1920 All-Big Ten Conference football team

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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.

American football Team field sport

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 1920 Big Ten Conference football season was the 25th season of college football played by the member schools of the Big Ten Conference and was a part of the 1920 college football season.

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All Big-Ten selections

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Chuck Carney American football player and coach

Charles Roslyn Carney was an American football and basketball player.

Lester Cort Belding was an American athlete and coach in football and track and field. He was the first football player from the University of Iowa to be named an All-American. He was inducted into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in 1963.

Frank Hanny American football player

Frank Matthew "Duke" Hanny was an American football end who played eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL). Hanny was the first player to be ejected in an NFL game in history, as he and Green Bay Packers player Tillie Voss exchanged punches in a Chicago Bears game against their rival.

Tackles

Iolas Huffman American football and baseball player

Iolas Melitus Huffman was an American football and baseball player. He was a first-team All-American football player for Ohio State in 1920 and 1921 and was the captain of the 1920 Buckeyes football team that won the Western Conference championship. He also played professional football in the early years of the National Football League for the Cleveland Indians (1923) and Buffalo Bisons (1924).

Angus Goetz American football player, orthopedic surgeon

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).

Duke Slater American football player

Frederick Wayman "Duke" Slater was an American football player and one of the great black players of the 1920s. Slater played for the University of Iowa in college and played professionally for ten years. He is enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame.

Guards

John Lachlan Taylor was a professional football player who played in the National Football League with the Chicago Staleys, Canton Bulldogs, Brooklyn Lions and the Brooklyn Horsemen. Taylor won an American Professional Football Association championship in 1921, with the Staleys, the forerunners of the Chicago Bears. Taylor won another championship in 1922 with the Bulldogs. He finished his career in 1926, playing for the Lions-Horsemen.

Robert J. Dunne American judge

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.

Festus Patrick Tierney was a guard in the National Football League. Tierney split the 1922 NFL season between the Hammond Pros and the Toledo Maroons before playing the next two season with the Minneapolis Marines. He played his final season with the Milwaukee Badgers.

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Jack Depler American football player, coach, executive

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.

Ernie Vick American football player and coach

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.

Quarterbacks

Aubrey Alvin "Aub" Devine was an American football and basketball player, coach, and lawyer. He was the quarterback for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes football team from 1919 to 1921. He was selected as a first-team All-Big Ten Conference player all three years at Iowa and was the consensus All-American quarterback in 1921. Devine served as the head basketball coach at the University of Denver for two seasons, from 1923 to 1925. He later worked as an assistant football coach under Howard Jones at the University of Southern California (USC). Devine was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1973.

Hoge Workman American football player and coach, baseball player

Harry Hallworth "Hoge" Workman was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball and a player-coach in the National Football League. Listed at 5' 11", 170 lb., Workman batted and threw right-handed. A native of Huntington, West Virginia, he attended Ohio State University.

Charles Peter "Charlie" Mathys was an American professional football player. He played running back for one season (1920-1921) for the Hammond Pros and Quarterback, Kicker, and Punt Returner for five seasons (1922-1926) for the Green Bay Packers in the National Football League.

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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

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Walter Camp, ed. (1921). Spalding's Official Intercollegiate Foot Ball Guide. American Sports Publishing Company. pp. 25, 27.
  2. ↑ "Honors Divided On All-Western Football Team". Cornell Daily Sun. December 7, 1920. p. 3.
  3. ↑ "All-Western Team". The Waco News Tribune. December 12, 1920. p. 11. Retrieved March 3, 2015– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
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