Key

• WC = Collier's Weekly
  Collier's Weekly
  Collier's Weekly was an American magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957. With the passage of decades, the title was shortened to Collier's....
  
   as selected by Walter Camp
  Walter Camp
  Walter Chauncey Camp was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football...
  
  
• UP = United Press
• INS = International News Service
  International News Service
  International News Service was a U.S.-based news agency founded by newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1909.Established two years after the Scripps family founded the United Press Association, INS scrapped among the newswires...
  
  
• WE = Walter Eckersall
  Walter Eckersall
  Walter "Eckie" Eckersall was an American football player, official, and sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.-Early life:...
  
  , of the Chicago Tribune
  Chicago Tribune
  The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
  
  
• FM = Frank G. Menke
  Frank G. Menke
  Frank Grant Menke was an American newspaper reporter, author, and sports historian. He wrote for the Hearst Newspapers from 1912 to 1932 and his articles appeared daily in 300 newspapers across the country. He was billed by the Hearst syndicate as "America's Foremost Sport Writer"...
  
  , Sporting Editor of the I.N.S.
• MON = Monty, noted New York sports writer
• PP = Paul Purman
  Paul Purman
  Paul R. Purman was an American sportswriter. Purman had a lengthy career in journalism, but he is best known for his work in the years from 1916 to 1918 when his sports column was syndicated in hundreds of newspapers and he selected an annual All-America football team for the Newspaper Enterprise...
  
  , noted sports writer whose All-American team was syndicated in newspapers across the United States
• LP = Lawrence Perry of the New York Evening Post
• FY = Fielding H. Yost
• BP = Boston Post
  Boston Post
  The Boston Post was the most popular daily newspaper in New England for over a hundred years before it folded in 1956. The Post was founded in November 1831 by two prominent Boston businessmen, Charles G...
  
  , selected by Charles E. Parker, football expert of the Boston Post
• MS = Frank Menke Syndicate
• Bold - Consensus All-American
• 1 - First Team Selection
• 2 - Second Team Selection
• 3 - Third Team Selection

Ends

• Bert Baston
  Bert Baston
  Bert Baston was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954....
  
  , Min

• James Pat Herron
  James Pat Herron
  James P. "Pat" Herron was an American football player and coach. He played at end for the University of Pittsburgh's football team. A member of the Panthers' undefeated national championship teams coached by "Pop" Warner in 1915 and 1916, Herron earned first team All-American honors in 1916...
  
  , Pittsburgh (WC-2; INS-2; WE-1; MS)
• Charles Comerford
  Charles Comerford
  Charles Comerford was an American football player. He played at the end position for Yale University and was selected as a first-team All-American in 1916 by the International News Service and Boston Post. In 1919, Comerford joined the Yale coaching staff. He continued to be an assistant coach...
  
  , Yale (INS-1; BP-1)
• George Moseley
  George Moseley
  George Clark Moseley was an American football player. He played at the end position for Yale University and was chosen as a first-team All-American in 1916 by Collier's Weekly, as selected by Walter Camp. During World War I, Moseley served with the Lafayette Flying Corps, a group of American...
  
  , Yale (WC-1; WE-2; FY-2)
• Henry Miller, Penn (WC-2; LP-1; FY-1)
• Richard Harte, Harvard (INS-2; MON-1; FY-2)
• Clifford Carlson
  Clifford Carlson
  Henry Clifford "Doc" Carlson is a Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee as the men's college basketball coach of his alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh, from 1922 to 1953...
  
  , Pitt (Basketball Hall of Fame) (PP-2)
• Tommy Whelan, Georgetown (PP-2)
• Highley, Princeton (UP-2; LP-1)
• Stan Cofall, Notre Dame (UP-2; MS)
• Paul Eckley, Cornell (WE-2)
• Bob Higgins, Penn State (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (MON-1)
• Coolidge, Harvard (WC-3)
• Morris Vowell, Tennessee (WC-3)

Tackles

• Belford West
  Belford West
  David Belford West was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954.-External links:**...
  
  , Colgate (WC-1; UP-1; INS-1; WE-1; PP-2; LP-1; BP-1)
• Clarence Horning
  Clarence Horning
  Clarence Edward "Steamer" Horning was a professional American football offensive tackle in the National Football League. He played for the Detroit Heralds , the Detroit Tigers , the Buffalo All-Americans , and the Toledo Maroons ....
  
  , Colgate (WC-1; WE-2; MS)
• McLean, Princeton (MON-1; FY-1; BP-1)
• Artemus Gates
  Artemus Gates
  Artemus Lamb Gates was an American businessman, naval aviator, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air in charge of naval aviation efforts in World War II . He also was briefly Undersecretary of the Navy...
  
