List of Michigan Wolverines head football coaches

Michigan Wolverines football

The Michigan Wolverines football program represents the University of Michigan in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Michigan has the most all-time wins and the highest winning percentage in college football history...

program is a college football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

team that represents the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

in the National Collegiate Athletic Association

National Collegiate Athletic Association

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's Big Ten Conference

Big Ten Conference

The Big Ten Conference is the United States' oldest Division I college athletic conference. Its twelve member institutions are located primarily in the Midwestern United States, stretching from Nebraska in the west to Pennsylvania in the east...

. The Wolverines have played over 1,200 games during their 132 seasons, winning 884 contests for a winning percentage of .735. The marks for wins and winning percentage are the best in college football history.

Michigan has had 19 head coaches since its first recorded football game in 1879. Mike Murphy

Mike Murphy (trainer and coach)

Michael Charles "Mike" Murphy was an athletic trainer and coach at Yale University , the Detroit Athletic Club , the University of Michigan , the University of Pennsylvania , and the New York Athletic Club...

and Frank Crawford

Frank Crawford

Frank Crawford was a college football player and coach, lawyer and law professor. He played college football at Yale University and served as the first head football coach at the University of Michigan in 1891...

, co-head coaches for a single season in 1891, were the team's first head coaches. In his first season at Michigan in 1901, Fielding H. Yost guided the Wolverines to the 1902 Rose Bowl

1902 Rose Bowl

Originally titled the "Tournament East-West football game," what is now known as the Rose Bowl Game was first played on January 1, 1902 in Pasadena, California, starting the tradition of New Year's Day bowl games.The inaugural game featured Fielding H...

, the first college bowl game

Bowl game

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ever played. Since then, seven other coaches have led the Wolverines to postseason bowl games: Fritz Crisler

Fritz Crisler

Herbert Orin "Fritz" Crisler was an American football coach who is best known as "the father of two-platoon football," an innovation in which separate units of players were used for offense and defense. Crisler developed two-platoon football while serving as head coach at the University of...

, Bennie Oosterbaan

Bennie Oosterbaan

Benjamin Gaylord "Bennie" Oosterbaan was a three-time first team All-American football end for the Michigan Wolverines football team, two-time All-American basketball player for the basketball team and an All-Big Ten Conference baseball player for the baseball team...

, Bump Elliott

Bump Elliott

Chalmers W. "Bump" Elliott is a former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played halfback at Purdue University and the University of Michigan...

, Bo Schembechler

Bo Schembechler

Glenn Edward "Bo" Schembechler, Jr. was an American football player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Miami University from 1963 to 1968 and at the University of Michigan from 1969 to 1989, compiling a career record of 234–65–8...

, Gary Moeller

Gary Moeller

Gary O. Moeller is an American football coach best known for being head coach at the University of Michigan from 1990 to 1994. During his five seasons at Michigan, he won 44 games, lost 13 and tied 3 for a winning percentage of .758...

, Lloyd Carr

Lloyd Carr

Lloyd H. Carr is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Michigan from 1995 through the 2007 season. Under Carr, the Wolverines compiled a record of 122–40 and won or shared five Big Ten Conference titles...

, and Rich Rodriguez

Rich Rodriguez

Richard A. "Rich" Rodriguez is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at the University of Arizona. Rodriguez previously served as the head football coach at Salem University , Glenville State College , West Virginia University , and the University...

. Nine coaches have won at least one of Michigan's 42 Big Ten Conference championships: Gustave Ferbert

Gustave Ferbert

-Gold prospecting in Alaska:After his coaching career at Michigan, Ferbert went to Alaska to search for gold. In May 1900, amid the Klondike Gold Rush, newspapers reported that Ferbert had left Ann Arbor for Seattle, where he planned to join "High" Allen and "Count" Villa, described as "two other...

