1926 College Football All-America Team

The 1926 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 1926. The six selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1926 season are (1) Collier's Weekly, as selected by Grantland Rice with cooperation from ten coaches, (2) the Associated Press, based on polling of "more than 100 coaches and critics", (3) the United Press, (4) the All-America Board, selected by Knute Rockne (Notre Dame), Glenn "Pop" Warner (Stanford), and Tad Jones (Yale), (5) the International News Service (INS), and (6) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA).

Other notable selectors included Billy Evans, the Central Press Association, the New York Sun, and Walter Eckersall.

Consensus All-Americans[edit]

For the year 1926, the NCAA recognizes six 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
Frank Wickhorst	Tackle	Navy	6/6	AAB, AP, COL, INS, NEA, UP	BE, CP, CEP, HF, LP, NYS, RG, WC, WE
Herb Joesting	Fullback	Minnesota	5/6	AAB, AP, COL, INS, NEA	BE, CP, ES, LP, NYS, RG, WC, WE
Bud Boeringer	Center	Notre Dame	5/6	AAB, AP, COL, INS, NEA	BE, CP, ES, LP, NYS, RG, WC, WE
Mort Kaer	Halfback	USC	5/6	AAB, AP, COL, INS, NEA	BE, CP, NYS, RG, WC, WE
Bernie Shively	Guard	Illinois	5/6	AAB, AP, COL, INS, NEA	BE, WC, WE
Harry Connaughton	Guard	Georgetown	4/6	AP, COL, NEA, UP	BE, CP, ES, HF, LP, NYS, RG, WE
Benny Friedman	Quarterback	Michigan	4/6	AP, COL, INS, NEA	BE, CP, ES, HF, LP, NYS, RG, WE
Bennie Oosterbaan	End	Michigan	4/6	AAB, COL, NEA, UP	BE, CEP, ES, WC, WE
Vic Hanson	End	Syracuse	4/6	AP, COL, INS, UP	ES, HF, LP, NYS, WE
Ralph Baker	Halfback	Northwestern	2/6	AP, COL	CP, LP, NYS, WE
Bud Sprague	Tackle	Army	1/6	AP	CP, CEP

All-American selections for 1926[edit]

Ends[edit]

Bennie Oosterbaan, Michigan (CFHOF) (AAB-1; AP-3; COL-1; NEA; UP; CEP-1; WC-1; BE-1; RG-2; ES-1; WE-1)
Vic Hanson, Syracuse (CFHOF) (AAB-2; AP-1; COL-1; INS-1; UP; CP-2; NYS-1; BE-2; HF-1; LP-1; RJW-2; RG-2; DW-1; ES-1; WE-1)
Hal Broda, Brown (AAB-3; AP-2; INS-2; UP; CP-1; NYS-1; BE-3; HF-1; LP-2; RWJ-3; RG-1; ES-2; WE-2)
Hoyt Winslett, Alabama (AAB-2; AP-1; INS-1; NEA; CP-2; NYS-2; BE-1; LP-1, RWJ-2; ES-2; WE-3; CP-1)
Ted Shipkey, Stanford (AAB-1; AP-2; INS-2; WC-1; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-2; RG-1; WE-2)
Carl Bacchus, Missouri (AAB-3; AP-3; BE-3; RWJ-3)
Cal Hubbard, Geneva (INS-3; RG-3; CEP-1)
Ed Lindenmeyer, Missouri (INS-3)
George Thayer, Penn (WE-3)
Charles Born, Army (RG-3)

Tackles[edit]

