1924 College Football All-America Team
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The 1924 College Football All-America team consists of American football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 players selected to the College Football All-America Team
College Football All-America Team
The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best American college football players at their respective positions. The original usage of the term All-America seems to have been to the 1889 College Football All-America Team selected by Casper Whitney and published in This...

s selected by various organizations in 1924.

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...

  • AAB = All-America Board
  • FW = Football World magazine
  • 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."
  • INS = International News Service
  • LIB = Liberty magazine
  • NEA = Newspaper Editors Association
  • NB = Norman E. Brown
  • LP = Lawrence Perry
  • BE = Billy Evans
  • DW = Davis J. Walsh, sports editor of the International News Service
  • 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:...

     for 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...

  • BC = Bruno Crenna
  • Bold - Consensus All-American
  • 1 - First Team Selection
  • 2 - Second Team Selection
  • 3 - Third Team Selection

Ends

  • Henry Wakefield
    Henry Wakefield
    Henry Wakefield was a medieval Bishop of Worcester.He was elected on 12 September 1375 and consecrated on 28 October 1375.He briefly served as Lord High Treasurer in 1377.He died on 11 March 1395.-References:...

    , Vanderbilt (WC-2; INS; NEA; LP-1; BE-1; NB-1; DW-1; WE-3; BC)
  • Dick Luman, Yale (AAB; INS; LP-1; BE-2; DW-1; WE-1)
  • Jim Lawson
    Jim Lawson
    Jim Lawson is an American comic book artist best known for his work on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. Lawson created the Rat King and also co-created the series Planet Racers with Peter Laird. He is also the writer/artist of the black-and white-comic series Paleo: Tales of the Late...

    , Stanford (WC-2; AAB; FW; ASM-1; NEA; BE-1; DW-2; WE-2)
  • Charles Berry, Lafayette (WC-1; ASM-2; DW-3)
  • Henry Bjorkman, Dartmouth (WC-1; ASM-2; LIB; NB-2; WE-1)
  • Craig, Penn (NB-1)
  • Edmond Stout, Princeton (FW; ASM-1)
  • Hilary F. Mahaney, Holy Cross (WC-3; FW; BE-2; DW-2; WE-2)
  • Lowell Otte, Iowa (LP-2; DW-3; WE-3)
  • Cal Hubbard
    Cal Hubbard
    Robert Calvin Hubbard was a professional American football player and later an umpire in Major League Baseball, and is a member of three major sports halls of fame...

    , Centenary (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (LP-2)
  • Frazer, Army (WC-3)
  • Pulaski, Wisconsin (NB-2)
  • Frank Rokusek, Illinois (NB-3; BC)
  • Shep Bingham, Yale (NB-3)
  • Henderson, Cornell (ASM-3)
  • Muhl, Illinois (ASM-3)

Tackles

  • Ed Weir
    Ed Weir
    Samuel Edwin Weir was an American collegiate and professional football player.He was the first Nebraska Cornhusker football player elected to the College Football Hall of Fame and is known as one of Nebraska's greatest athletes...

    , Nebraska (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; AAB; FW; ASM-1; INS; LIB; LP-2; BE-2; NB-1; DW-1; WE-1; BC)
  • Ed McGinley
    Ed McGinley
    Edward Francis McGinley, Jr. was an American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the New York Giants. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1979 after a solid college career at the University of Pennsylvania....

    , Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; AAB; INS; NEA; BE-1; DW-1; WE-2)
  • Bob Beattie
    Bob Beattie
    Robert Wetherson "Bob" Beattie was a professional American football player who played offensive tackle/defensive tackle in the American Football League and the National Football League . He played for the AFL's Philadelphia Quakers and the NFL's New York Yankees and Orange/Newark Tornadoes ....

    , 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 H. Joss, Yale (LP-1)
  • Mordecai Starobin, Syracuse (NB-1)
  • Tom Edwards
    Tom Edwards (American football)
    Thomas Leighton "Tom" Edwards was an American football player. He was an All-American tackle for the University of Michigan and played professional football for the New York Yankees and Detroit Panthers in 1926....

    , Michigan (LP-2)
  • John Hancock, Iowa (ASM-2; BE-2; NB-2; BC)
  • Pappy Waldorf
    Pappy Waldorf
    Lynn Osbert "Pappy" Waldorf was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, now Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, , Kansas State University , Northwestern University , and the University of California, Berkeley ,...

    , Syracuse (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2)
  • Zonar "Zeke" Wissinger, Pittsburgh (WC-3)
  • Taylor, Georgia (NB-3)
  • Prevost, Penn State (ASM-2; NB-3)
  • Anderson, So. California (ASM-2; DW-3; WE-3)
  • Joe Bach
    Joe Bach
    Joseph Anthony Bach was one of Notre Dame's famed "seven mules" and later the head coach for the NFL's Pittsburgh Pirates and later the renamed Pittsburgh Steelers ....