, Yost, Harry G. Kipke

Harry G. Kipke

Harry George Kipke was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He was the head football coach at Michigan State College in 1928 and at the University of Michigan from 1929–1937, compiling a career record of 49–30–5...

, Crisler, Oosterbaan, Elliott, Schembechler, Moeller, and Carr. Yost, Kipke, Crisler, Oosterbaan, and Carr have also won national championships with the Wolverines.

Schembechler is the program's all-time leader in wins (194) and games coached (247). Yost coached for the most seasons (25) and has the highest winning percentage (.833) of any coach who led the program for more than three seasons. Michigan had nine head coaches between 1900 and 1989, each of whom has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame

College Football Hall of Fame

The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football. Located in South Bend, Indiana, it is connected to a convention center and situated in the city's renovated downtown district, two miles south of the University of Notre Dame campus. It is slated to move...

either as a coach or as a player: Langdon Lea

Langdon Lea

-See also:* 1893 College Football All-America Team* 1894 College Football All-America Team* 1895 College Football All-America Team*List of Michigan Wolverines head football coaches-External links:*...

, Yost, George Little, Elton Wieman

Elton Wieman

Elton Ewart "Tad" Wieman was an American football player and coach and college athletic director. He played football for the University of Michigan from 1915 to 1917 and 1920 under head coach Fielding H. Yost. He was a coach and administrator at Michigan from 1921 to 1929, including two years as...

, Kipke, Crisler, Oosterbaan, Elliott, and Schembechler. The Wolverines' current head coach is Brady Hoke

Brady Hoke

Brady Hoke is the head football coach at the University of Michigan. He is in his first season. He grew up in Ohio and attended Ball State University where he played linebacker from 1977 to 1980...

, who was hired in January 2011.

Coaches

Updated as of November 21, 2011

#	Name	GC	OW	OL	OT	CW	CL	CT	C%	PW	PL	CCs	NCs
0—	No coaches	34	23	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	, Mike Murphy Mike Murphy (trainer and coach) Michael Charles "Mike" Murphy was an athletic trainer and coach at Yale University , the Detroit Athletic Club , the University of Michigan , the University of Pennsylvania , and the New York Athletic Club...	9	4	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3		22	14	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4		20	17	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5		10	9	1	0	2	1	0		0	0	0	0
6		28	24	3	1	6	2	0		0	0	1	0
7	^†	10	7	2	1	3	2	0		0	0	0	0
8	^†	204	165	29	10	42	10	2		1	0	10	6
9	^†	8	6	2	0	4	2	0		0	0	0	0
10	^†	16	9	6	1	5	5	0		0	0	0	0
11	^†	76	46	26	4	27	21	2		0	0	4	2
12	^†	90	71	16	3	42	12	3		1	0	2	1
13	^†	100	63	33	4	44	23	4		1	0	3	1
14	^†	95	51	42	2	32	34	3		1	0	1	0
15	^†	247	194	48	5	143	23	3		5	12	13	0
16		60	44	13	3	30	8	2		4	1	3	0
17		162	122	40	0	81	23	0		6	7	5	1
18		36	15	22	0	6	18	0		0	0	0	0
19		12	10	2	0	6	2	0		0	0	0	0

Statistical leaders

Updated as of January 2, 2011

Most overall wins
1. Bo Schembechler (194)
2. Fielding H. Yost (165)
3. Lloyd Carr (122)
4. Fritz Crisler (71)
5. Bennie Oosterbaan (63)

Most Big Ten wins
1. Bo Schembechler (143)
2. Lloyd Carr (81)
3. Bennie Oosterbaan (44)
4. Fielding H. Yost (42)
4. Fritz Crisler (42)

Highest overall winning percentage
1. William Ward (.900)
2. William McCauley (.875)
3. Gustave Ferbert (.875)
4. Fielding H. Yost (.833)
5. Fritz Crisler (.806)

