1933 College Football All-America Team
College Football All-America Team
1933 college football season
1931 1932 ← → 1934 1935

The 1933 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 1933. The eight selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1933 season are (1) the All-America Board, (2) the Associated Press (AP), (3) Collier's Weekly, as selected by Grantland Rice, (4) the International News Service (INS), (5) Liberty magazine, (6) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), (7) the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), and the United Press (UP).^[1]^[2] The only unanimous selections were center Chuck Bernard of Michigan and quarterback Cotton Warburton of USC.

Consensus All-Americans

For the year 1933, the NCAA recognizes eight published All-American teams as "official" designations for purposes of its consensus determinations.^[2] The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans and displays which first-team designations they received.

Name	Position	School	Number	Official	Other
Chuck Bernard	Center	Michigan	9/9	AAB, AP, CO, FWAA, INS, LIB, NANA, NEA, UP	CNS, CP, DJW, MP, NYS, WC, WD
Cotton Warburton	Quarterback	USC	9/9	AAB, AP, CO, FWAA, INS, LIB, NANA, NEA, UP	CNS, CP, DJW, MP, NYS, WC, WD
Joe Skladany	End	Pittsburgh	8/9	AAB, AP, CO, FWAA, INS, LIB, NANA, NEA	CNS, CP, DJW, NYS, WC, WD
Bill Corbus	Guard	Stanford	8/9	AAB, AP, CO, FWAA, INS, LIB, NANA, NEA	CNS, CP, DJW, NYS, WC, WD
George Sauer	Halfback	Nebraska	8/9	AAB, AP, CO, FWAA, INS, LIB, NANA, NEA	CNS, DJW, MP, WC, WD
Beattie Feathers	Halfback	Tennessee	7/9	AAB, CO, FWAAA, INS, LIB, NANA, NEA	CNS, CP, DJW, NYS, WC, WD-1
Fred Crawford	Tackle	Duke	6/9	AP, CO, INS, LIB, NANA, UP	CNS, CP, MP, WD
Aaron Rosenberg	Guard	USC	5/9	AAB, CO, INS, NEA, UP	CNS, MP, NYS, WC, WD
Duane Purvis	Fullback	Purdue	5/9	AAB, CO, LIB, NANA, UP	WC, WD
Francis Wistert	Tackle	Michigan	4/9	AAB, CO, FWAA, UP	CNS, DJW, NYS, WC
Bill Smith^[3]	End	Washington	3/9	AAB, LIB, NANA	MP, WC
Paul Geisler	End	Centenary	2/9	AP, UP	WD

All-American selections for 1933

Ends

Joe Skladany, Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-1; CO-1; FWAA; INS-1; LIB; NANA-1; NEA-1; UP-3; CNS; CP-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; WC-1; WD-1)
Paul Geisler, Centenary (AP-1; CO-2; INS-2; UP-1; CP-3; WD-1)
Bill Smith, Washington (AAB; AP-2; CO-3; INS-3; LIB; NANA-1; NEA-2; UP-2; MP-1; WC-1; WD-2)
Ted Petoskey, Michigan (AP-2; CO-2; INS-1; NANA-2; UP-2; CP-1; MP-1)
Frank Larson, Minnesota (CO-1; INS-2; NANA-2; NEA-1; CNS; NYS-1; WD-2)
Edgar Manske, Northwestern (UP-1)
Red Matal, Columbia (CO-3; FWAA; INS-3; CP-2; DJW-1)
Jim Moscrip, Stanford (College Football Hall of Fame) (NANA-3; NEA-3; CP-2)
Hugh Devore, Notre Dame (AP-3)
Lester Borden, Fordham (AP-3)
Fred Conrinus, St. Mary's (UP-3)
Peter James Kopcsak, Army (CP-3)
Clary Anderson, Colgate (NANA-3)

