page_title: 1908 Michigan Wolverines football team
section_title: Varsity letter winners
hierarchical_section_title: 1908 Michigan Wolverines football team / Players / Varsity letter winners
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Albert Benbrook
context_page_description: The 1908 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1908 college football season. The team's head coach was Fielding H. Yost in his eighth year at Michigan. The team compiled a 5–2–1 record, outscored opponents 128 to 81, and held five of seven opponents to six points or less. After opening the season with a 5–0–1 record, and allowing an average of four points per game, the Wolverines lost badly in back-to-back games against the 1908 national champion Penn Quakers and Syracuse.
  Team captain and center Germany Schulz was academically ineligible for the first three games of the season, but his performance in the Penn game, withstanding the attack of multiple Penn players focused on knocking him out of the game, was told and re-told by sports writers for decades after the 1908 season had ended. In 1951, Schulz was selected as the greatest center in football history in a poll conducted by the National Football Foundation and became one of the initial inductees into the College Football Hall of Fame.
context_section_description: The following 12 players received varsity "M" letters for their participation on the 1908 football team:
  Dave Allerdice, Indianapolis, Indiana – started 7 games at right halfback
  Albert Benbrook, Chicago, Illinois – started 5 games at left guard, 3 at right tackle
  William Mallory Casey, Cedar Falls, Iowa – started 6 games at left tackle
  Maurice E. Crumpacker, Valparaiso, Indiana – started 5 games at right tackle, 1 game at left guard
  Samuel J. Davison, Alpena, Michigan – started 6 games at fullback
  Prentiss Douglass, Martinsville, Illinois – started 7 games at left halfback
  William John Embs, Escanaba, Michigan – started 7 games at left end
  Frank Linthicum, Washington, D.C. – started 1 game at right end, 1 game at right halfback
  Leroy E. Ranney, Greenville, Michigan – started 5 games at right end, 1 game at left end
  Thomas J. Riley, Escanaba, Michigan – started 2 games at right guard
  Germany Schulz, Fort Wayne, Indiana – started 5 games at center
  William Wasmund, Detroit, MI – started 8 games at quarterback
caption: Albert Benbrook was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
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