1937 College Football All-America Team
College Football All-America Team
1937 college football season
1935 1936 ← → 1938 1939

The 1937 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 1937. The ten selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1937 season are (1) Collier's Weekly, as selected by Grantland Rice, (2) the Associated Press (AP), (3) the United Press (UP), (4) the All-America Board (AAB), (5) the International News Service (INS), (6) Liberty magazine, (7) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), (8) Newsweek, (9) the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), and (10) the Sporting News (SN).

Consensus All-Americans

For the year 1937, the NCAA recognizes 10 published 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 Other
Clint Frank Quarterback Yale 10/10 AAB, AP, COL, INS, LIB, NANA, NEA, NW, SN, UP CP, CE, WC
Marshall Goldberg Halfback Pittsburgh 9/10 AAB, AP, COL, INS, NANA, NEA, NW, SN, UP CP, CE, WC
Joe Routt Guard Texas A&M 8/10 AP, COL, LIB, NANA, NEA, NW, SN, UP CP, CE
Byron White Halfback Colorado 7/10 AP, COL, INS, LIB, NEA, SN, UP CP, CE
Sam Chapman Fullback California 6/10 AAB, AP, COL, LIB, NANA, UP WC
Ed Franco Tackle Fordham 5/10 AP, COL, NW, SN, UP CP
Leroy Monsky Guard Alabama 5/10 AAB, AP, COL, LIB, SN WC
Andy Bershak End North Carolina 4/10 COL, NANA, NEA, SN CP, CE
Alex Wojciechowicz Center Fordham 4/10 INS, NANA, SN, UP CE, WC
Chuck Sweeney End Notre Dame 3/10 AP, NW, UP CP
Tony Matisi Tackle Pittsburgh 3/10 AAB, AP, NANA CE, WC

All-American selections for 1937

Ends

Tackles

Guards

Centers

Quarterbacks

Halfbacks

Fullbacks

Key

Bold = Consensus All-American[1]

Official selectors

Other selectors

See also

References

  1. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 7. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e ESPN College Football Encyclopedia. ESPN Books. 2005. p. 1171. ISBN 1401337031.
  3. ^ Alan Gould (December 4, 1937). "Associated Press 1937 All-America Is Team of Iron Men". The Daily Tribune. Wisconsin Rapids.
  4. ^ "Frank, White Unanimous Choices on Collier Team". Daily Capital News. December 10, 1937.
  5. ^ "INS All-American Grid Selections". Waterloo Daily Courier. December 1, 1937.
  6. ^ Harry Grayson (November 24, 1937). "Routt of Texas Aggies Places on All-America Picked by Grid Experts". Brownsville Herald.
  7. ^ Stuart Cameron (December 1, 1937). "(UP Sports Editor)". Oshkosh Daily Northwestern.
  8. ^ Bill Braucher (December 3, 1937). "NATION'S CAPTAINS PICK CENTRAL PRESS ALL-AMERICANS". Hammond Times.
  9. ^ "Collyer's All-American Places Herwig at Guard: Californian Moves Over for 'Wojie'". Middletown Times Herald. December 13, 1937.
  10. ^ "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.
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