    , Notre Dame (DW-3)
  • Tex Cox, Minnesota (ASM-3)
  • Van Dyne, Missouri (WE-3)

Guards

  • Edliff Slaughter
    Edliff Slaughter
    Edward Ratliff "Butch" Slaughter, Sr. , also known as Edliff Slaughter, was an American football player, athletic coach and professor of physical education. He played guard at the University of Michigan from 1922–1924 and was chosen as a first-team All-American in 1924...

    , Michigan (WC-1; LP-1; BE-2; NB-1; BC)
  • Carl Diehl, Dartmouth (INS; LIB; NEA; BE-1; DW-1; NB-1; WE-3)
  • Joe Pondelik, Chicago (WC-2; AAB; INS; ASM-2; LIB; LP-1; DW-1; WE-1)
  • August "Gus" Farwick, Army (AAB; NEA; ASM-2; BE-1; NB-2; DW-2; WE-1)
  • Alton Papworth, Penn (FW; ASM-1)
  • Walter "Red" Mahan, West Virginia (WC-3; BE-2)
  • Herbert Sturhahn
    Herbert Sturhahn
    Herbert Sturhahn was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1981....

    , Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (DW-2)
  • Howard, Princeton (LP-2)
  • Parsons, Northwestern (LP-2; WE-3)
  • George Abramson
    George Abramson
    George Abramson was a guard and a tackle in the National Football League who played for the Green Bay Packers. He was born in Eveleth, Minnesota. Abramson played his college football at the University of Minnesota and played nine professional games with the Green Bay Packers in 1925.-References:...

    , Minnesota (WC-2; NB-2; WE-2; BC)
  • Bill Fleckenstein
    Bill Fleckenstein
    William P. Fleckenstein was a professional American football player who played offensive lineman for seven seasons for the Chicago Bears, the Portsmouth Spartans, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the Frankford Yellow Jackets....

    , Iowa (WC-3)
  • Bill Buckler, Alabama (NB-3)
  • House, Penn State (NB-3)
  • Goodwin, Georgia Tech (DW-3)
  • Ellinger, Army (DW-3)
  • Hills, Princeton (ASM-2)
  • Bieberstein, Wisconsin (ASM-3)

Centers

  • Edwin "Babe" Horrell
    Edwin C. Horrell
    Edwin C. "Babe" Horrell was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969.-Playing career:While a center for the California Golden Bears from 1922–24, they went 26-0-3....

    , California (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1 [g]; INS; ASM-3; LIB; NEA; BE-1; DW-1; WE-1)
  • Adam

Walsh
Adam Walsh (football coach)
Adam Walsh was an American football player and coach. He played college football as a center at the University of Notre Dame where he was an All-American and captain of the 1924 team under Knute Rockne...

, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; LP-1; ASM-2; BE-2; NB-2; DW-2; WE-2; BC)
  • Edgar Garbisch
    Edgar Garbisch
    Edgar William Garbisch was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. He married Bernice Chrysler, daughter of Walter P. Chrysler, on January 4, 1930. He and his wife collected American art, much of which they donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art...

    , Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; FW; ASM-1 [g]; NB-3; DW-3; WE-2 [g])
  • Probst, Alabama (LP-2)
  • Winslow Lovejoy, Yale (WC-2; AAB; FW; ASM-1; NB-1; WE-3)

Quarterbacks

  • Harry Stuhldreher
    Harry Stuhldreher
    Harry Augustus Stuhldreher was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played quarterback at University of Notre Dame from 1922 to 1924, where he was a three-time All-American and member of the legendary "Four Horsemen" backfield...

    , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; AAB; INS; ASM-2; LIB; NEA; LP-1; BE-1; NB-1; DW-1; WE-1)
  • Eddie Dooley, Dartmouth (FW; ASM-1; BE-2; DW-2; WE-2)
  • Herb Covington, Centre (DW-3)
  • Leland Parkin, Iowa (LP-2; NB-3; WE-3)
  • Jacob Slagle, Princeton (WC-2)
  • Vernon "Skippy" Stivers, Idaho (WC-3)
  • Charles Darling, Boston College (LIB; NB-2)
  • Tod Rockwell
    Tod Rockwell
    Ferdinand Almon "Tod" Rockwell was an American football player and coach. He played quarterback for the University of Michigan in 1923 and 1924. He helped the 1923 Michigan Wolverines football team win a National Championship...

    , Michigan (BC)
  • Bloodgood, Nebraska (ASM-3)

Halfbacks

  • Red Grange
    Red Grange
    Harold Edward "Red" Grange, nicknamed "The Galloping Ghost", was a college and professional American football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and for the short-lived New York Yankees. His signing with the Bears helped legitimize the National Football League...

