0 , NFL ) , and the 1948 Cleveland Browns ( 15-0-0 , AAFC ) . The Bulldogs hold the distinction of being the first . The Bulldogs joined the second American Football League , in 1937 and proceeded to become the first professional football team to win a league championship with a perfect record ( no losses or ties ) , having won all eight of its league games that season ( counting all exhibition games , they won all 16 of their 1937 contests ) . After the dissolution of the second AFL after the 1937 season , they returned to independent football for 1938 , having a 2-1-2 record against NFL teams that season . For the 1939 season , the Bulldogs joined fellow second AFL franchise Cincinnati Bengals in joining another American Football League just before the league changed its name to the American Professional Football League . The two newcomers dominated their new league , finishing with the two greatest winning percentages , but at the league meetings , the Columbus Bullies were announced as the league champions . Shortly afterward , the Bulldogs announced their intention to leave the AFL to become a charter member of a new Pacific Coast Professional Football League ( the AFL soon dissipated when three more member teams defected to a new league , which soon became the third American Football League ) . Winning PCPFL championships in 1940 and 1946 , the Bulldogs were the only team to compete in the league in every year of its existence ( 1940-1948 ) . With the establishment of the Los Angeles Rams in the NFL and Los Angeles Dons in the All-America Football Conference in 1946 , the popularity of the Bulldogs diminished to the point of moving their home games from Gilmore Stadium to Veterans Memorial Stadium in Long Beach in 1948 , and when the attendance dropped below 1,000 people per game , the Bulldogs - and the PCPFL - folded .
Robert J . Bob Derleth ( June 9 , 1922 - December 16 , 2012 ) was an American football lineman . He played college football for the University of Michigan Wolverines football teams in 1942 , 1943 , 1945 and 1946 - missing the 1944 season due to military service . He also played professional football for the Detroit Lions in 1947 .
Eugene Derricotte ( born June 14 , 1926 ) is a former American football player who played with the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1944 to 1948 . He was one of the University 's first African-American athletes in the era when college football was beginning to integrate . Derricotte established school records that still stand as a punt returner for the Michigan Wolverines football team . He also established several short-lived school interceptions records . Derricotte also served as a Tuskegee Airman and later had a successful career in dentistry while continuing to serve in the military .
The Tuskegee Airmen /tʌsˈkiːɡiː/ were a group of African-American military pilots ( fighter and bomber ) who fought in World War II . They formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces . The name also applies to the navigators , bombardiers , mechanics , instructors , crew chiefs , nurses , cooks and other support personnel . All black military pilots who trained in the United States trained at Moton Field , the Tuskegee Army Air Field and were educated at Tuskegee University , located near Tuskegee , Alabama . The group included five Haitians from the Haitian Air Force , and one pilot from Trinidad . It also included a Hispanic or Latino airman born in the Dominican Republic . Although the 477th Bombardment Group trained with North American B-25 Mitchell bombers , they never served in combat . The 99th Pursuit Squadron ( later , 99th Fighter Squadron ) was the first black flying squadron , and the first to deploy overseas ( to North Africa in April 1943 , and later to Sicily and Italy ) . The 332nd Fighter Group , which originally included the 100th , 301st and 302nd Fighter Squadrons , was the first black flying group . It deployed to Italy in early 1944 . In June 1944 , the 332nd Fighter Group began flying heavy bomber escort missions and , in July 1944 , with the addition of the 99th Fighter Squadron , it had four fighter squadrons . The 99th Fighter Squadron was initially equipped with Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter-bomber aircraft .
Walter Otto Dreyer ( February 25 , 1923 - September 27 , 2002 ) was an American football player and coach . He played professionally as a defensive back and halfback in the National Football League ( NFL ) for the Chicago Bears ( 1949 ) and the Green Bay Packers ( 1950 ) . Dreyer played at the College football at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Madison . He served as the head football coach at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 1960 to 1969 .
