1927 College Football All-America Team
The 1927 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 1927. The seven selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1927 season are (1) Collier's Weekly, as selected by Grantland Rice with cooperation from ten coaches, (2) the Associated Press, (3) the United Press, selected based on consensus among UP newspapers throughout the country and prominent football coaches, (4) the All-America Board, (5) the International News Service (INS), (6) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), and (7) the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).
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Consensus All-Americans
Following the death of Walter Camp in 1925, there was a proliferation of All-American teams in the late 1920s. For the year 1927, the NCAA recognizes seven 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. Michigan end Bennie Oosterbaan and Pittsburgh halfback Gibby Welch were the only players to be unanimously selected by all seven selectors as first-team All-Americans.
Name | Position | School | Number | Selectors |
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Bennie Oosterbaan | End | Michigan | 7/7 | AAB, AP, CO, INS, NANA, NEA, UP |
Gibby Welch | Halfback | Pitt | 7/7 | AAB, AP, CO, INS, NANA, NEA, UP |
Morley Drury | Quarterback | USC | 6/7 | AAB, AP, CO, INS, NEA, UP |
Clipper Smith | Guard | Notre Dame | 6/7 | AAB, AP, CO, INS, NEA, UP |
Herb Joesting | Fullback | Minnesota | 6/7 | AAB, AP, CO, INS, NEA, UP |
Bill Webster | Guard | Yale | 5/7 | AAB, AP, INS, NANA, NEA |
Tom Nash | End | Georgia | 4/7 | AAB, CO, INS, NANA |
Jesse Hibbs | Tackle | USC | 4/7 | AAB, INS, NANA, UP |
Ed Hake | Tackle | Penn | 3/7 | AP, NANA, UP |
Larry Bettencourt | Center | St. Mary's | 3/7 | AAB, AP, INS |
John Charlesworth | Center | Yale | 3/7 | CO, NEA, UP |
Red Cagle | Halfback | Army | 3/7 | AAB, CO, NANA |
All-American selections for 1927
Key
Official selectors
- AAB = All America Board[1]
- AP = Associated Press[2]
- UP = United Press, selected based on consensus among UP newspapers throughout the country and prominent football coaches[3]
- COL = Collier's Weekly as selected by Grantland Rice with assistance from well-known coaches, including Glenn Warner, Robert Zuppke, Knute Rockne and Dan McGugin[4]
- INS = International News Service
- NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association
- NANA = North American Newspaper Alliance
Other selectors
- CP = Central Press Association, billed as the "Real" All-American team with selections based on fan input with cooperation from "hundreds of newspapers throughout the country"[5]
- HE = Hearst newspapers, consensus selection of more than 100 sports writers and editors at the Hearst newspapers[6]
- DJW = Davis J. Walsh[7]
- NYS = New York Sun[8]
- BE = Billy Evans[9]
- WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation[10]
- LP = Lawrence Perry[11]
- WE = Walter Eckersall[12]
- Bold – Consensus All-American[13]
- 1 – First Team Selection
- 2 – Second Team Selection
- 3 – Third Team Selection
Ends
- Bennie Oosterbaan, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS; NEA; NANA; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB; WE-1)
- Tom Nash, Georgia (AP-3; UP-3; COL-1; INS; NANA; HE-1; DJW-1; BE-3; LP-1; AAB; WE-1)
- Ivey Shiver, Georgia (AP-1; UP-1; NEA; CP-2; HE-2; DJW-3; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-2)
- Dwight Fishwick, Yale (CP-1; WE-3)
- George Cole, Dartmouth (AP-2; HE-3; DJW-2)
- Raymond Matthews, TCU (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-3)
- Irvine Phillips, California (AP-3; CP-2)
- Stewart Scott, Yale (UP-2; BE-2)
- Charles Born, Army (UP-2; HE-2; DJW-3; NYS-2; BE-2)
- Charlie Moeser, Princeton (HE-3; LP-2; WE-2)
- Donchess, Pittsburgh (WE-2)
- Charles Walsh, Notre Dame (UP-3)
- Fleck, Kansas Aggies (WE-3)
Tackles
- Jesse Hibbs, USC (AP-2; UP-1; INS; NANA; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-2; LP-1; AAB; WE-1)
- Ed Hake, Penn (AP-1; UP-1; NANA; CP-2; HE-2; BE-3)
