[3] Quarterback Eber Simpson was recognized as a first-team player on the 1918 All-Big Ten Conference football team.
[4] [1][2] John R. Richards was taken away from his duties as Wisconsin's head football coach in mid-October 1918, after being appointed to a commission in charge of the welfare of war workers.
The game followed the lifting of a quarantine at Camp Grant where the influenza epidemic took a death toll of 1,040 men.
At the end of the first quarter, 30 soldiers from the Fort Snelling hospital, all of whom had been injured in the war in France, some with missing limbs, came "limping and stumping" into the stands as the crowd stood, cheered, and applauded.
Michigan Agricultural took a 6–0 lead in the second quarter when Archer blocked a punt and returned it to the one-yard line; Ferris ran the final yard for touchdown.