1939 Michigan Wolverines football team

1939 Michigan Wolverines football
Conference	Big Ten Conference
Ranking
AP	No. 20
1939 record	6–2 (3–2 Big Ten)
Head coach	Fritz Crisler (2nd year)
Offensive scheme	Single-wing formation
MVP	Tom Harmon
Captain	Archie Kodros
Home stadium	Michigan Stadium
Seasons « 1938 1940 »

1939 Big Ten football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
#15 Ohio State $	5	–	1	–	0			6	–	2	–	0
#9 Iowa	4	–	1	–	1			6	–	1	–	1
#20 Michigan	3	–	2	–	0			6	–	2	–	0
Purdue	2	–	1	–	2			3	–	3	–	2
Northwestern	3	–	2	–	1			3	–	4	–	1
Illinois	3	–	3	–	0			3	–	4	–	1
Minnesota	2	–	3	–	1			3	–	4	–	1
Indiana	2	–	3	–	0			2	–	4	–	2
Wisconsin	0	–	5	–	1			1	–	6	–	1
Chicago	0	–	3	–	0			2	–	6	–	0
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

Week 1: Michigan State at Michigan

1 2 3 4 Total Michigan State 0 0 7 6 13 • Michigan 7 19 0 0 26 Date: October 7, 1939 Location: Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI Game attendance: 68,618 Referee: Lyle Clarno (Bradley)

Week 2: Iowa at Michigan

1 2 3 4 Total Michigan State 7 0 0 0 7 • Michigan 7 13 7 0 27 Date: October 14, 1939 Location: Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI Game attendance: 27,512 Referee: John Getchell (St. Thomas)

Week 3: Michigan at Chicago

1 2 3 4 Total • Michigan 21 34 6 24 85 Chicago 0 0 0 0 0 Date: October 21, 1939 Location: Stagg Field Chicago Referee: Birch (Earlham)

Week 4: Yale at Michigan

1 2 3 4 Total Yale 0 0 0 7 7 • Michigan 7 14 6 0 27 Date: October 28, 1939 Location: Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI Referee: John Schommer (Chicago)

Week 5: Michigan at Illinois

1 2 3 4 Total Michigan 0 7 0 0 7 • Illinois 0 9 0 7 16 Date: November 4, 1939 Location: Memorial Stadium Champaign, IL Game attendance: 31,025 Referee: James Masker (Northwestern)

Week 6: Minnesota at Michigan

1 2 3 4 Total • Minnesota 7 0 6 7 20 Michigan 0 0 0 7 7 Date: November 11, 1939 Location: Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI Game attendance: 64,945 Referee: Frank Lane (Detroit)

Week 7: Michigan at Penn

1 2 3 4 Total • Michigan 0 7 6 6 19 Penn 0 3 7 7 17 Date: November 18, 1939 Location: Franklin Field Philadelphia Game attendance: 55,000 Referee: H. C. Dayhoff (Bucknell)

Week 8: Ohio State at Michigan

1 2 3 4 Total Ohio State 14 0 0 0 14 • Michigan 0 7 7 7 21 Date: November 25, 1939 Location: Michigan Stadium Ann Arbor, MI Referee: James Masker (Northwestern)

The 1939 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1939 Big Ten Conference football season. Under second-year head coach Fritz Crisler, Michigan compiled a 6–2 record and outscored opponents 219 to 94. The team was ranked No. 2 in the AP Poll after winning its first four games by a combined score of 165 to 27, but lost its fifth and sixth games to Illinois and Minnesota. After winning its final two games, the Wolverines finished the season ranked No. 20 in the final AP Poll. In the post-season rankings by Frank Dickinson, the University of Illinois professor who developed the Dickinson System, Michigan ranked seventh in the country.

Michigan's junior halfback Tom Harmon was selected as the team's Most Valuable Player after leading the team with 102 points on 14 touchdowns, 15 kicks for point after touchdown (PAT) and one field goal. Harmon was also named a consensus All-American and a first-team All-Big Ten Conference player and finished second behind Nile Kinnick in the voting for both the Heisman Trophy and the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy.

Junior quarterback Forest Evashevski was the team second leading scorer with 25 points and was selected as a first-team All-Big Ten player. Senior center, Archie Kodros, was the team captain.

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