1924 All-Big Ten Conference football team

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The 1924 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 1924 Big Ten Conference football season.

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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 1924 Big Ten Conference football season was the 29th season of college football played by the member schools of the Big Ten Conference and was a part of the 1924 college football season.

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BE = Billy Evans [1]

BI = Bill Ingram, Indiana head football coach [2]

DI = Daily Illini [3]

HC = Hank Casserly, sporting editor of the Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin [4]

IN = The Indianapolis News [5]

LD = Larry Dailey [6]

WE = Walter Eckersall [7]

Bold = Consensus first-team selection of a majority of selectors

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References

  1. ↑ "Billy Evans' All-Western Conference Selections". The News-Palladium (Benton Harbor, Michigan). December 1, 1924. p. 5.
  2. ↑ "Ingram Names Two Hawks On All-Conference". Iowa City Press-Citizen. November 25, 1924. p. 11.
  3. ↑ "Illinois Student Paper Picks All Conference Team". The Journal News (Hamilton, Ohio). December 1, 1924. p. 34.
  4. ↑ "Sports Writers Pick Stars of Big Ten Season: Capital Times Dopester Fails to Name Single Badger on First Squad". The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin). November 26, 1924. p. 17.
  5. ↑ W. F. Fox, Jr. (November 29, 1924). "The News' All Conference Selections, 1924". The Indianapolis News. p. 16.
  6. ↑ Larry Dailey (November 30, 1924). "Grange Only Illini on Dailey's All-Conference Eleven". Decatur Herald. p. 26.
  7. ↑ "Eckie Selects Big 10 Honor Grid Teams". Chicago Tribune. November 30, 1924.
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