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Official list of the best college football players of 1937
The 1937 College Football All-America team is composed of
college football players who were selected as
All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose
College Football All-America Teams in 1937. The ten selectors recognized by the
NCAA as "official" for the 1937 season are (1)
Collier's Weekly , as selected by
Grantland Rice , (2) the
Associated Press (AP), (3) the
United Press (UP), (4) the All-America Board (AAB), (5) the
International News Service (INS), (6)
Liberty magazine, (7) the
Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), (8)
Newsweek , (9) the
North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), and (10) the
Sporting News (SN).
Consensus All-Americans
For the year 1937, the NCAA recognizes 10 published 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.
Name
Position
School
Number
Official
Other
Clint Frank
Quarterback
Yale
10/10
AAB, AP, COL, INS, LIB, NANA, NEA, NW, SN, UP
CP, CE, WC
Marshall Goldberg
Halfback
Pittsburgh
9/10
AAB, AP, COL, INS, NANA, NEA, NW, SN, UP
CP, CE, WC
Joe Routt
Guard
Texas A&M
8/10
AP, COL, LIB, NANA, NEA, NW, SN, UP
CP, CE
Byron White
Halfback
Colorado
7/10
AP, COL, INS, LIB, NEA, SN, UP
CP, CE
Sam Chapman
Fullback
California
6/10
AAB, AP, COL, LIB, NANA, UP
WC
Ed Franco
Tackle
Fordham
5/10
AP, COL, NW, SN, UP
CP
Leroy Monsky
Guard
Alabama
5/10
AAB, AP, COL, LIB, SN
WC
Andy Bershak
End
North Carolina
4/10
COL, NANA, NEA, SN
CP, CE
Alex Wojciechowicz
Center
Fordham
4/10
INS, NANA, SN, UP
CE, WC
Chuck Sweeney
End
Notre Dame
3/10
AP, NW, UP
CP
Tony Matisi
Tackle
Pittsburgh
3/10
AAB, AP, NANA
CE, WC
All-American selections for 1937
Ends
Chuck Sweeney , Notre Dame (AP-1; UP-1; INS-3; CP-1; NW; NEA-3)
Andy Bershak , North Carolina (AP-3; UP-2; COL-1; INS-3; NEA-1; CP-1; CE-1; SN; NANA)
John Wysocki , Villanova (UP-1; INS-1; NEA-1; CP-3; LIB)
Raymond King , Minnesota ( UP-3; INS-1; CP-2; CE-1; WC-1; AAB; NW; NEA-2 [t])
Jerome H. Holland , Cornell (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; COL-1)
Bill Daddio , Pittsburgh (UP-3; SN)
Perry Schwartz , California (WC-1; AAB)
Frank Souchak , Pittsburgh (UP-2; INS-2; LIB; NEA-2)
Bill Jordan , Georgia Tech (AP-2; INS-2; NEA-3)
Jim Benton , Arkansas (AP-3; CP-3; NANA)
Elmer Dohmann, Nebraska (CP-2)
Pete Smith, Oklahoma (AP-2)
Tackles
Ed Franco , Fordham (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; SN; NW; NEA-2)
Tony Matisi , Pittsburgh (AP-1; UP-2; INS-2; CE-1; WC-1; AAB; NANA; NEA-2 [e])
Bruiser Kinard , Ole Miss (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-1; INS-1; NEA-1; CE-1; SN)
Ed Beinor , Notre Dame (UP-3; NEA-1; CP-3; WC-1; AAB)
Vic Markov , Washington (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; COL-1; INS-1; LIB)
Jim Ryba, Alabama (INS-3; CP-1)
I. B. Hale , TCU (LIB)
Al Babartsky , Fordham (INS-3; NANA)
Fred Shirey , Nebraska (UP-2; INS-2; NW; NEA-3 [e])
John Mellus , Villanova (AP-2)
Alexander Kevorkian, Harvard (CP-2)
Eddie Gatto , LSU (AP-3)
Jim Tipton, Alabama (UP-3)
Ted Doyle , Nebraska (CP-3)
Alvord Wolff , Santa Clara (NEA-3)
Guards
Joe Routt , Texas A&M (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS-2; NEA-1; CP-1; CE-1; SN; LIB; NANA; NW)
Leroy Monsky , Alabama (AP-1; UP-2; COL-1; INS-2; CP-2; WC-1; SN; AAB; LIB; NEA-2)
Vard Stockton , California (UP-1; INS-1; NEA-1; CP-1; NANA)
Gust Zarnas , Ohio State (WC-1; AAB; NW)
Phil Dougherty , Santa Clara (INS-1; CP-3)
Hedwig, California (CE-1)
Frank Twedell , Minnesota (AP-2; UP-2; INS-3; CP-3; NEA-3)
Gus Zitrides , Dartmouth (AP-3; INS-3)
Jim Sivell , Auburn (AP-3; CP-2)
Albin Lezouski, Pittsburgh (AP-2)
Norman Buckner, Tulane (UP-3)
Steve Slivinski , Washington (NEA-2; UP-3)
Joe Nee, Harvard (CP-3)
Joe Ruetz , Notre Dame (NEA-3)
Centers
Alex Wojciechowicz , Fordham (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-1; INS-1; CP-2; CE-1; WC-1; SN; AAB; NANA; NEA-3)
