The 1902 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1902 Western Conference football season. In their second year under head coach Fielding H. Yost, Michigan finished the season undefeated with an 11–0 record, outscored their opponents by a combined score of 644 to 12, and became known as the second of Yost's famed "Point-a-Minute" teams. With a conference record of 5–0, Michigan won the Big Nine Conference championship. The 1902 Michigan Wolverines have also been recognized as the national champions by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, and National Championship Foundation, and as co-national champions by Parke H. Davis.
Albert E. Herrnstein led all Michigan scorers with 27 touchdowns, including seven against Michigan Agricultural College.
Michigan's second-leading scorer James Lawrence kicked 19 goals from touchdown against Michigan Agricultural and scored four touchdowns against Indiana.
Curtis Redden, ejected from the Notre Dame game, died from pneumonia during World War I 16 years later.
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Harrison Samuel "Boss" Weeks Jr. was an American college football player and coach. He played quarterback for the University of Michigan from 1900 to 1902 and served as head football coach at the University of Kansas in 1903 and at Beloit College in Wisconsin in 1904. Weeks was the quarterback and on-field leader of Michigan's national champion "Point-a-Minute" teams that went 22–0 and outscored opponents 1,211 to 12 in 1901 and 1902.
The trio of Boss Weeks (left), Fielding H. Yost (right) and Willie Heston (below) were key individuals in Michigan's "Point-a-Minute" teams of 1901 and 1902.