1929 College Football All-America Team

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1929 College Football All-America Teama
College Football All-America Team
1929 college football season
1927 1928 ← → 1930 1931

The 1929 College Football All-America team is composed of

United Press, (4) the All-America Board, (5) the International News Service (INS), (6) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), and (7) the North American Newspaper Alliance
(NANA).

Consensus All-Americans

Following the death of Walter Camp in 1925, there was a proliferation of All-American teams in the late 1920s. For the year 1929, the NCAA recognizes seven published All-American teams as "official" designations for purposes of its consensus determinations. Only two players, Notre Dame quarterback Frank Carideo and Pittsburgh end Joe Donchess, were unanimous first-team selections on all seven of the NCAA-recognized teams. The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans and displays which first-team designations they received.

Name Position School Number Selectors

First-team selections

Frank Carideo Quarterback Notre Dame 7/7 AP, UP, COL, NEA, INS, NANA, AAB
Joe Donchess End Pittsburgh 7/7 AP, UP, COL, NEA, INS, NANA, AAB
Bronko Nagurski Tackle/Fullback Minnesota 6/7 AP, UP, COL, NEA, INS, NANA
Jack Cannon Guard Notre Dame 6/7 AP, UP, COL, NEA, INS, AAB
Ben Ticknor Center Harvard 6/7 AP, UP, COL, INS, NANA, AAB
Ralph Welch Fullback Purdue 6/7 UP, COL, NEA, INS [hb], NANA, AAB
Ray Montgomery Guard Pittsburgh 5/7 UP, COL, NEA, INS, AAB
Elmer Sleight Tackle Purdue 4/7 AP, COL, INS, AAB
Francis Tappaan[1] End USC 4/7 UP, NEA, NANA, AAB
Red Cagle Halfback Army 3/7 AP, COL, AAB
Gene McEver Halfback Tennessee 3/7 UP, NEA, NANA
Wes Fesler[1] End Ohio State 2/7 AP, INS

All-American selections for 1929

Ends

  • Joe Donchess, Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; NEA-1; INS-1; NANA-1; NYS-1; NYP-1; AAB-1; DW-1; LP-1; WT)
  • Wes Fesler, Ohio State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; NEA-2; INS-1; CP-1; NYS-2; NYP-2; DW-2; WT)
  • Francis Tappaan, USC (AP-2; UP-1; NEA-1; INS-2; NANA-1; CP-2; NYS-2; NYP-1; AAB-1; DW-2)
  • Wear Schoonover, Arkansas (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-2; COL-1; INS-3; NYS-1; DW-3; LP-1)
  • Bob Tanner, Minnesota (NEA-2; NYP-2; DW-1)
  • Vernon Smith, Georgia (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; NEA-3)
  • Paul L. Bates, Western Maryland (UP-3)
  • Tom Churchill, Oklahoma (UP-3; NEA-3)
  • Frank Baker, Northwestern (AP-3; NANA-2)
  • Dale Van Sickel, Florida (College Football Hall of Fame) (CP-2)
  • Buster Mitchell, Davis & Elkins (DW-3)
  • Norton, California (INS-2; NANA-3)
  • Donald Muller, Stanford (INS-3)
  • Herster Barres, Yale (NANA-2)
  • Tom Conley, Notre Dame (NANA-3)

Tackles

  • Bronko Nagurski, Minnesota (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; NEA-1; INS-1; NANA-1; CP-1 [fb]; NYS-1; NYP-1 [fb]; DW-2 [fb]; LP-1)
  • Elmer Sleight, Purdue (AP-1; UP-2; COL-1; INS-1; NANA-2; CP-1; NYS-1; NYP-1; AAB-1; DW-1; LP-1; WT)
  • Marion Hammon, SMU (UP-1; NYS-2; DW-2)
  • George Ackerman, St. Mary’s (NYP-2; AAB-1; DW-1)
  • Forrest Douds, Washington & Jefferson (AP-3; UP-2; NEA-2; INS-2; CP-1; WT)
  • Fred Sington, Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-2 [g]; INS-2 [g]; NYP-1; DW-2 [g])
  • Ray Richards, Nebraska (NEA-1; DW-3)
  • Lou Gordon, Illinois (NEA-2; NANA-1)
  • Samuel Wakeman, Cornell (AP-2; UP-3; NEA-3; INS-2; NANA-2; CP-2; NYP-2; DW-3)
  • Ted Twomey, Notre Dame (AP-2; UP-3; INS-3; DW-2)
  • John Utz, Penn (CP-2)
  • Huntington, Colgate (NYS-2)
  • Shields, Oregon (NEA-3)
  • Bill Barfield, Princeton (NANA-3)
  • Blimp Bowstrom, Navy (NANA-3)