Frank Wickhorst, Navy (AAB-1; AP-1; COL-1; INS-1; NEA; UP; CP-1; WC-1; NYS-1; BE-1; HF-1; LP-1; RG-1; WE-1; CEP-1)
Bud Sprague, Army (AP-1; CP-1; RG-3; CEP-1; LP-2)
Lloyd Yoder, Carnegie Tech (CFHOF) (AAB-1; AP-3; INS-2; CP-2; WC-1)
Lon Stiner, Nebraska (AAB-2; INS-1; RWJ-2; ES-2)
Robert Johnson, Northwestern (NEA; BE-1; RG-1; WE-2)
Alfred "Al" Lassman, NYU (AAB-3; UP; BE-3; HF-1; RWJ-3; RG-2; ES-1; WE-2)
Orland Smith, Brown (AP-3; COL-1; LP-1; NYS-2; WE-1)
Spike Nelson, Iowa (AP-2; CP-2; NYS-1; BE-2; LP-2; RG-3)
Theodore "Tiny" Roebuck,^[1] Haskell (AAB-2; RWJ-2)
Jim Dixon, Oregon State (AAB-3; INS-2; RWJ-3)
D. Thomas Eddy, Navy (AP-2; NYS-2; ES-2)
Fred Pickhard, Alabama (BE-2)
Jesse Hibbs, USC (BE-3)
Howard D. Cothran, Lafayette (RG-2; WE-3)
Leo Raskowski, Ohio State (INS-3; ES-1; WE-3)
Ed Kevorkian, Brown (INS-3)

Guards[edit]

Bernie Shively, Illinois (CFHOF) (AAB-1; AP-1; COL-1; INS-1; NEA; CP-2; WC-1; BE-1; RG-2; WE-1)
Harry Connaughton, Georgetown (AAB-2; AP-1; COL-1; INS-2; NEA; UP; CP-1; NYS-1; BE-1; HF-1; LP-1; RWJ-2; RG-1; ES-1; WE-1)
Ed Hess, Ohio State (AAB-2; AP-2; INS-2; CP-1; NYS-2; BE-2; HF-1; LP-2; RWJ-2; RG-1; ES-1; WE-2; CEP-1)
Edwin Hayes, Ohio State (UP)
Fred H. Swan, Stanford (AAB-3; AP-3; INS-3; CP-2; RWJ-3; ES-2; CEP-1; LP-2)
Herbert Sturhahn, Yale (CFHOF) (AAB-1; AP-3; WC-1; NYS-2; BE-3; ES-2; LP-1; RG-3; WE-2)
Ted "Butter" Gorrell, USC (AAB-3; RWJ-3)
Emerson Carey, Cornell (AP-2; RWJ-2; WE-3; RG-3)
Ernest Schmidt, Army (NYS-1; BE-2)
Orland Smith, Brown (INS-1; BE-3; RG-2)
Frank Mayer, Notre Dame (INS-3)
John H. Lovette, Michigan (WE-3)

Centers[edit]

Bud Boeringer, Notre Dame (AAB-1; AP-1; COL-1; INS-1; NEA; CP-1; WC-1; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; RG-1; ES-1; WE-1)
John J. Butler, Penn (AP-2; INS-3; UP; CP-2; BE-2; HF-1; RG-2; ES-2; WE-2)
Jeff Cravath, USC (AAB-2; INS-2; RWJ-2)
Larry Bettencourt, St. Mary's (CA) (CFHOF) (AAB-3; RWJ-3)
Pollock Wallace, Oklahoma (AP-3)
Alex Klein, Ohio State (BE-3)
Maurice Daly, Army (NYS-2)
Robert Reitsch, Illinois (RG-3; WE-3)
Joseph Truskowski, Michigan (LP-2)

Quarterbacks[edit]

Benny Friedman, Michigan (CFHOF) (AAB-2; AP-1; COL-1; INS-1; NEA; CP-1; NYS-1; BE-1; HF-1; LP-1; RWJ-2; RG-1; ES-1; WE-1)
Bill Spears, Vanderbilt (CFHOF) (AAB-3 [as hb]; AP-2; INS-2; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-2; RWJ-3 [as hb])
Bill Kelly, Montana (CFHOF) (AP-2 [as hb]; BE-3 [as hb]; CP-2; RG-2; WE-3)
Roy Randall, Brown (AAB-1; WC-1)
Butch Meeker, Washington State (WE-2)
George Guttormsen, Washington (AP-3; INS-3)
Gerald Mann, SMU (CFHOF) (AAB-3; BE-3; RWJ-3)
Dan Caulkins, Princeton (RG-3)

