Honors and Accolades
Chappuis has received numerous honors, including the following:
- Named Most Valuable Player on the 1946 Michigan Wolverines football team;
- Named to the All-Big Nine Conference team, 1946;
- Consensus All-American, 1947;
- Named to the All-Big Nine Conference team, 1947;
- Finished second to Johnny Lujack in the Heisman Trophy voting in 1947;
- Named Most Valuable Player of the 1948 Rose Bowl game;
- Inducted into the University of Michigan Hall of Honor in 1984; and
- Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988.
- Inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 1992.
- In 2005, Chappuis was selected as one of the 100 greatest Michigan football players of all time by the "Motown Sports Revival," ranking 28th on the all-time team.
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