1908 College Football All-America Team

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1908 Official All-America Selectors

The 1908 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1908 college football season. The only two individuals who have been recognized as "official" selectors by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for the 1908 season are Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney, who had originated the College Football All-America Team 14 years earlier in 1889. Camp's 1908 All-America Team was published in Collier's Weekly ,^[1] and Whitney's selections were published in Outing magazine.^[2]

Consensus All-Americans

The only two individuals who have been recognized as "official" selectors by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for the 1908 season are Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney, who had originated the College Football All-America Team 14 years earlier in 1889.^[2] In its official listing of "Consensus All-America Selections," the NCAA designates players who were selected by either Camp or Whitney as "consensus" All-Americans.^[2] Using this criterion, the NCAA recognizes 16 players as "consensus" All-American for the 1908 football season.^[2] The consensus All-Americans are identified in bold on the list below ("All-Americans of 1908").

All-American selections for 1908

Ends

Hunter Scarlett , Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CON-1 [23]; ERB-1 [30]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; FC)
George Schildmiller , Dartmouth (WC-1; CON-1 [18]; ERB-1 [23]; PI; TT; NYG; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; PT; PES; CIO; FC)
Claude Fisher, Syracuse (NYW; FY; TJ; KCJ)
Frank Dennie, Brown (WC-2; CSM; NHR)
Lawrence Fairfax Reifsnider, Navy (WC-2)
Harlan Page, Chicago (WC-3)
Ronald D. Johnson, Army (WC-3)
George Kennedy, Dartmouth (NYT; NHR; WH)
Gilbert Goodwin Browne, Harvard (PP)

Tackles

Hamilton Fish , Harvard (WC-1; CON-1 [14]; ERB-1 [25]; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYT; BSU; BP; KCJ; PT; FC)
Bill Horr , Syracuse (WC-1; CON-2 [9]; NYG; NYET; PD [g]; PES [g])
Percy Northcroft , Navy (WC-3; CIO)
Dexter Draper, Penn (WC-3; CON-1 [13]; ERB-1 [25]; PI; TT; BSU; BP; PD; NHR; PP; PT; PES; WH; FC)
Rudolph Siegling, Princeton (WC-2; CON-2 [11]; NYW-1; NYT; BP [g]; PD; TJ; PP; WH; CIO)
Daniel Pullen, Army (NYW; FY; TJ; KCJ)
Robert McKay, Harvard (CSM)
Arthur Brides, Yale (NHR)

Guards

Hamlin Andrus , Yale (WC-2; CON-1 [13]; ERB-1 [18]; NYW; NYT; NYET; BSU; TJ; KCJ; PT; PES)
William Goebel , Yale (WC-1; CON-1 [16]; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYT; PD; NHR; PP; WH; CIO; FC)
Bernard O'Rourke , Cornell (WC-2 [t]; NYET; PES; WH [g])
Clark Tobin , Dartmouth (WC-1; CON-2 [12]; ERB-1 [28]; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYET; BSU; BP; KCJ)
Samuel Hoar, Harvard (WC-3; NYW; TJ; PP)
Francis Burr, Havard (PT)
John Messmer, Wisconsin (WC-2)
Forest Van Hook, Illinois (WC-3)
Orlo L. Waugh, Syracuse (NHR)
Edward Rich, Dartmouth (FC)

Centers

Charles Nourse , Harvard (WC-1; CON-1 [12]; NYG; NYT; CIO [g])
Germany Schulz, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (CON-2 [9]; ERB-1 [20]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; CSM; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; NHR; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES)
Wallace Philoon, Army (WC-2; WH; CIO; FC)
Joseph C. Brusse, Dartmouth (WC-3)

Quarterbacks

Walter Steffen , Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; FY; NYET; PD; NHR; KCJ)
Ed Lange , Navy (CON-1 [12]; TT; NYG; BP; PP; WH; CIO)
Allie Miller, Penn (WC-3; CON-2 [6]; ERB-1 [20]; PI; BSU; TJ; PT; PES; FC)
Johnny Cutler, Harvard (WC-2; CSM; NYT)

Halfbacks

Hamilton Corbett , Harvard (CIO)
Bill Hollenback , Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CON-1 [21]; ERB-1 [30]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; NYG; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; FC)
Frederick Tibbott , Princeton (WC-1; CON-1 [21]; ERB-1 [25]; NYW; FY; TT; CSM; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; NHR; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; CIO)
Jim Thorpe, Carlisle (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; PI)
Ernest Frederocl Ver Wiebe, Harvard (WC-2; CSM; NHR)
John W. Mayhew, Brown (WC-2)
Edward Gray, Amherst (WC-3)

Fullbacks

Ted Coy , Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CON-1 [24]; ERB-1 [30]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; NHR; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; CIO [e]; FC)
George Walder, Cornell (WC-2; CIO; FC; PD [hb])
George McCaa, Lafayette (WC-3)

