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1914 All-America college football team
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Official list of the best college football players of 1914
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The 1914 All-America college football team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1914 college football season. The only selectors for the 1914 season who have been recognized as "official" by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) are Walter Camp, whose selections were published in Collier's Weekly, and the International News Service (INS), a newswire founded by William Randolph Hearst.
Although not recognized by the NCAA, many other sports writers, newspapers, and coaches selected All-America teams in 1914. They include Vanity Fair, Parke H. Davis, Walter Eckersall, The New York Globe, the New York Herald, the New York Evening Mail, the Atlanta Constitution, the Detroit Evening News, The Boston Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Overview
Harvard end Huntington Hardwick was the only player who was unanimously selected as a first-team All-American by all 27 selectors identified below. Other players selected as a first-team All-American by a majority of the selectors were Harvard halfback Eddie Mahan (26 selections), Harvard guard Stan Pennock (26 selections), Princeton tackle Harold Ballin (22 selections), Michigan halfback John Maulbetsch (20 selections), Cornell quarterback Charley Barrett (19 selections), and Dartmouth guard Clarence Spears (16 selections). The Los Angeles Times reported that "Maulbetsch, Michigan's hero, is about the only one of 1914's stars who received an almost unanimous vote."All-American and Western Football Teams Are Named Los Angeles Times 1914-11-30
The chart below reflects the number of polls in which the leading candidates (any player with at least two first-team All-American designations) were selected as first-team All-Americans.
Name Position School First-team selections Huntington Hardwick End Harvard 27 Eddie Mahan Halfback Harvard 26 Stan Pennock Guard Harvard 26 Harold Ballin Tackle Princeton 22 John Maulbetsch Halfback Michigan 20 Charley Barrett Quarterback Cornell 19 Clarence Spears Guard Dartmouth 16 Louis A. Merrilat End Army 12 Harry LeGore Fullback Yale 9 Bud Talbott Tackle Yale 9 John McEwan Center Army 8 Paul Des Jardien Center Chicago 8 Johnny Spiegel Halfback Washington & Jefferson 8 Lawrence Whitney Fullback Dartmouth 7 John O'Hearn End Cornell 7 Burleigh Cruikshank Center Washington & Jefferson 6 Britain Patterson Tackle Washington & Jefferson 6
All-Americans of 1914
Ends
thumb|140px|Harvard end Tack Hardwick.
Huntington "Tack" Hardwick, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; VF; PHD; WE–1; FM-1; MO-1; NYH; NYEM-1; NYG; NC; PGT; BN; PEB; AC; PS; WH; DD; PET; SLT; MD; NES; DN; PPL; BP; TT; AW; PI; OUT)
Louis A. Merrilat, Army (WE–1; VF; PHD; WC-2; FM-3; MO-2; NYH; NYEM-2; NYG; NC; PGT; BN; PEB; AC; NES; TT; OUT)
John E. O'Hearn, Cornell (WC–1; WE–2; MO-1; NYEM-2; PS; PET; SLT; MD; DN; OUT)
Maurice R. "Red" Brann, Yale (WC–2; WH; BP; AW)
Bob Higgins, Penn State (College Football Hall of Fame) (NYEM-1; PPL)
Perry Graves, Illinois (FM–1)
Reginald Bovill, Washington & Jefferson (FM-3; MO-2; DD)
Boyd Cherry, Ohio State (FM–2; OUT)
Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Harvard (FM–2)
Harvey E. Overesch, Navy (WC–3)
Edwin Stavrum, Wisconsin (OUT)
Robbie Robinson, Auburn (OUT)
Tackles
thumb|140px|Princeton tackle Harold Ballin.
Harold Ballin, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; VF; PHD; WE–1; FM-1; MO-1; NYH; NYEM-1; NYG; NC; BN; AC; PS; WH; SLT; MD; NES; DN; BP; TT; AW; PI; OUT)
Bud Talbott, Yale (WE–1; VF; MO-1; NYH; NYEM-2; BN; AC; WH; DD; PET; OUT)
Britain Patterson, Washington & Jefferson (WC–2; FM-3; PEB; PS; PET; PPL; BP; TT)
Walter Trumbull, Harvard (WC–1; PHD; DD; DN; AW; PI; OUT)
Vic Halligan, Nebraska (WC–3; WE–2; FM-1; PGT; MD; OUT)
Cub Buck, Wisconsin (WE–2; PGT; SLT; OUT)
John Toohey, Rutgers (NYEM-1; NYG; NC; NES)
Pete Maxfield, Lafayette (MO-2; PEB)
Ted Shultz, Washington & Lee (PPL)
Alex Weyand, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–3; FM-2)
Bob Nash, Rutgers (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–2)
Ray Keeler Wisconsin (FM–2; OUT)
Edward J. Gallogly, Cornell (NYEM-2)
George D. Howell, Trinity CollegeHowell Heads Trinity Eleven The New York Times https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/12/07/100290553.pdf 1913-12-07 (MO-2)
Lennox F. Armstrong, Illinois (FM-3)
Will Burton, Kansas (OUT)
Laurens Shull, Chicago (OUT)
Josh Cody, Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (OUT)
Farmer Kelly, Tennessee (OUT)
Bob Taylor Dobbins, Sewanee (OUT)
Guards
thumb|140px|Illinois guard Ralph Chapman.
