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{{Short description|Official list of the best college football players of 1912}}
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[[File:Walter Chauncey Camp portrait.jpg|right|165px|thumb|[[Walter Camp]], the only "official" All-America selector in 1912]]
The '''1912 College Football All-America team''' is composed of [[college football]] players who were selected as All-Americans for the [[1912 college football season]]. The only selector for the 1912 season who has been recognized as "official" by the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] (NCAA) is [[Walter Camp]]. Many other sports writers, newspapers, coaches and others also selected All-America teams in 1912. One writer, Louis A. Dougher, published a "Composite Eleven" in the ''[[Washington Times-Herald|Washington Times]]'' which consisted of his aggregating the first-team picks of 23 selectors.

The [[Harvard Crimson football]] team of 1912 finished the season with a perfect 10-0 record and outscored opponents 176 to 22.<ref>{{cite web|title=Harvard Yearly Results|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/ivyleague/harvard/yearly_results.php?year=1910|access-date=2013-01-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104162936/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/ivyleague/harvard/yearly_results.php?year=1910|archive-date=2012-11-04|url-status=dead}}</ref> A total of 10 Harvard players were named first-team All-Americans by at least one selector. They are [[Charles Brickley]], Gerard Driscoll, [[Sam Felton]], Henry Burchell Gardner, [[Harvey Rexford Hitchcock, Jr.|Harvey Hitchcock]], [[Huntington Hardwick]], Francis Joseph O'Brien, [[Stan Pennock]], [[Robert Treat Paine Storer|Bob Storer]], and [[Percy Wendell]].

Only two players from schools outside of the [[Ivy League]] were selected as consensus first-team All-Americans. They are [[Bob Butler]] from [[Wisconsin Badgers football|Wisconsin]] and [[Jim Thorpe]] from [[Carlisle Indians football|Carlisle]].