Highest Big Ten winning percentage
1. Bo Schembechler (.855)
2. Fielding H. Yost (.796)
3. Lloyd Carr (.779)
4. Fritz Crisler (.777)
5. Gary Moeller (.775)

Lowest overall winning percentage
1. Rich Rodriguez (.405)
2. Frank Crawford/Mike Murphy (co-head coaches in 1891) (.444)
3. Bump Elliott (.547)
4. Elton Wieman (.594)
5. Harry G. Kipke (.632)

Lowest Big Ten winning percentage
1. Rich Rodriguez (.250)
2. Bump Elliott (.485)
3. Elton Wieman (.500)
4. Harry G. Kipke (.560)
5. Langdon Lea (.600)

Big Ten championships
1. Bo Schembechler (13)
2. Fielding H. Yost (10)
3. Lloyd Carr (5)
4. Harry G. Kipke (4)
5. Gary Moeller and Bennie Oosterbaan (each with 3)

National championships
1. Fielding H. Yost (6)
2. Harry G. Kipke (2)
3. Fritz Crisler (1)
3. Bennie Oosterbaan (1)
3. Lloyd Carr (1)
The only Michigan head coaches with more than one post-season win are Lloyd Carr with six, Bo Schembechler with five, and Gary Moeller with four.

Profiles

Murphy and Crawford (1891)

Although Michigan began fielding a football team in 1879, the first season in which the team had a coaching staff was 1891. While official sources list only Mike Murphy

Mike Murphy (trainer and coach)

and Frank Crawford

Frank Crawford

as the coaches of the 1891 team

1891 Michigan Wolverines football team

The 1891 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1891 college football season. The Wolverines played their home games at Ann Arbor Fairgrounds...

, the Chicago Daily Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...

reported in November 1891 that the Michigan team was "coached systematically" by Murphy, Crawford, Horace Greely Prettyman

Horace Greely Prettyman

Horace Greely Prettyman was an American football player in the early years of the sport. Prettyman won a record eight varsity letters at the University of Michigan, playing for the school's football team from 1882–1886 and 1888–1890...

and James Duffy

James E. Duffy (American football)

James Eugene Duffy was an American football player and lawyer. He played halfback for the University of Michigan football team for seven years from 1885 to 1891 and was captain of the 1888 team. In 1886, he set the world record by drop kicking a football 168 feet, 7½ inches...

. After leaving Michigan, Murphy was the athletic trainer at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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for many years and coached the American track athletes at the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1908, and 1912. The Washington Post in 1913 called Murphy "the father of American track athletics." He was considered the premier athletic trainer of his era and was said to have "revolutionized the methods of training athletes and reduced it to a science." Crawford went on to coach at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...

, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln

University of Nebraska–Lincoln

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is a public research university located in the city of Lincoln in the U.S. state of Nebraska...

, the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

, and Nebraska Wesleyan University

Nebraska Wesleyan University

Nebraska Wesleyan University is a private, coeducational university located in Lincoln, Nebraska. It was founded in 1887 by Nebraska Methodists. As of 2007, it has 1,600 full-time students and 300 faculty and staff. The school teaches in the tradition of a liberal arts college education....

Frank Barbour (1892–1893)

In 1892, Yale

Yale Bulldogs football

The Yale Bulldogs football program represents Yale University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision . Yale's football program is one of the oldest in the world, having begun competing in the sport in 1872...

graduate Frank Barbour

Frank Barbour

Francis Edward "Frank" Barbour was an American football player, coach, and businessman. He played quarterback for the Yale University football team in 1890 and 1891 and helped lead the 1891 Yale team to a perfect 13–0 record and a national championship...

took over as head coach and led the Wolverines to a 14–8 record in two seasons as head coach.