Stan Pennock, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; VF; PHD; WE–1; FM-2; MO-1; NYH; NYEM-1; NYG; NC; PGT; BN; PEB; AC; PS; WH; DD; PET; SLT; MD; NES; DN; PPL; BP; TT; AW; PI; OUT)
Clarence Spears, Dartmouth (WC–3; WE–1; FM-1; NYH; NYEM-1; NYG; NC; PGT; BN; PEB; PS; DD; NES; PPL; BP; AW; PI)
Ralph Chapman, Illinois (WC–1; PHD; WE–2; FM-2; AC; SLT; MD; OUT)
Eddie Trenkmann, Princeton (MO-2; PET; TT)
Wilbur Shenk, Princeton (WC-2; VF; NYEM-2; OUT)
Arlie Mucks, Wisconsin (FM–1)
Michalis Dorizas, PennMichail M. Dorizas biography University of Pennsylvania http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1800s/dorizas_michail.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100612150721/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1800s/dorizas_michail.html dead June 12, 2010(FM–1)
Harry Routh, Purdue (FM-3; DN)
Louis Jordan, Texas (WC-2)
Joseph J. "Red" O'Hare, Army (WE-2)
Harold White, Syracuse (NYEM-2; OUT)
Earl W. Mills, Navy (MO-2)
Laurence B. Meacham, Army (WC–3)
Dale Munsick, Cornell (FM-3)
Centers
thumb|right|150px|Army center John McEwan
John McEwan, Army (WC–1; WE-1; MO-2; NYG-1; PS; SLT; DN; BP; AW)
Paul Des Jardien, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–2; VF; FM-2; MO-1; PGT; BN; AC; DD; MD; TT; OUT)
Burleigh Cruikshank, Washington & Jefferson (WC-3; FM-3; NYH; NYEM-2; NC; PEB; WH; PET; PPL)
Albert Journeay, Penn (PHD; WE-2; NYEM-1; WH [g]; NES; PI; OUT)
Bob Peck, Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (FM–1)
Boles Rosenthal, Minnesota (OUT)
Willard Cool, Cornell (OUT)
James Raynsford, Michigan (OUT)
Boozer Pitts, Auburn (OUT)
thumb|right|140px|Cornell quarterback Charley Barrett.
Quarterbacks
Charley Barrett, Cornell (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–2; VF; WE–1; FM-1; NYH; NYEM-1; NYG [hb]; BN; PEB; AC; PS; WH; DD; PET; MD; NES; DN; PPL; TT; AW; OUT)
Milt Ghee, Dartmouth (WC–1; WE–2; FM-2; MO-1; NYEM-2; BP; PI)
Vernon Prichard, Army (NYG; NC; PGT; SLT; OUT)
Alexander D. Wilson, Yale (WC-3; OUT)
Potsy Clark, Illinois (FM-3; OUT)
Huntley, New York (MO-2)
David Paddock, Georgia (PHD; OUT)
Malcolm Justin Logan, Harvard (OUT)
Frank Glick, Princeton (OUT)
William H. Tow, Amherst (OUT)
Irby Curry, Vanderbilt (OUT)
Robert Kent Gooch, Virginia (OUT)
Paul Russell, Chicago (OUT)
Tommy Hughitt, Michigan (OUT)
Sammy Gross, Iowa (OUT)
Wilbur Hightower, Northwestern (OUT)
Louis E. Pickerel, Ohio State (OUT)
thumb|right|140px|Michigan halfback John Maulbetsch
thumb|right|140px|Harvard halfback Eddie Mahan
Halfbacks
John Maulbetsch, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; VF [fb]; PHD; WE–1; FM-1; MO-1; PGT [fb]; BN; AC; PS; DD; PET; SLT; MD; NES; DN; PPL; BP; AW; PI; OUT)
Eddie Mahan, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1 [fb]; VF; PHD; WE–1; FM-2; MO-1; NYH; NYEM-1; NYG; NC; PGT; BN; PEB; AC [fb]; PS; WH [fb]; DD; PET; SLT; MD [fb]; NES; DN [fb]; PPL; BP [fb]; TT; AW [fb]; PI; OUT)
Johnny Spiegel, Washington & Jefferson (WC–2; VF; PHD; FM-1; NYH; NYEM-1; AC; DN; AW)
Frederick Bradlee, Harvard (WC–1; WE-2; NYEM-2; WH; BP; TT; OUT)
Harold Pogue, Illinois (WC–3; WE-2; FM-3; PGT; MD; OUT)
William "Billy" Cahall, Lehigh (WC-2; MO-2)
Howard Parker Talman, Rutgers (WC–3)
William H. Miller, Pittsburgh (FM-3)
Andrew Toolan, Williams (MO-2; OUT)
Dick Rutherford, Nebraska (OUT)
Guy Chamberlain, Nebraska (OUT)
Tam Rose, Syracuse (OUT)
Marcus Wilkinson, Syracuse (OUT)
Carroll Knowles, Yale (OUT)
Moore, Princeton (OUT)
Eugene Mayer, Virginia (OUT)
Gray, Chicago (OUT)
Bart Macomber, Illinois (OUT)
Ammie Sikes, Vanderbilt (OUT)
Lee Tolley, Sewanee (OUT)
Dave Tayloe, North Carolina (OUT)
Fullbacks
thumb|right|140px|Yale fullback Harry LeGore
Harry LeGore, Yale (WC–2; WE–2; FM-1; MO-1; NYH; NYEM-1; PS; WH [hb]; PET; TT; PI; OUT)
Lawrence Whitney, Dartmouth (WC–3; WE–1; FM-2 [hb]; NYEM-2 [hb]; NYG; NC [hb]; PEB [hb]; SLT; NES; PPL; OUT)
Lorin Solon, Minnesota (WC–3 [end]; WE–2 [end]; FM–2; BN; DD; OUT)
Ray Eichenlaub, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (MO-2; NC)