  , Yale (WC-2; UP-2; INS-2)
• DeVitalis, Brown (UP-1; PP-1)
• George Hauser
  George Hauser
  -External links:...
  
  , Minnesota (INS-1)
• Mark Farnum
  Mark Farnum
  Mark Farnum was an All-American football player. He played tackle for Brown University in 1915 and 1916.Farnum was a native of Georgiaville, Rhode Island, the son of a Rhode Island pioneer family. He began his athletic career at the Dean Academy in Franklin, Massachusetts...
  
  , Brown (INS-2; MON-1)
• Fred Becker
  Fred Becker
  Fred H. Becker was a college football player for the University of Iowa. He was a first team All-American in 1916, the first Hawkeye in any sport to earn first team All-American honors. He died at age 22 fighting in World War I.-Playing career:Fred Becker graduated from Waterloo East High School...
  
  , Iowa (WE-1)
• Louis Seagrave, Washington (WC-3 [g]; PP-1)
• Fred Gillies
  Fred Gillies
  Frederick Montague Gillies was a American football player and coach for the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League. He graduated from Cornell University in 1918 and was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He appeared in 72 games as a tackle for the Chicago Cardinals between 1920...
  
  , Cornell (FY-1)
• Bob Karch, Ohio State (FM)
• Wheeler, Harvard (UP-2; LP-1; FY-2)
• Ward, Navy (WC-2)
• Beacham, Tufts (PP-2)
• Little, Penn (FY-2)
• Mayer, Minnesota (WE-2)
• Beckett, Oregon (WC-3)
• __nico, Washington & Lee (WC-3)

Guards

• Clinton Black, Yale (WC-1; UP-1; INS-1; WE-1; MON-1; PP-1; LP-1; FY-1; BP-1; MS)
• Harrie Dadmun
  Harrie Dadmun
  Harrie Holland Dadmun was a professional football player who spent two years of the American Professional Football Association, the forerunner to the National Football League, with the Canton Bulldogs and the New York Brickley Giants. There is no relation between the Brickley Giants and the modern...
  
  , Harvard (WC-1; UP-2; INS-2; WE-1; FY-1)
• Frank Hogg, Princeton (WC-2; PP-1; MS)
• Fox, Yale (UP-1)
• Thornhill, Pitt (INS-1)
• Henning, Penn (FY-2; BP-1)
• Christopher Schlachter, Syracuse (MON-1)
• Charlie Bachman
  Charlie Bachman
  Charles William "Charlie" Bachman, Jr. was an American college football player and head coach. Bachman was an Illinois native and an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame, where he played college football...
  
  , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; LP-1)
• Nourse, Princeton (WE-2; PP-2)
• Sinclair, Minnesota (PP-2)
• Good, Colgate (UP-2)
• Barton, Colgate (INS-2)
• Arnold McInerney, Notre Dame (WE-2)
• Garrett, Rutgers (WC-3)

Centers

• Bob Peck
  Bob Peck (football)
  Bob Peck was an American football player who most famously played center for the Pittsburgh Panthers, where he was a three-time All-American. In 1917 he played in the Ohio League, the direct predecessor to the modern National Football League for the Youngstown Patricians and the Massillon Tigers....
  
  , Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; UP-1; INS-1; WE-1; MON-1; PP-1; BP-1; MS)
• John McEwan
  John McEwan
  -External links:...
  
  , Army (WC-2; UP-2; INS-2; WE-2; PP-2)
• Alfred Gennert, Princeton (LP-1; FY-1)
• Becket, Iowa (FY-2)
• George Phillips, Georgia Tech (WC-3)

Quarterbacks

• Oscar Anderson
  Ockie Anderson
  Oscar Carl "Ockie" Anderson was an All-American football player and coach. In 1916, he was selected as a first-team All-American quarterback while playing for Colgate University...
  
  , Colgate (WC-1; UP-2; INS-1; BP-1; LP-1)
• Fritz Shiverick
  Fritz Shiverick
  Francis T. "Fritz" Shiverick was an American football quarterback and halfback. He played for Cornell University in 1915, 1916 and 1919, and was selected as a first-team All-American in 1916...
  
  , Cornell (UP-1; INS-2; PP-1; FY-2)
• Bart Macomber
  Bart Macomber
  Franklin Bart Macomber was an American football player. He played halfback and quarterback for the University of Illinois from 1914 to 1916 and helped the school to its first national football championship and consecutive undefeated seasons in 1914 and 1915...
  
  , Illinois (College Football Hall of Fame) (WE-2; PP-2; FY-1)
• Cliff Sparks
  Cliff Sparks
  Clifford Maurice Sparks was an American football player. He played quarterback for the University of Michigan Wolverines football team and was selected in 1916 as a first-team All-American by the New York sports writer, Monty.-Biography:Sparks was a native of Jackson, Michigan...
  
