1988 All-Big Ten Conference football team
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The 1988 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players chosen as All-Big Ten Conference players for the 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season. The 1988 Michigan Wolverines football team captured seven of the first-team spots on the All-Big Ten teams selected by the conference coaches for the United Press International. The Iowa Hawkeyes followed with six first-team spots, including quarterback Chuck Hartlieb.
Offensive selections
=Quarterbacks=
- Chuck Hartlieb, Iowa (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Jeff George, Illinois (AP-2)
- Dave Schnell, Indiana (UPI-2)
=Running backs=
- Anthony Thompson, Indiana (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Tony Boles, Michigan (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Keith Jones, Illinois (AP-2; UPI-2)
- Blake Ezor, Michigan State (AP-2; UPI-2)
=Centers=
- John Vitale, Michigan (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Jeff Uhlenhake, Ohio State (AP-2; UPI-2)
=Guards=
- Don Shrader, Indiana (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Mike Husar, Michigan (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Bob Kula, Michigan State (AP-2; UPI-2)
- Tim Radtke, Indiana (AP-2; UPI-2)
=Tackles=
- Tony Mandarich, Michigan State (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Bob Kratch, Iowa (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Mark McGowan, Illinois (AP-2; UPI-2)
- Kevin Robbins, Michigan State (AP-2)
=Tight ends=
- Marv Cook, Iowa (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Tim Jorden, Indiana (AP-2)
- Jeffrey Brown, Michigan (UPI-2)
=Receivers=
- Andre Rison, Michigan State (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Deven Harberts, Iowa (AP-1)
- John Kolesar, Michigan (UPI-1)
- Greg McMurtry, Michigan (AP-2; UPI-2)
- Steven Williams, Illinois (AP-2; UPI-2)
Defensive selections
=Linemen=
- Morris Gardner, Illinois (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Dave Haight, Iowa (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Mark Messner, Michigan (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Joe Mott, Iowa (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Joe Huff, Indiana (AP-1; UPI-2)
- Travis Davis, Michigan State (AP-2; UPI-2)
- Kurt Larson, Michigan State (AP-2; UPI-2)
- Mel Agee, Illinois (AP-2; UPI-2)
- Jeff Koeppel, Iowa (AP-2)
- Jerrol Williams, Purdue (AP-2)
=Linebackers=
- Brad Quast, Iowa (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Percy Snow, Michigan State (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Darrick Brownlow, Illinois (AP-1; UPI-2)
- Willie Bates, Indiana (AP-2; UPI-1)
- J. J. Grant, Michigan (AP-2; UPI-2)
- Darrin Trieb, Purdue (AP-2; UPI-2)
=Defensive backs=
- Marc Foster, Purdue (AP-1; UPI-1)
- John Miller, Michigan State (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Glenn Cobb, Illinois (AP-1; UPI-1)
- David Arnold, Michigan (AP-2; UPI-1)
- Zack Dumas, Ohio State (AP-2; UPI-2)
- Ronnie Beeks, Purdue (AP-2)
- Marc Ferry, Indiana (UPI-2)
- Marlon Primous, Illinois (UPI-2)
- Derrick Reed, Michigan State (UPI-2)
Special teams
=Kickers=
- Pete Stoyanovich, Indiana (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Mike Gillette, Michigan (AP-2; UPI-1)
- Pat O'Morrow, Ohio State (UPI-2)
=Punters=
- Mike Gillette, Michigan (AP-1; UPI-1)
- Ed Sutter, Northwestern (AP-2)
- Brent Herbel, Minnesota (UPI-2)
Key
AP = Associated Press{{cite news|title=AP All-Big Ten|newspaper=Detroit Free Press|date=November 30, 1988|page=5D|url=https://freep.newspapers.com/clip/3745908/ap_all_big_ten/}}
UPI = United Press International, selected by the Big Ten coaches{{cite news|title=Michigan puts seven on all-Big Ten|newspaper=The Bryan Times|date=November 23, 1988|page=21|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=799&dat=19881123&id=vHlPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jlEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6388,5089044}}
Bold = Consensus first-team selection of both the AP and UPI
See also
References
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