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{{Short description|Official list of the best college football players of 1926}}
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The '''1926 College Football All-America team''' is composed of [[college football]] players who were selected as [[All-America]]ns by various organizations and writers that chose [[College Football All-America Team]]s 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]].

==Consensus All-Americans==
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.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="15%" | Name
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="10%" | Position
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="10%" | School
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="7%" | Number
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="25%" | Official
! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="25%" | Other
|-align="left"
|[[Frank Wickhorst]]||Tackle||Navy||6/6||AAB, AP, COL, INS, NEA, UP||BE, CP, CEP, HF, LP, NYS, RG, WC, WE
|-align="left"
|[[Herb Joesting]]||Fullback||Minnesota||5/6||AAB, AP, COL, INS, NEA||BE, CP, ES, LP, NYS, RG, WC, WE
|-align="left"
|[[Bud Boeringer]]||Center||Notre Dame||5/6||AAB, AP, COL, INS, NEA||BE, CP, ES, LP, NYS, RG, WC, WE
|-align="left"
|[[Mort Kaer]]||Halfback||USC||5/6||AAB, AP, COL, INS, NEA||BE, CP, NYS, RG, WC, WE
|-align="left"
|[[Bernie Shively]]||Guard||Illinois||5/6||AAB, AP, COL, INS, NEA||BE, WC, WE
|-align="left"
|[[Harry Connaughton]]||Guard||Georgetown||4/6||AP, COL, NEA, UP||BE, CP, ES, HF, LP, NYS, RG, WE
|-align="left"
|[[Benny Friedman]]||Quarterback||Michigan||4/6||AP, COL, INS, NEA||BE, CP, ES, HF, LP, NYS, RG, WE
|-align="left"
|[[Bennie Oosterbaan]]||End||Michigan||4/6||AAB, COL, NEA, UP||BE, CEP, ES, WC, WE
|-align="left"
|[[Vic Hanson]]||End||Syracuse||4/6||AP, COL, INS, UP||ES, HF, LP, NYS, WE
|-align="left"
|[[Ralph Baker (halfback)|Ralph Baker]]||Halfback||Northwestern||2/6||AP, COL||CP, LP, NYS, WE
|-align="left"
|[[Bud Sprague]]||Tackle||Army||1/6||AP||CP, CEP
|-align="left"
|}

==All-American selections for 1926==

===Ends===
*'''[[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)

===Tackles===
*'''[[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 (American football)|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,<ref>{{cite web|title=Theodore "Tiny" Roebuck|publisher=American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame|access-date=August 30, 2014|url=http://americanindianathletichalloffame.com/theodoreroebuck.php|archive-date=March 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307105401/http://www.americanindianathletichalloffame.com/theodoreroebuck.php|url-status=usurped}}</ref> Haskell (AAB-2; RWJ-2)
*[[Jim Dixon (American football)|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)

===Guards===
*'''[[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)

===Centers===
*'''[[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)

===Quarterbacks===
*'''[[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 (quarterback)|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)

===Halfbacks===
*'''[[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 (halfback)|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 (halfback)|Harry Wilson]], Army ('''AAB-1'''; AP-2; '''INS-1'''; '''NEA'''; CP-2; WC-1; ES-1)
* [[Tom Hamilton (American football)|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 (American football coach)|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 (American football halfback)|George Wilson]], Lafayette (INS-3; BE-1; NYS-2)
* [[Dick Hyland]], Stanford (LP-1)

===Fullbacks===
*'''[[Herb Joesting]]''', Minnesota (CFHOF) ('''AAB-1'''; '''AP-1'''; '''COL-1'''; '''INS-1'''; '''NEA'''; BE-1; CP-1; ES-1; NYS-1; RG-1; LP-1; WC-1; WE-1)
*[[Bill Amos]], [[Washington & Jefferson Presidents football|Washington & Jefferson]] (AAB-2; INS-2; BE-2; RWJ-2; WE-2)
*[[Mayes McLain]], Haskell (AAB-3; RWJ-3)
*[[Ty Rauber]], Washington & Lee (AP-3)
*[[Harry O'Boyle]], Notre Dame (LP-2 [hb]; NYS-2)
*Henry H. Caldwell, Navy (ES-2)
*[[Tiny Lewis]], Northwestern (RG-3; WE-3)

==Key==
* '''Bold''' – Used for (1) consensus All-Americans<ref>{{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> 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

