1987 All-Big Ten Conference football team

1987 All-Big Ten team
1987 Big Ten Conference football season
Selectors
Associated Press
United Press International
1985 1986 ← → 1988 1989
Big Ten Coach of the Year George Perles of Michigan State

The 1987 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players chosen as All-Big Ten Conference players for the 1987 college football season. The organizations selecting All-Big Ten teams in 1987 included the Associated Press (AP) and the United Press International (UPI).[1][2]

The 1987 All-Big Ten teams were led by Michigan State tailback Lorenzo White and Indiana wide receiver Ernie Jones, who were selected as the Co-Big Ten Players of the Year. White led the conference with 16 touchdowns from scrimmage and finished second in the conference with 1,572 rushing yards.[3] Jones led the conference with 66 receptions and 1,265 receiving yards.[3] Other individual award winners included Wisconsin quarterback Tony Lowery as the 1987 Big Ten Freshman of the Year.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference AP was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference UPI was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b "1987 Big Ten Conference Year Summary". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
  4. ^ "Lowery top frosh". The Bryan Times (UPI story). November 27, 1987. p. 15.