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The 1968 All-Big Eight Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Eight Conference teams for the 1968 NCAA University Division football season. The selectors for the 1968 season included the Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI).

Offensive selections

Ends

• Dave Jones, Kansas State (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Steve Zabel, Oklahoma (AP-1)
• John Mosier, Kansas (AP-2; UPI-1)
• Terry Brown, Oklahoma State (AP-2)

Tackles

• Mike Montler, Colorado (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Keith Christensen, Kansas (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Byron Bigby, Oklahoma (AP-2)
• John Ward, Oklahoma State (AP-2)

Guards

• Joe Armstrong, Nebraska (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Jim Anderson, Missouri (AP-1)
• Ken Mendenhall, Oklahoma (UPI-1)
• Ken Wertzberger, Kansas (AP-2)
• Ed Lancaster, Oklahoma (AP-2)

Centers

• Jon Kolb, Oklahoma State (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Dale Evans, Kansas (AP-2)

Backs

• Bobby Douglass, Kansas (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Steve Owens, Oklahoma (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Eddie Hinton, Oklahoma (AP-1; UPI-1)
• John Riggins, Kansas (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Bob Anderson, Colorado (AP-1)
• Bob Warmack, Oklahoma (AP-2)
• Donnie Shanklin, Kansas (AP-2)
• Mack Herron, Kansas State (AP-2)
• Joe Orduna, Nebraska (AP-2)

Defensive selections

Defensive ends

• John Zook, Kansas (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Bill Schmitt, Missouri (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Mike Schnitker, Colorado (AP-2)
• Elmer Benhardt, Missouri (AP-2)

Defensive tackles

• Jay "Rocky" Wallace, Missouri (AP-1; UPI-1)
• George Dimitri, Iowa State (AP-1; UPI-1)
• John Tisworth, Oklahoma (AP-2)
• Mark Kuhlman, Missouri (AP-2)

Middle guards

• John Little, Oklahoma State (AP-1; UPI-1)
• John Stucky, Kansas State (AP-2)

Linebackers

• Emery Hicks, Kansas (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Ken Geddes, Nebraska (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Rocky Martin, Colorado (AP-1)
• Carl Garber, Missouri (AP-2; UPI-1)
• Larry Gosney, Oklahoma State (AP-2)
• Don Pfrimmer, Oklahoma (AP-2)

Defensive backs

• Roger Wehrli, Missouri (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Steve Barrett, Oklahoma (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Dana Stephenson, Nebraska (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Butch Davis, Missouri (AP-2)
• Gary Goodwin, Oklahoma State (AP-2)
• Bob Best, Nebraska (AP-2)

Key

AP = Associated Press

UPI = United Press International

See also

• 1968 College Football All-America Team

References

1. "Five Jays Make AP's All-Big Eight First Team". Daily Tribune (Great Bend, KS). November 21, 1968. p. 6.
2. "Owens Named Big Eight Back Of The Year By UPI". Frederick Daily Leader. December 8, 1968. p. 6.

• 1968 Big Eight Conference football season
• All-Big Eight Conference football teams