The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago , Illinois . The Bears compete in the National Football League ( NFL ) as a member club of the league 's National Football Conference ( NFC ) North division . The Bears have won nine NFL Championships , including one Super Bowl , and hold the NFL record for the most enshrinees in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the most retired jersey numbers . The Bears have also recorded more victories than any other NFL franchise . The franchise was founded in Decatur , Illinois , on September 17 , 1920 , and moved to Chicago in 1921 . It is one of only two remaining franchises from the NFL 's founding in 1920 , along with the Arizona Cardinals , which was originally also in Chicago . The team played home games at Wrigley Field on Chicago 's North Side through the 1970 season ; they now play at Soldier Field on the Near South Side , next to Lake Michigan . The Bears have a long-standing rivalry with the Green Bay Packers . The team headquarters , Halas Hall , is in the Chicago suburb of Lake Forest , Illinois . The Bears practice at adjoining facilities there during the season , and began hosting Training Camp at Halas Hall in 2020 after major renovations .
Daniel Leonard Dworsky ( born October 4 , 1927 ) is an American architect . He is a longstanding member of the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows . Among other works , Dworsky designed Crisler Arena , the basketball arena at the University of Michigan named for Dworsky 's former football coach , Fritz Crisler . Other professional highlights include designing Drake Stadium at UCLA , the Federal Reserve Bank in Los Angeles and the Block M seating arrangement at Michigan Stadium . He is also known for a controversy with Frank Gehry over the Walt Disney Concert Hall . Previously , Dworsky was an American football linebacker , fullback and center who played professional football for the Los Angeles Dons of the All-America Football Conference in 1949 , and college football for the Michigan Wolverines from 1945 to 1948 . He was an All-American on Michigan 's undefeated national championship teams in 1947 and 1948 .
Crisler Center ( formerly known as Crisler Arena ) is an indoor arena located in Ann Arbor , Michigan . It is the home arena for the University of Michigan 's men 's and women 's basketball teams as well as its women 's gymnastics team . Constructed in 1967 , the arena seats 12,707 spectators . It is named for Herbert O. Fritz Crisler , head football coach at Michigan from 1938 to 1947 and athletic director thereafter until his retirement in 1968 . Crisler Center was designed by Dan Dworsky , a member of the 1948 Rose Bowl team . Among other structures that he has designed is the Federal Reserve Bank of Los Angeles . The arena is often called The House that Cazzie Built , a reference to player Cazzie Russell , who starred on Michigan teams that won three consecutive Big Ten Conference titles from 1964 to 1966 . Russell 's popularity caused the team 's fan base to outgrow Yost Fieldhouse ( now Yost Ice Arena ) and prompted the construction of the current facility . At Michigan men 's basketball games , the bleacher seats behind the benches are home to the Maize Rage student section .
Drake Stadium is an 11,700-capacity stadium in Los Angeles , California and the home of the UCLA Bruins men 's and women 's track and field teams . The stadium built in 1969 is named for UCLA track legend Elvin C. Ducky Drake , who was a student-athlete , track coach and athletic trainer for over 60 years . It was the home of the UCLA Bruins men 's and women 's soccer teams until 2017 . There was a proposal in 1965 to build a 44,000 seat Multi-Purpose Stadium on campus , for UCLA Bruins track meets and varsity football games , rather than the Bruins using the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for home field . In both Spring and Fall 1965 , UCLA students voted by a two-to-one majority against the proposal to use fee funds to build a football stadium . Additionally , the proposal was opposed by influential area residents and politicians . By February 1966 UCLA had scaled back the project to the Drake Stadium configuration . Although the football stadium never became a reality , there have been UCLA Bruin football scrimmage games played in the stadium . Drake Stadium has hosted the Pacific-10 ( now Pac-12 ) Track and Field Championships , the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 1976-77-78 , the Pacific-8 Championships in 1970 and 1977 and the CIF California State Meet for high schools in 1969-71-77 . The facility hosted the first-ever California-Nevada Championships on April 30-May 1 , 1994 . It also has hosted other student events such as concerts and graduation ceremonies . The field at Drake Stadium is named for UCLA alumnus Frank Marshall , a film producer .