Haps Benfer, Albright (PEB; OUT)
Hugo Franck, Harvard (NYEM-2)
Charles Shuler, Jr., Cornell (FM-3)
Pete Calac, Carlisle (OUT)
Dan Kenan, Wesleyan (OUT)
Carl Philippi, Cornell (OUT)
Campbell "Honus" Graf, Ohio State (OUT)
Charles Brickley, Harvard (OUT)
Key
NCAA recognized selectors for 1914
WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter CampWalter Camp's Three All-American Elevens The Syracuse Herald 1914-12-13
FM = Frank G. Menke, Sporting Editor of the I.N.S.Menke Selects Annual All-American Eleven New Castle News 1914-11-25
Other selectors
VF = Vanity Fair, selected based on selections of 175 "prominent newspapermen of the country"Spiegel Gets Place on Star Grid Eleven The Pittsburg Press Pittsburgh, PA 1914-11-22 Sporting Section, p. 4 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fh4bAAAAIBAJ&pg=2754,5987764&hl=en
PHD = Parke H. Davis, member of rules committee and noted football historianAll-America Addendum College Football Historical Society Newsletter May 2006 http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv19/CFHSNv19n3f.pdf 2010-03-05 2010-06-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20100613012901/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv19/CFHSNv19n3f.pdf dead
WE = Walter Eckersall, of the Chicago TribuneEckersall Names All-Stars: Eckersall Names One Western Man; Maulbetsch of Michigan on All-American Waterloo Evening Courier 1914-12-07
MO = Monty, New York sports writerMonty Another All-American Team: EICHENLAUB IS PLACED ON SECOND ELEVEN; "Monty" Selects Mythical Eleven for Daily News Readers—Gives His Reasons The Fort Wayne Daily News 1914-11-28
NYH = New York Herald
NYEM = James P. Sinnot, of the New York Evening Mail, "who is recognized as one of the best sporting writers in the East"JAMES P. SINNOT PUTS TOOHEY ON HIS ALL-AMERICAN ELEVEN New Brunswick Times 1914-12-01
NYG = New York Globe, selected by Mack WhalenHerbert Reed, Mack Whalen And The Newark News Selected Toohey On Their All-American Eastern Team New Brunswick Times 1914-12-07
NC = Newark Sunday Call, selected by William S. HuntSpalding's Official Football Guide 1915
PGT = Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, selected by Fred M. Walker
BN = Baltimore News
PEB = Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
AC = Atlanta Constitution, selected by sporting editor Dick Jemison
PS = Pittsburgh Sun, selected by sporting editor James J. Long
WH = Washington Herald, selected by William Peet
DD = Davis J. Davies in the Pittsburgh Dispatch
PET = Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, selected by sporting editor Louis M. Toughill
SLT = St. Louis Times, selected by George Henger
MD = Michigan Daily, selected by sporting editor F.M. Church
NES = Newark Evening Star, selected by sporting editor Joseph P. Norton
DN = Detroit Evening News, selected by sporting editor H.G. Salsinger
PPL = Philadelphia Public Ledger, selected by Robert W. Maxwell
BP = Boston Post, by Charles H. Parker
TT = Tom Thorp in the New York Evening Journal
AW = Alexander Wilson, Yale University
PI = Philadelphia Inquirer, selected by sporting editor M. Neagle Rawlins
OUT = Outing magazine's "FOOTBALL ROLL OF HONOR: The Men Whom the Best Coaches of the Country Have Named as the Stars of the Gridiron in 1914"FOOTBALL ROLL OF HONOR: The Men Whom the Best Coaches of the Country Have Named as the Stars of the Gridiron in 1914 Outing 1915 498 http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/Outing/Volume_65/outLXV04/outLXV04s.pdf March 15, 2016 March 7, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20160315084431/http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/Outing/Volume_65/outLXV04/outLXV04s.pdf dead
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
1914 All-Eastern football team
1914 College Football All-Southern Team
1914 All-Western college football team
1914 All-Western Conference football team
References
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