[5] [1][2] The 1959 Michigan Wolverines football team compiled a 4–5 in its first season under head coach Bump Elliott.

[7] In June 1960, halfback Jack Strobel received the team's John Maulbetsch Award on the basis of "need, scholastic ability, together with a capacity, promise and desire for leadership and success.

Sophomore halfback Dave Raimey ran 25 yards for the score on the first carry of his collegiate career.

Mans caught four passes for 65 yards and, playing on defense as well, recovered an Oregon fumble.

In the Detroit Free Press, Lyall Smith called it one of the most sensational matches in the history of the rivalry: "It had everything.

Michigan took a 6–0 lead in the second quarter on a 35-yard touchdown pass from Dave Glinka to Bob Johnson, but John Halsted's extra-point kick went wide.

Early in the fourth quarter, Dave Raimey fumbled a punt at the Wolverines' 27-yard line.

Fullback Bill Tunnicliff then ran the remaining yard for the game-winning touchdown, and Glinka passed to Bennie McRae for a two-point conversion.

Jim Bakken kicked a game-winning 19-yard field goal with less than two minutes remaining in the game.

Glinka then passed to Fitzgerald for a two-point conversion, giving Michigan its winning margin of one point.

Indiana, which had beaten Michigan in the prior two meetings, drove 85 yards on its opening possession, capped by a 58-yard run by Mike Lopa.

Michigan scored three touchdowns in the second half on runs by Bill Tunnicliff, Ken Tureaud, and John Kowalik.

After the game, Indiana coach Phil Dickens commented on the talent disparity between the teams: "You don't go bear hunting with a switch.

Early in the fourth quarter, Ohio State fullback Bob Ferguson ran 17 yards for the game-winning touchdown.

[3][4] At the school's annual football "bust" on November 28, senior halfback Dennis Fitzgerald received the team's most valuable player award.