William McCauley (1894–1895)

Medical student William McCauley

William McCauley

William Lloyd "Jerry" McCauley was the third head coach of the University of Michigan football team. McCauley was born in approximately 1871 and listed his home town as Stanley, New York. He attended preparatory school at Geneva Prep...

took over in 1894 and led the team to a 17–2–1 record from 1894 to 1895. The 1895 team

1895 Michigan Wolverines football team

The 1895 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1895 college football season. The team, coached by medical student William McCauley, compiled an 8–1 record, won seven of their games by shutouts, and outscored their opponents by a combined score of 266 to...

compiled an 8–1 record, won seven of their games by shutouts, and outscored their opponents by a combined score of 266 to 14. The sole loss in McCauley's final year was a 4–0 loss to Harvard

Harvard Crimson

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, then one of the three great football powers. Undefeated against Western opponents, the 1895 Wolverines laid claim to Michigan's first Western football championship.

William Ward (1896)

William Ward was the head coach for the 1896 team

1896 Michigan Wolverines football team

The 1896 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1896 college football season. They played their home games at Regents Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan and competed in the newly-established Western Conference, later to be known as the Big Ten Conference...

. Ward's team won the first nine consecutive games by a combined score of 256 to 4. In the final game of the season, the team lost a close game to Amos Alonzo Stagg

Amos Alonzo Stagg

Amos Alonzo Stagg was an American athlete and pioneering college coach in multiple sports, primarily American football...

's University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

team by a score of 7–6. In his one season as head coach, Ward compiled a 9–1 record, which stands as the best winning percentage (.900) among all 18 Michigan football head coaches.

Gustave Ferbert (1897–1899)

In 1897, Michigan's former star halfback

Halfback (American football)

A halfback, sometimes referred to as a tailback, is an offensive position in American football, which lines up in the backfield and generally is responsible for carrying the ball on run plays. Historically, from the 1870s through the 1950s, the halfback position was both an offensive and defensive...

Gustave Ferbert

took over as head coach. The 1898 team

1898 Michigan Wolverines football team

The 1898 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1898 college football season. The team, with Gustave Ferbert as head coach, went 10–0 and became the first Michigan football team to win the Western Conference championship. The first great Michigan football...

coached by Ferbert finished with a perfect 10–0 record and won Michigan's first Western Conference championship. In May 1900, amid the Klondike Gold Rush

Klondike Gold Rush

The Klondike Gold Rush, also called the Yukon Gold Rush, the Alaska Gold Rush and the Last Great Gold Rush, was an attempt by an estimated 100,000 people to travel to the Klondike region the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1897 and 1899 in the hope of successfully prospecting for gold...

, Ferbert resigned as Michigan's head coach and left for Alaska to search for gold. After several years in the Klondike

Klondike, Yukon

The Klondike is a region of the Yukon in northwest Canada, east of the Alaska border. It lies around the Klondike River, a small river that enters the Yukon from the east at Dawson....

, Ferbert emerged in 1909 having become wealthy from his gold finds.

Langdon "Biffy" Lea (1901)

With the departure of Ferbert, Michigan hired three-time Princeton

Princeton Tigers football

The Princeton Tigers football program represents Princeton University college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision...

All-American "Biffy" Lea

Langdon Lea

to coach the 1900 team

1900 Michigan Wolverines football team

The 1900 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1900 college football season. The team's head coach was the four-time All-American from Princeton and future College Football Hall of Fame inductee, Langdon Lea. The team opened the season with six wins, but...

. Lea led the 1900 team to a 7–2–1 and a fifth place finish in the Western Conference.

Ninety years of Hall of Fame inductees

Beginning with Lea, all nine individuals who served as head coach at Michigan during the 90 years from 1900 to 1989 have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame

College Football Hall of Fame

either as a player or coach. They are Lea, Fielding "Hurry Up" Yost, George Little, Elton "Tad" Wieman

Elton Wieman

Harry G. Kipke

Fritz Crisler

Bennie Oosterbaan

Bump Elliott

Chalmers W. "Bump" Elliott is a former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played halfback at Purdue University and the University of Michigan...

