Ernie Vick Michigan's Dependable...

July 2, 1900 - Toledo, Ohio - Michigan four-year letterman playing the position of center from 1918 to 1921, Ernie Vick claimed his date of birth. 

The National Football Foundation says that Ernie was an outstanding blocker and tackler. His coach, Fielding Yost, is quoted as saying, “He is the most accurate passer from center that has ever put a ball into play. Under pressure, he was dependable at all times.”  That says a lot when a big-time, successful coach like Yost talks up one of his players.

And talk about big-time names in early football that had good things to say about Vick, well, how about the guys that had much to do with sending the game down the course it is on today, Walter Camp? Camp placed Vick on his 1921 All-America team at center. The Father of Football said, “He is the only man who has throughout the season added great power and aggressiveness to steadiness and consistency.” Ernie Vick received the great honor of being selected for inclusion into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983.

After his time playing for the Wolverines, Ernie played 57 games of Major League Baseball as a catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals organization and then became a college football official. He even worked in that capacity in a couple of Rose Bowl Games.