Key

NCAA recognized selectors for 1908

WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter Camp ^[1]^[4]

Other selectors

CON = Consensus based on All-American teams selected by 25 football experts; number indicates how many of the 25 experts selected the individual as a first-team All-American; any player with at least 5 of 25 selections is listed hear as a second-team selection: CON-2^[3]
ERB = Composite All-America team selected by E. R. Bushnell based on aggregating the opinions of 30 football critics; number indicates how many of the 30 critics selected the individual as a first-team All-American^[5]
NYW = New York World , selected by former Yale quarterback Tad Jones ^[6]
PI = The Philadelphia Inquirer, selected by Franklin^[7]
FY = Fielding H. Yost, football coach of the University of Michigan^[8]
TT = Tom Thorpe, former star tackle and captain of Columbia^[9]
NYG = New York Globe^[10]
CSM = The Christian Science Monitor^[11]
NYT = The New York Times^[12]
NYET = New York Evening Telegram^[12]
BSU = Brooklyn Standard Union^[11]
BP = Boston Post^[11]
PD = Pittsburgh Dispatch^[13]
NHR = New Haven Register^[13]
TJ = Tad Jones^[13]
KCJ = Kansas City Journal^[13]
PP = Philadelphia Press^[14]
PT = Philadelphia Times^[14]
PES = Philadelphia Evening Star^[14]
WH = Washington Herald, selected by William Peet^[13]
CIO = Chicago Inter-Ocean^[13]
FC = Fred Crolius ^[13]

Bold = Consensus All-American^[2]

1 – First-team selection
2 – Second-team selection
3 – Third-team selection

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References

1 2 "Camp's 1908 All-America Selections". Reading Eagle. November 26, 1930.
1 2 3 4 5 "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
1 2 ""Consensus" All-American Football Team of 1908". The Philadelphia Inquirer. December 20, 1908.
↑ "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.
↑ "Three Cinch All-America: Scarlett, Hollenback, Coy Picked by Thirty Critics Without One Dissent; Twenty of These Give Schulz His Position". Detroit Free Press. December 13, 1908. Archived from the original on February 16, 2013.
↑ "Another All-American. Tad Jones of Yale Picks Best Football Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. December 5, 1908.
↑ Franklin (December 6, 1908). ""All American" Team Should Have Clever Placement Kicker: Thorpe Is Best Man". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
↑ "All-American Elevens Picked By Two Experts". Syracuse Herald . December 7, 1908. p. 12. Retrieved August 12, 2022– via NewspaperArchive.
↑ Tom Thorpe (November 30, 1908). "Thorpe Picks All American Eleven". The Evening Telegram (Salt Lake city).
↑ "More All-American: The New York Globe Would Have Horr As Tackle". Syracuse Herald. December 4, 1908.
1 2 3 Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1909. p. 27.
1 2 Spalding, p. 23
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Spalding, p. 27
1 2 3 Spalding, p. 25

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[WC-1] 1 2 "Camp's 1908 All-America Selections". Reading Eagle. November 26, 1930.

[AW-2] 1 2 3 4 5 "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.

[CON-3] 1 2 ""Consensus" All-American Football Team of 1908". The Philadelphia Inquirer. December 20, 1908.

[4] "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.

[5] "Three Cinch All-America: Scarlett, Hollenback, Coy Picked by Thirty Critics Without One Dissent; Twenty of These Give Schulz His Position". Detroit Free Press. December 13, 1908. Archived from the original on February 16, 2013.

[6] "Another All-American. Tad Jones of Yale Picks Best Football Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. December 5, 1908.

[7] Franklin (December 6, 1908). ""All American" Team Should Have Clever Placement Kicker: Thorpe Is Best Man". The Philadelphia Inquirer.

[8] "All-American Elevens Picked By Two Experts". Syracuse Herald . December 7, 1908. p. 12. Retrieved August 12, 2022– via NewspaperArchive.

[9] Tom Thorpe (November 30, 1908). "Thorpe Picks All American Eleven". The Evening Telegram (Salt Lake city).

[NYG-10] "More All-American: The New York Globe Would Have Horr As Tackle". Syracuse Herald. December 4, 1908.

[Spalding-11] 1 2 3 Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1909. p. 27.

[sp-12] 1 2 Spalding, p. 23

[spa-13] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Spalding, p. 27

[spal-14] 1 2 3 Spalding, p. 25

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v t e 1908 College Football All-America Team consensus selections
Backfield	QB Ed Lange QB Walter Steffen HB Hamilton Corbett HB Bill Hollenback HB Frederick Tibbott FB Ted Coy
Line	E Hunter Scarlett E George Schildmiller T Hamilton Fish T Bill Horr T Percy Northcroft G Hamlin Andrus G William Goebel G Bernard O'Rourke G Clark Tobin C Charles Nourse