The Wolverines compiled a perfect 11–0 record, outscored their opponents by a combined score of 644 to 12, and became known as the second of Yost's "Point-a-Minute" teams.
Twelve players, six of them from Michigan, were chosen as first-team players on at least three of the 1902 All-Western college football teams named by the following six selectors: Chicago Tribune (CT),[3] Chicago Daily News (CDN) selected by Fred Hayner,[3] Chicago Record-Herald (CRH) selected by Carl M. Green,[3] Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin (MEW),[4] The Minneapolis Journal (MJ),[5] and Woodruff (W).
Camp and Whitney during this period generally limited their first-team selections to players from the East and the Ivy League in particular.
The only two consensus All-Americans from schools outside the Ivy League were tackle Paul Bunker and center Robert Boyers, both of whom played for Army.
The three players recognized by The Newark Advocate were: tackle Joseph Maddock, quarterback Boss Weeks, halfback Willie Heston.