1925 Michigan Wolverines football team

1925 Michigan Wolverines football

Co-national champion (Sagarin) Big Ten champion
Conference	Big Ten Conference
1925 record	7–1 (5–1 Big Ten)
Head coach	Fielding H. Yost (24th year)
Offensive scheme	Short punt
Captain	Robert J. Brown
Home stadium	Ferry Field
Uniform

Seasons ← 1924 1926 →

1925 Big Ten football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Michigan $	5	–	1	–	0	7	–	1	–	0
Northwestern	3	–	1	–	0	5	–	3	–	0
Wisconsin	3	–	1	–	1	6	–	1	–	1
Chicago	2	–	2	–	1	3	–	4	–	1
Illinois	2	–	2	–	0	5	–	3	–	0
Iowa	2	–	2	–	0	5	–	3	–	0
Minnesota	1	–	1	–	1	5	–	2	–	1
Ohio State	1	–	3	–	1	4	–	3	–	1
Indiana	0	–	3	–	1	3	–	4	–	1
Purdue	0	–	3	–	1	3	–	4	–	1

$ – Conference champion

Michigan State at Michigan

	1	2	3	4	Total
Michigan St	0	0	0	0	0
• Michigan	13	0	26	0	39

Date: October 3
Location: Ferry Field • Ann Arbor, MI
Game attendance: 30,000
Referee: Horatio B. Hackett

Indiana at Michigan

	1	2	3	4	Total
Indiana	0	0	0	0	0
• Michigan	28	0	14	21	63

Date: October 10
Location: Ferry Field • Ann Arbor, MI
Game attendance: 36,000
Referee: Walter Eckersall

Michigan at Wisconsin

	1	2	3	4	Total
• Michigan	14	7	0	0	21
Wisconsin	0	0	0	0	0

Date: October 17
Location: Camp Randall Stadium • Madison, WI
Game attendance: 44,000
Referee: J. Masker (Northwestern)

Michigan at Illinois

	1	2	3	4	Total
• Michigan	0	3	0	0	3
Illinois	0	0	0	0	0

Date: October 24
Location: Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL
Game attendance: 67,000
Referee: Walter Eckersall

Navy at Michigan

	1	2	3	4	Total
Navy	0	0	0	0	0
• Michigan	21	0	14	19	54

Date: October 31
Location: Ferry Field • Ann Arbor, MI
Game attendance: 47,000
Referee: Dave Fultz

Michigan at Northwestern

	1	2	3	4	Total
Michigan	0	0	2	0	2
• Northwestern	3	0	0	0	3

Date: November 7
Location: Soldier Field • Chicago, IL
Game attendance: 40,000
Referee: Walter Eckersall

Ohio State at Michigan

	1	2	3	4	Total
Ohio State	0	0	0	0	0
• Michigan	7	3	0	0	10

Date: November 14
Location: Ferry Field • Ann Arbor, MI
Game attendance: 47,000
Referee: Maskers (Northwestern)

Minnesota at Michigan

	1	2	3	4	Total
Minnesota	0	0	0	0	0
• Michigan	7	7	7	14	35

Date: November 21
Location: Ferry Field • Ann Arbor, MI
Game attendance: 47,000
Referee: Nichols (Oberlin)

The 1925 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1925 Big Ten Conference football season. The 1925 season was Fielding H. Yost's 24th as the head football coach. Michigan compiled a 7–1 record and outscored opponents by a combined score of 227 to 3. The 1925 team won the Big Ten Conference championship and was ranked second in country (tied with Alabama) behind Dartmouth in the Dickinson System rankings.

The only points allowed by the team were in a 3 to 2 loss to Northwestern in a game played in a heavy rainstorm on a field covered in mud five or six inches deep in some places. Michigan shut out seven of its eight opponents and allowed only four first downs in the last three games of the season.

Quarterback Benny Friedman and left end Bennie Oosterbaan, sometimes referred to as "The Benny-to-Bennie Show," were both consensus All-Americans and became known as one of the greatest passing combinations in college football history. Friedman finished second in close voting for the 1925 Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy, which is awarded to the Most Valuable Player in the Big Ten. Both Friedman and Oosterbaan were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Team captain and center Robert J. Brown and guard Tom Edwards also received first-team All-American honors from some selectors.

At the end of the season, Yost called the 1925 Michigan team "the greatest football team I ever coached" and "the greatest football team I ever saw in action." He continued to maintain that the 1925 squad was his greatest team even years later. The team was retroactively named as a 1925 co-national champion by MIT statistician Jeff Sagarin.

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