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Official list of the best college football players of 1914
The 1914 College Football All-America team is composed of
college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the
1914 college football season . The only selectors for the 1914 season who have been recognized as "official" by the
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) are
Walter Camp , whose selections were published in
Collier's Weekly , and the
International News Service (INS), a newswire founded by
William Randolph Hearst .
[1]
Although not recognized by the NCAA, many other sports writers, newspapers, and coaches selected All-America teams in 1914. They include
Vanity Fair ,
Parke H. Davis ,
Walter Eckersall ,
The New York Globe , the
New York Herald , the
New York Evening Mail , the
Atlanta Constitution , the
Detroit Evening News ,
The Boston Post , and
The Philadelphia Inquirer .
Overview
Harvard end
Huntington Hardwick was the only player who was unanimously selected as a first-team All-American by all 27 selectors identified below. Other players selected as a first-team All-American by a majority of the selectors were Harvard halfback
Eddie Mahan (26 selections), Harvard guard
Stan Pennock (26 selections), Princeton tackle
Harold Ballin (22 selections), Michigan halfback
John Maulbetsch (20 selections), Cornell quarterback
Charley Barrett (19 selections), and Dartmouth guard
Clarence Spears (16 selections). The
Los Angeles Times reported that "
Maulbetsch , Michigan's hero, is about the only one of 1914's stars who received an almost unanimous vote."
[2]
The chart below reflects the number of polls in which the leading candidates (any player with at least two first-team All-American designations) were selected as first-team All-Americans.
All-Americans of 1914
Ends
Harvard end Tack Hardwick.
Huntington "Tack" Hardwick , Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; VF; PHD; WE–1; FM-1; MO-1; NYH; NYEM-1; NYG; NC; PGT; BN; PEB; AC; PS; WH; DD; PET; SLT; MD; NES; DN; PPL; BP; TT; AW; PI; OUT)
Louis A. Merrilat , Army (WE–1; VF; PHD; WC-2; FM-3; MO-2; NYH; NYEM-2; NYG; NC; PGT; BN; PEB; AC; NES; TT; OUT)
John E. O'Hearn , Cornell (WC–1; WE–2; MO-1; NYEM-2; PS; PET; SLT; MD; DN; OUT)
Maurice R. "Red" Brann , Yale (WC–2; WH; BP; AW)
Bob Higgins , Penn State (College Football Hall of Fame) (NYEM-1; PPL)
Perry Graves , Illinois (FM–1)
Reginald Bovill, Washington & Jefferson (FM-3; MO-2; DD)
Boyd Cherry , Ohio State (FM–2; OUT)
Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Harvard (FM–2)
Harvey E. Overesch , Navy (WC–3)
Edwin Stavrum, Wisconsin (OUT)
Robbie Robinson , Auburn (OUT)
Tackles
Princeton tackle Harold Ballin.
Harold Ballin , Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; VF; PHD; WE–1; FM-1; MO-1; NYH; NYEM-1; NYG; NC; BN; AC; PS; WH; SLT; MD; NES; DN; BP; TT; AW; PI; OUT)
Bud Talbott , Yale (WE–1; VF; MO-1; NYH; NYEM-2; BN; AC; WH; DD; PET; OUT)
Britain Patterson ,
Washington & Jefferson (WC–2; FM-3; PEB; PS; PET; PPL; BP; TT)
Walter Trumbull , Harvard (WC–1; PHD; DD; DN; AW; PI; OUT)
Vic Halligan , Nebraska (WC–3; WE–2; FM-1; PGT; MD; OUT)
Cub Buck , Wisconsin (WE–2; PGT; SLT; OUT)
John Toohey , Rutgers (NYEM-1; NYG; NC; NES)
Pete Maxfield, Lafayette (MO-2; PEB)
Ted Shultz , Washington & Lee (PPL)
Alex Weyand , Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–3; FM-2)
Bob Nash , Rutgers (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–2)
Ray Keeler Wisconsin (FM–2; OUT)
Edward J. Gallogly, Cornell (NYEM-2)
George D. Howell, Trinity College
[3] (MO-2)
Lennox F. Armstrong, Illinois (FM-3)
Will Burton, Kansas (OUT)
Laurens Shull , Chicago (OUT)
Josh Cody , Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (OUT)
Farmer Kelly , Tennessee (OUT)
Bob Taylor Dobbins , Sewanee (OUT)
Guards
Illinois guard Ralph Chapman.
