1920 All-Big Ten Conference football team
The 1920 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Big Ten Conference teams chosen by various selectors for the 1920 Big Ten Conference football season.
All Big-Ten selections
Ends
- Chuck Carney, Illinois (CSM, DL, EA, ECP-1, EOS, HB, HJ, HMD, JW, MM, PD, RA, TL, WE-1)
- Frank Weston, Wisconsin (DL, EA, ECP-1, EOS, FH, FM, HB, JW, PD, RA, TL, WE-1)
- Lester Belding, Iowa (CSM, ECP-2, FM, HJ, MM)
- Frank Hanny, Indiana (FH)
- Gus Eckberg, Minnesota (HMD)
Tackles
- Iolas Huffman, Ohio State (CSM, DL, EA, ECP-1, FH, FM [guard], HJ, JW, PD, RA, TL)
- Angus Goetz, Michigan (DL, EA [guard], HB, JW, MM, PD, RA, TL)
- Duke Slater, Iowa (EA, ECP-2, EOS, HB, HJ, HMD, WE-1)
- Ralph Scott, Wisconsin (ECP-1, FH, MM)
- Elliot C. Risley, Indiana (EOS, MM [guard])
- Tad Wieman, Michigan (FM)
- Jackson, Chicago (CSM)
Guards
- Tarzan Taylor, Ohio State (DL, EA, ECP-2, FH, HB, HMD [tackle], JW, PD, RA, TL)
- Robert J. Dunne, Michigan (CSM, EOS, FH, HMD, PD)
- Charles McGuire, Chicago (CSM, ECP-2 [tackle], FM [tackle], HJ, MM, WE-1 [tackle])
- Festus Tierney, Minnesota (HB, RA, WE-1)
- William G. McCaw, Indiana (EOS, FM)
- George C. Bunge, Wisconsin (DL, ECP-1)
- Dean W. Trott, Ohio State (ECP-1)
- Albert W. T. Mohr, Jr., Illinois (HJ)
- James Brader, Wisconsin (ECP-2)
- Harry Margoles, Wisconsin (HMD)
- Graham Penfield, Northwestern (TL, WE-1)
Centers
- Jack Depler, Illinois (CSM, DL, EA, ECP-1, EOS, FH, FM, HB, HJ, HMD, JW [guard], MM, RA, WE-1)
- Andrew J. Nemecek, Ohio State (ECP-2, JW, TL)
- Ernie Vick, Michigan (PD)
Quarterbacks
- Aubrey Devine, Iowa (CSM [halfback], DL, EA, ECP-1, EOS [halfback], FH, HB, HJ, HMD, MM, PD, RA, WE-1)
- Hoge Workman, Ohio State (CSM, ECP-2, JW, TL)
- Robert H. Fletcher, Illinois (FM)
- Charlie Mathys, Indiana (EOS)
Halfbacks
- Gaylord Stinchcomb, Ohio State (CSM, DL, EA, ECP-2 [end], EOS, FH, FM, HB, HJ, HMD, JW, MM, PD, RA, TL, WE-1)
- Frank Steketee, Michigan (DL, HB, PD, RA, WE-1)
- Alvah Elliott, Wisconsin (ECP-1, JW, MM, TL)
- Arnold Oss, Minnesota (EA, FM, HMD)
- Ralph E. Fletcher, Illinois (ECP-1)
- Laurie Walquist, Illinois (ECP-2, FH)
- Glenn Devine, Iowa (ECP-2)
Fullbacks
- Jack Crangle, Illinois (CSM, DL, EA, ECP-1, FH, HB, HJ, HMD, JW, MM, PD, RA, TL, WE-1)
- Russell S. Williams, Indiana (EOS, HJ [halfback])
- George Gipp, Notre Dame (FM)
- Guy Sundt, Wisconsin (ECP-2)
Key
Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors
Italics = Player whose team was not a member of the Big Ten (certain selectors chose All-Western teams in the geographic sense; others chose All-Western teams in reference to the Western Conference, aka the Big Ten Conference)
CSM = Charles A. Bush in Christian Science Monitor[1]
DL = Deake Leake in Akron Press[1]
EA = Earl C. Arnold, sports editor of Minneapolis Tribune[1]
ECP = E. C. Patterson for Collier's Weekly[2]
EOS = E.O. Stiehm, head coach of Indiana University[1]
FH = Fred Hayner in Chicago Daily News[1]
FM = Frank G. Menke, sporting editor of King Features Syndicate[1]
HB = Harry Bullion in the Detroit Free Press[1]
HJ = Howard Jones, head coach at University of Iowa[1]
HMD = Herbert M. Dustin in Minneapolis Daily News[1]
JW = John Wilce, head coach at Ohio State[1][3]
MM = Malcolm McLean in the Chicago Evening Post[1]
PD = Prentiss Douglass, assistant coach at University of Michigan[1]
RA = Robert C. Angell, sports editor of The Michigan Daily[1]
TL = The Lantern, Ohio Student University[1]
WE = Walter Eckersall
References
- Walter Camp, ed. (1921). Spalding's Official Intercollegiate Foot Ball Guide. American Sports Publishing Company. pp. 25, 27.
- "Honors Divided On All-Western Football Team". Cornell Daily Sun. December 7, 1920. p. 3.
- "All-Western Team". The Waco News Tribune. December 12, 1920. p. 11. Retrieved March 3, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
