List of Tulane Green Wave football All-Americans

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The Tulane Green Wave football team, representing Tulane University in the sport of American football since 1893, has had 19 players named first-team All-Americans. This includes two players who earned the distinction twice, and one player who was a unanimous selection. [1]

First Team All-Americans

YearPlayerPositionSelectors
1925 Peggy Flournoy B BE, [2] NB [3]
1929 Bill Banker BNYP, [4] AAB, [5] WA, [6] LP [7]
1930 Jerry Dalrymple E COL, [8] AAB [9]
1931 Jerry Dalrymple EAP, [10] UP, [11] COL, [12] NEA, [13] INS, [14] AAB, [9] CP, [15] INS, [14] WC, [16] HSM, [17] CH, [18] LP [19]
Don Zimmerman HB INS, [14] CP [15]
1932 Don Zimmerman HBAP, [20] UP, [21] COL, [22] CP, [23] NYW [24]
1934 Monk Simons HB
1939 Harley McCollum LB AP, NEA
Ralph Wenzel ECP, [25] NYS [26]
1940 Tommy O'Boyle G
1941 Ernie Blandin LB UP, [27] COL, [28] NYS, NEA [29]
1944 W. A. JonesHB
1948 Paul Lea T INS [30]
1949 Eddie PriceBINS [31]
1950 Jerome HelluinT
1955 Tony SardiscoGFWAA [32]
1960 Tommy MasonBTime [33]
1973 Charles HallTWC
1987 Marc Zeno WR AP
2001 Seth Marler K FWAA [32]
2012 Cairo Santos KAP, FWAA, [32] SI, CFN [34]
AAB: All-America Board of Football; AP: Associated Press; BE: Billy Evans; CFN: College Football News; CH: College Humor magazine; COL: Collier's Weekly; CP: Central Press Association;
FWAA: Football Writers Association of America; HSM: Hart, Schaffner, & Marx; INS: International News Service; LP: Lawrence Perry; NB: Norman Brown; NEA: Newspaper Enterprise Association;
NYP: New York Post; NYS: New York Sun; NYW: New York World-Telegram; SI: Sports Illustrated; Time: TIME magazine; UP: United Press; WA: Davis Walsh; WC: Walter Camp Football Foundation
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