, and Bo Schembechler

Bo Schembechler

Fielding H. Yost (1901–1923, 1925–1926)

Fielding H. Yost has the longest tenure among Michigan head coaches, holding the position for 25 seasons from 1901–1923 and 1925–1926. His famed "Point-a-Minute" teams from 1901 to 1905 outscored opponents 2,821 to 42. The 1901 team

1901 Michigan Wolverines football team

The 1901 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1901 college football season. In their first year under new head coach Fielding H. Yost, Michigan finished the season undefeated with an 11–0 record, outscored their opponents by the unprecedented total of 550...

was undefeated and unscored upon, having won all eleven games by a combined score of 550 to 0, including a 49–0 victory over Stanford

Stanford Cardinal football

The Stanford Cardinal football program represents Stanford University in college football at the NCAA Division I FBS level and is a member of the Pac-12 Conference's North Division. Stanford, the top-ranked academic institution with an FBS program, has a highly successful football tradition. The...

in the first bowl game, the 1902 Rose Bowl

1902 Rose Bowl

George Little (1924)

When Yost retired after the 1923 football season, his assistant George Little took over as the new head coach. Little served only one year in the position, leading the 1924 team

1924 Michigan Wolverines football team

The 1924 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1924 college football season. The team's head coach was George Little. The Wolverines played their home games at Ferry Field.-Schedule:...

to a 6–2 record. Little later served as the football coach and athletic director at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

, athletic director at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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, and executive secretary of the National Football Foundation

National Football Foundation

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and College Football Hall of Fame.

Elton "Tad" Wieman (1927–1928)

In 1925, Yost returned to the position of head coach through the end of the 1926 season. In 1927, assistant coach Elton "Tad" Wieman

Elton Wieman

took over as head coach and led the Wolverines to a 9–6 record in two years as head coach.

Harry G. Kipke (1929–1937)

In 1929, Michigan's former All-American halfback

Halfback (American football)

Harry G. Kipke

was hired to replace Wieman.
In his first year as head coach, the Wolverines finished in an eighth place tie in the Big Ten with a 5–3–1 record. However, Kipke quickly turned things around, leading the Wolverines to four straight conference championships and two national titles between 1930 and 1933. The 1932 and 1933 national championships teams did not lose any games. Kipke called his system "a punt, a pass, and a prayer" and reportedly coined the phrase, "A great defense is a great offense." In 1934, Kipke’s Wolverines fell from national champions to a tenth place finish in the conference with a 1–7 record. Between 1934 and 1937, Kipke's team accumulated a 12–22 record.

Fritz Crisler (1938–1947)

Fritz Crisler

took over as head coach at Michigan in 1938 and remained in that position through the 1947 season. Crisler is best known as "the father of two-platoon football," an innovation in which separate units of players were used for offense and defense. Crisler developed two-platoon football while serving as Michigan's head coach. Crisler also introduced the distinctive winged football helmet

Winged Football Helmet

The winged football helmet is a helmet bearing a distinctive two-toned painted design that typically has sharp outward curves over the forehead forming a wing. It is worn most popularly by the University of Michigan Wolverines.-History:...

to the Michigan Wolverines

Michigan Wolverines

The Michigan Wolverines comprise 27 varsity sports teams at the University of Michigan. These teams compete in the NCAA's Division I and in the Big Ten Conference in all sports except men's ice hockey which competes in the NCAA D1 Central Collegiate Hockey Association, and women's water polo, which...

in 1938. Crisler's 1947 Michigan Wolverines football team

1947 Michigan Wolverines football team

The 1947 Michigan Wolverines football team, nicknamed the "Mad Magicians", represented the University of Michigan in the 1947 college football season. Coached by Fritz Crisler, the Wolverines finished undefeated and untied with a 10–0 record...

, dubbed the "Mad Magicians," has been selected as the best team in the history of Michigan football.

