Jack Leonard Blott (August 24, 1902 – June 11, 1964) was an All-American football center and place kicker for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1922 to 1923.

Both learned to pass from center, a duty the importance of which very few spectators ever realize, with remarkable ease and within a short time both were unusually accurate.

"[1] The 1922 team, led by All-American Harry Kipke, went 6–0–1 and finished in a tie with Iowa for the Big Ten Conference championship.

In the Iowa game on November 3, 1923, Blott scored Michigan’s only touchdown in a close 9-3 win over the 1922 Big Ten champions.

One writer wrote: “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.

... Blott’s performance was all the more unique [sic] 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 having grazed an Iowa uniform.”[7] Years later, Harry Kipke recalled the play this way: "Why was it a touchdown?

“The heavy hitting of Jack Blott who raised two in the stands for home runs was largely responsible for Michigan’s runs.”[17] At the end of his three years of college baseball, he was "considered by many to be the best back-stopper in the Big Ten Conference.

"[18] In the spring of 1924, three major league teams made offers to Blott: the New York Yankees, the Cleveland Indians, and the St. Louis Cardinals.

While he had been “a great thrower in college,” Blott broke his shoulder blade in football and was still suffering from the injury when he reported to the Reds.

One newspaper account summed it up: “Jack Blott will, as last summer, be the catching understudy with small chance of seeing much action behind the bat where Bubbles Hargrave and Ivey Wingo will hold forth.”[24] In an interview with syndicated columnist Billy Evans after the 1924 season, Blott asked the question: “Is it worth while for a college player to consider the professional game?” Blott frankly noted, “I’m not so sure that I am to be a star.”[25] Evans wrote that there were many “ifs” to such a question, including love of the game and other business prospects.

[29] Two years earlier, the Reds had lost the services of Ray Fisher who left the team to become Michigan's baseball coach.

Blott initially signed with Michigan on September 24, 1924, as an assistant football coach responsible for line candidates, concentrating on the center and guard positions.

He was the line coach during the freshman, sophomore, and junior years of Michigan's most famous center, U.S. President Gerald R. Ford.

In January 1934, rumors spread that Michigan assistants, Bennie Oosterbaan and Jack Blott, had interviewed for positions at Yale and other eastern schools.

[37][38] At the end of the 1940 season, Blott announced he was retiring as head coach at Wesleyan to take a post with the Ford Motor Company in Detroit.

Legs bothering you?” When the player replied, “Yeah, the muscles are all sore along the back here,” Blott responded: “That’s strange, I was watching you.

As a coach, he helped develop some of the school's all-time great linemen, including Chuck Bernard, Gerald R. Ford, Otto Pommerening, Alvin Wistert, and Robert "Brick" Wahl.