Official list of the best college football players of 1924
Red Grange , "The Galloping Ghost", was 1924's only unanimous All-American.The1924 All-America college football team wasd composed ofcollege football players who were selected asAll-Americans by various organizations and writers that choseAll-America college football teams in 1924. The six selectors recognized by theNCAA as "official" for the 1924 season are:
(1)Walter Camp , whose selections were published inCollier's Weekly
(2)Football World
(3) the All-America Board (AAB),
(4) theInternational News Service (INS),
(5)Liberty
(6) theNewspaper Enterprise Association (NEA).
The only unanimous All-American in 1924 washalfback Red Grange ofIllinois , known as "The Galloping Ghost" and who in 2008 was named byESPN as the best college football player of all time. The consensus All-Americans recognized by the NCAA for 1924 also includetackle Ed Weir , who was later named the 19th best athlete in Nebraska history, and three ofNotre Dame 's legendaryFour Horseman (halfbackJim Crowley ,quarterback Harry Stuhldreher , andfullback Elmer Layden ).
Consensus All-Americans [ edit ] For the year 1924, 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 Red Grange Halfback Illinois 6/6 AAB, FW, INS, LIB, NEA, WC ASM, BC, DW, LP, NB, WE Ed Weir Tackle Nebraska 5/6 AAB, FW, INS, LIB, WC ASB, BC, BE, DW, NB, WE Harry Stuhldreher Quarterback Notre Dame 5/6 AAB, INS, LIB, NEA, WC BE, DW, LP, NB, WE Ed McGinley Tackle Penn 4/6 AAB, INS, NEA, WC BE, DW Edwin C. Horrell Center California 4/6 INS, LIB, NEA, WC BE, DW, WE Jim Crowley Halfback Notre Dame 4/6 AAB, FW, INS, NEA ASM, BC, BE, DW, NB, WE Jim Lawson End Stanford 3/6 AAB, FW, NEA ASM, BE Carl Diehl Guard Dartmouth 3/6 INS, LIB, NEA BE, DW, NB Joe Pondelik Guard Chicago 3/6 AAB, INS, LIB DW, LP, WE Elmer Layden Fullback Notre Dame 3/6 AAB, INS, LIB DW, NB, WE Henry Wakefield End Vanderbilt 2/6 INS, NEA BC, BE, DW, LP, NB Richard Luman End Yale 2/6 AAB, INS DW, LP, WE Henry Bjorkman [ 1] End Dartmouth 2/6 LIB, WC WE
All-Americans of 1924 [ edit ] Vanderbilt'sHek Wakefield was the South's lone consensus All-American. Jim Lawson (WC-2; AAB; FW; ASM-1; NEA; BE-1; DW-2; WE-2) Richard Luman (AAB; INS; LP-1; BE-2; DW-1; WE-1) Henry "Hek" Wakefield (WC-2; INS; NEA; LP-1; BE-1; NB-1; DW-1; WE-3; BC) Charlie Berry , Lafayette(WC-1; ASM-2; DW-3) Henry Bjorkman , Dartmouth(WC-1; ASM-2; LIB; NB-2; WE-1) Clark Craig, Penn(NB-1) Edmond Stout, Princeton(FW; ASM-1) Hilary Mahaney , Holy Cross(WC-3; LIB; FW; BE-2; DW-2; WE-2) Lowell Otte, Iowa(LP-2; DW-3; WE-3) Cal Hubbard , Centenary (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame)(LP-2) Frank Frazer, Army(WC-3) Steve Pulaski, Wisconsin(NB-2) Frank Rokusek, Illinois(NB-3; BC) Shep Bingham, Yale(NB-3) Frank Henderson, Cornell(ASM-3) Clarence Muhl, Illinois(ASM-3) Ed Weir (WC-1; AAB; FW; ASM-1; INS; LIB; LP-2; BE-2; NB-1; DW-1; WE-1; BC) Ed McGinley (WC-1; AAB; INS; NEA; BE-1; DW-1; WE-2) Bob Beattie , Princeton(WC-2; NEA; BE-1; NB-2; DW-2; WE-1) Frank Gowdy , Chicago(WC-3; FW; ASM-1; LIB; LP-1; DW-2; WE-2) Johnny Joss , Yale(LP-1) Mordecai Starobin, Syracuse(NB-1) Tom Edwards , Michigan(LP-2) John W. Hancock , Iowa(ASM-2; BE-2; NB-2; BC) Pappy Waldorf , Syracuse (College Football Hall of Fame)(WC-2) Zeke Wissinger , Pittsburgh(WC-3) Jim Taylor , Georgia(NB-3) Jules Prevost, Penn State(ASM-2; NB-3) Norman Anderson, So. California(ASM-2; DW-3; WE-3) Joe Bach , Notre Dame(DW-3) Tex Cox , Minnesota(ASM-3) Charles Van Dyne, Missouri(WE-3) Carl Diehl (INS; LIB; NEA; BE-1; DW-1; NB-1; WE-3) Joe Pondelik (WC-2; AAB; INS; ASM-2; LIB; LP-1; DW-1; WE-1) Edliff Slaughter , Michigan(WC-1; LP-1; BE-2; NB-1; BC) August W. Farwick , Army(AAB; NEA; ASM-2; BE-1; NB-2; DW-2; WE-1) Alton Papworth, Penn(FW; ASM-1) Walter Mahan , West Virginia(WC-3; BE-2) Herbert Sturhahn , Yale (College Football Hall of Fame)(DW-2) Howard, Princeton(LP-2) Charles