The 1927 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of

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players selected to the All-Big Ten Conference teams chosen by various selectors for the 1927 Big Ten Conference football season.

All Big-Ten selections

Ends

Bennie Oosterbaan Benjamin Oosterbaan ( ; February 24, 1906 – October 25, 1990) was a three-time first team All-American football end for the Michigan Wolverines football team, two-time All-American basketball player for the basketball team, and an All-Big Ten C ...

, Michigan (AP-1, CDN-1, HJ-1; UP-1; WE-1) * Waldo A. Fisher, Northwestern (AP-1, CDN-1, HJ-1; UP-1; WE-3) *

Ken Haycraft Kenneth C. Haycraft (February 16, 1907 – June 29, 1995) was an American football player in the National Football League (NFL). Biography Haycraft was born on February 16, 1907, in Bemidji, Minnesota. Career Haycraft played with the Minneapolis ...

, Minnesota (AP-2, HJ-2; WE-1) *

Garland Grange Garland Arthur "Gardie" or "Pinky" Grange (December 2, 1906 – May 28, 1981) was a professional American football player for the Chicago Bears from 1929 until 1931. Prior to his professional playing career, he played college football at the Unive ...

, Illinois (AP-2, CDN-2; WE-2) * Don Cameron, Wisconsin (HJ-2) * LeRoy G. Heston, Michigan (CDN-2) * Robert E. Tanner, Minnesota (WE-2) * Herman Z. Nyland, Michigan (WE-3)

Tackles

Leo Raskowski Leo Thomas Raskowski (March 28, 1906 – October 30, 1952) was an American college and professional football player of the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Thomas (a Polish immigrant) and Julia Raskowski. At Ohio State, he and r ...

, Ohio State (AP-1, CDN-1, HJ-1; UP-1; WE-1) *

Butch Nowack Albert J. "Butch" Nowack (1904 – September 28, 1952) was an American football player and coach. A native of Pana, Illinois, he played college football as a tackle at the University of Illinois under Robert Zuppke and was a member of the 19 ...

, Illinois (AP-1, CDN-1, HJ-2; WE-1) *

Mike Gary Mitchell J. "Mike" Gary (April 17, 1900 – December 30, 1969) was an American college football player and coach and athletics administrator. He was an All-Big Ten American football, football player for the Minnesota Golden Gophers in 1926 and 192 ...

, Minnesota (AP-2, HJ-1; UP-1; WE-3) *

Spike Nelson Emerson William "Spike" Nelson (April 2, 1906 – October 20, 1998) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Mississippi State College, now Mississippi State University, in 1938 and at Yale Univ ...

, Iowa (AP-2, CDN-2, HJ-2; WE-2) * Lewis, Minnesota (CDN-2) * Stanley Binish, Wisconsin (WE-2) * Norman Gabel, Michigan (WE-3)

Guards

Ray Baer Raymond T. Baer (May 7, 1905 – January 19, 1968) was an American football player. He played college football at the University of Michigan from 1924 to 1927. He was selected as a first-team All-Big Ten Conference and second-team All-Americ ...

, Michigan (AP-1, CDN-1, HJ-1; UP-1; WE-1) * Harold W. Hanson, Minnesota (AP-1, HJ-2; WE-2) * John R. Matthews, Indiana (AP-2; WE-1) * George Gibson, Minnesota (AP-2) * Ernest W. Schultz, Illinois (HJ-2) * Justin Whitlock Dart, Northwestern (CDN-1) * Wilbert O. Catterton, Indiana (CDN-2) * Russell J. Crane, Illinois (CDN-2; WE-2) * Weaver, Chicago (WE-3) * Carroll Ringwalt, Indiana (WE-3)

Centers

Ken Rouse Kenneth Rouse (August 22, 1906 – August 6, 1958) was an American football player. He played center for Amos Alonzo Stagg's University of Chicago football team from 1925 to 1927. He was captain of the 1927 team and won the 1927 Chicago Tribune ...

, Chicago (AP-1, CDN-1, HJ-1 uard UP-1; WE-1) *

Robert Reitsch Robert Reitsch (January 11, 1906 – September 4, 1998) was an American college football player. A prominent center, he was the captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader of a n ...

