1923 All-America college football team

Official list of the best college football players of 1923 August 2023 25em 1923 All-America college football team border-top:#aaa 1px solid border-top:1px #aaa solid All-America college football team 1923 college football season border-top:1px #aaa solid 1921 1922 ← → 1924 1925 The 1923 All-America college football team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose All-America college football teams in 1923. The only two selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1923 season are Walter Camp, whose selections were published in Collier's Weekly, and Football World magazine. Additional selectors who chose All-American teams in 1923 include Athletic World magazine, selected by 500 coaches, Norman E. Brown, sports editor of the Central Press Association, and Davis J. Walsh, sports editor for the International News Service. The consensus All-Americans recognized by the NCAA include: halfback Red Grange of Illinois, known as "The Galloping Ghost" and who in 2008 was named by ESPN as the best college football player of all time; halfback Harry Wilson of Penn State, who was later inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame; quarterback George Pfann of Cornell, who later became a Rhodes scholar; end Lynn Bomar of Vanderbilt, who became one of the first Southern players to be recognized as a consensus All-American; tackle Marty Below of Wisconsin, who Red Grange called "the greatest lineman that I ever played against";University of Wisconsin Football Dave Anderson Arcadia Publishing 2005 38 and center Jack Blott of Michigan, who later played professional baseball for the Cincinnati Reds. Consensus All-Americans For the year 1923, the NCAA recognizes two All-American teams as "official" designations for purposes of its consensus determinations. The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans and displays which first-team designations they received. Name Position School Number - Official Official Other Number - TotalCentury MilsteadTackleYale2/2FW, WCAW, DW, LP, NB, PH, TT8/8George PfannQuarterbackCornell2/2FW, WCAW, DW, LP, NB, PH, TT8/8Red GrangeHalfbackIllinois2/2FW, WCAW, DW, LP, NB, PH, TT8/8Charles HubbardGuardHarvard2/2FW, WCAW, DW, LP, NB, PH7/8Pete MacRaeEndSyracuse1/2FWAW, DW, LP, NB, PH, TT7/8Ray EklundEndMinnesota1/2FWAW, LP, NB, PH, TT6/8Jack BlottCenterMichigan2/2FW, WCAW, DW, NB5/8Jim McMillenGuardIllinois1/2FWAW, DW, NB, TT5/8Bill MalloryFullbackYale1/2WCDW, NB, PH, TT5/8Marty BelowTackleWisconsin1/2FWAW, DW, NB4/8Harry WilsonHalfbackPenn State1/2FWAW, PH3/8Lynn BomarEndVanderbilt2/2FW, WC--2/8 All-Americans of 1923 Ends thumb|140px|Lynn Bomar of Vanderbilt. Lynn Bomar, Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-2; WC-1; FW) Ray Eklund, Minnesota (AW-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-2; TT-1; PH-1, BE) Pete MacRae, Syracuse (AW-1; WC-2; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1; PH-1, BE) Homer Hazel, Rutgers (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1) Henry Wakefield, Vanderbilt (NB-2; DW-1, BE) Richard Luman, Yale (AW-3; WC-3; DW-2, BE) Bill Supplee, Maryland (LP-2; DW-3; TT-2, BE) Charles Tallman, West Virginia (AW-3; WC-2, BE) Charlie Berry, Lafayette (AW-2) Frank Rokusek, Illinois (LP-2) Elmer A. Lampe, Chicago (NB-2) Fred Graham, West Virginia (TT-2) Edmund Stout, Princeton (WC-3) Frank L. Henderson, Cornell (DW-3) Wayne Hall, Washington (TT-3) Henry Bjorkman, Dartmouth (TT-3) John W. Hancock, Iowa (BE) Jim Lawson, Stanford (BE) Tackles thumb|140px|Marty Below Century Milstead, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-1; WC-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1; PH-1, BE) Marty Below, Wisconsin (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-1; FW; LP-2; NB-1; DW-1; TT-2, BE) Frank Sundstrom, Cornell (AW-2; WC-1; LP-1; NB-2; DW-3; TT-3; PH-1, BE) Stanley Muirhead, Michigan (AW-2; LP-2; NB-2, BE) Chet Widerquist, Washington & Jefferson (WC-2; TT-2, BE [as g]) Pappy Waldorf, Syracuse (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-3; DW-2) Stewart "Stew" Beam, California (WC-3; DW-2, BE) Henry Bassett, Nebraska (AW-3; WC-3, BE) Art Deibel, Lafayette (WC-2) Edwin F. Blair, Yale (DW-3) Joe Bach, Notre Dame (TT-1) Norman Anderson, USC (TT-3) Joe Bennett, Georgia (BE) Robbie Robinson, Florida (BE) Guards thumb|140px|Charles Hubbard Charles Hubbard, Harvard (AW-1; WC-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-2; PH-1, BE) Jim McMillen, Illinois (AW-1; FW; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1, BE) Joe Bedenk, Penn State (AW-2; WC-1; DW-2; TT-3; PH-1, BE) Edliff Slaughter, Michigan (LP-1) James Welsh, Colgate (AW-2; LP-2; NB-2; DW-2; TT-1) August Farwick, Army (AW-3; NB-2; DW-3; TT-2) Cyril Aschenback, Dartmouth (AW-3; WC-2; LP-2; TT-3) Harvey Brown, Notre Dame (WC-2) Arthur G. Carney, Navy (WC-3) William Johnson, Texas A&M (WC-3) Richard Faville, Stanford (DW-3, BE) Goldy Goldstein, Florida (BE) Tuck Kelly, Vanderbilt (BE) Adolph Bieberstein, Wisconsin (BE) Centers thumb|150px|Jack Blott of Michigan. Jack Blott, Michigan (AW-1; WC-1; FW; NB-1; DW-1, BE) Edgar Garbisch, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-2; WC-3; NB-2; DW-2; TT-1; PH-1, BE) Edwin C. Horrell, California (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-3; LP-1; DW-3, BE) Winslow Lovejoy, Yale (WC-2; LP-2; TT-2, BE) Adam Walsh, Notre Dame (TT-3) Clyde Propst, Alabama (BE) Claire Frye, Georgia Tech (BE) Ralph Claypool, Purdue (BE) Dolph Eckstein, Brown (BE) Quarterbacks thumb|130px|George Pfann George Pfann, Cornell (AW-1; WC-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1; PH-1, BE) Lyle Richeson, Yale (WC-2; DW-2; TT-2, BE) Hoge Workman, Ohio State (AW-2; NB-2, BE) Irwin Uteritz, Michigan (LP-2; DW-3, BE) Harry Stuhldreher, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-3; TT-3, BE) Red Dunn, Marquette (WC-3) Herb Covington, Centre (BE) Harold Chapman, Oregon (BE) Charles Darling, Boston College (BE) Halfbacks thumb|140px|Red Grange of Illinois. Red Grange, Illinois (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-1; WC-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1; PH-1, BE) Harry Wilson, Penn State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-1; WC-2; FW; DW-2; TT-2; PH-1, BE) Don Miller, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (LP-2; NB-1; DW-1; TT-2 [fb], BE) Earl Martineau, Minnesota (AW-3; WC-1; NB-2; TT-3 [fb], BE) Harry Kipke, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-2; LP-1; TT-3) Don Nichols, California (AW-2; TT-1; BE) Mal Stevens, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2 [fb]; LP-2; DW-3; TT-3) Dave Noble, Nebraska (LP-2; DW-2; TT-2) Eddie Tryon, Colgate (AW-3; WC-2; BE) Walter Koppisch, Columbia (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3) Karl Bohren, Pittsburgh (WC-3) Gil Reese, Vanderbilt (DW-3, BE) Fullbacks thumb|140px|Bill Mallory of Yale Bill Mallory, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-2; WC-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1; PH-1, BE) John Levi, Haskell (AW-1; FW, BE) Elmer Layden, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (LP-1; DW-2, BE) Merrill Taft, Wisconsin (LP-2; NB-2, BE) Ernie Nevers, Stanford (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AW-3; WC-3, BE) John Webster Thomas, Chicago (DW-3) Doug Wycoff, Georgia Tech (BE) Gus Eckberg, West Virginia (BE) Charles E. Cassidy, Cornell (BE) Key NCAA recognized selectors for 1923 WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter CampWalter Camp's All-American Team Alton Evening Telegraph 1923-12-19 FW = Football World magazineESPN College Football Encyclopedia, p. 1155 Other selectors AW = Athletic World magazine, selected by 500 coachesAthletic World All America The Decatur Review 1923-12-16 NB = Norman E. Brown, sports editor of the Central Press AssociationNorman E. Brown Marty Below On First All-American Eleven: Merrill Taft Gets Berth On Second Team The Capital Times Madison, WI 1923-12-10 LP = Lawrence PerryLawrence Perry Cornell and Michigan Get Two Places on Perry Eleven, One for Syracuse: Famed Gridiron Expert Rates Pfann, Sundstrom and MacRae Among Best Syracuse Herald 1923-12-16 DW = Davis J. Walsh, sports editor for the International News ServiceWalsh Picks Three Teams of All-Americans In 1923 Seasonal Postmortem The Coshocton Tribune 1923-12-06 TT = Tom Thorp, for the Baltimore NewsTom Thorp Eastern Grid Players Get Six Places On All-American: Tom Thorp Picks Star Mythical Eleven of 1923 for the Baltimore News Cumberland Evening Times 1923-12-08 PH = Percy Haughton, Cornell coachAll Americans: Percy Haughton's Team Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 1923-12-11 BE = Billy Evans's "National Honor Roll"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2819171/santa_ana_register/ Santa Ana Register 150 Leading Sport Writers Pick All-American Eleven 10 December 29, 1923 July 16, 2015 Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2871111/the_wichita_beacon/ The Wichita Beacon December 17, 1922 18 July 23, 2015 National All-Star Newspapers.com Bold = Consensus All-AmericanFootball Award Winners National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) 2016 October 21, 2017 6 http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2016/awards.pdf -1 – First-team selection -2 – Second-team selection -3 – Third-team selection See also 1923 All-Big Ten Conference football team 1923 All-Eastern football team 1923 All-Pacific Coast football team 1923 All-Southern college football team 1923 All-Western college football team References 2 All-America team Category:All-America college football teams