Carl Hinkle , Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; COL-1; INS-2; CP-1; LIB)
Charley Brock , Nebraska (NEA-1)
Bob Herwig , California (College Football Hall of Fame) (NEA-2; UP-3; INS-3; NW)
Ki Aldrich , TCU (College Football Hall of Fame) (first pick in the
1939 NFL draft ) (AP-2)
Quarterbacks
Clint Frank , Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) ( AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS-1; NEA-1 [hb]; CP-1; CE-1; WC-1; SN; AAB; LIB; NANA; NW)
Sid Luckman , Columbia (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (second pick in the
1939 NFL draft ) (AP-3; UP-2; NEA-3 [hb])
Andy Puplis , Notre Dame (UP-3; CP-3)
Nile Kinnick , Iowa (NEA-3)
Elmore Hackney, Duke (INS-2; NEA-2 [qb])
Halfbacks
Marshall Goldberg , Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1 [fb] ; COL-1; INS-1 [hb]; NEA-1; CP-1; CE-1; WC-1; SN; AAB; NANA; NW)
Byron White , Colorado (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS-1; NEA-1 [qb]; CP-1; CE-1; SN; LIB)
Corbett Davis , Indiana (first pick in the
1938 NFL draft ) (INS-2 [fb]; CP-1; WC-1; AAB [fb]; LIB; NANA; NW; NEA-2 [fb])
Davey O'Brien , TCU (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-3; CP-2 [qb])
John Pingel , Michigan State (College Football Hall of Fame) ((AP-2; INS-3; CP-3)
Bill Osmanski , Holy Cross (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; INS-2; NEA-3 [fb])
Bob MacLeod , Dartmouth (College Football Hall of Fame) ((AP-3; CP-2)
Hugh Wolfe , Texas (UP-2)
Joe Gray , Oregon State (AP-2)
Jim McDonald , Ohio State (second pick in the
1938 NFL draft ) (AP-3)
Vic Bottari , California (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-3; NEA-2)
Andy Stopper, Villanova (INS-3)
William "Bullet Bill" Patterson, Baylor (CP-3)
Fullbacks
Sam Chapman , California (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS-2; CP-2 [fb]; WC-1; AAB [hb]; LIB; NANA; NEA-3 [hb])
Joe Kilgrow , Alabama (UP-2 [hb]; INS-1; CP-2 [hb]; SN; NW; NEA-2 [hb])
George Karamatic , Gonzaga (UP-2; NEA-1)
Johnny "Jelly Belly" Meek, California (INS-3 [qb]; CE-1)
Cecil Isbell , Purdue (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-3; CP-3)
George "Pinky" Rohm, LSU (INS-3)
Key
Bold = Consensus All-American
[1]
-1 – First-team selection
-2 – Second-team selection
-3 – Third-team selection
Official selectors
Other selectors
CP =
Central Press Association : "Chosen by more than 30 captains of leading universities and college teams in every part of the country, the eighth annual Captain's All-American is presented herewith."
[8]
CE = Collyer's Eye, selected by "sixty-seven nationally prominent football coaches, representing every major institution of learning, conference and district in the United States"
[9]
WC =
Walter Camp Football Foundation
[10]
See also
References
^
"Football Award Winners" (PDF) . National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 7. Retrieved October 21, 2017 .
^
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b
c
d
e ESPN College Football Encyclopedia . ESPN Books. 2005. p. 1171.
ISBN
1401337031 .
^ Alan Gould (December 4, 1937). "Associated Press 1937 All-America Is Team of Iron Men". The Daily Tribune . Wisconsin Rapids.
^ "Frank, White Unanimous Choices on Collier Team". Daily Capital News . December 10, 1937.
^ "INS All-American Grid Selections". Waterloo Daily Courier . December 1, 1937.
^
Harry Grayson (November 24, 1937). "Routt of Texas Aggies Places on All-America Picked by Grid Experts". Brownsville Herald .
^ Stuart Cameron (December 1, 1937). "(UP Sports Editor)". Oshkosh Daily Northwestern .
^ Bill Braucher (December 3, 1937). "NATION'S CAPTAINS PICK CENTRAL PRESS ALL-AMERICANS". Hammond Times .
^ "Collyer's All-American Places Herwig at Guard: Californian Moves Over for 'Wojie' ". Middletown Times Herald . December 13, 1937.
^
"Walter Camp Football Foundation" . Archived from
the original on March 30, 2009.