In their 23rd year under head coach Fielding H. Yost, Michigan compiled an undefeated 8–0 record, tied for the Big Ten Conference football championship, and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 150 to 12.

Left tackle Stanley Muirhead played every minute of Michigan's 1923 season and was one of the team's defensive leaders.

Cappon and Goebel were lost to graduation, and Kirk had died from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in December 1922.

There were, however, several starters returning from the undefeated 1922 team, including halfback Harry Kipke, quarterback Irwin Uteritz, center Jack Blott, and tackle Stanley Muirhead.In May 1923, the University of Michigan's Board of Control of Athletics announced that the new field house under construction would be named after Fielding H. Yost, who had been Michigan's head football coach for 22 years.

[4] At the time of its completion in the fall of 1923, Yost Field House was "the largest structure for competitive athletics in the world.

[4] Michigan opened its 1923 season on October 6 with a 36–0 victory over the Case Scientific School in front of a crowd of more than 15,000 spectators at Ferry Field.

Michigan's final touchdown was scored by Frederick Parker, substituting for Uteritz at quarterback, on a fourth down run from inside the one-yard line, and Kipke drop kicked for the extra point.

For a good part of the time it gave one the same sort of feeling which was so common during the Great War, when a gain of a few yards was a matter for rejoicing, and it was hard to believe that even the most dashing attack could accomplish any lasting results.

[23] At least six airplanes were also employed to bring spectators to Ann Arbor, including two brothers flying to Ann Arbor from Denver and several Marines from Quantico, Virginia, flying in four airplanes to scout the Michigan team for the upcoming match against the Quantico Marines.

Later in the third quarter, Michigan extended its lead after blocking a punt by Hoge Workman in Ohio State territory.

Charles Grube, substituting for Jim Miller, ran on fourth down and gained four yards to Ohio State's one-yard line.

[30] As one Ohio newspaper noted, "The Wolverines made almost uncanny use of the aerial attack, their peculiar use of this play turning the battle.

Ohio held Michigan fairly well when the Wolverines employed straight football but the over-head game seemed to mystify the Buckeyes completely.

[33] Vick reportedly "played brilliantly, plunging and passing for repeated gains," revealing "a wealth of strength among the Michigan reserves.

Blott won praise for his "quick thinking" in racing to recover the fumble, with one writer noting:When Jack Blott, Michigan's star center, fell on a loose ball, in back of the goal line in the recent Michigan-Iowa game, he performed a feat which is rarely accomplished on the gridiron.

Not only did it win the contest for the Wolverines, but it marked one of the few times wherein a center is credited with having scored a touchdown ... Blott's performance was all the more unique in that he passed the ball for Kipke's attempted drop kick and then raced down the field ahead of any of the other players in time to drop on the leather as it bounded across the final chalk mark .

After the first quarter, the Michigan offense was held scoreless, unable to make "any headway thru Iowa's big black line.

Quarterback Irwin Uteritz led Michigan's comeback, scoring a touchdown in the second quarter on a dive between center Jack Blott's legs.

In the fourth quarter, Uteritz "limped perceptibly" after a hard tackle, but remained in the game until Michigan's trainer ordered him off the field.

On learning that Uteritz would be unable to play in the remaining games, Coach Yost told reporters, "There goes half of the football team.

Yost described Edliff Slaughter's "diving shoe-string tackle"[3] as follows:Suddenly, with a great burst of speed, a Michigan man went for him, grabbed him and downed him.

All-American center Jack Blott "was carried from the field with a broken ankle" in the second quarter and was unable to play in the final game of the season against Minnesota.

[48] At the conclusion of the game, a crowd of Wisconsin fans surrounded referee Walter Eckersall to protest the decision granting Michigan's touchdown.

[49] The response in Madison was so strong that rumors circulated that Wisconsin intended to sever athletic relations with Michigan.

The game was the final college football appearance for two All-American halfbacks, Harry Kipke of Michigan and Earl Martineau of Minnesota.

[52][53][54] Michigan scored the only touchdown of the game in the second quarter on a 51-yard drive that featured a ten-yard run by Harry Kipke and a 12-yard gain on a pass to Steger.

In the third quarter, Edliff Slaughter blocked a punt by Martineau, and Dick Babcock recovered the ball at Minnesota's 27-yard line.

[59] Blott also won first-team honors from Athletic world (based on polling of 500 coaches),[60] Football world magazine,[61] Norman E. Brown (sports editor of the Central Press Association),[62] Davis Walsh (sports editor for the International News Service),[63] and Walter Eckersall.

[66] Despite the growing demand for seats, Michigan's Board of Regents at the end of November 1923 rejected a proposal to build a large new football stadium.

The following chart provides a visual depiction of Michigan's lineup during the 1924 season with games started at the position reflected in parentheses.