Key

• AP = Associated Press
  Associated Press
  The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
  
  
• UP = United Press: "selected for the United Press ... by sports editors and writers from all over the country"
• FWAA = Football Writers Association of America
• COL = 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....
  
  : "chosen by Grantland Rice
  Grantland Rice
  Grantland Rice was an early 20th century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio.-Biography:...
  
   and 10 veteran football writers from all sections of the country"
• CP = Central Press Association
  Central Press Association
  The Central Press Association was an American newspaper syndication company based in Cleveland, Ohio. It was in business from 1910 to 1971. At its peak, the Central Press supplied features, columns, and photographs to more than 400 newspapers and 12 million daily readers.-History:Virgil Venice...
  
  : "Mighty Army, Navy, and Ohio State dominated the 1944 Central Press Captains' All-American team, picked for the 14th straight season with the help of the nation's football captains. As in the past two years, service players are not included in the selections."
• INS = International News Service
• NEA = Newspaper Editors Association: "It still is the duty of every football writer, it seems, to pick an All-America team. Selecting one has become a futility that even a World War can't stop. So without further ado and with no apologies, here we go again."
• LOOK = Look Magazine, selected by NBC sports reporter and commentator Bill Stern
• WC = 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...
  
   Football Foundation

• 1 - First Team Selection
• 2 - Second Team Selection
• 3 - Third Team Selection

Ends

• Phil Tinsley, Georgia Tech (AP-1; UP-2; FWAA-2; COL; INS-1; NEA; CP-1; LOOK; WC)
• Paul Walker
  Paul Walker
  Paul William Walker IV is an American actor. He became well known in 1999 after his role in the hit film Varsity Blues. He is also known for starring in the surprise summer hit The Fast and the Furious. His other films include Joy Ride, Running Scared, Into the Blue and Eight Below...
  
  , Yale (UP-2; FWAA-1; COL; INS-2; NEA; CP-1; LOOK)
• Jack Dugger, Ohio State (AP-3; UP-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; CP-2; WC)
• Hub Bechtol
  Hub Bechtol
  Hubert "Hub" Edwin Bechtol was a college football player for the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Texas Longhorns. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1991.-External links:*...
  
  , Texas (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1)
• Henry Walker, Virginia (AP-2)
• Leon Bramlett, Navy(AP-2)
• Barney Poole
  Barney Poole
  George Barney Poole was an American football end in the National Football League for the New York Yanks, the Dallas Texans, the Baltimore Colts, and the New York Giants. Poole also played football in the All-America Football Conference for the New York Yankees...
  
  , Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-1; INS-2; CP-2)
• Frank Bauman, Purdue (UP-3; FWAA-2)
• H. Martin, Navy (UP-3)
• Arthur Renner, Michigan (UP-4)

Tackles

• Don Whitmire
  Don Whitmire
  Donald Boone Whitmire was an American football tackle between 1941–1944 for the University of Alabama. In 1956, Whitmire was elected into the College Football Hall of Fame....
  
  , Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; COL; INS-1; NEA; CP-1; LOOK; WC)
• John Ferraro
  John Ferraro
  John Ferraro was the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council member in the history of the city—thirty-five years, from 1966 until his death in 2001—and the president of the council for fourteen of them...
  
  , Southern California (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; FWAA-1; COL; INS-1; NEA [g]; CP-1; WC)
• George Savitsky
  George Savitsky
  George Michael Savitsky is a former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football at the University of Pennsylvania and was drafted in the fifth round of the 1947 NFL Draft. Savitsky was inducted into the College...
  
  , Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-3; NEA)
• Bill Willis
  Bill Willis
  William Karnet Willis was one of the dominant American football players of the 1940s and 1950s, and is an inductee in the College and Professional Football Halls of Fame. Willis was one of the first African American football players to play professional football...
  
  , Ohio State (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-1; FWAA-2; INS-2; LOOK)
• Milan Lazetich
  Milan Lazetich
  Milan "Sheriff" Lazetich was an American football player in the 1940s. He played college football for the University of Montana and University of Michigan. He was a first-team All-Big Ten tackle and second-team All-American in 1944 for the Michigan Wolverines. He later played professional...
  
  , Michigan (AP-2; UP-3; FWAA-2; INS-2; CP-2)
• Monte Moncrief, Texas A&M (AP-3)
• Robert McClure, Nevada (AP-3; UP-4)
• DeWitt "Tex" Coulter, Army (UP-2)
• George Owen, Wake Forest (UP-4)
• George Sullivan, Notre Dame (UP-4; CP-2)

Guards

• Bill Hackett, Ohio State (AP-1; UP-2; FWAA-1; COL; INS-2; CP-1; WC)
• Ben Chase, Navy (UP-1; FWAA-2; INS-1; CP-1; WC)
• Hamilton Nichols, Jr., Rice (AP-1)
• Joseph Stanowicz, Army (UP-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; CP-2)
• Clyde Flowers, Texas Christian (NEA)
• John Green, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; COL; INS-2)
• William Hachten, California (AP-2; UP-4; LOOK)
• Ralph Serpico, Illinois (AP-3; UP-3; FWAA-2)
• Robert Dobelstein, Tennessee (AP-3)
• Pat Filley
  Pat Filley
  Patrick J. Filley was an American football guard, coach and university administrator. He was a native of South Bend, Indiana, who played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. He was also a state champion wrestler at Central High School in South Bend. In his four years as a...
  
