The 1968 All-Big Eight Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Eight Conference teams for the 1968 NCAA University Division football season. The selectors for the 1968 season included the Associated Press (AP).

Offensive selections

Ends

Tackles

Guards

  • Joe Armstrong, Nebraska (AP-1)
  • Jim Anderson, Missouri (AP-1)
  • Ken Wertzberger, Kansas (AP-2)
  • Ed Lancaster, Oklahoma (AP-2)

Centers

  • Jon Kolb, Oklahoma State (AP-1)
  • Dale Evans, Kansas (AP-2)

Backs

Defensive selections

Defensive ends

  • John Zook, Kansas (AP-1)
  • Bill Schmitt, Missouri (AP-1)
  • Mike Schnitker, Colorado (AP-2)
  • Elmer Benhardt, Missouri (AP-2)

Defensive tackles

  • Jay "Rocky" Wallace, Missouri (AP-1)
  • George Dimitri, Iowa State (AP-1)
  • John Tisworth, Oklahoma (AP-2)
  • Mark Kuhlman, Missouri (AP-2)

Middle guards

  • John Little, Oklahoma State (AP-1)
  • John Stucky, Kansas State (AP-2)

Linebackers

  • Emery Hicks, Kansas (AP-1)
  • Ken Geddes, Nebraska (AP-1)
  • Rocky Martin, Colorado (AP-1)
  • Larry Gosney, Oklahoma State (AP-2)
  • Carl Garber, Missouri (AP-2)
  • Don Pfrimmer, Oklahoma (AP-2)

Defensive backs

  • Roger Wehrli, Missouri (AP-1)
  • Steve Barrett, Oklahoma (AP-1)
  • Dana Stephenson, Nebraska (AP-1)
  • Butch Davis, Missouri (AP-2)
  • Gary Goodwin, Oklahoma State (AP-2)
  • Bob Best, Nebraska (AP-2)

Key

AP = Associated Press[1]

See also

References

  1. "Five Jays Make AP's All-Big Eight First Team". Daily Tribune (Great Bend, KS). November 21, 1968. p. 6.
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