    , Illinois (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; AAB; FW; ASM-1; INS; LIB; NEA; LP-1 [fb]; BE-1; NB-1; DW-1; WE-1; BC)
  • Jim Crowley
    Jim Crowley
    James Harold "Jim" Crowley was an American football player and coach. He gained fame as one-fourth of the University of Notre Dame's legendary "Four Horsemen" backfield where he played halfback from 1922 to 1924. After a brief career as a professional football player, Crowley turned to coaching...

    , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2 [fb]; AAB; FW; ASM-1; INS; NEA; BE-1; NB-1; DW-1; WE-1; BC)
  • Walter Koppisch
    Walter Koppisch
    Walter Frederic "Wally" Koppisch was an American football halfback in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bisons and New York Giants. He attended Columbia University...

    , Columbia (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; BE-2; NB-2; DW-2)
  • Ralph Baker
    Ralph Baker (halfback)
    Ralph "Moon" Baker was an American football halfback in college.Was the team captain of the Northwestern University football team, leading them to the Big Ten championship in 1926. Baker was an All-American along with teammate Bob Johnson...

    , Northwestern (LP-1; BE-2; NB-3; DW-2; WE-2)
  • Ducky Pond
    Ducky Pond
    Raymond W. "Ducky" Pond was an American football and baseball player and coach of football in the United States. He served as the head football coach at Yale University from 1934 to 1940 and at Bates College in 1941 and from 1946 to 1951, compiling career college football record of...

    , Yale (WC-2; NEA; ASM-2; NB-2; DW-3; WE-3; BE-1 [FB])
  • Don Miller
    Don Miller (football)
    Don "Midnight" Miller was an American football player and coach. He was one of the famous "Four Horsemen" of the University of Notre Dame's backfield in 1924. Miller was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1970.Miller's three brothers attended Notre Dame before him...

    , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (DW-3)
  • Clarence Schutte
    Clarence Schutte
    Clarence Henry Schutte was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Northern Normal and Industrial School, South Dakota State University and the University of Minnesota. In 1924, he became known as "the man who stopped Red Grange" when he led Minnesota to a 20–7...

    , Minnesota (LP-2)
  • Wildcat Wilson
    Wildcat Wilson
    George "Wildcat" Wilson was an American football player, earning All-American honors as a halfback for the University of Washington Huskies.-Collegiate career:...

    , Washington (WC-2)
  • Benkert, Rutgers (ASM-2)
  • Herb Steger
    Herb Steger
    Herbert F. Steger was an American football player, coach and official. He played for the University of Michigan from 1922 to 1924...

    , Michigan (ASM-3)
  • Wilson, Army (ASM-3)
  • Talma Imlay, California (WC-3)
  • Jackson Keefer
    Jackson Keefer
    Jackson Milliman Keefer was an American football player. Keefer attended Steele High School in Dayton, Ohio before enrolling at the University of Michigan. He played halfback for the Michigan Wolverines football team in 1922. Keefer was determined to be ineligible in the fall of 1923 and...

    , Brown (WC-3)
  • Gil Reese, Vanderbilt (NB-3)
  • Stockton, Gonzaga (WE-2)
  • Bahr, Purdue (WE-3)

Fullbacks

  • Elmer Layden
    Elmer Layden
    Elmer Francis Layden was an American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and professional sports executive. He played college football at the University of Notre Dame where he starred at fullback as a member of the legendary "Four Horsemen" backfield...

    , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; INS; LIB; LP-2 [hb]; NB-1; DW-1; WE-1)
  • Homer Hazel
    Homer Hazel
    Homer "Pop" Hazel was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, track athlete, coach, and college athletics administrator in the United States. He played college football at Rutgers University in 1916 and again from 1923 to 1924...

    , Rutgers (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; FW; ASM-1; NB-3; BC)
  • Doug Wycoff
    Doug Wycoff
    Stephen Douglas Wycoff was an American football running back for the New York Giants, Staten Island Stapletons, and Boston Redskins in the National Football League, the Newark Bears in the first American Football League, and the Boston Shamrocks in the second American Football League...

    , Georgia Tech (ASM-3; LP-1 [hb]; NB-2; DW-2; WE-3)
  • Jack McBride
    Jack McBride
    John F. McBride was an American football player who played the positions of halfback, fullback, and quarterback in the National Football League . He was born in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. McBride played collegiately at Syracuse University where he finished second in the nation in scoring in his...

    , Syracuse (BE-2; DW-3; WE-2)
  • John Webster Thomas
    John Webster Thomas
    John Webster Thomas was an All-American fullback for the Chicago Maroons football team from 1921-1923 under Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg.Prior to 1919 he enlisted in the United States Army Air Service in World War I....

    , Chicago (LP-2)
  • Norman "Red" Strader
    Red Strader
    Norman "Red" Strader was a football player and coach who served in both capacities at the collegiate and professional levels. In the college ranks, he spent two years as head coach at St...

    , St. Mary's (WC-3)
  • McCarty, Chicago (ASM-2)
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