, Illinois (AP-2, CDN-2, HJ-1; UP-1; WE-2) *

Clare Randolph Clare Loring Randolph (May 2, 1907 – December 24, 1972) was a professional American football player who played center for seven seasons for the Chicago Cardinals, the Portsmouth Spartans, and the Detroit Lions The Detroit Lions are a prof ...

, Indiana (HJ-2) * George E. MacKinnon, Minnesota (WE-3)

Quarterbacks

* Harold "Shorty" Almquist, Minnesota (AP-1 alfback CDN-1, HJ-1; UP-1; WE-1) * Edwin Crofoot, Wisconsin (AP-1, CDN-2, HJ-2; UP-2 alfback * Byron Eby, Ohio State (AP-2) *

Vic Gustafson Victor Gustafson (c. 1905 – ?) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois Wheaton is a suburban city in Milton and Winfield Townships and is the county seat of DuP ...

, Northwestern (UP-2) * Harold Barnhart, Minnesota (WE-2) * Carl Pignatelli, Iowa (UP-3) * Fred Grim, Ohio State (WE-3)

Halfbacks

Louis Gilbert Louis Matthew Gilbert (September 15, 1906 – May 9, 1987) was an American football player. He played at the halfback position for the Michigan Wolverines football teams from 1925 to 1927. He was selected as a first-team All-Big Ten Confer ...

, Michigan (AP-1, CDN-1, HJ-1; UP-1; WE-1) *

Jud Timm Judson Albert Timm (August 28, 1906 – December 23, 1994) was a college football player and coach. A native of Twin Falls, Idaho, he played for Robert Zuppke's Illinois Fighting Illini football teams at the University of Illinois at Urbana� ...

, Illinois (AP-2, CDN-1, HJ-1; UP-1; WE-1) * Chester "Cotton" Wilcox, Purdue (AP-2; UP-2) * Malvin Nydahl, Minnesota (HJ-2; WE-3) *

Ralph Welch W. Ralph "Pest" Welch (January 13, 1907 – September 15, 1974) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Washington from 1942 to 1947, compiling a record of 27–20–3. Welch led his 1943 Wash ...

, Purdue (CDN-2, HJ-2; WE-2) * Mendenhall, Chicago (CDN-2) * Paul Armil, Iowa (UP-3) *

Chuck Bennett Charles Henry Bennett (August 9, 1907 – June 9, 1973) was an American football player and coach. He played halfback for the Indiana University football team from 1926 to 1928 and won the 1928 Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy as the most ...

, Indiana (UP-3; WE-2) * Gene H. Rose, Wisconsin (WE-3)

Fullbacks

Herb Joesting Herbert Walter Joesting (April 17, 1905 – October 1, 1963) was an American football player and coach. He was a consensus All-American fullback while playing for the Minnesota Golden Gophers in both 1926 and 1927. He also played three seasons i ...

, Minnesota (AP-1, CDN-1, HJ-1; UP-1; WE-1) * Tiny Lewis, Northwestern (AP-2, CDN-2, HJ-2; UP-2) * George E. Rich, Michigan (WE-2) * Fred Humbert, Illinois (UP-3) * Abraham Koransky, Purdue (WE-3)

Key

AP =

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CDN = ''

Chicago Daily News The ''Chicago Daily News'' was an afternoon daily newspaper in the midwestern United States, published between 1875 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois. History The ''Daily News'' was founded by Melville E. Stone, Percy Meggy, and William Dougherty ...

'' HJ = Harold Johnson for the ''Chicago Evening American'' UP =

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, chosen by UP correspondent Clark B. Kelsey "in collaboration with a dozen football writers in Big Ten territory" WE =

Walter Eckersall Walter Herbert "Eckie" Eckersall (June 17, 1883 – March 24, 1930) was an American college football player, official, and sportswriter for the ''Chicago Tribune''. He played for the Maroons of the University of Chicago, and was elected to the C ...

Bold = Consensus first-team selections of a majority of the AP, UP and Eckersall

References

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