==Walter Camp's "official" selections==
The only individual who has been recognized as an "official" selector by the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] (NCAA) for the 1912 season is [[Walter Camp]].<ref name=AW>{{cite web|title=Football Award Winners|publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)|year=2016|access-date=October 21, 2017|page=6|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2016/awards.pdf}}</ref> Accordingly, the NCAA's official listing of "Consensus All-America Selections" mirrors Camp's first-team picks.<ref name=AW/> Nine of Camp's first-team All-Americans in 1912 played on teams from the [[Ivy League]]. The only two players recognized by Camp from outside the Ivy League were [[Jim Thorpe]] from the Carlisle School and [[Bob Butler]] of Wisconsin.<ref name=WC/>
[[File:Charles_E._Brickley_full_shot_(American_Football_book).jpg|thumb|135px|Charles Brickley of Harvard.]]
The dominance of Ivy League players on Camp's All-America teams led to criticism over the years that his selections were biased against players from the leading Western universities, including Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Notre Dame.<ref>{{cite news|title=All-American Teams of East Are Jokes: Critics Who Never Saw Western Teams Play to Name Best in Country -- Forget About Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois|newspaper=The Mansfield News|date=December 8, 1910}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Ross Tenney|title=Much Dissatisfaction Over Camp's All-American Team: Football Dean Is Accused of Favoring East; Walter Camp Soundly Scored For 'Poorest Teams Ever Foisted Upon Public'|newspaper=The Des Moines Capital|date=December 31, 1922}}</ref> Camp's first-team All-Americans in 1912 included:
* [[Douglas Bomeisler]], end from Yale, inducted into the [[College Football Hall of Fame]] in 1972.<ref>{{cite news|title=Doug "Bo" Bomeisler|publisher=College Football Hall of Fame|url={{College Football HoF/url|id=1336}}}}</ref>
* [[Charles Brickley]], halfback for Harvard, led Harvard to a perfect 9–0 record in 1912.<ref>{{cite web|title=1912 Harvard football |publisher=Fanbase |url=http://www.fanbase.com/Harvard-Crimson-Football-1912 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421122731/https://www.fanbase.com/Harvard-Crimson-Football-1912 |archive-date=2012-04-21 }}</ref> and later served as the head football coach at Johns Hopkins, Boston College, and Fordham.<ref>{{cite web|title=Charles E. Brickley Records by Year|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=238|access-date=2013-01-31|archive-date=2012-04-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403041426/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=238|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Bob Butler]], tackle from Wisconsin, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bob "Butts" Butler|publisher=College Football Hall of Fame|url={{College Football HoF/url|id=1325}}}}</ref> Camp said of Butler, "He was powerful, active, and excellent at sizing up plays, good at blocking his man, and dangerous in his breaking through."<ref name=WC/>
* [[George Crowther (American football)|George Crowther]], quarterback at Brown, nicknamed "Kid" because he weighed between 130 and 135 pounds while playing at Brown.<ref>{{cite web|title=From Martha Mitchell's Encyclopedia Brunoniana: Football|publisher=Brown University|url=http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=F0200}}</ref>
* [[Wesley Englehorn]], tackle for Dartmouth, later served as head coach at Washington State.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wesley Englehorn Records by Year|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=4317|access-date=2013-01-31|archive-date=2014-02-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225101043/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=4317|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Sam Felton]], end for Harvard, was considered one of the best punters in the country.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sam Felton, Harvard's Star End, One of the Season's Best Puters|publisher=The Lowell Sun|date=1912-10-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Grantland Rice|title=The Sportlight|newspaper=Newport Daily News|date=1953-02-27}}</ref>
* [[Hank Ketcham (American football)|Hank Ketcham]], center for Yale, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1968.<ref>{{cite news|title=Henry "Hank" Ketcham|publisher=College Football Hall of Fame|url={{College Football HoF/url|id=1338}}}}</ref>
* [[Leroy Mercer]], fullback for Penn, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955.<ref>{{cite news|title=Leroy "Roy" Mercer|publisher=College Football Hall of Fame|url={{College Football HoF/url|id=1321}}}}</ref>
* [[Stan Pennock]], guard from Harvard, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954.<ref>{{cite news|title=Stan "Bags" Pennock|publisher=College Football Hall of Fame|url={{College Football HoF/url|id=1286}}}}</ref>
* [[Jim Thorpe]], halfback for Carlisle, inducted into both the College and [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]]. He won gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon at the [[1912 Summer Olympics]], but had the medals taken back for violations of amateurism rules.<ref>{{cite news|title=Jim Thorpe|publisher=Pro Football Hall of Fame|url=http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.aspx?player_id=213|access-date=2013-01-31|archive-date=2012-06-04|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120604170054/http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.aspx?player_id=213|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Other selectors==
By 1912, there was a proliferation of newspapers, sports writers, coaches and others choosing All-America teams. Recognizing the difficulties faced by any single person who could only watch one game per week, some began to seek better methodologies for selecting a true "consensus" All-America team. One writer, Louis A. Dougher of the ''[[Washington Times-Herald|Washington Times]]'' published a "Consensus Team" which he arrived at by aggregating the picks made by 23 newspapers, writers, coaches and football experts. The 23 All-America teams aggregated by Dougher included those picked by Walter Camp, football historian [[Parke H. Davis]], Dartmouth coach [[Frank Cavanaugh (American football)|Frank Cavanaugh]], former Harvard star [[Hamilton Fish III]], Fordham coach [[Tom Thorp]], former Chicago star [[Tiny Maxwell]], the ''[[New York American]]'', ''[[The New York Globe]]'', the ''[[New York World]]'', ''[[The Evening World]]'', the ''[[New York Tribune]]'', the ''[[New York Press (historical)|New York Press]]'', ''[[The Sun (New York)]]'', ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', the ''[[Public Ledger (Philadelphia)]]'', ''[[The Philadelphia Press]]'', the ''[[Philadelphia Evening Telegraph]]'', ''[[The Baltimore Sun]]'', the ''[[Baltimore News]]'', the ''[[Pittsburgh Dispatch]]''; the ''Pennsylvanian'', and Dougher's own selections.<ref name=Dough/>
[[File:HobeyBakerPrinceton1.jpg|right|thumb|140px|[[Hobey Baker]] of Princeton]]
Dougher's efforts revealed that a number of Camp's picks were not truly "consensus" picks. For example, five of the eleven players identified by Dougher as consensus picks were overlooked by Camp. They are:
*[[Robert Treat Paine Storer]]. Storer was a tackle at Harvard. He was selected as a first-team All-American by 21 of the 23 selectors polled by Dougher.<ref name=Dough/> Yet, Camp did not name Storer to his first, second or even third team.<ref name=WC/>
*Rip Shenk. Shenk was a guard for Princeton. He was selected as a first-team player by 14 of Dougher's selectors.<ref name=Dough/> Yet, Camp did not name him to his first, second or third teams.<ref name=WC/>
*[[John Brown (American football, born 1891)|John Brown]]. Brown was a tackle for Navy. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.<ref>{{cite web|title=John "Babe" Brown|publisher=College Football Hall of Fame|url={{College Football HoF/url|id=1290}}}}</ref> He was selected as a first-team All-American by 13 of Dougher's selectors.<ref name=Dough/> He was selected by Camp for his third team.<ref name=WC/>
*[[Hobey Baker]]. Baker was a halfback at Princeton. He has been inducted into Halls of Fame in two sports—the College Football Hall of Fame (in 1975) and the [[Hockey Hall of Fame]] (in 1945).<ref>{{cite web|title=Hobey Baker|publisher=College Football Hall of Fame|url={{College Football HoF/url|id=1304}}}}</ref> Baker was selected as a composite All-American with votes from nine of Dougher's selectors.<ref name=Dough/> Camp placed Baker on his third team.<ref name=WC/> [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] was a fellow Princeton student who idolized Baker and included several references to him in his first novel, ''[[This Side of Paradise]]''.<ref>{{cite news|author=Ron Fimrite|title=A Flame That Burned Too Brightly|work=SportsIllustrated.com|date=March 18, 1991 |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1118992/1/index.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102213229/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1118992/1/index.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 2, 2012|access-date=July 23, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Jack Falla|year=2008|page=[https://archive.org/details/openicereflectio00jack/page/203 203]|title=Open Ice: Reflections and Confessions of a Hockey Lifer|publisher=John Wiley & Sons Canada|location=Mississauga, Ontario|isbn=978-0-4701530-5-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/openicereflectio00jack/page/203}}</ref>
*Pat Pazetti. Pazetti of Lehigh was the consensus pick on Dougher's list with seven votes.<ref name=Dough/> Pazetti was chosen by Camp for his second team.<ref name=WC/>

