1935 All-Big Six Conference football team

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The 1935 All-Big Six Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Six Conference teams for the 1935 college football season. The selectors for the 1935 season included the Associated Press (AP).

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 1935 college football season was the last one before the Associated Press writers' poll was used in selecting the national champion. The Dickinson System, consisting of the calculations of University of Illinois Professor Frank Dickinson, crowned Southern Methodist University (SMU) as the best in the nation. A poll of newspaper writers, taken at year's end—by United Press rather than the AP—concluded that Minnesota was the best in the nation.

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All-Big Six selections

Backs

Lloyd Cardwell, Nebraska (AP-1)
Jerry LaNoue, Nebraska (AP-1)
Sam Francis, Nebraska (AP-1)
Leo Ayers, Kansas State (AP-1)

Gerald "Jerry" LaNoue (1912-1983) was a three-year starting quarterback for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, and earned All Big Six Conference recognition in 1935, while playing for coach Dana X. Bible.

Sam Francis (American football) American football player and coach, shot putter

Harrison Samuel "Sam" Francis was an American football player and coach, Olympic shot putter, and Army officer.

Ends

Rutherford Hayes, Kansas (AP-1)
Bernie Scherer, Nebraska (AP-1)

Bernard Joseph "Bernie" Scherer was an American football end in the National Football League. He played for the Green Bay Packers (1936–1938) and the Pittsburgh Pirates (1939). He was the first Nebraska Cornhuskers football player to be drafted in the NFL Draft. He later served as an officer in the United States Army, reaching the rank of Colonel and serving during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Scherer is buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona.

Tackles

Fred Shirey, Nebraska (AP-1)
J. W. "Dub" Wheeler, Oklahoma (AP-1)

Charles Frederick "Fred" Shirey was a professional American football player for the Cleveland Rams and the Green Bay Packers. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles 32nd overall in the 1938 NFL Draft. He attended Washington & Jefferson College and University of Nebraska. He was a native of Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

Guards

Dick Sklar, Kansas (AP-1)
Ike Hayes, Iowa State (AP-1)

Centers

Edwin Phelps, Kansas (AP-1)

Key

AP = Associated Press ^[1]

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References

↑ "Five Nebraska Stars Named on All Big Six Eleven". Monitor Index and Democrat, Moberly, MO. December 5, 1935. p. 6.

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[1] "Five Nebraska Stars Named on All Big Six Eleven". Monitor Index and Democrat, Moberly, MO. December 5, 1935. p. 6.