In its 19th season under head coach Fielding H. Yost, the Wolverines compiled a 3–4 record – the only losing season in Yost's 30-year career as a head football coach.
The team was outscored by a total of 102 to 93 and finished in a tie for seventh place in the Big Ten.
After winning three of four games to start the season, a stretch that included the Wolverines' first ever loss in the Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry, the team lost its final three games against Chicago, Illinois, and Minnesota.
Other notable players included quarterback Cliff Sparks, center/fullback Ernie Vick, halfback Archie Weston, left end Robert J. Dunne.
Murray Van Wagoner, who later served as Governor of Michigan in the early 1940s, also started one game at left guard.