Tackles

Francis Wistert, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; CO-1; FWAA; INS-2; NANA-2; UP-1; CNS; CP-2; DJW-1; NYS-1; WC-1)
Fred Crawford, Duke (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; CO-1; INS-1; LIB; NANA-1; UP-1; CNS; CP-1; MP-1; WD-1)
Charles Ceppi, Princeton (AAB; AP-2; CO-3; FWAA; INS-1; LIB; NANA-1; NEA-2; UP-2; CP-1; DJW-1; WC-1; WD-2)
Adolphe Schwammel, Oregon State (AP-1; INS-3; UP-3 [g]; MP-1)
John Yezerski, St. Mary's (NEA-1)
Charles Harvey, Holy Cross (AP-2; INS-2; UP-3; CP-2)
Bud Jorgensen, St. Mary's (CO-2; INS-3; UP-2; NYS-1; WD-2)
Art Buss, Michigan State (AP-3; CO-3; NEA-2)
Cassius Gentry, Oklahoma (AP-3)
Frank Walton, Pittsburgh (UP-3; NANA-3)
Gail O'Brien, Nebraska (CP-3)
George T. Barclay, North Carolina (AP-3 [g]; CP-3)
Peter Mehringer, Kansas (CO-2)
Lane, Princeton (NANA-2)
Ted Rosequist, Ohio State (NANA-3)

Guards

Bill Corbus, Stanford (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-1; CO-1; FWAA; INS-1; LIB; NANA-1; NEA-1; UP-2; CNS; CP-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; WC-1; WD-1)
Aaron Rosenberg, USC (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-2; CO-1; INS-1; NANA-2; NEA-1; UP-1; CNS; CP-3; MP-1; NYS-1; WC-1; WD-1)
Zud Schammel, Iowa (AP-1; CO-2; LIB; NANA-1; INS-2; UP-1; CP-2; WD-2)
Thomas Hupke, Alabama (AP-2; CO-3; INS-3; NANA-3; NEA-2; UP-2; CP-1; WD-2)
Larry Stevens, USC (FWAA; INS-3; DJW-1)
Harvey Jablonsky, Army (AP-3; UP-3; NANA-3; NEA-2; INS-2; CP-2)
Bill Volok, Tulsa (CO-2)
Joseph Gailus, Ohio State (CO-3; NANA-2; MP-1)
Bunny Burzio, Carnegie Tech (CP-3)

Centers

Chuck Bernard, Michigan (AAB; AP-1; CO-1; FWAA; INS-1; LIB; NANA-1; NEA-1; UP-1; CNS; CP-1; DJW-1; MP-1; NYS-1; WC-1; WD-1)
Johnny Dell Isola, Fordham (UP-3; CO-2; NANA-2; INS-2; CP-2; WD-2)
Lee Coats, UCLA (AP-2; NEA-2)
Roy Oen, Minnesota (UP-2; INS-3)
Larry Siemering, San Francisco (AP-3)
Tal Maples, Tennessee (CP-3)
Mike Vuchinich, Ohio State (CO-3)
Howard Christie, California (NANA-3)

Quarterbacks

Cotton Warburton, USC (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-1; CO-1; FWAA; INS-1; LIB; NANA-1; NEA-1; UP-1; CNS; CP-1; DJW-1; MP-1; NYS-1; WC-1; WD-1)
Cliff Montgomery, Columbia (AP-3; UP-2; INS-2; CP-3)
Joe Laws, Iowa (CO-2; NANA-2; INS-3; DW-2)
Paul Johnson, Army (AP-2; NEA-2)
Manning Smith, Centenary (UP-3)
Deke Brackett, Tennessee (CP-2)
Bobby Grayson, Stanford (CO-3; NANA-2 [fb])

Halfbacks

Beattie Feathers, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-2; CO-1; FWAA; INS-1; LIB; NANA-1; NEA-1; UP-2; CNS; CP-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; WC-1; WD-1)
George Sauer, Nebraska (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-1; CO-1; FWAA; INS-1; LIB; NANA-1 [fb]; NEA-1; CNS [fb]; CP-2; DJW-1; MP-1; WC-1; WD-1)
Jack Buckler, Army (AP-1; CO-2; INS-2; NANA-2; NEA-1; UP-1; CNS; CP-1; MP-1; NYS-1; WD-2)
Pug Lund, Minnesota (AP-1; CO-2; FWAA; INS-1; NANA-2; UP-2 [fb]; CP-1 [fb]; DJW-1; MP-1; WD-2 [fb])
Norman Franklin, Oregon State (AP-3; CO-3; INS-3; NEA-2; UP-1; WD-2)
Herman Everhardus, Michigan (COL-3; INS-2; NANA-3 [qb]; NEA-2)
Ed Danowski, Fordham (CO-2 [fb]; INS-2 [fb]; NANA-3; UP-3)
Doug Nott, Detroit (UP-2; CP-3)
George Wilson, St. Mary's (AP-3; UP-3; CP-2)
Dixie Howell, Alabama (CP-3)
Garrett LeVan, Princeton (NANA-3)