Guards

  • Jack Cannon, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; NEA-1; INS-1; NANA-3; CP-2; NYS-1; NYP-1; AAB-1; DW-1; LP-1; WT)
  • Ray Montgomery, Pittsburgh (AP-2; UP-1; COL-1; NEA-1; INS-1; NANA-2; NYS-2; AAB-1; DW-1)
  • Bert Schwarz, California (AP-1; UP-2; INS-3; NYS-1; DW-2; LP-1)
  • Wade Greene, Yale (AP-2; CP-1; WT)
  • Russ Crane, Illinois (CP-1)
  • Mike Brumbelow, TCU (UP-3; NEA-3; DW-3)
  • Fred Roberts, Iowa (UP-3)
  • John B. Law, Notre Dame (AP-3)
  • Ray Farris, North Carolina (AP-3; NEA-2)
  • Nate Barragar, USC (INS-2; CP-2; DW-3)
  • Gibson, Colgate (NYP-2)
  • Luby DiMeolo, Pitt (INS-3 [t]; NYP-2)
  • Bull Brown, Vanderbilt (NYS-2; NANA-1)
  • Thomas A. Driscoll, Stanford (NEA-2)
  • Paul Schwegler, Washington (College Football Hall of Fame) (NEA-3)
  • Henry J. Anderson, Northwestern (INS-3; NANA-1)
  • Weir, Illinois (NANA-2)
  • Charles Humber, Army (NANA-3)

Centers

  • Ben Ticknor, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; NEA-3; INS-1; NANA-1; CP-2; NYS-1; NYP-1 [g]; AAB-1; DW-1; LP-1; WT)
  • Roy Riegels, California (AP-2; NEA-1; INS-3; CP-1)
  • Walter Heinecke, Stanford (UP-2; NANA-3; NYS-2; DW-2)
  • Tony Slano, Fordham (AP-3; UP-3; NEA-2; NANA-2; NYP-1)
  • Tim Moynihan, Notre Dame (NYP-2)
  • Marvin Jonas, Utah (DW-3)

Quarterbacks

  • Frank Carideo, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; NEA-1; INS-1; NANA-1; CP-1; NYS-1; NYP-1; AAB-1; DW-1; LP-1; WT)
  • Alton Marsters, Dartmouth (AP-2; INS-1 [hb]; NANA-1; CP-2; NYS-1 [hb]; NYP-2)
  • Glen Harmeson, Purdue (UP-3; INS-3; NEA-3 [fb])
  • Albie Booth, Yale (AP-3; INS-3 [hb]; NYS-2; NYP-1 [hb]; DW-3 [hb])
  • Russ Saunders, USC (NEA-3; NANA-3)
  • Barry Wood, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (INS-2; NANA-2; NYP-2)

Halfbacks

  • Red Cagle, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2 [qb]; COL-1; NEA-2 [qb]; INS-2; NANA-2; CP-2; NYS-2; NYP-2; AAB-1; DW-1; WT)
  • Gene McEver, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-1; NEA-1; NANA-1; CP-1; NYP-2; DW-3)
  • Willis Glassgow, Iowa (UP-2; COL-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; DW-3 [fb]; LP-1)
  • Toby Uansa, Pitt (AP-1; UP-3; NEA-2; INS-2; NANA-3; CP-1; WT)
  • Bill Banker, Tulane (AP-3; UP-3 [fb]; NEA-2; INS-3; NYP-1; AAB-1; DW-1; LP-1)
  • Merle Hufford, Washington (UP-1)
  • Fred "Stud" Stennett, St. Mary's (UP-2)
  • Cy Leland, TCU (UP-3)
  • Benny Lom, California (AP-3; NEA-2 [fb]; NANA-2)
  • Lloyd Brazil, Detroit (NEA-3; INS-3 [fb]; DW-2 [qb])
  • Dick Boyle, St. Mary's (NEA-3)
  • Wittmer, Princeton (NANA-3)