Parsons, Northwestern(LP-2; WE-3) George Abramson , Minnesota(WC-2; NB-2; WE-2; BC) Bill Fleckenstein , Iowa(WC-3) Bill Buckler , Alabama(NB-3) William House, Penn State(NB-3) Walt Godwin , Georgia Tech(DW-3) Harry Ellinger, Army(DW-3) Ralph Hills , Princeton(ASM-2) Adolph Bieberstein , Wisconsin(ASM-3) Edwin C. Horrell (WC-1 [g]; INS; ASM-3; LIB; NEA; BE-1; DW-1; WE-1) Adam Walsh , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame)(WC-3; LP-1; ASM-2; BE-2; NB-2; DW-2; WE-2; BC) Edgar Garbisch , Army (College Football Hall of Fame)(WC-1; FW; ASM-1 [g]; NB-3; DW-3; WE-2 [g]) Winslow Lovejoy , Yale(WC-2; AAB; FW; ASM-1; NB-1; WE-3) Shorty Propst , Alabama(LP-2) Red Grange (WC-1; AAB; FW; ASM-1; INS; LIB; NEA; LP-1 [fb]; BE-1; NB-1; DW-1; WE-1; BC) Bob Red Hall Jim Crowley (WC-2 [fb]; AAB; FW; ASM-1; INS; NEA; BE-1; NB-1; DW-1; WE-1; BC) Walter Koppisch , Columbia (College Football Hall of Fame)(WC-1; BE-2; NB-2; DW-2) Ralph Baker , Northwestern(LP-1; BE-2; NB-3; DW-2; WE-2) Ducky Pond , Yale(WC-2; NEA; ASM-2; NB-2; DW-3; WE-3; BE-1 [FB]) Don Miller , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame)(DW-3) Clarence Schutte , Minnesota(LP-2) Wildcat Wilson , Washington(WC-2) Heinie Benkert , Rutgers(ASM-2) Herb Steger , Michigan(ASM-3) Harry Wilson , Army(ASM-3) Tut Imlay , California(WC-3) Jackson Keefer , Brown(WC-3) Gil Reese , Vanderbilt(NB-3) Hust Stockton , Gonzaga(WE-2) Rudolph Bahr, Purdue(WE-3) Elmer Layden (AAB; INS; LIB; LP-2 [hb]; NB-1; DW-1; WE-1) Homer Hazel , Rutgers (College Football Hall of Fame)(WC-1; FW; ASM-1; NB-3; BC) Doug Wycoff , Georgia Tech(ASM-3; LP-1 [hb]; NB-2; DW-2; WE-3) Jack McBride , Syracuse(BE-2; DW-3; WE-2) John Webster Thomas , Chicago(LP-2) Red Strader , St. Mary's(WC-3) Austin "Five Yards" McCarty, Chicago(ASM-2) NCAA recognized selectors for 1924
Other selectors
ASM =All-Sports Magazine , selected from a combined vote of 312 prominent football coaches, officials and sport writers in all sections of the country, "representing the opinions of the best informed critics in all parts of the country, appear in the December number of All-Sports Magazine."[ 4] [ 5] NB =Norman E. Brown [ 6] LP = Lawrence Perry[ 7] BE =Billy Evans [ 8] DW = Davis J. Walsh, sports editor of the International News Service[ 9] WE =Walter Eckersall for theChicago Tribune [ 10] BC = Bruno Crenna[ 11] Bold = Consensus All-American[ 12]
1 – First-team selection 2 – Second-team selection 3 – Third-team selection ^ Three ends each received first-team designations from two official selectors. Two of the three, Henry Wakefield andRichard Luman , are recognized by the NCAA as consensus All-Americans. The third,Henry Bjorkman , does not presently receive such recognition from the NCAA. ^ "Walter Camp Slights Big Three In Naming All-America Eleven: Football Expert Neglects To Name Princeton, Harvard or Yale Man on His First Team".Appleton Post-Crescent . December 30, 1924. ^a b c d e ESPN College Football Encyclopedia , p. 1156^ "Lawson Named For Post On All-American".Oakland Tribune . December 7, 1924. ^ "Handcock Honored on All-American By 'All-Sports'Iowa City Press-Citizen . December 5, 1924. ^ Norman E. Brown (December 8, 1924). "Brown Picks All-American Team for the Journal".Hamilton Evening Journal . ^ Lawrence Perry (December 14, 1923). "Lawrence Perry's All-American Teams Announced".Oakland Tribune . ^ "Evans Names Hancock On Second All-American".Iowa City Press-Citizen . December 11, 1924. ^ "Davis Walsh Designates His All-American Teams".The Coshocton Tribune . December 15, 1924. ^ "WALTER ECKERSALL'S ALL-AMERICAN ELEVEN HONORS NOTRE DAME".The Washington Post . December 15, 1924. ^ "More Selections of Big Ten Elevens: And Bruno Crenna Makes His Pick Of An All American Team, Too".Ironwood Daily Globe . November 29, 1924. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF) . National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. RetrievedOctober 21, 2017 .