Dougher sought to explain the lack of representation of players from the West as follows: "The complete absence of any western players from all the selections except Camp's is easily explained in that western writers call their teams all-western instead of all-America as do the writers of the eastern sheets."<ref name=Dough/>

==All-Americans of 1912==

===Ends===
[[File:Sam Felton (LOC).jpg|right|thumb|140px|[[Sam Felton]] of Harvard]]
*'''[[Douglas Bomeisler]]''', Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; COMP-1 (20); NYS-1; PI-1; CSM-1; BS; RE-1; WJM-1; TC-1; PHD-1; PW-1; TET-1; HF-1; PP-1; MDJ-2)
*'''[[Sam Felton]]''', Harvard (WC–1; COMP-1 (13); NYS-2; PI-2; CSM-1; RE-1; WJM-1; ASH-1; PHD-1; TET-1; HF-1; PP-2; MDJ-1)
*[[Dexter Very]], Penn. State (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; COMP-2 (9); NYS-1; PW-1; PP-1; MDJ-2)
*K. P. Gilchrist, Navy (NYS-2; COMP-2 (3); PI-1; BS; HF-2; PP-3)
*[[Miller Pontius]], Michigan (ASH-1)
*[[Busty Ashbaugh]], Brown (WC-3; TC-1; HF-2)
*Francis Joseph O'Brien, Harvard (MDJ-1)
*[[Joseph Hoeffel (American football)|Joseph Hoeffel]], Wisconsin (WC-2)
*Al Jordan, Bucknell (WC-3)
*[[John O'Hearn]], Cornell (PI-2)
*[[Lon Jourdet]], Penn (PP-2)
*Harold R. Eyrick, Cornell (PP-3)

===Tackles===
[[File:Wesley Englehorn.jpg|right|140px|thumb|[[Wesley Englehorn]] of Dartmouth]]
*'''[[Wesley Englehorn]]''', Dartmouth (WC–1; COMP-1 (15); NYS-1; PI-2; RE-1; TC-1; PHD-1; PW-1; HF-2 [g]; PP-1; MDJ-1)
*'''[[Bob Butler]]''', Wisconsin (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; ASH-1; HF-2)
*[[Bob Storer]], Harvard (NYS-1; COMP-1 (21); PI-1; BS; RE–1; WJM-1; TC-1; PW-1; TET-1; HF-1; PP-1; MDJ-2)
*[[Leland Devore]], Army (WC-3; COMP-2 (4); BS; CSM-1; HF-1; PP-3; MDJ-2 [g])
*[[Joe Guyon]], Carlisle (College Football Hall of Fame) (COMP-2 (3); NYS-2; WJM–1; MDJ-2)
*Phillips, Princeton (PHD–1; TET-1; PP-2)
*[[Harvey Rexford Hitchcock, Jr.|Harvey Hitchock]], Harvard (PI-2; CSM-1; HF-2; MDJ-1)
*[[Wilder Penfield]], Princeton (PI-1)
*[[Jim Trickey]], Iowa (WC-2; ASH-1)
*Rudy Probst, Syracuse (WC-2; NYS-2)
*Wagonhurst, Lafayette (PP-2)
*[[Clark Shaughnessy]], Minnesota (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3)
*Al Wilson, Penn State (PP-3)

