1937 Big Ten Conference football season
Results and team statistics
Key PPG = Average of points scored per game PAG = Average of points allowed per game MVP = Most valuable player as voted by players on each team as part of the voting process to determine the winner of the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy

1937 Big Ten Conference football season

Section Title: Results and team statistics
Table Section Text: Key PPG = Average of points scored per game PAG = Average of points allowed per game MVP = Most valuable player as voted by players on each team as part of the voting process to determine the winner of the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy

Conf. Rank	Team	Head coach	AP final	AP high	Overall record	Conf. record	PPG	PAG	MVP

1	Minnesota	Bernie Bierman	#5	#4	6-2	5-0	23.0	6.3	Rudy Gmitro

2	Ohio State	Francis Schmidt	#13	#8	6–2	5–1	15.6	2.9	Ralph Wolf

3	Indiana	Bo McMillin	NR	#17	5–3	3–2	9.0	4.0	Corbett Davis

4 (tie)	Purdue	Allen Elward	NR	NR	4–3–1	2–2–1	10.4	8.6	Cecil Isbell

4 (tie)	Wisconsin	Harry Stuhldreher	NR	#16	4–3–1	2–2–1	12.9	7.6	Howard Weiss

6 (tie)	Michigan	Harry Kipke	NR	NR	4–4	3–3	6.8	13.8	Ralph Heikkinen

6 (tie)	Northwestern	Pappy Waldorf	NR	#7	4–4	3–3	8.5	5.0	Don Heap

8	Illinois	Robert Zuppke	NR	NR	3–3–2	2–3	7.4	5.6	Jack Berner

9 (tie)	Chicago	Clark Shaughnessy	NR	NR	1–6	0–4	6.4	20.4	Kendall Peterson

9 (tie)	Iowa	Irl Tubbs	NR	NR	1–7	0–5	4.5	15.0	Bob Lannon

Sentence(s)

The 1937 Minnesota team, under head coach Bernie Bierman, won the Big Ten championships by scoring 23.0 points per game, compiling a 6–2 record, and was ranked No. 5 in the final AP poll.

final_sentence: The 1937 Minnesota team, under head coach Bernie Bierman, won the Big Ten championships by scoring 23.0 points per game, compiling a 6–2 record, and was ranked No. 5 in the final AP poll.