1918 Big Ten Conference football season
| 1918 Big Ten Conference football season | |
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| Sport | Football |
| Number of teams | 10 |
| Co-champions | Illinois, Michigan, Purdue |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Michigan + | 2 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Illinois + | 4 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Purdue + | 1 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa | 2 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minnesota | 2 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northwestern | 1 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wisconsin | 1 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indiana | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ohio State | 0 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago | 0 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1918 Big Ten Conference football season was the 23rd season of college football played by the member schools of the Big Ten Conference (also known as the Western Conference) and was a part of the 1918 college football season. The 1918 season was played during World War I, and, due to wartime travel restrictions and the 1918 flu pandemic, the Big Ten teams played irregular schedules, some as short as five games and one as long as 11 games.
The 1918 Michigan Wolverines football team finished with a perfect record of 5–0, shut out four of five opponents, led the conference in scoring defense (1.2 points per game allowed), and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 96 to 6. Michigan has been recognized as the 1918 national champion by the Billingsley Report and as a co-national champion with Pittsburgh by the National Championship Foundation.
Key
PPG = Average of points scored per game
PAG = Average of points allowed per game
Ten players received first-team honors on the 1918 All-Big Ten Conference football team from at least two of the following selectors: Howard Pearson (HP), sporting editor of the Detroit Journal; Matt Foley (MF) in Chicago Herald and Examiner; and Walter Eckersall (WE) in the Chicago Tribune.
Only one Big Ten player, center Jack Depler of Illinois, was recognized as a consensus first-team player on the 1918 College Football All-America Team. Depler was selected as a first-team center by the Frank Menke Syndicate. The only other Big Ten player to receive first-team honors was Michigan fullback Frank Steketee who received first-team honors from Walter Camp.
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