- Bud Sprague, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; INS; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1)
- Bill Kern, Pittsburgh (NEA; HE-2; NYS-2; BE-1)
- John Smith, Penn (AP-2; COL-1; DJW-3; WE-2)
- Leo Raskowski, Ohio State (AP-3; COL-1; NEA; HE-3; BE-1; LP-1; WE-1)
- Fred Pickhard, Alabama (UP-2; CP-2)
- Leo Nowack, Illinois (AP-3)
- George Perry, Army (NYS-1; BE-2)
- Jap Douds, Washington & Jefferson (HE-3; BE-3)
- Sidney Quarrier, Yale (UP-3; AAB; WE-2)
- James J. Fitzgerald, Tufts (UP-3)
- Alton C. Sprott, Texas A&M (DJW-3; NYS-2; BE-3 [g])
- Coultrin, California (WE-3)
- Lucas, Missouri (WE-3)
Guards
- Bill Webster, Yale (AP-1; UP-2; INS; NEA; NANA; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB; WE-1)
- John "Clipper" Smith, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS; NEA; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; AAB; WE-1)
- Russ Crane, Illinois (COL-1; LP-2)
- Ray Baer, Michigan (AP-2; UP-2; CP-2; HE-2; DJW-2; BE-2; WE-2)
- John Barnhill, Tennessee (AP-2)
- Harold Hanson, Minnesota (AP-3; UP-1; NANA; CP-2; HE-2; DJW-3; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-1; WE-3)
- Gene Smith, Georgia (AP-3)
- William Wright, Washington (DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-3; LP-2)
- Roberts, Pittsburgh (WE-2)
- Justin Whitlock Dart, Northwestern (UP-3)
- R. Van I. Miller, Amherst (UP-3)
- Danny McMullen, Nebraska (DJW-3)
- J. M. French, Princeton (HE-3)
- Seraphim Post, Stanford (HE-3)
- Drennon, Georgia Tech (WE-3)
Centers
- Larry Bettencourt, St. Mary's (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; INS; CP-2; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-2; LP-2; AAB; WE-1)
- John Charlesworth, Yale (UP-1; COL-1; NEA; CP-1; HE-2; BE-1)
- Claude Grigsby, Georgetown (AP-2; HE-3)
- Ken Rouse, Chicago (AP-3; UP-3; WE-2)
- Robert Reitsch, Illinois (NANA; DJW-3; NYS-2; BE-3; LP-1; WE-3)
- John McCreery, Stanford (UP-2)
- Elvin Butcher, Tennessee (DJW-2)
Quarterbacks
- Morley Drury, USC (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1 [hb]; UP-1; COL-1; INS; NEA; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1 [hb]; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB; WE-1)
- Bill Spears, Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; INS; NANA; CP-2; HE-3; DJW-1; LP-2; WE-2)
- Joel Hunt, Texas A&M (AP-2; DJW-3; WE-3)
- Harold Almquist, Minnesota (AP-3)
- Jack Connor, New York Univ. (HE-2; DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-2)
- Gerald Mann, SMU (BE-3)
Halfbacks
- Gibby Welch, Pittsburgh (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS; NEA; NANA; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB; WE-1)
- Red Cagle, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-3; COL-1; NANA; HE-2; AAB; WE-1)
- Christie Flanagan, Notre Dame (UP-1; NEA; CP-1; HE-3; DJW-3; BE-1)
- Alton Marsters, Dartmouth (AP-2; UP-2; HE-3; DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-2; WE-2)
- Glenn Presnell, Nebraska (AP-2; UP-2; HE-2; DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-1; WE-2)
- Chuck Carroll, Washington (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3)
- Joel Hunt, Texas A&M (BE-3; LP-2)
- Louis Gilbert, Michigan (UP-3 [qb]; CP-2; BE-3; WE-3)
- Walter Gebert, Marquette (UP-3; DJW-3; LP-2)
- Bruce Caldwell, Yale (CP-2; HE-1; NYS-1; LP-2)
- Roepke, Penn State (WE-3)
Fullbacks
- Herb Joesting, Minnesota (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS; NEA; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB; WE-1)
- Herdis McCrary, Georgia (AP-2; UP-2; HE-3; DJW-2; WE-2)
- Bill Amos, Washington & Jefferson (AP-3; HE-2; BE-3)
- Mike Miles, Princeton (NANA; NYS-2; BE-2; WE-3)
- Pat Wilson, Washington (LP-2)
- Biff Hoffman, Stanford (DJW-3; LP-2)
- Lou Tesreau, Washington (UP-3)
- Frank Briante, New York Univ. (CP-2)
See also
- 1927 All-Big Ten Conference football team
- 1927 All-Missouri Valley Conference football team
- 1927 All-Pacific Coast Conference football team
- 1927 All-Southern football team
- 1927 All-Western college football team
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