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The Chicago Tribune Silver Football is awarded by the Chicago Tribune to the college football player determined to be the best player from the Big Ten Conference. [1] The award has been presented annually since 1924, when Red Grange of Illinois was the award's first recipient. [1] In 2022, the Chicago Tribune announced a new partnership with ...
Big Ten Conference football individual awards. Coaches and media of the Big Ten Conference award the following individual honors at the end of each football season. In addition, the Chicago Tribune awards the Chicago Tribune Silver Football to the most valuable football player of the conference.
Dave Schreiner. David Nathan Schreiner (March 5, 1921 – June 21, 1945) was an American football player. From Lancaster in southwest Wisconsin, he was a two-time All-American and the 1942 Big Ten Most Valuable Player end at Wisconsin and a 1943 second round draft choice (11th overall) of the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL).
Inducted in 1989 (profile) Chalmers William "Bump" Elliott (January 30, 1925 – December 7, 2019) [1] was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played halfback at Purdue University (1943–1944) and the University of Michigan (1946–1947). Elliott grew up in Bloomington, Illinois, enlisted in the United ...
Grabowski received many awards and recognitions after his senior season in 1965, including finishing third in the Heisman Trophy voting, being named The Sporting News co-player of the year and Back of the Year by the Washington Touchdown Club, and receiving the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Big Ten Conference Most Valuable Player. He ...
He was a consensus first-team All-American in both 1925 and 1926, and won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy as the most valuable player in the Big Ten Conference in 1926. Friedman also played eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Cleveland Bulldogs (1927), Detroit Wolverines (1928), New York Giants (1929–1931 ...
He won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy as the most valuable player in the Big Ten Conference. [24] He received the Big Ten Medal as the most outstanding scholar-athlete at the University of Michigan. [25] He finished sixth in the voting for the 1968 Heisman Trophy with 12 first-place votes and 158 total points. [26]
Butkus was named the team's most valuable player for the season, and was awarded the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Big Ten's most valuable player. [10] He was a unanimous choice as a center for the 1963 College Football All-America Team, earning first-team honors from all seven major selectors. [11]