| 1953 All-Big Ten team |
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| 1953 Big Ten Conference football season |
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Associated Press (coaches) United Press International News Service |
| 1951 1952 ← → 1954 1955 |
The 1953 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by the Associated Press (AP) and the United Press (UP) as the best players at their positions during the 1953 Big Ten Conference football season. The UP team was selected by the Big Ten head coaches.
The 1953 Michigan State Spartans football team, under head coach Clarence Munn, tied for the Big Ten championship and placed two on the first team: end Don Dohoney (AP-1, UP-1) and back Leroy Bolden (AP-1, UP-1).
The 1953 Illinois Fighting Illini football team tied for the conference championship and also placed two on the first team: back J. C. Caroline (AP-1, UP-1) and guard Jan Smid (AP-1, UP-1).
Minnesota quarterback Paul Giel was a consensus first-team All-American and received the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Big Ten's most valuable player for the second consecutive year.