1964 Michigan Wolverines football team

NCAATeamFootballSeason
Year=1964
Team=Michigan Wolverines


Conference=Big Ten Conference
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ShortConference=Big Ten
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APRank=4
Record=8-1
ConfRecord=6-1
HeadCoach=Bump Elliott
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StadiumArena=Michigan Stadium
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BowlTourney=Rose Bowl
BowlTourneyResult= Won, 34-7The 1964 Michigan Wolverines football team, coached by Bump Elliott, won the Big Ten Conference championship with a record of 8-1 (6-1 in conference) and defeated the Oregon State Beavers in the 1965 Rose Bowl game, 34-7. The team had two first-team All-Americans in quarterback Bob Timberlake and Bill Yearby and four All-Big Ten players in Timberlake, Yearby, Jim Conley, and Tom Cecchini. The Wolverines narrowly missed an undefeated season, with the only loss coming against a Purdue team led by Bob Griese by a score of 21-20. Michigan had a chance to tie the game but Timberlake carried the ball for an attempted two-point conversion and was stopped short of the goal line.

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Awards

* Captain: Jim Conley
* All-Americans: Bob Timberlake and Bill Yearby
* All-Conference: Bob Timberlake, Bill Yearby, Jim Conley, and Tom Cecchini
* Most Valuable Player: Bob Timberlake
* Meyer Morton Award: Tom Mack
* John Maulbetsch Award: Clayton Wilhite

Coaching staff

Don Dufek, Dennis Fitzgerald, Henry Fonde, Robert Holloway, Tony Mason, Jack Nelson

Notes

ee also

* 1965 Rose Bowl

External links

* [http://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/fbteam/1964fbt.htm 1964 Football Team -- Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Athletics History]