1953 Indiana

• Biggest winBeat Northwestern 14–⁠6Nov 14

  By 8 points, its widest win.

Date	Opponent	Result	Elo
Sep 26	at7Ohio State	L 12–⁠36		24%
Oct 2	at7USC	L 14–⁠27		13%
Oct 10	vsMMarquette	W 21–⁠20		41%
Oct 17	at2Michigan State	L 18–⁠47		10%
Oct 24	atIowa	L 13–⁠19		30%
Oct 31	vsMissouri	L 7–⁠14		43%
Nov 7	at13Minnesota	L 20–⁠28		21%
Nov 14	vsNorthwestern	W 14–⁠6		47%
Nov 21	vsPurdue	L 0–⁠30		51%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

• Bob SkoronskiOffensive tackle
• Joe AmstutzCenter
• Harry JagielskiOffensive tackle

Before 2004 our records hold honors and the draft; these are the players whose college years here, from their Wikipedia articles or their honors, include 1953.

From Wikipedia’s 1953 all-conference team article, with the selectors that named each player (AP-1: the Associated Press’s first team).

Team	Conf.	Overall	AP final
Michigan State	5–⁠1	9–⁠1	3
Illinois	5–⁠1	7–⁠1–⁠1	7
Wisconsin	4–⁠1–⁠1	6–⁠2–⁠1	15
Ohio State	4–⁠3	6–⁠3
Michigan	3–⁠3	6–⁠3	20
Iowa	3–⁠3	5–⁠3–⁠1	9
Minnesota	3–⁠3–⁠1	4–⁠4–⁠1
Purdue	2–⁠4	2–⁠7
Indiana	1–⁠5	2–⁠7
Northwestern	0–⁠6	3–⁠6

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied.