page_title: 1918 Michigan Wolverines football team
section_title: Letter winners
hierarchical_section_title: 1918 Michigan Wolverines football team / Players / Letter winners
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Ernie Vick
context_page_description: The 1918 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1918 Big Ten Conference football season. The team's head football coach was Fielding H. Yost in his 18th season with the program. The 1918 team played in a season shortened by World War I travel restrictions and the 1918 flu pandemic. They shared the Big Ten Conference championship with Illinois and finished with a perfect record of 5–0, outscoring opponents 96 to 6. Although no formal mechanism existed in 1918 to select a national champion, the 1918 Michigan team was retroactively selected as the national champion by the Billingsley Report and a co-national champion with Pittsburgh by the National Championship Foundation. The Wolverines played their home games at Ferry Field.
  Fullback Frank Steketee was selected by Walter Camp as a first-team All-American and was one of the top kickers in the game during the 1918 season. Center Ernie Vick, and left tackle Angus Goetz were both selected as first-team All-Big Ten players.
context_section_description: The following 18 players from Michigan's 1918 football team won varsity letter M's.  Names of players who started at least three games are in bold.
  Theodore "Theo" Adams: started 3 games at guard, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  Theodore G. "Ted" Boville: started 2 games at end, Detroit, Michigan
  Abe Cohn: started 5 games at halfback, Spokane, Washington
  William R. Cruse: halfback, Detroit, Michigan
  Francis T. "Frank" Czysz (1899–1971): started 1 game at tackle, Dunkirk, New York
  Robert J. Dunne (1899–1980): started 5 games at end, Chicago, Illinois
  William Fortune: started 1 game at guard and 1 game at tackle, Springfield, Illinois
  Paul J. Freeman: started all 5 games at right guard, Great Falls, Montana
  Angus Goetz (1897–1977): started 4 games at tackle, 1 game at guard, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
  Fred Hendershot: end, Tecumseh, Michigan
  Arthur Karpus (1899–1983): started 1 game at end
  Kenneth Thomson "Mike" Knode (1895–1980): started 4 games at quarterback, Martinsburg, West Virginia
  Chester C. Morrison: started 1 game at tackle and 1 game at end, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Peabody H.S.)
  John Perrin (1898–1969): started 4 games at halfback, Escanaba, Michigan
  Frank Steketee (1900–1951): fullback, Grand Rapids, Michigan
  Edward Usher: started 1 game at fullback, Toledo, Ohio (Scott H.S.)
  Ernie Vick (1900–1980): started 4 games at center, Toledo, Ohio (Scott H.S.)
  Harlan N. Walker: quarterback, Highland Park, Michigan
caption: Center Ernie Vick was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
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