1939 All-Big Ten Conference football team

• Esco Sarkkinen, Ohio State (AP-1; UP-1)
• Dave Rankin, Purdue (AP-2; UP-1)
• Erwin Prasse, Iowa (AP-1)
• John Mariucci, Minnesota (AP-2)

• Jim Reeder, Illinois (AP-1; UP-1)
• Mike Enich, Iowa (AP-2; UP-1)
• Win Pedersen, Minnesota (AP-1)
• Nick Cutlich, Northwestern (AP-2)

• Hal Method, Northwestern (AP-1; UP-1)
• Frank Bykowski, Purdue (UP-1)
• Vic Marino, Ohio State (AP-1)
• Mel Brewer, Illinois (AP-2)
• James Logan, Indiana (AP-2)

• Jack Haman, Northwestern (AP-1; UP-1)
• Steve Andrako, Ohio State (AP-2)

• Don Scott, Ohio State (AP-1; UP-1)
• Forest Evashevski, Michigan (AP-2)

• Tom Harmon, Michigan (AP-1; UP-1) (1940 Heisman Trophy winner)
• Nile Kinnick, Iowa (AP-1; UP-1) (1939 Heisman Trophy winner)
• Hal Van Every, Minnesota (AP-2)
• George Franck, Minnesota (AP-2)
• Jimmy Strausbaugh, Ohio State (AP-2)

• George Paskvan, Wisconsin (AP-1; UP-1)
• Jim Langhurst, Ohio State (AP-2)

AP = Associated Press, chosen by conference coaches{{cite news|title=Nile Kinnick Tops Annual Big Ten All-Star Team Selection|newspaper=The Palm Beach Post (AP story)|date=November 28, 1939|page=10|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1964&dat=19391128&id=ESsyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=X7YFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1383,2656821}}

UP = United Press: "Coaches, scouts, players, campus correspondents and sports editors in every Big Ten center, participating in one of the most thorough investigations of football talent ever attempted in the midwest"{{cite news|title=Tom Harmon Named on United Press Big Ten Team|newspaper=The Evening Chronicle (Marshall, Michigan)|date=November 24, 1939|page=6|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/15221965/?terms=harmon%2Bkinnick%2B%22united%2Bpress%22}}

Bold = Consensus first-team selection of both the AP and UP

• 1939 College Football All-America Team

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