Bennie Oosterbaan (1948–1958)

Crisler retired as head coach after the 1947 season to become the school's full-time athletic director. He appointed his former assistant, Bennie Oosterbaan

Bennie Oosterbaan

as the new head football coach. In the mid-1920s, Oosterbaan was a three-time first team All-American

College Football All-America Team

The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best American college football players at their respective positions. The original usage of the term All-America seems to have been to the 1889 College Football All-America Team selected by Casper Whitney and published in This...

football

American football

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end, a two-time All-American basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

player, and an All-Big Ten Conference

Big Ten Conference

baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

player. As recently as 2003, Oosterbaan was selected by Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
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as the fourth greatest athlete in the history of the State of Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

. In his first year as the head coach of the football team, the 1948 Michigan Wolverines football team

1948 Michigan Wolverines football team

The 1948 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan during the 1948 college football season. The team's head coach was Bennie Oosterbaan. The Wolverines played their home games at Michigan Stadium.-Schedule:...

won an Associated Press

Associated Press

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national championship. His 1950 team

1950 Michigan Wolverines football team

The 1950 Michigan Wolverines football team, coached by Bennie Oosterbaan, won the Big Ten Conference championship with a record of 6–3–1 and defeated the California Bears in the 1951 Rose Bowl, 14–6. The team had two All-Big 10 backs in Don Dufek and Chuck Ortmann and All-American tackle R. Allen...

won the 1951 Rose Bowl

1951 Rose Bowl

The 1951 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 1951. It was the 37th Rose Bowl Game. The Michigan Wolverines, champions of the Big Ten Conference, defeated the California Golden Bears, champions of the Pacific Coast Conference, 14–6. Michigan fullback Don Dufek was...

. Oosterbaan also coached the baseball and basketball teams at Michigan.

Bump Elliott (1959–1968)

In 1959, Bump Elliott

Bump Elliott

Chalmers W. "Bump" Elliott is a former American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played halfback at Purdue University and the University of Michigan...

took over as head coach. Elliott had played halfback

Halfback (American football)

for Fritz Crisler's Michigan teams in 1946 and 1947 and won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football

Chicago Tribune Silver Football

The Chicago Tribune Silver Football is awarded by the Chicago Tribune to the college football player determined to be the best player from the Big Ten Conference. The award has been presented annually since 1924, when Red Grange of Illinois was the award's first recipient.The winner of the Silver...

trophy as the Most Valuable Player

Most Valuable Player

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in the conference in 1947. He was Michigan's head coach for ten years from 1959 to 1968. His 1964 team

1964 Michigan Wolverines football team

The 1964 Michigan Wolverines football team, coached by Bump Elliott, won the Big Ten Conference championship with a final record of 9–1 after defeating Oregon State in the Rose Bowl, 34–7. The team had two first-team All-Americans in quarterback Bob Timberlake and defensive tackle Bill...

won a Big Ten Conference

Big Ten Conference

championship and the 1965 Rose Bowl

1965 Rose Bowl

The 1965 Rose Bowl, played on January 1, 1965 was the 51st Rose Bowl Game. The Michigan Wolverines defeated the Oregon State Beavers by a score of 34–7...

. He later served as the athletic director

Athletic director

An athletic director is an administrator at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, who oversees the work of coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic programs...

at the University of Iowa

University of Iowa

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from 1970 to 1991, hiring such coaches as Dan Gable

Dan Gable

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, Hayden Fry

Hayden Fry

John Hayden Fry is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Southern Methodist University , North Texas State University, now the University of North Texas , and the University of Iowa , compiling a career college football record of 232–178–10...

, Lute Olson

Lute Olson

Robert Luther "Lute" Olson is a retired American men's basketball coach. He was most recently head coach at the University of Arizona for a period of 25 years. He was also head coach at the University of Iowa for 9 years and California State University, Long Beach for one season...

