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.
All Big-Ten selections
Ends Chuck Carney, Illinois (CSM, DL, EA, ECP-1, EOS, HB, HJ, HMD, JW, MM, PD, RA, TL, WE-1) Frank Weston, Wisconsin (DL, EA, ECP-1, EOS, FH, FM, HB, JW, PD, RA, TL, WE-1) Lester Belding, Iowa (CSM, ECP-2, FM, HJ, MM) Frank Hanny, Indiana (FH) Gus Eckberg, Minnesota (HMD)
Tackles Iolas Huffman, Ohio State (CSM, DL, EA, ECP-1, FH, FM [guard], HJ, JW, PD, RA, TL) Angus Goetz, Michigan (DL, EA [guard], HB, JW, MM, PD, RA, TL) Duke Slater, Iowa (EA, ECP-2, EOS, HB, HJ, HMD, WE-1) Ralph Scott, Wisconsin (ECP-1, FH, MM) Elliot C. Risley, Indiana (EOS, MM [guard]) Tad Wieman, Michigan (FM) Jackson, Chicago (CSM)
Guards Tarzan Taylor, Ohio State (DL, EA, ECP-2, FH, HB, HMD [tackle], JW, PD, RA, TL) Robert J. Dunne, Michigan (CSM, EOS, FH, HMD, PD) Charles McGuire, Chicago (CSM, ECP-2 [tackle], FM [tackle], HJ, MM, WE-1 [tackle]) Festus Tierney, Minnesota (HB, RA, WE-1) Bill McCaw, Indiana (EOS, FM) George C. Bunge, Wisconsin (DL, ECP-1) Dean W. Trott, Ohio State (ECP-1) Albert W. T. Mohr, Jr., Illinois (HJ) James Brader, Wisconsin (ECP-2) Harry Margoles, Wisconsin (HMD) Graham Penfield, Northwestern (TL, WE-1)
Centers Jack Depler, Illinois (CSM, DL, EA, ECP-1, EOS, FH, FM, HB, HJ, HMD, JW [guard], MM, RA, WE-1) Andy Nemecek, Ohio State (ECP-2, JW, TL) Ernie Vick, Michigan (PD)
Quarterbacks Aubrey Devine, Iowa (CSM [halfback], DL, EA, ECP-1, EOS [halfback], FH, HB, HJ, HMD, MM, PD, RA, WE-1) Hoge Workman, Ohio State (CSM, ECP-2, JW, TL) Robert H. Fletcher, Illinois (FM) Charlie Mathys, Indiana (EOS)
Halfbacks Gaylord Stinchcomb, Ohio State (CSM, DL, EA, ECP-2 [end], EOS, FH, FM, HB, HJ, HMD, JW, MM, PD, RA, TL, WE-1) Frank Steketee, Michigan (DL, HB, PD, RA, WE-1) Al Elliott, Wisconsin (ECP-1, JW, MM, TL) Arnold Oss, Minnesota (EA, FM, HMD) Ralph E. Fletcher, Illinois (ECP-1) Laurie Walquist, Illinois (ECP-2, FH) Glenn Devine, Iowa (ECP-2)
Fullbacks Jack Crangle, Illinois (CSM, DL, EA, ECP-1, FH, HB, HJ, HMD, JW, MM, PD, RA, TL, WE-1) Russell S. Williams, Indiana (EOS, HJ [halfback]) George Gipp, Notre Dame (FM) Guy Sundt, Wisconsin (ECP-2)
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, the Big Ten Conference)
CSM = Charles A. Bush in Christian Science Monitor
DL = Deake Leake in Akron Press
EA = Earl C. Arnold, sports editor of Minneapolis Tribune
ECP = E. C. Patterson for Collier's Weekly
EOS = E.O. Stiehm, head coach of Indiana University
FH = Fred Hayner in Chicago Daily News
FM = Frank G. Menke, sporting editor of King Features Syndicate
HB = Harry Bullion in the Detroit Free Press
HJ = Howard Jones, head coach at University of Iowa
HMD = Herbert M. Dustin in Minneapolis Daily News
JW = John Wilce, head coach at Ohio State
MM = Malcolm McLean in the Chicago Evening Post
PD = Prentiss Douglass, assistant coach at University of Michigan
RA = Robert C. Angell, sports editor of The Michigan Daily
TL = The Lantern, Ohio Student University
WE = Walter Eckersall
See also 1920 College Football All-America Team
References