[1] In a season shortened to five games due to the deadly 1918 flu epidemic and war-related travel restrictions, the Wolverines were 5–0 and national champions.

In Michigan's first game against the University of Chicago in 13 years, Goetz scored a touchdown in the Wolverines' 13–0 victory.

"[6] In November 1920, Edward Speyer, football writer for the Detroit News wrote: "There is one star on the team, and that is Goetz, a great player.

It is a line from poor to good, with one great spot where Goetz stood ..."[7] He was selected in 1920 as a first-team All-Western Conference player,[6] and a second-team All-American by Walter Camp.

"[4] In a 1920 profile of Goetz, the Associated Press noted: "Perhaps his most notable distinction lies in the fact that no time has been taken out for him during any game in the four years that he has been in the Michigan machine.

"[12] However, despite Yost's opinions, Goetz did later have a short run in professional football, playing nine games for the Buffalo All-Americans in 1922 and the Columbus Tigers in 1923.

[15] He went on to become the chief of orthopedics at Detroit Receiving Hospital,[15] and continued to practice medicine until his retirement in 1972.