Halfbacks[edit]

Mort Kaer, USC (CFHOF) (AAB-1; AP-1; COL-1; INS-1; NEA; CP-1; WC-1; NYS-1; BE-1; RG-1; ES-2 [as qb]; WE-1)
Ralph Baker, Northwestern (CFHOF) (AAB-2; AP-1; COL-1; INS-2; CP-1; NYS-1; BE-2; LP-1; RWJ-2; RG-2; ES-2; WE-1)
Harry Wilson, Army (AAB-1; AP-2; INS-1; NEA; CP-2; WC-1; ES-1)
Tom Hamilton, Navy (UP; HF-1; RG-3; WE-2)
Marty Karow, Ohio State (UP; AP-2; INS-3; CP-2; BE-3; HF-1; LP-2; RG-2; ES-2; WE-3)
Frank Kirkleski, Lafayette (AAB-3; AP-3; RWJ-3)
Charles Rogers, Penn (AP-3; INS-3; UP; HF-1; RG-1; WE-2)
Chester "Cotton" Wilcox, Purdue (NYS-2; LP-2; RG-3; BE-2)
George Bogue, Stanford (BE-3; WE-3)
Christie Flanagan, Notre Dame (AAB-2; CP-2; RWJ-2; RG-2; ES-1)
Dave Mishel, Brown (INS-2)
George Wilson, Lafayette (INS-3; BE-1; NYS-2)
Dick Hyland, Stanford (LP-1)

Fullbacks[edit]

Herb Joesting, Minnesota (CFHOF) (AAB-1; AP-1; COL-1; INS-1; NEA; BE-1; CP-1; ES-1; NYS-1; RG-1; LP-1; WC-1; WE-1)
Bill Amos, Washington & Jefferson (AAB-2; INS-2; BE-2; RWJ-2; WE-2)
Mayes McLain, Haskell (AAB-3; RWJ-3)
Ty Rauber, Washington & Lee (AP-3)
Harry O'Boyle, Notre Dame (LP-2 [hb]; NYS-2)
Henry H. Caldwell, Navy (ES-2)
Tiny Lewis, Northwestern (RG-3; WE-3)

Key[edit]

Bold – Used for (1) consensus All-Americans^[2] and (2) first-team selections by an official selector
CFHOF = College Football Hall of Fame inductee
1 – First-team selection
2 – Second-team selection
3 – Third-team selection

Official selectors[edit]

AAB = All-American Board, team selected by three coaches: Knute Rockne (Notre Dame), Glenn "Pop" Warner (Stanford), and Tad Jones (Yale)^[3]
AP = Associated Press, based on AP polling of "more than 100 coaches and critics"^[4]
UP = United Press^{[citation needed]}
COL = Collier's Weekly as selected by Grantland Rice with cooperation from ten coaches: Glenn Warner (Stanford), Robert Zuppke (Illinois), G.C. Woodruff (Georgia), Knute Rockne (Notre Dame), Wallace Wade (Alabama), Captain J.J. McEwan (Oregon), W.A. Alexander (Ga. Tech.), Howard Jones (So. Calif.), E.P. Madigan (St. Mary's, Calif.), and Dan McGuigan (Vanderbilt).^[5]^[6]
INS = International News Service, selected by Davis Walsh^[7]
NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association^{[citation needed]}

Other selectors[edit]

BE = Billy Evans^[8]
CP = Central Press Association, based on a poll conducted by Norman Brown of over 400 newspapers, each of which conducted its own election in which fans voted for the All-American team; Central Press reported compiling a million votes.^[9]
CEP = Charles E. Parker for the New York World News Service^[10]
ES = Ed Sullivan^[11]
HF = Henry Farrell of the United Press^[12]
LP = Lawrence Perry^[13]
NYS = New York Sun^[14]
RG = Red Grange^[15]
WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation^[16]
WE = Walter Eckersall^[17]^[18]