===Guards===
[[File:Stanley "Bags" Pennock.jpg|right|thumb|135px|[[Stan Pennock]] of Harvard]]
*'''[[Stan Pennock]]''', Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; COMP-2 (6); PI-1; CSM-1; RE-1; ASH-1; TC-1; PHD-1; PW-1; TET-1)
*'''[[John Logan (American football)|John Logan]]''', Princeton (WC–1; ASH-1)
*[[John Brown (American football, born 1891)|John Brown]], Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; COMP-1 (13); NYS-1; PI-2; CSM-1; BS; PHD-1; PW-1; HF-1; PP-1)
*Rip Shenk, Princeton (COMP-1 (14); NYS-1; PI-2; RE–1; TET-1; PP-1; MDJ-2)
*Ray L. Bennett, Dartmouth (WC-3; COMP-2 (5); BS; HF-1; PP-2; MDJ-1)
*Carroll T. Cooney, Yale (WC-2; WJM-1)
*[[Talbot Pendleton]], Yale (PI-1; PP-2)
*George T. Howe, Navy (TC–1)
*Gerard Timothy Driscoll, Harvard (MDJ-1)
*D. H. Kulp, Brown (WC-2)
*John James Munns, Cornell (NYS-2)
*Hamner Huston, Army (NYS-2)
*[[Britain Patterson]], William & Jefferson (PP-3)
*James "Red" Bebout, Penn State (PP-3)

===Centers===
[[File:Henry H. Ketcham.jpg|right|135px|thumb|[[Hank Ketcham (American football)|Hank Ketcham]] of Yale]]
*'''[[Hank Ketcham (American football)|Hank Ketcham]]''', Yale (College Football Hall of Fame (WC–1; COMP-1 (22); NYS-1; PI-1; CSM-1; BS; RE-1; WJM-1; ASH-1; TC-1; PW-1; TET-1; HF-1; PP-1; MDJ-1)
*[[Arthur Bluethenthal]], Princeton (WC-3; COMP-2 (1); PI-2; HF-2 [g]; PP-3; MDJ-2)
*Howard L. Benson, Lafayette (PHD–1)
*Derric Choate Parmenter, Harvard (WC-2; NYS-2; HF-2)
*Simpson, Penn State (PP-2)

===Quarterbacks===
*'''[[George Crowther (American football)|George Crowther]]''', Brown (WC–1; WJM-1)
*[[Vince Pazzetti|Pat Pazetti]], Lehigh (WC-2; COMP-1 (7); NYS-2; PI-2; BS; PHD-1; PW-1; HF-2; PP-1; MDJ-2)
*[[Everett Bacon]], Wesleyan (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; COMP-2 (5); NYS-1; RE-1)
*[[Eddie Gillette]], Wisconsin (CSM-1; ASH-1; TC-1)
*Henry Burchell Gardner, Harvard (PI-1; TET-1; PP-3)
*[[Harry Costello]], Georgetown (MDJ-1)
*[[Shorty Miller]], Penn State (College Football Hall of Fame) (COMP-2 (5); PP-2)

