1943 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

1943 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 (tie)	Purdue	Elmer Burnham	#5	#2	9–0	6–0	23.8	6.1	Dick Barwegen

1 (tie)	Michigan	Fritz Crisler	#3	#2	8–1	6–0	33.6	8.1	Bob Wiese

3	Northwestern	Pappy Waldorf	#9	#8	6–2	5–1	23.6	8.0	Otto Graham

4	Indiana	Bo McMillin	NR	NR	4–4–2	2–3–1	19.3	10.6	John Tavener

5	Minnesota	George Hauser	NR	#9	5–4	2–3	18.9	20.4	Paul Mitchell

6	Illinois	Ray Eliot	NR	NR	3–7	2–4	15.4	30.8	Eddie Bray

7	Ohio State	Paul Brown	NR	#18	3–6	1–4	16.6	20.8	Gordon Appleby

8	Wisconsin	Harry Stuhldreher	NR	NR	1–9	1–6	4.1	28.2	Joe Keenan

9	Iowa	Slip Madigan	NR	NR	1–6–1	0–4–1	10.4	19.1	Robert Liddy

Sentence(s)

Michigan, under head coach Fritz Crisler, compiled an 8–1, tied with Purdue for the conference championship and led the conference in scoring averaging 33.6 points per game and were ranked No. 3 in the final AP poll.

final_sentence: Michigan, under head coach Fritz Crisler, compiled an 8–1, tied with Purdue for the conference championship and led the conference in scoring averaging 33.6 points per game and were ranked No. 3 in the final AP poll.