  , Notre Dame (UP-2)
• Ellis Jones, Tulsa (UP-3; CP-2; LOOK)
• Ernie Knotts, Duke (UP-4)

Centers

• John Tavener, Indiana (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; CP-1; LOOK)
• Caleb Warrington, Auburn (AP-1; UP-3; FWAA-2; COL; INS-2; NEA; WC)
• Felto Prewitt, Tulsa (AP-2)
• Robert St. Onge, Army (AP-3)
• John T. Martin, Navy (UP-2)
• Gordon Appleby
  Gordon Appleby
  Gordon Appleby was an American football center. A native of Massillon, Ohio, he played for the Ohio State Buckeyes. He was named the Buckeyes team MVP in 1943, and was a selection to the 1944 College Football All-America Team...
  
  , Ohio State (UP-4)
• Gordon Berlin, Washington (CP-2)

Quarterbacks

• Les Horvath
  Les Horvath
  Leslie "Les" Horvath was the 1944 Heisman Trophy winner, who played quarterback and halfback for the Ohio State University.- Early life :He was born in South Bend, Indiana, and raised in the Cleveland, Ohio area....
  
  , Ohio State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; COL [fb]; INS-1; NEA; CP-1; LOOK; WC)
• Buddy Young
  Buddy Young
  Claude "Buddy" Young was an American football player. A native of Chicago, the 5'4" Claude "Buddy" Young, also known as the "Bronze Bullet," had exceptional quickness and acceleration. He is one of the shortest men ever to play NFL football...
  
  , Illinois (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-2; INS-2; CP-2; LOOK)
• Doug Kenna
  Doug Kenna
  Doug Kenna was an American football player. He was a quarterback and halfback, who was coached by Earl Blaik. He played his freshman year at the University of Mississippi for the Ole Miss Rebels. Following his freshman year, Kenna received an appointment to the U.S...
  
  , Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-3; COL; CP-2)
• Jim Hardy
  Jim Hardy
  James Fred Hardy is a retired American football quarterback.-High school career:Hardy attended and played high school football at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles.-Professional career:...
  
  , Southern California (UP-4; FWAA-2)
• Frank Broyles
  Frank Broyles
  John Franklin Broyles is a former American football player and coach, athletics administrator, and broadcaster. He served as the head football coach the University of Missouri in 1957 and at the University of Arkansas from 1958 to 1976...
  
  , Georgia Tech (FWAA-2)

Halfbacks

• Glenn Davis, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; NEA; CP-1; WC)
• Bob Jenkins, Navy (AP-2; UP-1; FWAA-2; COL; INS-2; NEA; WC)
• Bob "Blonde Bomber" Fenimore
  Bob Fenimore
  Robert Dale Fenimore known as the Blonde Bomber was a halfback for the Oklahoma A&M football team from 1943 to 1946. He was the first two-time All America selection from Oklahoma A&M and finished third in the Heisman voting in 1945, but still led the nation in rushing with 142 carries for 1,048...
  
  , Oklahoma A&M (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-3; FWAA-1; COL; INS-2; NEA; CP-2)
• Earl "Jug" Girard
  Earl Girard
  At 5'11" and 175 pounds, Earl Francis "Jug" Girard was a multi-talented American football player who played ten seasons in the National Football League as an end, punter and kick-off returner, mainly for the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions from 1948 to 1957...
  
  , Wisconsin (LOOK)
• Robert Kelly, Notre Dame (AP-3; UP-2; INS-2)
• Tom "Shorty" McWilliams, Mississippi State (AP-2; UP-2)
• Thomas Davis, Duke (AP-3; UP-4; CP-2)
• Harold Hamburg, Navy (AP-3; UP-3)
• Clyde "Smackover" Scott
  Clyde Scott
  Clyde Scott is a retired American athlete who competed professionally in the National Football League and earned an Olympic medal in the 110 meter hurdles....
  
  , Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-4)

Fullbacks

• Doc Blanchard
  Doc Blanchard
  Felix Anthony "Doc" Blanchard is best known as the college football player who became the first ever junior to win the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award and was the first ever football player to win the James E. Sullivan Award, all in 1945. He played football for the United States Military Academy at...
  
  , Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; CP-1; LOOK; WC)
• Babe Dimancheff
  Babe Dimancheff
  Boris Stephan "Babe" Dimancheff was an American football running back in the National Football League. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, he play for seven seasons for the Boston Yanks , the Chicago Cardinals , and the Chicago Bears ....
  
  , Purdue (AP-2; UP-2; FWAA-2; INS-1; CP-1)
• Bob Wiese
  Bob Wiese
  Robert Lee Wiese was an American football player. He played college football for Fritz Crisler's University of Michigan Wolverines football teams in 1942, 1943, 1944 and 1946—missing the 1945 season due to military service...
  
  , Michigan/Navy (UP-3)
• Gordon Gray, Southern California (AP-3; UP-4)