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Official list of the best college football players of 1926
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 .
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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 ]
^
"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 .