References[edit]

^ "Theodore "Tiny" Roebuck". American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved August 30, 2014.
^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
^ "Warner, Rockne and Jones Choose All-American Team". The Courier Journal. December 19, 1926. p. 77 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Middle West Given The Lion's Share in All-American Selections". The Huntington Press. Indiana. December 5, 1926 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Seven of West In Rice's All-America". The Shreveport Times. December 7, 1926. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Collier's All America". The Shreveport Times. December 7, 1926. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Walsh Picks Cornhusker Captain On All-American". The Lincoln Star. November 30, 1926. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Evans, Billy (December 3, 1926). "Billy Evans' All-America". The Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD). p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Over One Million Fans Picked This Real All-American Eleven". Wilmington Morning News. December 13, 1926. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Parker's All-American Football Selections". The Pittsburgh Post. November 28, 1926. p. 33 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Ed Sullivan (December 7, 1926). "Another All-American Team; N.Y. Scribe Has Swan, Kaer On It; Everybody Now Trying Hand At It". Oakland Tribune.
^ "Farrell Puts Three Big Ten Men on First All-American". The Indianapolis News. November 22, 1926. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Five Western Stars Get Place On Perry's All America Team". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. December 12, 1926. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "New York Sun Picks 6 Westerners, Five From East On All-Star Team". The News Herald (PA). November 27, 1926. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Four Easterners on Grange's All America". The Shreveport Times. Louisiana. December 1, 1926. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.
^ "These Players Honored by Eckersall with Places on All-America Team". Detroit Free Press. December 12, 1926. p. 29.
^ "Kaer On Eckersall's All-American Eleven". Los Angeles Times. December 12, 1926. p. 34 – via Newspapers.com.

[1] "Theodore "Tiny" Roebuck". American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved August 30, 2014.

[2] "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.

[3] "Warner, Rockne and Jones Choose All-American Team". The Courier Journal. December 19, 1926. p. 77 – via Newspapers.com.

[4] "Middle West Given The Lion's Share in All-American Selections". The Huntington Press. Indiana. December 5, 1926 – via Newspapers.com.

[5] "Seven of West In Rice's All-America". The Shreveport Times. December 7, 1926. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.

[6] "Collier's All America". The Shreveport Times. December 7, 1926. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.

[7] "Walsh Picks Cornhusker Captain On All-American". The Lincoln Star. November 30, 1926. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.

[8] Evans, Billy (December 3, 1926). "Billy Evans' All-America". The Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD). p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.

[9] "Over One Million Fans Picked This Real All-American Eleven". Wilmington Morning News. December 13, 1926. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.

[10] "Parker's All-American Football Selections". The Pittsburgh Post. November 28, 1926. p. 33 – via Newspapers.com.

[11] Ed Sullivan (December 7, 1926). "Another All-American Team; N.Y. Scribe Has Swan, Kaer On It; Everybody Now Trying Hand At It". Oakland Tribune.

[12] "Farrell Puts Three Big Ten Men on First All-American". The Indianapolis News. November 22, 1926. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.

[13] "Five Western Stars Get Place On Perry's All America Team". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. December 12, 1926. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.

[14] "New York Sun Picks 6 Westerners, Five From East On All-Star Team". The News Herald (PA). November 27, 1926. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.

[15] "Four Easterners on Grange's All America". The Shreveport Times. Louisiana. December 1, 1926. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.

[16] "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.

[17] "These Players Honored by Eckersall with Places on All-America Team". Detroit Free Press. December 12, 1926. p. 29.

[18] "Kaer On Eckersall's All-American Eleven". Los Angeles Times. December 12, 1926. p. 34 – via Newspapers.com.

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v t e 1926 College Football All-America Team consensus selections
Backfield	QB Benny Friedman HB Ralph Baker HB Mort Kaer FB Herb Joesting
Line	E Vic Hanson E Bennie Oosterbaan T Bud Sprague T Frank Wickhorst G Harry Connaughton G Bernie Shively C Bud Boeringer