===Halfbacks===
[[File:Jim Thorpe football.png|right|130px|thumb|[[Jim Thorpe]] of Carlisle]]
*'''[[Charles Brickley|Charles E. Brickley]]''', Harvard (WC–1; COMP-1 (23); NYS-1; PI-1; CSM-1; BS; RE-1; WJM-1; ASH-1; TC-1; PHD-1; PW-1; TET-1 [fb]; HF-1; PP-1; MDJ-1)
*'''[[Jim Thorpe]]''', Carlisle (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; COMP-1 (23) [f]; NYS-1 [fb]; PI-1; CSM-1; BS [fb]; RE-1; WJM-1; ASH-1; TC-1; PHD-1 [fb]; PW-1; TET-1; HF-1; PP-1 [fb]; MDJ-1 [fb])
*[[Hobey Baker]], Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; COMP-1 (9); NYS-2; BS; PHD-1; TET-1; HF-1 [qb]; PP-1; MDJ-1)
*[[Dave Morey]], Dartmouth (WC-2; WJM-1 [guard]; MDJ-2)
*[[Nelson Norgren]], Chicago (WC-2)
*[[Lewie Hardage]], Vanderbilt (WC-3)
*Jesse Spalding, Yale (PI-2)
*E. Waller, Princeton (PI-2)
*Alex Arcasa, Carlisle (PP-2)
*L. Fred Gieg, Swarthmore (PP-3)
*[[S. W. Harrington]], Penn (PP-3)
*Ted Hudson, Trinity (MDJ-2)

===Fullbacks===
[[File:ELMErcer.png|right|thumb|130px|Leroy Mercer of Penn.]]
*'''[[Leroy Mercer]]''', Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; NYS-2 [hb]; HF-2 [hb])
*Wallace "Butch" De Witt, Princeton (PI-1; RE–1; PP-2)
*[[Percy Wendell]], Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; COMP-2 (4);<ref>Thorpe was a leading vote recipient in both the halfback and fullback positions. Thorpe received 15 votes at halfback and 8 at fullback.</ref> PI-2; CSM-1; WJM-1; HF-1; MDJ-2)
*[[Huntington Hardwick]], Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (COMP-2 (2); NYS-1 [hb]; TC-1; HF-2 [hb]; PP-2 [hb])
*[[Pete Mauthe]], Penn State (College Football Hall of Fame) (NYS-2; PW-1; PP-3)
*Spencer Armstrong Pumpelly, Yale (WC-3)
*[[Ray Eichenlaub]], Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (ASH-1)
*[[George C. Thomson]], Michigan (HF-2)

===Key===
'''NCAA-recognized selectors for 1912'''
* WC = ''[[Collier's Weekly]]'' as selected by [[Walter Camp]]<ref name=WC>{{cite news|title=The All-America Football Team|author=Walter Camp|work=Collier's|year=1912|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hXcjAQAAMAAJ&q=%22bluthenthal%22+princeton+football+1912&pg=RA10-PA10}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=American Gridiron Lights Are Chosen: Camp Picks One Western Man on All-Star Team|work=The Indianapolis Star|date=1912-12-03}}</ref>

