1918 All-Big Ten Conference football team

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The 1918 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 1918 Big Ten Conference football season.

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, which is the team controlling the oval-shaped football, attempts to advance down the field by running with or passing the ball, while the defense, which is the team without control of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and aims to take control of the ball for themselves. The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs, or plays, and otherwise they turn over the football to the defense; if the offense succeeds in advancing ten yards or more, they are given a new set of four downs. Points are primarily scored by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponent's goalposts for a field goal. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins.

The 1918 Big Ten Conference football season was the 23rd season of college football played by the member schools of the Big Ten Conference and was a part of the 1918 college football season.

All Big-Ten selections

Ends

Clarence A. MacDonald, Ohio State (HP, WE-1)
Robert Reed, Iowa (HP, WE-1)
Robert J. Dunne, Michigan (MF)
George C. Bucheit, Illinois (MF, WE-2)
Carl E. Zanger, Northwestern (WE-2)

Robert Jerome "Duke" Dunne was an American football player and coach and state court judge in Illinois. He played for the University of Michigan from 1918 to 1921. After graduating from Michigan in 1922, he attended law school at Northwestern University where he also served as the line coach for the university's football team from 1923 to 1925. He was also the line coach at Harvard University from 1926 to 1930 and at the University of Chicago in 1935. He was a state court judge in Illinois from 1931 to 1976 and served as the presiding judge of Chicago's probate court for his last 20 years on the bench.

Tackles

Burt Ingwersen, Illinois (HP, MF, WE-1)
Angus Goetz, Michigan (HP, MF, WE-1)
Berthold Mann, Wisconsin (WE-2)
Eugene D. McLaughlin, Northwestern (MF [guard], WE-2)

Burton Aherns Ingwersen was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach of football and baseball. He served as the head football coach at the University of Iowa from 1924 to 1931, compiling a career college football record of 33–27–4. Ingwersen played football, basketball, and baseball at the University of Illinois and was an assistant football coach at the school in two stints totaling 25 seasons. He also served as an assistant football coach at Northwestern University and was the head baseball coach there from 1936 to 1939, tallying a mark of 35–51–1.

Angus Gerald "Gus" Goetz was an American football player who played four years with the Michigan Wolverines from 1917 to 1920. He also played professional football for the Buffalo All-Americans (1922) and the Columbus Tigers (1923).

Guards

Albert W. T. Mohr, Jr., Illinois (HP, WE-1)
Harry Hunzelman, Iowa (WE-1)
Miller, Chicago (HP)
Wallace, Minnesota (MF)
Fred R. Hanschmann, Illinois (WE-2)
F. W. Jordan, Minnesota (WE-2)

Centers

Ernie Vick, Michigan (HP, WE-1)
Jack Depler, Illinois (MF)
Reber, Chicago (WE-2)

Henry Arthur "Ernie" Vick was an American football and baseball player. He was selected as an All-American center in 1921, played on the 1926 World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals, and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983.

John Charles Depler was a professional football player and coach. Prior to his professional career, he played college football for the Illinois Fighting Illini football team of the University of Illinois. There he helped lead Illinois to its second national championship in 1919, and earned first-team All-American honors in 1920. After graduation, Depler played for the Hammond Pros of the National Football League (NFL). The following year, he was hired as an assistant coach to Frank "Buck" O'Neill, at Columbia University, where he stayed for the next eight seasons.

Quarterbacks

Marshall Underhill, Northwestern (HP, WE-1)
Bob Fletcher, Illinois (MF)
William S. Kelly, Iowa (WE-2)

Halfbacks

Jesse B. Kirkpatrick, Illinois (HP, WE-1)
Frank Steketee, Michigan (HP, WE-1)
Thomas C. Davies, Ohio State (MF)
Ralph E. Fletcher, Illinois (MF)
Gus Eckberg, Minnesota (WE-2)
Elton, Chicago (WE-2)

Frank Wallder Steketee was an American football player.

Fullbacks

Norman Kingsley, Minnesota (HP, WE-1)
William K. Kopp, Illinois (MF)
Fred Lohman, Iowa (WE-2)

Key

HP = Howard Pearson, sporting editor of the Detroit Journal

MF = Matt Foley in Chicago Herald and Examiner

WE = Walter Eckersall in Chicago Tribune ^[1]

References

↑ Walter Eckersall (December 8, 1918). "Eckersall Picks "All Star" Eleven of the Big Ten". Chicago Tribune. pp. 2–4.

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[1] Walter Eckersall (December 8, 1918). "Eckersall Picks "All Star" Eleven of the Big Ten". Chicago Tribune. pp. 2–4.