===Official selectors===
* AAB = All-American Board, team selected by three coaches: [[Knute Rockne]] (Notre Dame), [[Glenn Scobey Warner|Glenn "Pop" Warner]] (Stanford), and [[T. A. Dwight Jones|Tad Jones]] (Yale)<ref>{{cite news|title=Warner, Rockne and Jones Choose All-American Team|newspaper=[[The Courier Journal]]|date=December 19, 1926|page=77|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6919163/warner_rockne_and_jones_choose/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref>
* AP = [[Associated Press]], based on AP polling of "more than 100 coaches and critics"<ref>{{cite news|title=Middle West Given The Lion's Share in All-American Selections|work=The Huntington Press|location=Indiana|date=December 5, 1926|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6918271/middle_west_given_the_lions_share_in/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref>
* UP = [[United Press]]{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}
* 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).<ref>{{cite news|title=Seven of West In Rice's All-America|newspaper=The Shreveport Times|date=December 7, 1926|page=13|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6920606/seven_of_west_in_rices_allamerica/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Collier's All America|newspaper=The Shreveport Times|date=December 7, 1926|page=13|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6920620/colliers_all_america/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref>
* INS = [[International News Service]], selected by Davis Walsh<ref>{{cite news|title=Walsh Picks Cornhusker Captain On All-American|newspaper=The Lincoln Star|date=November 30, 1926|page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6918722/walsh_picks_cornhusker_captain_on/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref>
* NEA = [[Newspaper Enterprise Association]]{{citation needed|date=October 2016}}

===Other selectors===
* BE = [[Billy Evans]]<ref>{{cite news|author=Evans, Billy|title=Billy Evans' All-America|work=The Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD)|date=December 3, 1926|page=14|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6918884/billy_evans_all_america/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref>
* CP = [[Central Press Association]], based on a poll conducted by Norman Brown of over 400 newspapers, each of which conducted its own election in which fans voted for the All-American team; Central Press reported compiling a million votes.<ref>{{cite news|title=Over One Million Fans Picked This Real All-American Eleven|newspaper=Wilmington Morning News|date=December 13, 1926|page=8|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6918663/over_one_million_fans_picked_this_real/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref>
* CEP = Charles E. Parker for the New York World News Service<ref>{{cite news|title=Parker's All-American Football Selections|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Post|date=November 28, 1926|page=33|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6919492/parkers_allamerican_football/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref>
* ES = Ed Sullivan<ref>{{cite news|author=Ed Sullivan|title=Another All-American Team; N.Y. Scribe Has Swan, Kaer On It; Everybody Now Trying Hand At It|work=Oakland Tribune|date=1926-12-07}}</ref>
* HF = Henry Farrell of the United Press<ref>{{cite news|title=Farrell Puts Three Big Ten Men on First All-American|newspaper=The Indianapolis News|date=November 22, 1926|page=18|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6918393/farrell_puts_three_big_ten_men_on_first/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref>
* LP = Lawrence Perry<ref>{{cite news|title=Five Western Stars Get Place On Perry's All America Team|newspaper=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]|date=December 12, 1926|page=19|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6921008/five_western_stars_get_place_on_perrys/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref>
* NYS = ''[[New York Sun]]''<ref>{{cite news|title=New York Sun Picks 6 Westerners, Five From East On All-Star Team|newspaper=The News Herald (PA)|date=November 27, 1926|page=8|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6920515/new_york_sun_picks_6_westerners_five/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref>
* RG = [[Red Grange]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Four Easterners on Grange's All America|newspaper=The Shreveport Times|location=Louisiana|date=December 1, 1926|page=13|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6920146/four_easterners_on_granges_all_america/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref>
* WC = [[Walter Camp]] Football Foundation<ref>{{cite web|title=Walter Camp Football Foundation |url=http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards// |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090330065940/http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards |archive-date=2009-03-30 }}</ref>
* WE = [[Walter Eckersall]]<ref>{{cite news|title=These Players Honored by Eckersall with Places on All-America Team|newspaper=Detroit Free Press|date=December 12, 1926|page=29}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Kaer On Eckersall's All-American Eleven|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=December 12, 1926|page=34|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6919376/kaer_on_eckersalls_allamerican_eleven/|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[1926 All-Big Ten Conference football team]]
* [[1926 All-Eastern football team]]
* [[1926 All-Missouri Valley Conference football team]]
* [[1926 All-Pacific Coast football team]]
* [[1926 College Football All-Southern Team|1926 All-Southern college football team]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

{{1926 NCAA Division I FBS College Football Consensus All-Americans}}
{{College Football All-America Teams}}

[[Category:1926 college football season|All-America Team]]
[[Category:College Football All-America Teams]]

1926 College Football All-America Team - Revision history

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