1953 All-Big Seven Conference football team

The 1953 All-Big Seven Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Seven Conference teams for the 1953 college football season. The selectors for the 1953 season included the Associated Press (AP) and the United Press (UP). Players selected as first-team honorees by both the AP and UP are displayed in bold.

All-Big Seven selections

Backs

  • John Bordogna, Nebraska (AP-1; UP-1)
  • Veryl Switzer, Kansas State (AP-1; UP-1)
  • Larry Grigg, Oklahoma (AP-1; UP-1)
  • Bob Bauman, Missouri (AP-1)
  • Max Burkett, Iowa State (AP-2; UP-1 [FB])
  • Gene Calame, Oklahoma (AP-2)
  • Frank Bernardi, Colorado (AP-2)
  • Ed Merrifield, Missouri (AP-2)
  • Bob Dahnke, Kansas State (AP-3)
  • Bob Schoonmaker, Missouri (AP-3)
  • Carroll Hardy, Colorado (AP-3)
  • Robert Burris, Oklahoma (AP-3)

Ends

Tackles

  • Roger Nelson, Oklahoma (AP-1; UP-1)
  • Ted Connor, Nebraska (AP-1)
  • Jerry Minnick, Nebraska (UP-1)
  • Joe Lundy, Kansas (AP-2)
  • Jack Lessin, Iowa State (AP-2)
  • Ron Marciniak, Kansas State (AP-3)
  • Don Brown, Oklahoma (AP-3)

Guards

  • J. D. Roberts, Oklahoma (AP-1; UP-1)
  • Terry Roberts, Missouri (AP-1)
  • Tommy O'Boyle, Kansas State (AP-2; UP-1)
  • Dick Knowlton, Colorado (AP-2)
  • Bo Bolinger, Oklahoma (AP-3)
  • Bob Hantla, Kansas (AP-3)

Centers

  • Kurt Burris, Oklahoma (AP-1; UP-1)
  • Ken Gowdy, Kansas State (AP-2)
  • Bob Oberlin, Nebraska (AP-3)

Key

AP = Associated Press[1] [2]

UP = United Press[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Two Cyclones on Second Team for All-Big Seven". Mason City Globe-Gazette. November 25, 1953. p. 9.
  2. ^ "Sooners Dominate AP All-Big Seven; Roberts, Bauman Missouri Picks". St. Joseph Gazette. November 25, 1953. p. 9.
  3. ^ "Burkett of ISC on '53 All-Big 7". Ames Daily Tribune. December 1, 1953. p. 10.