Official list of the best college football players of 1923
The1923 All-America college football team is composed ofcollege football players who were selected asAll-Americans by various organizations and writers that choseAll-America college football teams in 1923. The only two selectors recognized by theNCAA as "official" for the 1923 season areWalter Camp , whose selections were published inCollier's Weekly Football World Athletic World Norman E. Brown , sports editor of theCentral Press Association , and Davis J. Walsh, sports editor for theInternational News Service .
The consensus All-Americans recognized by the NCAA include:halfback Red Grange ofIllinois , known as "The Galloping Ghost" and who in 2008 was named byESPN as the best college football player of all time; halfbackHarry Wilson ofPenn State , who was later inducted into theNational Lacrosse Hall of Fame ;quarterback George Pfann ofCornell , who later became aRhodes scholar ;end Lynn Bomar ofVanderbilt , who became one of the first Southern players to be recognized as a consensus All-American;tackle Marty Below ofWisconsin , who Red Grange called "the greatest lineman that I ever played against";[ 1] center Jack Blott of Michigan, who later played professional baseball for theCincinnati Reds .
Consensus All-Americans [ edit ] For the year 1923, the NCAA recognizes two 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 Official Other Number - Total Century Milstead Tackle Yale 2/2 FW, WC AW, DW, LP, NB, PH, TT 8/8 George Pfann Quarterback Cornell 2/2 FW, WC AW, DW, LP, NB, PH, TT 8/8 Red Grange Halfback Illinois 2/2 FW, WC AW, DW, LP, NB, PH, TT 8/8 Charles Hubbard Guard Harvard 2/2 FW, WC AW, DW, LP, NB, PH 7/8 Pete MacRae End Syracuse 1/2 FW AW, DW, LP, NB, PH, TT 7/8 Ray Eklund End Minnesota 1/2 FW AW, LP, NB, PH, TT 6/8 Jack Blott Center Michigan 2/2 FW, WC AW, DW, NB 5/8 Jim McMillen Guard Illinois 1/2 FW AW, DW, NB, TT 5/8 Bill Mallory Fullback Yale 1/2 WC DW, NB, PH, TT 5/8 Marty Below Tackle Wisconsin 1/2 FW AW, DW, NB 4/8 Harry Wilson Halfback Penn State 1/2 FW AW, PH 3/8 Lynn Bomar End Vanderbilt 2/2 FW, WC -- 2/8
All-Americans of 1923 [ edit ] Lynn Bomar of Vanderbilt. Lynn Bomar (AW-2; WC-1; FW) Ray Eklund (AW-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-2; TT-1; PH-1, BE) Pete MacRae (AW-1; WC-2; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1; PH-1, BE) Homer Hazel , Rutgers (College Football Hall of Fame)(WC-1) Henry Wakefield , Vanderbilt(NB-2; DW-1, BE) Richard Luman , Yale(AW-3; WC-3; DW-2, BE) Bill Supplee , Maryland(LP-2; DW-3; TT-2, BE) Charles Tallman , West Virginia(AW-3; WC-2, BE) Charlie Berry , Lafayette(AW-2) Frank Rokusek , Illinois(LP-2) Elmer A. Lampe , Chicago(NB-2) Fred Graham , West Virginia(TT-2) Edmund Stout , Princeton(WC-3) Frank L. Henderson, Cornell(DW-3) Wayne Hall, Washington(TT-3) Henry Bjorkman , Dartmouth(TT-3) John W. Hancock , Iowa(BE) Jim Lawson , Stanford(BE) Marty Below Century Milstead (AW-1; WC-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1; PH-1, BE) Marty Below (AW-1; FW; LP-2; NB-1; DW-1; TT-2, BE) Frank Sundstrom , Cornell(AW-2; WC-1; LP-1; NB-2; DW-3; TT-3; PH-1, BE) Stanley Muirhead , Michigan(AW-2; LP-2; NB-2, BE) Chet Widerquist ,Washington & Jefferson (WC-2; TT-2, BE [as g]) Pappy Waldorf , Syracuse (College Football Hall of Fame)(AW-3; DW-2) Stewart "Stew" Beam, California(WC-3; DW-2, BE) Henry Bassett, Nebraska(AW-3; WC-3, BE) Art Deibel , Lafayette(WC-2) Edwin F. Blair , Yale(DW-3) Joe Bach , Notre Dame(TT-1) Norman Anderson, USC(TT-3) Joe Bennett , Georgia(BE) Robbie Robinson , Florida(BE) Charles Hubbard Charles Hubbard (AW-1; WC-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-2; PH-1, BE) Jim McMillen (AW-1; FW; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1, BE) Joe Bedenk , Penn State(AW-2; WC-1; DW-2; TT-3; PH-1, BE) Edliff Slaughter , Michigan(LP-1) James Welsh, Colgate(AW-2; LP-2; NB-2; DW-2; TT-1) August Farwick , Army(AW-3; NB-2; DW-3; TT-2) Cyril