Stan Pennock , Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; VF; PHD; WE–1; FM-2; MO-1; NYH; NYEM-1; NYG; NC; PGT; BN; PEB; AC; PS; WH; DD; PET; SLT; MD; NES; DN; PPL; BP; TT; AW; PI; OUT)
Clarence Spears , Dartmouth (WC–3; WE–1; FM-1; NYH; NYEM-1; NYG; NC; PGT; BN; PEB; PS; DD; NES; PPL; BP; AW; PI)
Ralph Chapman , Illinois (WC–1; PHD; WE–2; FM-2; AC; SLT; MD; OUT)
Eddie Trenkmann, Princeton (MO-2; PET; TT)
Wilbur Shenk , Princeton (WC-2; VF; NYEM-2; OUT)
Arlie Mucks , Wisconsin (FM–1)
Michalis Dorizas , Penn
[4] (FM–1)
Harry Routh, Purdue (FM-3; DN)
Louis Jordan , Texas (WC-2)
Joseph J. "Red" O'Hare, Army (WE-2)
Harold White , Syracuse (NYEM-2; OUT)
Earl W. Mills, Navy (MO-2)
Laurence B. Meacham, Army (WC–3)
Dale Munsick, Cornell (FM-3)
Centers
Army center John McEwan
Cornell quarterback Charley Barrett.
Quarterbacks
Charley Barrett , Cornell (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–2; VF; WE–1; FM-1; NYH; NYEM-1; NYG [hb]; BN; PEB; AC; PS; WH; DD; PET; MD; NES; DN; PPL; TT; AW; OUT)
Milt Ghee , Dartmouth (WC–1; WE–2; FM-2; MO-1; NYEM-2; BP; PI)
Vernon Prichard , Army (NYG; NC; PGT; SLT; OUT)
Alexander D. Wilson, Yale (WC-3; OUT)
Potsy Clark , Illinois (FM-3; OUT)
Huntley, New York (MO-2)
David Paddock , Georgia (PHD; OUT)
Malcolm Justin Logan, Harvard (OUT)
Frank Glick , Princeton (OUT)
William H. Tow, Amherst (OUT)
Irby Curry , Vanderbilt (OUT)
Robert Kent Gooch , Virginia (OUT)
Paul Russell, Chicago (OUT)
Tommy Hughitt , Michigan (OUT)
Sammy Gross, Iowa (OUT)
Wilbur Hightower, Northwestern (OUT)
Louis E. Pickerel, Ohio State (OUT)
Michigan halfback John Maulbetsch
Harvard halfback Eddie Mahan
Halfbacks
John Maulbetsch , Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; VF [fb]; PHD; WE–1; FM-1; MO-1; PGT [fb]; BN; AC; PS; DD; PET; SLT; MD; NES; DN; PPL; BP; AW; PI; OUT)
Eddie Mahan , Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1 [fb]; VF; PHD; WE–1; FM-2; MO-1; NYH; NYEM-1; NYG; NC; PGT; BN; PEB; AC [fb]; PS; WH [fb]; DD; PET; SLT; MD [fb]; NES; DN [fb]; PPL; BP [fb]; TT; AW [fb]; PI; OUT)
Johnny Spiegel ,
Washington & Jefferson (WC–2; VF; PHD; FM-1; NYH; NYEM-1; AC; DN; AW)
Frederick Bradlee , Harvard (WC–1; WE-2; NYEM-2; WH; BP; TT; OUT)
Harold Pogue , Illinois (WC–3; WE-2; FM-3; PGT; MD; OUT)
William "Billy" Cahall, Lehigh (WC-2; MO-2)
Howard Parker Talman , Rutgers (WC–3)
William H. Miller, Pittsburgh (FM-3)
Andrew Toolan, Williams (MO-2; OUT)
Dick Rutherford, Nebraska (OUT)
Guy Chamberlain , Nebraska (OUT)
Tam Rose , Syracuse (OUT)
Marcus Wilkinson, Syracuse (OUT)
Carroll Knowles, Yale (OUT)
Moore, Princeton (OUT)
Eugene Mayer , Virginia (OUT)
Gray, Chicago (OUT)
Bart Macomber , Illinois (OUT)
Ammie Sikes , Vanderbilt (OUT)
Lee Tolley , Sewanee (OUT)
Dave Tayloe , North Carolina (OUT)
Fullbacks
Yale fullback Harry LeGore
Harry LeGore , Yale (WC–2; WE–2; FM-1; MO-1; NYH; NYEM-1; PS; WH [hb]; PET; TT; PI; OUT)
Lawrence Whitney , Dartmouth (WC–3; WE–1; FM-2 [hb]; NYEM-2 [hb]; NYG; NC [hb]; PEB [hb]; SLT; NES; PPL; OUT)
Lorin Solon , Minnesota (WC–3 [end]; WE–2 [end]; FM–2; BN; DD; OUT)
Ray Eichenlaub , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (MO-2; NC)
Haps Benfer , Albright (PEB; OUT)
Hugo Franck, Harvard (NYEM-2)
Charles Shuler, Jr., Cornell (FM-3)
Pete Calac , Carlisle (OUT)
Dan Kenan , Wesleyan (OUT)
Carl Philippi, Cornell (OUT)
Campbell "Honus" Graf, Ohio State (OUT)
Charles Brickley , Harvard (OUT)
Key
NCAA recognized selectors for 1914
Other selectors
VF = Vanity Fair , selected based on selections of 175 "prominent newspapermen of the country"
[7]
