1923 Wisconsin Badgers football team

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1923 Wisconsin Badgers football
Marty Below.png
Team captain and consensus
All-American Marty Below
ConferenceBig Ten Conference
1923 record3–3–1 (1–3–1 Big Ten)
Head coach
CaptainMarty Below
Home stadiumCamp Randall Stadium
Seasons
← 1922
1924 →
1923 Big Ten Conference football standings
  • v
  • t
 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Illinois + 5 – 0 – 0 8 – 0 – 0
Michigan + 4 – 0 – 0 8 – 0 – 0
Chicago 5 – 1 – 0 7 – 1 – 0
Minnesota 2 – 1 – 1 5 – 1 – 1
Iowa 3 – 3 – 0 5 – 3 – 0
Indiana 2 – 2 – 0 3 – 4 – 0
Wisconsin 1 – 3 – 1 3 – 3 – 1
Ohio State 1 – 4 – 0 3 – 4 – 1
Purdue 1 – 4 – 0 2 – 5 – 1
Northwestern 0 – 6 – 0 2 – 6 – 0
  • + – Conference co-champions

The 1923 Wisconsin Badgers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1923 Big Ten Conference football season. The team compiled a 3–3–1 record (1–3–1 against conference opponents), finished in seventh place in the Big Ten Conference, and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 89 to 32. John J. Ryan was in his first year as Wisconsin's head coach.[1][2]

Marty Below was the team captain.[3] Below was also a consensus first-team player on the 1923 College Football All-America Team.[4] Guard Adolph Bieberstein and fullback Merrill Taft were selected by Billy Evans for his "National Honor Roll" of the best players in the country.[5][6]

The team played its home games at Camp Randall Stadium, which had a seating capacity of 14,000.[7] During the 1923 season, the average attendance at home games was 16,387.[8]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendance
October 6Coe*
W 7–3
October 13Michigan Agricultural*
  • Camp Randall Stadium
  • Madison, WI
W 21–0
October 20at Indiana
W 52–0
October 27Minnesotadagger
  • Camp Randall Stadium
  • Madison, WI (rivalry)
T 0–040,000
November 10at Illinois
L 0–10
November 17Michigan
  • Camp Randall Stadium
  • Madison, WI
L 3–625,000
November 24at Chicago
L 6–13
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming

[1][2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "1923 Wisconsin Badgers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. March 14, 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Wisconsin Football 2016 Fact Book" (PDF). University of Wisconsin. 2016. pp. 212, 217. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  3. ^ 2016 Fact Book, p. 185.
  4. ^ "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 5. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
  5. ^ "150 Leading Sport Writers Pick All-American Eleven". Santa Ana Register. December 29, 1923. p. 10. Retrieved July 16, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  6. ^ "National All-Star". The Wichita Beacon. December 17, 1922. p. 18. Retrieved July 23, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  7. ^ 2016 Fact Book, p. 280.
  8. ^ 2016 Fact Book, p. 258.
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