Fullbacks

Duane Purvis, Purdue (AAB; AP-2 [hb]; CO-1 [hb]; INS-3 [hb]; LIB; NANA-1 [hb]; UP-1; CP-2 [hb]; WC-1; WD-1 [hb])
Mike Mikulak, Oregon (AP-2; CO-3; INS-3; NANA-3; UP-3; NYS-1)
Ralph Graham, Kansas State (NEA-2)
Ralph Kercheval, Kentucky (AP-3; CP-3)

Key

Bold – Consensus All-American^[1]
-1 – First-team selection
-2 – Second-team selection
-3 – Third-team selection

NCAA recognized "official" selectors

AAB = All-America Board^[4]
AP = Associated Press^[5]
CO = Collier's Weekly, selected by Grantland Rice^[6]
INS = Hearst Consensus All-American Selections, selected through an all-season survey of 210 of the country's coaches, sports writers, football officials and observers for the International News Service
LIB = Liberty magazine
NANA = North American Newspaper Alliance^[7]
NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association, selected by the NEA All-American Committee of coaches, including Jock Sutherland (Pitt), Noble Kizer (Purdue), Harry Mehre (Georgia), Bill Spaulding (UCLA), Ike Armstrong (Utah), Bo McMillin (Kansas State), and Fred Thomsen (Arkansas)^[8]
UP = United Press^[9]

Other selectors

CP = Central Press Association, as picked by football team captains^[10]
NYS = New York Sun^[11]
WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation^[12]
DJW = Davis J. Walsh, sports editor of International News Service^[13]
FWAA = Football Writers Association of American^[4]
WD = Walter Dobbins, a consensus based on the selections of Collier's, the United Press, the Associated Press, the All America Board, the New York Sun, the North America Newspaper Alliance, and Hearst^[14]
MP = Midweek Pictorial^[15]
CNS = Consensus team based on combined selections of the United Press, Associated Press, NEA News Service and the Collier's Weekly team by Grantland Rice^[16]

References

^ ^a ^b "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 7. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
^ ^a ^b ESPN College Football Encyclopedia. ESPN Books. 2005. p. 1165. ISBN 1401337031.(The ESPN College Football Encyclopedia lists the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) as the eighth selector and does not include the NANA as a consensus selector. Both NANA and FWAA are included as consensus selectors in this article.)
^ Bill Smith is not recognized by the NCAA as a consensus All-American even though he had three of nine first-team selections. Instead, Paul Geisler, who had two of nine first-team selections, is recognized as a consensus All-American at the end position.
^ ^a ^b ESPN College Football Encyclopedia. ESPN Books. 2005. p. 1165. ISBN 1401337031.
^ "AP All America". Bismarck Tribune. December 2, 1933.
^ "Rice Picks His All-American". Modesto Bee And News-Herald. December 23, 1933.
^ "N.A.N.A. All-American". Los Angeles Times. December 3, 1933.
^ "NEA All America". Bismarck Tribune. December 2, 1933.
^ "Five Big Ten Players Selected on United Press Team". Kokomo Tribune. November 30, 1933.
^ Ritt, William (December 7, 1933). "Here's 1933 All-American Football Team Selected By Players: Players Selected By Grid Captains". Evening Independent. Massillon, OH.
^ "Jorgenson and Corbus on Sun All-American". Oakland Tribune. December 1, 1933.
^ "Walter Camp Football Foundation All-American Selections". Walter Camp Football Foundation. Archived from the original on December 18, 2007.
^ Davis J. Walsh (December 4, 1933). "Davis J. Walsh Has Picked His All-Americans". New Castle News.
^ Walter Dobbins (December 23, 1933). "Bernard, Warburton Unanimous Choice For All America Berths". Lincoln Star.
^ "All-America Addendum -- Part 2" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. November 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 12, 2012. Retrieved April 16, 2009.
^ Ted A. Ramsay (December 24, 1933). "DAILY MAIL'S ALL-AMERICA CONSENSUS TEAM FOR 1933 ANNOUNCED: FOUR SELECTIONS USED; Warburton, Crawford and Bernard Are Unanimous Choices; Nation's Best Placed". Charleston Daily Mail.

v t e 1933 College Football All-America Team consensus selections
Backfield	QB Cotton Warburton HB Beattie Feathers HB George Sauer FB Duane Purvis
Line	E Paul Geisler E Joe Skladany T Fred Crawford T Francis Wistert G Bill Corbus G Aaron Rosenberg C Chuck Bernard

College Football All-America Teams