page_title: 1927 Michigan Wolverines football team
section_title: Varsity letter winners
hierarchical_section_title: 1927 Michigan Wolverines football team / Personnel / Varsity letter winners
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Otto Pommerening
context_page_description: The 1927 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1927 Big Ten Conference football season. The 1927 season was Michigan's first in its new stadium, Michigan Stadium. It was also the first under new head coach Tad Wieman following the retirement of Fielding H. Yost as head coach. Michigan shut out its first four opponents before losing to 1927 Big Ten Conference champion Illinois and later to Big Ten runner up Minnesota. Michigan compiled a record of 6–2 and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 137 to 39.
  Left end Bennie Oosterbaan was the team's captain and was selected as the team's most valuable player and as a consensus first-team All-American for the third consecutive year. Halfback Louis Gilbert was Michigan's leading scorer with 63 points in seven games. Three Michigan players—Oosterbaan, Gilbert and guard Ray Baer—were all selected as first-team All-Big Ten players. Baer was also selected as a second-team All-American.
context_section_description: The following players won varsity letters for their work on the 1929 football team:
  Ray Baer – started 8 games at right guard
  Alan Bovard – started 6 games at center
  Victor E. Domhoff – quarterback
  Fred W. Fuller – fullback
  Norman Gabel – started 6 games at right tackle
  Joe Gembis – halfback
  Louis Gilbert – started 6 games at right halfback, 1 game at left halfback
  Frank A. Harrigan – started 1 game at left tackle
  LeRoy G. Heston – started 2 games at right end
  Leo W. Hoffman – started 5 games at quarterback
  James F. Miller – started 3 games at quarterback, 2 games at left halfback
  Herman Z. Nyland – started 4 games at right end
  Bennie Oosterbaan – started 8 games at left end
  John M. Palmeroli – started 7 games at left guard, 1 game at left tackle
  Howard W. Poe – started 1 game at right tackle
  Otto Pommerening – started 6 games at left tackle, 1 game at left guard
  William H. Puckelwartz – started 2 games at left halfback, 2 games at right halfback
  George E. Rich – started 8 games at fullback
  John B. Schoenfeld – started 1 game at center
  Laverne "Kip" Taylor – started 1 game at right end
  John Dallas Whittle – quarterback
caption: Tackle Otto Pommerening
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