, C. Vivian Stringer

C. Vivian Stringer

Charlaine Vivian Stringer is a prominent African American basketball coach, with one of the best records in the history of women's basketball...

, and Dr. Tom Davis

Tom Davis (basketball)

Dr. Thomas "Dr. Tom" Davis is an American former college men's basketball coach. He served as the head coach at Lafayette College, Boston College, Stanford University, the University of Iowa, and Drake University from 1971 to 2007....

Bo Schembechler (1969–1989)

Bo Schembechler

served as Michigan's head coach for 21 years from 1969 to 1989. He is the winningest head coach in Michigan history with 194 wins. His teams won 13 Big Ten Conference

Big Ten Conference

championships.

Gary Moeller (1990–1994)

Gary Moeller

was named Michigan's head coach after Schembechler's retirement. During his five seasons as head coach (1990–1994), the Wolverines had a record of 44–13–3 and won or shared conference titles in 1990, 1991 and 1992. Moeller resigned in May 1995 after tapes were released of his alleged drunken outburst following an arrest on a charge of disorderly conduct at a restaurant in Southfield, Michigan

Southfield, Michigan

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which 0.04% is water. The main branch of the River Rouge runs through Southfield. The city is bounded to the south by Eight Mile Road, its western border is Inkster Road, and to the east it is bounded by Greenfield Road...

Lloyd Carr (1995–2007)

Following Moeller's resignation, Lloyd Carr

Lloyd Carr

took over as Michigan's head football coach. Carr held the position for 13 years from 1995 to 2007. Under Carr, the Wolverines compiled a record of 122–40 and won or shared five Big Ten Conference

Big Ten Conference

titles (1997, 1998, 2000, 2003, and 2004). Carr's 1997 team

1997 Michigan Wolverines football team

The 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1997 NCAA Division I-A football season. In its third year under head coach Lloyd Carr, Michigan compiled a perfect 12–0 record, won the Big Ten Conference championship, defeated Washington State in the 1998...

was declared the national champion

NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship

A college football national championship in the highest level of collegiate play in the United States, currently the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision , is a designation awarded annually by various third-party organizations to their selection of the best...

by the Associated Press

Associated Press

. Carr also compiled a record of 19–8 against teams ranked in the Top 10.

Rich Rodriguez (2008–2010)

In December 2007, Rich Rodriguez

Rich Rodriguez

was hired as the head football coach at Michigan. Prior to joining Michigan, Rodriguez was the head coach at West Virginia University

West Virginia University

West Virginia University is a public research university in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. Other campuses include: West Virginia University at Parkersburg in Parkersburg; West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery; Potomac State College of West Virginia University in Keyser;...

for seven years. In his three seasons as Michigan's head coach, Rodriguez compiled a record of 15–22, including a mark of 6–18 in Big Ten Conference games. His winning percentage of .405 overall and .250 in Big Ten play are the lowest among all 18 individuals to serve as Michigan's head football coach.

Brady Hoke (2011–present)

Brady Hoke

Brady Hoke is the head football coach at the University of Michigan. He is in his first season. He grew up in Ohio and attended Ball State University where he played linebacker from 1977 to 1980...

was hired as Michigan's new head football coach in January 2011. He had previously been the defensive line coach at Michigan (1995–2002) and a head coach at Ball State University

Ball State University

Ball State University is a state-run research university located in Muncie, Indiana. It is also known as Ball State or simply BSU.Located on the northwest side of the city, Ball State's campus spans and includes 106 buildings...

(2003–2008) and San Diego State University

San Diego State University

San Diego State University , founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, is the largest and oldest higher education facility in the greater San Diego area , and is part of the California State University system...

(2009–2010). In his first season as Michigan's head football coach, Hoke compiled a regular season record of 10–2, as Michigan finished 6–2 in conference and second place in the newly-formed Big Ten Legends Division.

External links

Michigan Football Head Coaching Records - University of Michigan Official Athletic Site

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