1914 College Football All-America Team
College Football All-America Team
1914 college football season
1912 1913 ← → 1915 1916

The 1914 College Football All-America 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.[1]

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."[2]

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

Harvard end Tack Hardwick.

Tackles

Princeton tackle Harold Ballin.

Guards

Illinois guard Ralph Chapman.

Centers

Army center John McEwan
Cornell quarterback Charley Barrett.

Quarterbacks

Michigan halfback John Maulbetsch
Harvard halfback Eddie Mahan

Halfbacks

Fullbacks

Yale fullback Harry LeGore

Key

NCAA recognized selectors for 1914

Other selectors

Bold = Consensus All-American[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  2. ^ "All-American and Western Football Teams Are Named". Los Angeles Times. November 30, 1914.
  3. ^ "Howell Heads Trinity Eleven" (PDF). The New York Times. December 7, 1913.
  4. ^ "Michail M. Dorizas biography". University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on June 12, 2010.
  5. ^ "Walter Camp's Three All-American Elevens". The Syracuse Herald. December 13, 1914.
  6. ^ "Menke Selects Annual All-American Eleven". New Castle News. November 25, 1914.
  7. ^ "Spiegel Gets Place on Star Grid Eleven". The Pittsburg Press. Pittsburgh, PA. November 22, 1914. Sporting Section, p. 4.
  8. ^ "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. May 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
  9. ^ "Eckersall Names All-Stars: Eckersall Names One Western Man; Maulbetsch of Michigan on All-American". Waterloo Evening Courier. December 7, 1914.
  10. ^ Monty (November 28, 1914). "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.
  11. ^ a b "JAMES P. SINNOT PUTS TOOHEY ON HIS ALL-AMERICAN ELEVEN". New Brunswick Times. December 1, 1914.
  12. ^ "Herbert Reed, Mack Whalen And The Newark News Selected Toohey On Their All-American Eastern Team". New Brunswick Times. December 7, 1914.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Spalding's Official Football Guide 1915
  14. ^ "FOOTBALL ROLL OF HONOR: The Men Whom the Best Coaches of the Country Have Named as the Stars of the Gridiron in 1914" (PDF). Outing. 1915. p. 498.
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