Aschenback, Dartmouth(AW-3; WC-2; LP-2; TT-3) Harvey Brown, Notre Dame(WC-2) Arthur G. Carney, Navy(WC-3) William Johnson, Texas A&M(WC-3) Richard Faville, Stanford(DW-3, BE) Goldy Goldstein , Florida(BE) Tuck Kelly , Vanderbilt(BE) Adolph Bieberstein , Wisconsin(BE) Jack Blott of Michigan. Jack Blott (AW-1; WC-1; FW; NB-1; DW-1, BE) Edgar Garbisch , Army (College Football Hall of Fame)(AW-2; WC-3; NB-2; DW-2; TT-1; PH-1, BE) Edwin C. Horrell , California (College Football Hall of Fame)(AW-3; LP-1; DW-3, BE) Winslow Lovejoy , Yale(WC-2; LP-2; TT-2, BE) Adam Walsh , Notre Dame(TT-3) Clyde Propst , Alabama(BE) Claire Frye , Georgia Tech(BE) Ralph Claypool , Purdue(BE) Dolph Eckstein , Brown(BE) George Pfann George Pfann (AW-1; WC-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1; PH-1, BE) Lyle Richeson, Yale(WC-2; DW-2; TT-2, BE) Hoge Workman , Ohio State(AW-2; NB-2, BE) Irwin Uteritz , Michigan(LP-2; DW-3, BE) Harry Stuhldreher , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame)(AW-3; TT-3, BE) Red Dunn , Marquette(WC-3) Herb Covington , Centre(BE) Harold Chapman, Oregon(BE) Charles Darling , Boston College(BE) Red Grange of Illinois. Red Grange (AW-1; WC-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1; PH-1, BE) Harry Wilson (AW-1; WC-2; FW; DW-2; TT-2; PH-1, BE) Don Miller , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame)(LP-2; NB-1; DW-1; TT-2 [fb], BE) Earl Martineau , Minnesota(AW-3; WC-1; NB-2; TT-3 [fb], BE) Harry Kipke , Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame)(AW-2; LP-1; TT-3) Don Nichols , California(AW-2; TT-1; BE) Mal Stevens , Yale (College Football Hall of Fame)(WC-2 [fb]; LP-2; DW-3; TT-3) Dave Noble , Nebraska(LP-2; DW-2; TT-2) Eddie Tryon , Colgate(AW-3; WC-2; BE) Walter Koppisch , Columbia (College Football Hall of Fame)(WC-3) Karl Bohren , Pittsburgh(WC-3) Gil Reese , Vanderbilt(DW-3, BE) Bill Mallory of Yale Bill Mallory (AW-2; WC-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1; PH-1, BE) John Levi , Haskell(AW-1; FW, BE) Elmer Layden , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame)(LP-1; DW-2, BE) Merrill Taft, Wisconsin(LP-2; NB-2, BE) Ernie Nevers , Stanford (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame)(AW-3; WC-3, BE) John Webster Thomas , Chicago(DW-3) Doug Wycoff , Georgia Tech(BE) Gus Eckberg , West Virginia(BE) Charles E. Cassidy , Cornell(BE) NCAA recognized selectors for 1923
Other selectors
Bold = Consensus All-American[ 12]
-1 – First-team selection -2 – Second-team selection -3 – Third-team selection ^ Dave Anderson (2005).University of Wisconsin Football . Arcadia Publishing. p. 38. ^ "Walter Camp's All-American Team".Alton Evening Telegraph . December 19, 1923. ^ ESPN College Football Encyclopedia , p. 1155^ "Athletic World All America".The Decatur Review . December 16, 1923. ^ Norman E. Brown (December 10, 1923). "Marty Below On First All-American Eleven: Merrill Taft Gets Berth On Second Team".The Capital Times . Madison, WI. ^ Lawrence Perry (December 16, 1923). "Cornell and Michigan Get Two Places on Perry Eleven, One for Syracuse: Famed Gridiron Expert Rates Pfann, Sundstrom and MacRae Among Best".Syracuse Herald . ^ "Walsh Picks Three Teams of All-Americans In 1923 Seasonal Postmortem".The Coshocton Tribune . December 6, 1923. ^ Tom Thorp (December 8, 1923). "Eastern Grid Players Get Six Places On All-American: Tom Thorp Picks Star Mythical Eleven of 1923 for the Baltimore News".Cumberland Evening Times . ^ "All Americans: Percy Haughton's Team".Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune . December 11, 1923. ^ "150 Leading Sport Writers Pick All-American Eleven" .Santa Ana Register . December 29, 1923. p. 10. RetrievedJuly 16, 2015 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "National All-Star" .The Wichita Beacon . December 17, 1922. p. 18. RetrievedJuly 23, 2015 – viaNewspapers.com .^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF) . National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. RetrievedOctober 21, 2017 .
