1919 All-America college football team

Official list of the best college football players of 1919 August 2023 25em 1919 All-America college football team border-top:#aaa 1px solid border-top:1px #aaa solid All-America college football team 1919 college football season border-top:1px #aaa solid 1917 1918 ← → 1920 1921 The 1919 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 1919. The two selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1919 season are (1) Walter Camp (WC), whose selections were published in Collier's Weekly; and (2) the Frank Menke syndicate (MS). Consensus All-Americans For the year 1919, the NCAA recognizes only two selectors as "official" 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 Official Other TotalBob HigginsEndPenn StateMS, WCDJ, RE4/4Wilbur HenryTackleWash. & Jeff.MS, WCDJ, RE4/4Chic HarleyHalfbackOhio StateMS, WCDJ, RE4/4Eddie CaseyHalfbackHarvardMS, WCDJ, RE4/4Ira RodgersFullbackWest VirginiaMS, WCDJ, RE4/4Belford WestTackleColgateMS, WCRE3/4Heinie MillerEndPennWCDJ2/4Doc AlexanderGuardSyracuseMS, WC--2/4Swede YoungstromGuardDartmouthMS, WC--2/4Red WeaverCenterCentreWCDJ2/4Benny BoyntonQuarterbackWilliamsMSDJ2/4Charles CarpenterCenterWisconsinMS--1/4Bo McMillinQuarterbackCentreWC--1/4 All-Americans of 1919 Ends Bob Higgins, Penn State (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; MS; RE-1; DJ-1) Heinie Miller, Penn (WC-1; DJ-1) Lester Belding, Iowa (MS) Frank Weston, Wisconsin (WC-2) Joseph DuMoe, Lafayette (WC-2) Earl Blaik, Army (WC-3) Red Roberts, Centre (WC-3) Dick Reichle, Illinois (RE-1) Bernard Kirk, Notre Dame (DJ-2) Paul Meyers, Wisconsin (DJ-2) Tackles thumb|upright=.6|Pete Henry. Pete Henry, Washington & Jefferson (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; MS; RE-1 [g]; DJ-1) Belford West, Colgate (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; MS; RE-1; DJ-2) William Grimm, Washington (WC-2) Burt Ingwersen, Illinois (WC-2) Duke Slater, Iowa (WC-3) Josh Cody, Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; DJ-1) Hoffman, Ohio (RE-1) Joseph Murphy, Dartmouth (DJ-2) Guards Doc Alexander, Syracuse (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; MS; DJ-2) Swede Youngstrom, Dartmouth (WC-1; MS; DJ-2) Fred Denfeld, Navy (WC-2) Jack Depler, Illinois (WC-2) Charles Arthur Clark, Harvard (WC-3) Lloyd Pixley, Ohio State (WC-3; DJ-1) Robert Sedgwick, Harvard (RE-1) Pup Phillips, Georgia Tech (DJ-1) Centers thumb|upright=.6|Bo McMillin. Red Weaver, Centre (WC-1; DJ-1) Charles Carpenter, Wisconsin (MS) Russ Bailey, West Virginia (WC-2) Tim Callahan, Yale (WC-3) Bum Day, Georgia (DJ-2) Harry J. Robertson, Syracuse (RE-1) Quarterbacks Bo McMillin, Centre (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; DJ-2) John Strubing, Princeton (WC-2) Benny Boynton, Williams (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; MS; DJ-1) James Bradshaw, Nevada (RE-1) thumb|upright=.6|Chic Harley. Halfbacks Chic Harley, Ohio State (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; MS; DJ-1) Eddie Casey, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; MS; RE-1; DJ-1) Murray Trimble, Princeton (WC-2; RE-1) Arnold Oss, Minnesota (WC-2) Bill Steers, Oregon (WC-3) Hank Gillo, Colgate (WC-3; DJ-2) Bodie Weldon, Lafayette (DJ-2) Fullbacks Ira Rodgers, West Virginia (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; MS; RE-1; DJ-1) Jim Braden, Yale (WC-2) Jim Robertson, Dartmouth (WC-3; DJ-2) Key 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 Official selectors WC = Walter CampWalter Camp's All-American Team Fitchburg Daily Sentinel 1919-12-13 MS = Frank Menke Syndicate, by Frank G. MenkeESPN College Football Encyclopedia, p. 1153 Other selectors RE = Reno Evening Gazette, selected by "W.P. Hahn, football expert of national note who is now located in Reno"All-American Team Picked by Hahn for Gazette Reno Evening Gazette 1919-12-05 DJ = Dick JemisonAll-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 See also 1919 All-Big Ten Conference football team 1919 All-Eastern football team 1919 All-Pacific Coast football team 1919 All-Southern college football team 1919 All-Western college football team References 2 All-America team Category:All-America college football teams