Chalmers William Bump Elliott ( January 30 , 1925 - December 7 , 2019 ) was an American football player , coach , and college athletics administrator . He played halfback at Purdue University ( 1943-1944 ) and the University of Michigan ( 1946-1947 ) . Elliott grew up in Bloomington , Illinois , enlisted in the United States Marine Corps as a senior in high school and was assigned to the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Purdue University . He received varsity letters in football , baseball , and basketball at Purdue , before being called into active duty in late 1944 , serving with the Marines in China . After being discharged from the military , he enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1946 and joined the football team for whom his brother Pete Elliott played quarterback . In 1947 , he played for an undefeated and untied Michigan football team known as the Mad Magicians , led the Big Nine Conference in scoring , won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy as the Most Valuable Player in the Conference , and was selected as an All-American by the American Football Coaches Association . After graduating from Michigan in 1948 , Elliott spent ten years as an assistant football coach at Oregon State , Iowa , and Michigan . He was appointed as Michigan 's head football coach in 1959 and held that position until 1968 , leading the team to a Big Ten Conference championship and Rose Bowl victory in the 1964 season . For a period of 21 years , from 1970 to 1991 , he was the athletic director at the University of Iowa . During his tenure as athletic director , he hired coaches Dan Gable , Hayden Fry , Lute Olson , C. Vivian Stringer , and Dr. Tom Davis , and the Iowa Hawkeyes won 41 Big Ten Conference championships and 11 NCAA titles . In 1989 , Elliott was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame .
Peter R. Elliott ( September 29 , 1926 - January 4 , 2013 ) was an American football player and coach . Elliott served as the head football coach at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln ( 1956 ) , the University of California , Berkeley ( 1957-1959 ) , the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ( 1960-1966 ) , and the University of Miami ( 1973-1974 ) , compiling a career college football record of 56-72-11 .
Forest Evy Evashevski ( February 19 , 1918 - October 30 , 2009 ) 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 . Evashevski served as the head football coach at Hamilton College in 1941 , Washington State University from 1950 to 1951 , and the University of Iowa from 1952 to 1960 , compiling a career record of 68-35-6 . Evashevski 's 1958 Iowa team went 8-1-1 , winning the Big Ten Conference title and defeating the California Golden Bears in the 1959 Rose Bowl . Though they finished second to the LSU Tigers in both major pre-bowl game polls , the 1958 Hawkeyes were recognized by the Football Writers Association of America as national champions after all the bowl games had been played . Evashevski served as Iowa 's athletic director from 1960 to 1970 . He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2000 .
Original plans in 1967 called for the Hall of Fame to be located at Rutgers University in New Brunswick , New Jersey , the location of the first contest under rules now considered to be those of modern football , between teams from Rutgers and the College of New Jersey , now Princeton University ; Rutgers won 6-4 . Rutgers donated land near its football stadium , office space , and administrative support . After years of collecting donations for the construction of the building with ground not having been broken and no plans to do so , the New Jersey Attorney General began an investigation of the finances of the Hall of Fame 's foundation , the National Football Foundation . In response , the Foundation moved its operations to New York City , where it continued to collect donations for several years .
Henry Fonde ( January 13 , 1924 - May 3 , 2009 ) was an American football player and coach . He played for the University of Michigan from 1945 to 1947 under head coach Fritz Crisler . In ten years as the head football coach at Ann Arbor Pioneer High School ( 1949-1958 ) , he compiled a record of 69-6-4 . He subsequently served as an assistant football coach at the University of Michigan under head coach Bump Elliott from 1959-1968 .