'''Other selectors'''
* COMP = Composite Eleven selected by Louis A. Dougher in the ''Washington Times''<ref name=Dough>{{cite news|title=Critics Unanimous in Selecting Thorpe and Brickley for Team|newspaper=The Saskatoon Phoenix|date=December 27, 1912|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nrdfAAAAIBAJ&pg=3082,8863059&dq=brickley+thorpe+felton&hl=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Composite Star Team: Washington Newspaper Man Picks All-American Eleven; Uses 23 Writers' Opinions; Selects Whole Backfield Given By The Sun--Thorpe And Brickley Are Popular Choices|newspaper=The Sun, Baltimore, Md.|date=Dec 10, 1912|page=8|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1652975492.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+10%2C+1912&author=&pub=The+Sun+(1837-1985)&desc=COMPOSITE+STAR+TEAM&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216160216/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1652975492.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+10,+1912&author=&pub=The+Sun+(1837-1985)&desc=COMPOSITE+STAR+TEAM&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 16, 2013}}</ref>
* PHD = [[Parke H. Davis]], a noted football historian and Princeton's representative on the intercollegiate rules committee<ref>{{cite news|title=Davis Picks an All-America Team|work=Evening Standard|location=Ogden City, Utah|date=1912-12-17}}</ref>
* PW = [[Glenn S. Warner|Glenn S. "Pop" Warner]], head football coach at Carlisle<ref>{{cite news|title=Warner Picks One Indian: Wonderful Thorpe Gets Place on Carlisle Coach's All-American Team|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1912-12-11|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/12/11/100563908.pdf}}</ref>
* BS = ''[[The Baltimore Sun]]''<ref name=BS>{{cite news|title=All-American Teams: The Sun Selects Its Stars For The Honorary Elevens; Thorpe Is the One Best Bet; Brickley Is His Closest Rival, Ketcham And Bomeisler Are His Heels|newspaper=The Sun, Baltimore|date=December 3, 1912|url=https://secure.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1652971652.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+03%2C+1912&author=&pub=The+Sun+(1837-1985)&desc=ALL-AMERICAN+TEAMS&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216161142/https://secure.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1652971652.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+03,+1912&author=&pub=The+Sun+(1837-1985)&desc=ALL-AMERICAN+TEAMS&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 16, 2013}}</ref>
* NYS = ''[[The New York Sun]]''<ref name=BS/>
* PI = ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]''<ref name=BS/>
* PP = ''[[The Philadelphia Press]]''<ref name=BS/>
* MDJ = [[Meriden Journal|Meriden Daily Journal]] from [[New Haven County, Connecticut]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Meriden Picks All-American Eleven|newspaper=Meriden Daily Journal|date=November 30, 1912|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IvtIAAAAIBAJ&pg=1493,6138487&dq=bomeisler+devore&hl=en}}</ref>
* CSM = ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]''<ref>{{cite news|title=Harvard Is Given Five Places on All-American: Capt. Percy L. Wendell Selected to Lead the Team That Should Be a Strong Aggregation in Every Department of Modern Football|newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor|date=December 3, 1912|page=3|url=https://secure.pqarchiver.com/csmonitor_historic/access/205859782.html?dids=205859782:205859782&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Dec+03%2C+1912&author=&pub=Christian+Science+Monitor&desc=HARVARD+IS+GIVEN+FIVE+PLACES+ON+ALL-AMERICAN&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216163005/https://secure.pqarchiver.com/csmonitor_historic/access/205859782.html?dids=205859782:205859782&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Dec+03,+1912&author=&pub=Christian+Science+Monitor&desc=HARVARD+IS+GIVEN+FIVE+PLACES+ON+ALL-AMERICAN&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 16, 2013}}</ref>
* RE = [[Robert W. Edgren]], a nationally syndicated newspaper reporter who served as the sports editor of ''[[The Evening World]]''<ref>{{cite news|title=Robert Edgren's All-American Eleven for 1912|work=Syracuse Herald|date=1912-12-05}}</ref>
* WJM = W.J. MacBeth<ref>{{cite news|title=MacBeth Nominates an All-American Eleven|work=Salt Lake Tribune|date=1912-12-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Picking "All-American" Teams a Fad: Here's Latest and It Comes from New York; And of Course, They're All Easterners, Havard, Carlisle and Dartmouth|work=The Lima News|date=1912-12-10}}</ref>
* ASH = Alfred S. Harvey of the ''Milwaukee Free Press''<ref>{{cite news|title=Two Badgers on All-American Team|work=The La Crosse Tribune|date=1912-12-09}}</ref>
* TC = Tommy Clark<ref>{{cite news|title=All-American Football Team for 1912|work=Cedar Rapids Tribune|date=1912-12-27}}</ref>
* TET = ''[[The Times (Trenton)|Trenton Evening Times]]''<ref>{{cite news|title=Times All-American Eleven|work=Trenton Evening Times|date=1912-12-02}}</ref>
* HF = [[Hamilton Fish III]]<ref name=BS/><ref>{{cite news|title=All-America Team As Picked by Fish: Expert Says the Season Was Rich in Halfbacks and Drop-Kickers|newspaper=Boston Daily Globe|author=Hamilton Fish, Jr.|date=December 2, 1912|page=7|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/720685162.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+02%2C+1912&author=&pub=Boston+Daily+Globe+(1872-1922)&desc=ALL-AMERICA+TEAM+AS+PICKED+BY+FISH&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216162003/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/720685162.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+02,+1912&author=&pub=Boston+Daily+Globe+(1872-1922)&desc=ALL-AMERICA+TEAM+AS+PICKED+BY+FISH&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 16, 2013}}</ref>

'''Bold''' = Consensus All-American<ref name=AW/>
* 1 – First-team selection
* 2 – Second-team selection
* 3 – Third-team selection

==See also==
* [[1912 College Football All-Southern Team|1912 All-Southern college football team]]
* [[1912 All-Western college football team]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

{{1912 College Football Consensus All-Americans}}
{{College Football All-America Teams}}

[[Category:1912 college football season|All-America Team]]
[[Category:College Football All-America Teams]]

1912 College Football All-America Team - Revision history

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