The 1927 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 1927 Big Ten Conference football season.
All Big-Ten selections
Ends Bennie Oosterbaan, 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, Minnesota (AP-2, HJ-2; WE-1) Garland Grange, Illinois (AP-2, CDN-2; WE-2) Don Cameron, Wisconsin (HJ-2) LeRoy G. Heston, Michigan (CDN-2) Bob Tanner, Minnesota (WE-2) Herman Z. Nyland, Michigan (WE-3)
Tackles Leo Raskowski, Ohio State (AP-1, CDN-1, HJ-1; UP-1; WE-1) Butch Nowack, Illinois (AP-1, CDN-1, HJ-2; WE-1) Mike Gary, Minnesota (AP-2, HJ-1; UP-1; WE-3) Spike Nelson, 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, Michigan (AP-1, CDN-1, HJ-1; UP-1; WE-1) Hal 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) Russ Crane, Illinois (CDN-2; WE-2) Buck Weaver, Chicago (WE-3) Carroll Ringwalt, Indiana (WE-3)
Centers Ken Rouse, Chicago (AP-1, CDN-1, HJ-1 [guard]; UP-1; WE-1) Robert Reitsch, Illinois (AP-2, CDN-2, HJ-1; UP-1; WE-2) Clare Randolph, Indiana (HJ-2) George MacKinnon, Minnesota (WE-3)
Quarterbacks Harold "Shorty" Almquist, Minnesota (AP-1 [halfback], CDN-1, HJ-1; UP-1; WE-1) Edwin Crofoot, Wisconsin (AP-1, CDN-2, HJ-2; UP-2 [halfback]) Byron Eby, Ohio State (AP-2) Vic Gustafson, Northwestern (UP-2) Harold Barnhart, Minnesota (WE-2) Carl Pignatelli, Iowa (UP-3) Fred Grim, Ohio State (WE-3)
Halfbacks Louis Gilbert, Michigan (AP-1, CDN-1, HJ-1; UP-1; WE-1) Jud Timm, Illinois (AP-2, CDN-1, HJ-1; UP-1; WE-1) Chester "Cotton" Wilcox, Purdue (AP-2; UP-2) Mally Nydahl, Minnesota (HJ-2; WE-3) Ralph Welch, Purdue (CDN-2, HJ-2; WE-2) Hugh Mendenhall, Chicago (CDN-2) Paul Armil, Iowa (UP-3) Chuck Bennett, Indiana (UP-3; WE-2) Gene H. Rose, Wisconsin (WE-3)
Fullbacks Herb Joesting, Minnesota (AP-1, CDN-1, HJ-1; UP-1; WE-1) Tiny Lewis, Northwestern (AP-2, CDN-2, HJ-2; UP-2) George Rich, Michigan (WE-2) Fred Humbert, Illinois (UP-3) Abraham Koransky, Purdue (WE-3)
Key
AP = Associated Press
CDN = Chicago Daily News
HJ = Harold Johnson for the Chicago Evening American
UP = United Press, chosen by UP correspondent Clark B. Kelsey "in collaboration with a dozen football writers in Big Ten territory"
WE = Walter Eckersall
Bold = Consensus first-team selections of a majority of the AP, UP and Eckersall
See also 1927 College Football All-America Team
References