1953 All-Big Seven Conference football team

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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{{cite news|title=Two Cyclones on Second Team for All-Big Seven|newspaper=Mason City Globe-Gazette|date=November 25, 1953|page=9|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3114477/two_cyclones_on_second_team/}}

{{cite news|title=Sooners Dominate AP All-Big Seven; Roberts, Bauman Missouri Picks|newspaper=St. Joseph Gazette|date=November 25, 1953|page=9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GsNiAAAAIBAJ&dq=All-Big+seven+football+team&pg=PA9&article_id=3840,3193405}}

UP = United Press{{cite news|title=Burkett of ISC on '53 All-Big 7|newspaper=Ames Daily Tribune|page=10|date=December 1, 1953|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3114542/burkett_of_isc_on_53_all_big_7/}}

See also

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