Fullbacks

  • Ralph Welch, Purdue (AP-2 [hb]; UP-1; COL-1; NEA-1; INS-1 [hb]; NANA-1; CP-2 [hb]; NYS-2 [hb]; AAB-1; DW-2 [hb])
  • Pug Parkinson, Pitt (AP-2; UP-2; INS-1; NANA-2; NYS-1; NYP-2; DW-2 [hb]; LP-1; WT)
  • Tony Holm, Alabama (AP-1; INS-2)
  • Earl "Powerhouse" Pomeroy, Utah (AP-3; DW-1)
  • C. Russell Bergherm, Northwestern (NANA-3; CP-2; NYS-2)

Key

  • Bold – Consensus All-American recognized by NCAA[2]
  • -1 – First-team selection
  • -2 – Second-team selection
  • -3 – Third-team selection

Selectors recognized by NCAA

  • AAB = All-America Board of Football, consisting of
    W.A. Alexander[3]
  • AP = Associated Press, based on a nationwide opinion poll of 215 experts, including "newspaper sports editors and writers, Associated Press staff observers, officials and coaches in every section of the country."[4]
  • UP =
    United Press, "named by the United Press with the assistance and advice of more than 200 coaches, officials and experts from every part of the country"[5]
  • COL =
    Collier's Weekly as selected by Grantland Rice[6]
  • NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association selected as follows: "In the selection of these All-America players, the opinions of more than 100 coaches and football writers have been confidentially consulted."[7]
  • INS = International News Service (later merged with UP to form UPI), based on "popular vote among sport writers and coaches, representing every major section of the country"; voters included Damon Runyon, Ford Frick, Tom Thorp, Dick Hylund, John Heisman, and Bill Corum[8]
  • NANA = North American Newspaper Alliance, selected by four noted coaches,
    Bill Roper[9]

Other selectors

  • CP = Central Press Association, "selected by the readers of hundreds of client newspapers of the Central Press Association"[10]
  • NYS = New York Sun[11][12]
  • NYP = New York Post[13]
  • DW = Davis Walsh of the International News Service[14]
  • LP = Lawrence Perry: "Lawrence Perry selected his 1929 All-America football team after traveling many thousands of miles and watching most of the country's leading teams in play or practice"[15]
  • WT = Washington Times[16]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Tappaan is not recognized by the NCAA as a consensus All-American despite receiving four official first-team designations. For some reason, Wes Fesler receives the consensus recognition even though he received only two official first-team designations.
  2. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 7. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  3. ^ "All-America Football Board Selects 1929 Honor Team: Rockne, Warner, Jones, Alexander Present Choices for Season's Best". Salt Lake Tribune. December 8, 1929.
  4. ^ Alan Gould (December 7, 1929). "Three Big Ten Players on A.P. All-American Team: Carideo and Cannon Land Honor Posts". The News-Palladium. Michigan.
  5. ^ "United Press Selects Its 1929 All-American Football Eleven". Charleston Gazette. December 4, 1929.
  6. ^ "Nagurski Gets Post On Rice's All-American: Minnesota Star Placed At Tackle on All-Star Aggregation; Glassgow and Welch Other Big Ten Aces". The Evening Tribune. Albert Lea, MN. December 20, 1929.
  7. ^ William Braucher (NEA Service Sports Writer) (December 6, 1929). "NEA Names Three Big 10 Stars on All-American: Place Carideo of Notre Dame at Quarterback". Sheboygan Journal.
  8. ^ "International News Service Announces All-American Teams: Leading Coaches And Writers Of Nation Aid In Selections; Carideo, Marsters, Welch And Parkinson Picked In First Team Backfield". New Castle News. December 5, 1929.
  9. ^ "Race for All-Star Picking Gets Going: Great Coach Critics for Standard in Their Annual Huddle Agree on Choices". Montana Standard. December 1, 1929.
  10. ^ "Gene M'Ever Gains Place on Popular All-American Team: Hundreds of Thousands of Football Followers Select Fourth Annual Mythical Eleven by Good Old-Fashioned Election Method". Kingsport Times. December 10, 1929.
  11. ^ "Bear Schwartz on One All-American". Montana Standard. December 1, 1929.
  12. ^ "Sleight Picked for All-America: Purdue Tackle Placed On New York Sun's Mythical Team; Welch On Second Eleven". Kokomo Tribune. November 30, 1929.
  13. ^ "First and Second All-American Are Named by N.Y. Post". Sterling Daily Gazette (IL). December 2, 1929.
  14. ^ "Walsh's All-American 1929 Football Team". Logansport Pharos-Tribune. December 4, 1929.
  15. ^ "Lawrence Perry's 1929 All-American". Evening Huronite. December 10, 1929.
  16. ^ "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. November 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 10, 2010.
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