1923 College Football All-America Team

The 1923 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 1923. The only two selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1923 season are Walter Camp, whose selections were published in Collier's Weekly, and Football World magazine. Additional selectors who chose All-American teams in 1923 include Athletic World magazine, selected by 500 coaches, Norman E. Brown, sports editor of the Central Press Association, and Davis J. Walsh, sports editor for the International News Service.

The consensus All-Americans recognized by the NCAA include: halfback Red Grange of Illinois, known as "The Galloping Ghost" and who in 2008 was named by ESPN as the best college football player of all time; halfback Harry Wilson of Penn State, who was later inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame; quarterback George Pfann of Cornell, who later became a Rhodes scholar; end Lynn Bomar of Vanderbilt, who became one of the first Southern players to be recognized as a consensus All-American; tackle Marty Below of Wisconsin, who Red Grange called "the greatest lineman that I ever played against";^[1] and center Jack Blott of Michigan, who later played professional baseball for the Cincinnati Reds.

Consensus All-Americans

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

Ends

Lynn Bomar, Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-2; WC-1; FW)
Ray Eklund, Minnesota (AW-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-2; TT-1; PH-1, BE)
Pete MacRae, Syracuse (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)

Tackles

Century Milstead, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-1; WC-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1; PH-1, BE)
Marty Below, Wisconsin (College Football Hall of Fame) (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)

Guards

Charles Hubbard, Harvard (AW-1; WC-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-2; PH-1, BE)
Jim McMillen, Illinois (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)

Centers

Jack Blott, Michigan (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)

Quarterbacks

George Pfann, Cornell (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)

Halfbacks

Red Grange, Illinois (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-1; WC-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1; PH-1, BE)
Harry Wilson, Penn State (College Football Hall of Fame) (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)

Fullbacks

Bill Mallory, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (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)

Key

NCAA recognized selectors for 1923

WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter Camp^[2]
FW = Football World magazine^[3]

Other selectors

AW = Athletic World magazine, selected by 500 coaches^[4]
NB = Norman E. Brown, sports editor of the Central Press Association^[5]
LP = Lawrence Perry^[6]
DW = Davis J. Walsh, sports editor for the International News Service^[7]
TT = Tom Thorp, for the Baltimore News^[8]
PH = Percy Haughton, Cornell coach^[9]
BE = Billy Evans's "National Honor Roll"^[10]^[11]

Bold = Consensus All-American^[12]

-1 – First-team selection
-2 – Second-team selection
-3 – Third-team selection

References

^ 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. Retrieved July 16, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "National All-Star". The Wichita Beacon. December 17, 1922. p. 18. Retrieved July 23, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.

[1] Dave Anderson (2005). University of Wisconsin Football. Arcadia Publishing. p. 38.

[Camp-2] "Walter Camp's All-American Team". Alton Evening Telegraph. December 19, 1923.

[3] ESPN College Football Encyclopedia, p. 1155

[AW-4] "Athletic World All America". The Decatur Review. December 16, 1923.

[Brown-5] 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.

[6] 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.

[7] "Walsh Picks Three Teams of All-Americans In 1923 Seasonal Postmortem". The Coshocton Tribune. December 6, 1923.

[8] 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.

[9] "All Americans: Percy Haughton's Team". Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune. December 11, 1923.

[10] "150 Leading Sport Writers Pick All-American Eleven". Santa Ana Register. December 29, 1923. p. 10. Retrieved July 16, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

[11] "National All-Star". The Wichita Beacon. December 17, 1922. p. 18. Retrieved July 23, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

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

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v t e 1923 College Football All-America Team consensus selections
Backfield	QB George Pfann HB Red Grange HB Harry Wilson FB Bill Mallory
Line	E Lynn Bomar E Ray Eklund E Pete MacRae T Marty Below T Century Milstead G Charles Hubbard G Jim McMillen C Jack Blott