  , Michigan (MON-1)
• James DeHart
  James DeHart
  James "Jimmy" DeHart was an American college football coach. He served as the head coach at Duke University from 1926 to 1930 and Washington & Lee University from 1922 to 1925 and again from 1930 to 1931. DeHart also served as an assistant on the coaching staff at the University of Georgia...
  
  , Pitt (WE-1)
• Clair Purdy, Brown (WC-2)
• Irby "Rabbit" Curry, Vanderbilt (WC-3)

Halfbacks

• Chic Harley
  Chic Harley
  Charles William "Chic" Harley was one of the outstanding American football players of the first half of the 20th century and the player who first brought the Ohio State University football program to national attention. Harley was Ohio State's first consensus first-team All-America selection and...
  
  , Ohio State (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; UP-1; INS-1; WE-1; PP-1; FY-1; BP-1)
• Everett Strupper
  Everett Strupper
  George Everett "Stroop" Strupper was an All-American football player. He played halfback for Georgia Tech from 1915 to 1917. Strupper overcame deafness resulting from a childhood illness and was selected as an All-American in 1917...
  
  , Georgia Tech (College Football Hall of Fame) (PP-1 [e])
• Fritz Pollard
  Fritz Pollard
  Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard was the first African American head coach in the National Football League . Pollard along with Bobby Marshall were the first two African American players in the NFL in 1920...
  
  , Brown (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; UP-2; INS-2; WE-2; MON-1; PP-2; LP-1; BP-1; MS)
• Andy Hastings
  Andy Hastings
  Charles Elliott "Andy" Hastings , also known as "Sandy Hastings" in professional football records, was an American football player...
  
  , Pittsburgh (UP-1; INS-1)
• Eddie Casey
  Eddie Casey
  Edward Lawrence Casey was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Harvard University and was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1968...
  
  , Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; WE-2; PP-1; FY-2)
• John Maulbetsch
  John Maulbetsch
  John F. "Johnny" Maulbetsch was an All-American football halfback at Adrian College in 1911 and for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1914 to 1916...
  
  , Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (FY-1)
• Harry LeGore
  Harry LeGore
  Harry William LeGore was an American football and baseball player, Maryland state legislator and businessman.-Early years:LeGore was born in Frederick County, Maryland. He was a son of the James William LeGore...
  
  , Yale (WC-2; INS-2; WE-2 [fb]; PP-2; LP-1 [fb]; FY-2)
• Claire Long, Minnesota (FM)
• Paddy "The Wasp" Driscoll
  Paddy Driscoll
  John Leo "Paddy" Driscoll was a professional American football quarterback. Driscoll was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1965 and is a member of the NFL 1920s All-Decade Team...
  
  , Northwestern (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; UP-2)
• Johnny "The Great" Gilroy
  Johnny Gilroy
  John Roland "Johnny" Gilroy , also known as "The Great Gilroy", was an All-American football halfback for Georgetown University and a professional football player for the Canton Bulldogs , Cleveland Tigers , Washington Senators , and Boston Bulldogs .-Early years:Sources vary as to Gilroy's date of...
  
  , Georgetown (WC-3)

Fullbacks

• Elmer Oliphant
  Elmer Oliphant
  Elmer Quillen Oliphant, nicknamed Catchie or Catchy, Olie or Ollie was an American football player.-High school:...
  
  , Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; UP-1; PP-1; INS-1; MON-1; LP-1 [hb]; BP-1; MS)
• Joseph Howard Berry, Jr., Pennsylvania (WC-2; UP-1 [e]; INS-2; WE-1 [hb]; MON-1; FY-1)
• Arnold "Pudge" Wyman
  Pudge Wyman
  Arnold Douglas "Pudge" Wyman was an American football player. He was an All-American fullback for the University of Minnesota from 1915-1916 and halfback for the Rock Island Independents in the first season of the National Football League in 1920...
  
  , Minnesota (UP-2; WE-1; FY-2)
• Arnold Horween
  Arnold Horween
  Arnold "Arnie" Horween was an American football player and coach. He played fullback for Harvard University from 1919 to 1920 and later played in the National Football League for the Racine Cardinals in 1921 and Chicago Cardinals from 1922 to 1924. He was a player–coach for the Cardinals from...
  
  , Harvard (PP-2)
• McReaghy, Washington & Jefferson
  Washington & Jefferson Presidents football
  The Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team represents Washington & Jefferson College in collegiate level football. The team competes in NCAA Division III and is affiliated with the Presidents' Athletic Conference...
  
  (WC-3)