PHD =
Parke H. Davis , member of rules committee and noted football historian
[8]
WE =
Walter Eckersall , of the
Chicago Tribune
[9]
MO = Monty, New York sports writer
[10]
NYH = New York Herald
[11]
NYEM = James P. Sinnot, of the New York Evening Mail , "who is recognized as one of the best sporting writers in the East"
[11]
NYG = New York Globe , selected by Mack Whalen
[12]
NC = Newark Sunday Call , selected by William S. Hunt
[13]
PGT = Pittsburgh Gazette-Times , selected by Fred M. Walker
[13]
BN = Baltimore News
[13]
PEB = Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
[13]
AC = Atlanta Constitution , selected by sporting editor
Dick Jemison
[13]
PS = Pittsburgh Sun , selected by sporting editor James J. Long
[13]
WH = Washington Herald , selected by William Peet
[13]
DD = Davis J. Davies in the Pittsburgh Dispatch
[13]
PET =
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph , selected by sporting editor Louis M. Toughill
[13]
SLT = St. Louis Times , selected by George Henger
[13]
MD = Michigan Daily , selected by sporting editor F.M. Church
[13]
NES = Newark Evening Star , selected by sporting editor Joseph P. Norton
[13]
DN = Detroit Evening News , selected by sporting editor
H.G. Salsinger
[13]
PPL = Philadelphia Public Ledger , selected by Robert W. Maxwell
[13]
BP = Boston Post , by Charles H. Parker
[13]
TT =
Tom Thorp in the 'New York Evening Journal
[13]
AW = Alexander Wilson, Yale University
[13]
PI = Philadelphia Inquirer , selected by sporting editor M. Neagle Rawlins
[13]
OUT =
Outing magazine's "FOOTBALL ROLL OF HONOR: The Men Whom the Best Coaches of the Country Have Named as the Stars of the Gridiron in 1914"
[14]
Bold = Consensus All-American
[1]
1 – First-team selection
2 – Second-team selection
3 – Third-team selection
See also
References
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"Football Award Winners" (PDF) . National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017 .
^ "All-American and Western Football Teams Are Named". Los Angeles Times . November 30, 1914.
^
"Howell Heads Trinity Eleven" (PDF) . The New York Times . December 7, 1913.
^
"Michail M. Dorizas biography" . University of Pennsylvania. Archived from
the original on June 12, 2010.
^ "Walter Camp's Three All-American Elevens". The Syracuse Herald . December 13, 1914.
^ "Menke Selects Annual All-American Eleven". New Castle News . November 25, 1914.
^
"Spiegel Gets Place on Star Grid Eleven" . The Pittsburg Press . Pittsburgh, PA. November 22, 1914. Sporting Section, p. 4.
^
"All-America Addendum" (PDF) . College Football Historical Society Newsletter. May 2006. Archived from
the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010. Retrieved March 5, 2010 .
^ "Eckersall Names All-Stars: Eckersall Names One Western Man; Maulbetsch of Michigan on All-American". Waterloo Evening Courier. December 7, 1914.
^ Monty (November 28, 1914). "Another All-American Team: EICHENLAUB IS PLACED ON SECOND ELEVEN; "Monty" Selects Mythical Eleven for Daily News Readers—Gives His Reasons". The Fort Wayne Daily News .
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b "JAMES P. SINNOT PUTS TOOHEY ON HIS ALL-AMERICAN ELEVEN". New Brunswick Times . December 1, 1914.
^ "Herbert Reed, Mack Whalen And The Newark News Selected Toohey On Their All-American Eastern Team". New Brunswick Times . December 7, 1914.
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"FOOTBALL ROLL OF HONOR: The Men Whom the Best Coaches of the Country Have Named as the Stars of the Gridiron in 1914" (PDF) . Outing . 1915. p. 498.