1923 College Football All-America Team
College Football All-America Team
1923 college football season
1921 1922 ← → 1924 1925

The 1923 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America 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";[1] 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 - Total
Century Milstead Tackle Yale 2/2 FW, WC AW, DW, LP, NB, PH, TT 8/8
George Pfann Quarterback Cornell 2/2 FW, WC AW, DW, LP, NB, PH, TT 8/8
Red Grange Halfback Illinois 2/2 FW, WC AW, DW, LP, NB, PH, TT 8/8
Charles Hubbard Guard Harvard 2/2 FW, WC AW, DW, LP, NB, PH 7/8
Pete MacRae End Syracuse 1/2 FW AW, DW, LP, NB, PH, TT 7/8
Ray Eklund End Minnesota 1/2 FW AW, LP, NB, PH, TT 6/8
Jack Blott Center Michigan 2/2 FW, WC AW, DW, NB 5/8
Jim McMillen Guard Illinois 1/2 FW AW, DW, NB, TT 5/8
Bill Mallory Fullback Yale 1/2 WC DW, NB, PH, TT 5/8
Marty Below Tackle Wisconsin 1/2 FW AW, DW, NB 4/8
Harry Wilson Halfback Penn State 1/2 FW AW, PH 3/8
Lynn Bomar End Vanderbilt 2/2 FW, WC -- 2/8

All-Americans of 1923

Ends

Lynn Bomar of Vanderbilt.

Tackles

Marty Below

Guards

Charles Hubbard

Centers

Jack Blott of Michigan.

Quarterbacks

George Pfann

Halfbacks

Red Grange of Illinois.

Fullbacks

Bill Mallory of Yale

Key

NCAA recognized selectors for 1923

Other selectors

Bold = Consensus All-American[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ Dave Anderson (2005). University of Wisconsin Football. Arcadia Publishing. p. 38.
  2. ^ "Walter Camp's All-American Team". Alton Evening Telegraph. December 19, 1923.
  3. ^ ESPN College Football Encyclopedia, p. 1155
  4. ^ "Athletic World All America". The Decatur Review. December 16, 1923.
  5. ^ Norman E. Brown (December 10, 1923). "Marty Below On First All-American Eleven: Merrill Taft Gets Berth On Second Team". The Capital Times. Madison, WI.
  6. ^ Lawrence Perry (December 16, 1923). "Cornell and Michigan Get Two Places on Perry Eleven, One for Syracuse: Famed Gridiron Expert Rates Pfann, Sundstrom and MacRae Among Best". Syracuse Herald.
  7. ^ "Walsh Picks Three Teams of All-Americans In 1923 Seasonal Postmortem". The Coshocton Tribune. December 6, 1923.
  8. ^ Tom Thorp (December 8, 1923). "Eastern Grid Players Get Six Places On All-American: Tom Thorp Picks Star Mythical Eleven of 1923 for the Baltimore News". Cumberland Evening Times.
  9. ^ "All Americans: Percy Haughton's Team". Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune. December 11, 1923.
  10. ^ "150 Leading Sport Writers Pick All-American Eleven". Santa Ana Register. December 29, 1923. p. 10. Retrieved July 16, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  11. ^ "National All-Star". The Wichita Beacon. December 17, 1922. p. 18. Retrieved July 23, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  12. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
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