caption high_school height_ft weight_lbs playing_years death_date birth_place playing_team awards team article_title position birth_date height_in image college name imagewidth
harold watts , 1944 birmingham 5 176 1943 & ndash ; 1946 august 15 , 1973 birmingham , michigan michigan most valuable player , 1945 michigan wolverines football team michigan wolverines harold watts
 center 1925 10 harold watts -lrb- 1944 -rrb- . jpg university of michigan harold watts 200
harold watts

harold m. watts -lrb- 1925 -- august 15 , 1973 -rrb- was an american football player .
he played at the center position for the university of michigan from 1943 to 1946 .
he was chosen as the most valuable player on the 1945 michigan wolverines football team and received the award `` in absentia '' after being transferred off the michigan campus by the u.s. navy and missing the final two games of the 1945 season .
he was selected `` by a wide margin '' as the associated press ' first-team all-big ten player in 1945 .
he was also selected as a first-team all-big ten player by the united press and was the only michigan player selected for the all-conference teams by either the ap or up .
he played all 60 minutes in the wolverines ' 1945 loss to army at yankee stadium in new york .
michigan line coach clarence `` biggie '' munn called watts `` pound for pound the ablest man i ever coached . ''
