1923 College Football All-America Team

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The 1923 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 1923. The only two selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1923 season are Walter Camp, whose selections were published in Collier's Weekly , and Football World magazine. Additional selectors who chose All-American teams in 1923 include Athletic World magazine, selected by 500 coaches, Norman E. Brown, sports editor of the Central Press Association, and Davis J. Walsh, sports editor for the International News Service.

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The consensus All-Americans recognized by the NCAA include: halfback Red Grange of Illinois, known as "The Galloping Ghost" and who in 2008 was named by ESPN as the best college football player of all time; halfback Harry Wilson of Penn State, who was later inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame; quarterback George Pfann of Cornell, who later became a Rhodes scholar; end Lynn Bomar of Vanderbilt, who became one of the first Southern players to be recognized as a consensus All-American; tackle Marty Below of Wisconsin, who Red Grange called "the greatest lineman that I ever played against"; [1] and center Jack Blott of Michigan, who later played professional baseball for the Cincinnati Reds.

Consensus All-Americans

For the year 1923, the NCAA recognizes two 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.

NamePositionSchoolNumber - OfficialOfficialOtherNumber - Total
Century Milstead Tackle Yale 2/2FW, WCAW, DW, LP, NB, PH, TT8/8
George Pfann Quarterback Cornell 2/2FW, WCAW, DW, LP, NB, PH, TT8/8
Red Grange HalfbackIllinois2/2FW, WCAW, DW, LP, NB, PH, TT8/8
Charles Hubbard Guard Harvard 2/2FW, WCAW, DW, LP, NB, PH7/8
Pete MacRae EndSyracuse1/2FWAW, DW, LP, NB, PH, TT7/8
Ray Eklund End Minnesota 1/2FWAW, LP, NB, PH, TT6/8
Jack Blott Center Michigan 2/2FW, WCAW, DW, NB5/8
Jim McMillen GuardIllinois1/2FWAW, DW, NB, TT5/8
Bill Mallory FullbackYale1/2WCDW, NB, PH, TT5/8
Marty Below TackleWisconsin1/2FWAW, DW, NB4/8
Harry Wilson HalfbackPenn State1/2FWAW, PH3/8
Lynn Bomar End Vanderbilt 2/2FW, WC--2/8

All-Americans of 1923

Ends

Lynn Bomar of Vanderbilt. Lynnbomar.jpg
Lynn Bomar of Vanderbilt.

Tackles

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Marty Below

Guards

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Charles Hubbard

Centers

Jack Blott of Michigan. Jack Blott.jpg
Jack Blott of Michigan.

Quarterbacks

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George Pfann

Halfbacks

Red Grange of Illinois. RedGrangeGoudeycard.jpg
Red Grange of Illinois.

Fullbacks

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Bill Mallory of Yale

Key

NCAA recognized selectors for 1923

Other selectors

Bold = Consensus All-American [12]

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