The 1948 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1 , 1948 . It was the 34th Rose Bowl Game , and the second since the Big Nine Conference and the Pacific Coast Conference reached an exclusive agreement to match their champions in the game each year . In the game , the Michigan Wolverines defeated the USC Trojans ; 49-0 . Michigan halfback Bob Chappuis was named the Rose Bowl Player of The Game when the award was created in 1953 and selections were made retroactively . Michigan tied the record for the most points scored by a team in the Rose Bowl , first set by the 1901 Michigan Wolverines in the first Rose Bowl and later matched by USC in 2008 . Oregon supplanted the record in 2015 . Michigan also tied the game 's record for largest margin of victory also set by the 1901 Michigan team that defeated Stanford by an identical 49-0 score . The record of seven PATs converted by Michigan kicker Jim Brieske remains unbroken , but was tied in 2008 by USC 's David Buehler . The game was aired by local station KTLA in the first telecast of a bowl game in the Greater Los Angeles Area . It was also the first time a U.S. motion picture newsreel was taken in color . In a special AP Poll following the game , Michigan replaced Notre Dame as the 1947 national champion by a vote of 226 to 119 .
Leonard Guy Ford Jr. ( February 18 , 1926 - March 14 , 1972 ) was an American football player who played at the offensive and defensive end positions from 1944 to 1958 . He played college football for the University of Michigan and professional football for the Los Angeles Dons , Cleveland Browns and Green Bay Packers . He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1976 and the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1996 . Ford was an all-city athlete at his high school in Washington , D.C. , and attended Morgan State University after graduating in 1944 . After a brief stint in the U.S. Navy the following year , he transferred to Michigan , where he played on the Michigan Wolverines football team as an offensive and defensive end . He played for Michigan from 1945 to 1947 and was a member of the undefeated 1947 team that has been selected as the best team in the history of Michigan football . Ford was passed over in all 32 rounds of the 1948 NFL Draft , but was selected by the Los Angeles Dons of the rival All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ) , where he played for two seasons as an offensive and defensive end . After the AAFC dissolved in 1949 , Ford played eight seasons as a defensive end for the Cleveland Browns . During those eight seasons , the Browns advanced to the NFL championship game seven times , won three championships , and allowed the fewest points in the NFL six times . Ford was one of the dominant defensive players of his era , having a rare combination of size and speed that helped him disrupt opposing offenses and force fumbles . He was selected as a first-team All-NFL player five times and played in four Pro Bowls . He was also one of two defensive ends named to the National Football League 1950s All-Decade Team .
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame for professional American football , located in Canton , Ohio . Opened in 1963 , the Hall of Fame enshrines exceptional figures in the sport of professional football , including players , coaches , franchise owners , and front-office personnel , almost all of whom made their primary contributions to the game in the National Football League ( NFL ) ; the Hall inducts between four and eight new enshrinees each year . The Hall of Fame 's Mission is to Honor the Heroes of the Game , Preserve its History , Promote its Values & Celebrate Excellence EVERYWHERE . As of 2020 [ update ] , there are a total of 346 members of the Hall of Fame , 189 of whom are living . Members are referred to as Gold Jackets due to the distinctive gold jackets they receive during the induction ceremony . Between four and eight new inductees are normally enshrined every year . In 2020 , an additional 15 members , known as the Centennial Slate , were inducted into the Hall of Fame to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the NFL .
Julius Franks , Jr. ( September 5 , 1922 - November 26 , 2008 ) was a civil rights leader and an All-American guard who played football at the University of Michigan from 1941 to 1942 . Franks wore # 62 as a varsity letterman in 1941 and # 63 in 1942 . Franks was the first ( or second depending on the source ) African-American University of Michigan player to become an All-American in football . Illness cut short his collegiate athletic career . After Michigan , Franks pursued a career in dentistry . He also became an active community leader who contributed his time to public service and who helped to integrate Grand Rapids , Michigan by financing home construction in a majority Caucasian neighborhood .
Ralph C. Fritz ( November 23 , 1917 - February 4 , 2002 ) 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 . In 1940 , he was chosen by conference coaches as a first-team player on the Associated Press All-Big Ten Conference team . Fritz later played professional football for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1941 . Fritz was one of the more than 1,000 NFL personnel who served in the military during World War II . Starting in 1949 , Fritz worked as a high school football coach in Wauchula , Florida . In 1954 , Fritz was hired as the athletic director and football coach at Lake Wales High School in Lake Wales , Florida . Fritz died in 2002 at age 84 while living in Miami , Florida .