1933 Michigan State Spartans football team

1933 Michigan State Spartans football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–2–2
Head coach
Offensive schemeNotre Dame Box
MVPArthur Buss
CaptainBernard G. McNutt
Home stadiumCollege Field
1933 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
DePaul    6 0 1
Detroit    7 1 0
Michigan State Normal    5 2 0
Saint Louis    6 3 0
Central State (MI)    5 2 1
Michigan State    4 2 2
Missouri Mines    4 3 0
Michigan Tech    2 2 0
Western State Teachers    3 3 1
Marquette    3 4 1
Notre Dame    3 5 1
Haskell    2 6 3
Detroit City    2 5 1

The 1933 Michigan State Spartans football team represented Michigan State College as an independent during the 1933 college football season. In their first season under head coach Charlie Bachman, the Spartans compiled a 4–2–2 record and lost their annual rivalry game with Michigan by a 20 to 6 score. In inter-sectional play, the team defeated Syracuse (27-3) and played scoreless ties with Kansas State and Carnegie Mellon.

Tackle Art Buss was selected by the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) as a second-team player and by the Associated Press (AP) and Collier's Weekly as a third-team player on the 1933 College Football All-America Team.