College Football All-America Team
| Awarded for | The best college football players in the United States at their respective positions |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | NCAA |
| History | |
| First award | 1889 |
| Most recent | 2023 |
The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best college football players in the United States at their respective positions. The original use of the term All-America seems to have been to the 1889 College Football All-America Team selected by Caspar Whitney and published in This Week's Sports.[1] Football pioneer Walter Camp also began selecting All-America teams in the 1890s and was recognized as the official selector in the early years of the 20th century.
NCAA recognition
As of 2023, the College Football All-America Team is composed of the following College Football All-American first teams chosen by the following selector organizations:
Consensus
Starting in 2009, the
Individual
There have been 2,868 players from 156 colleges and universities since 1889 who were selected to at least one All-American first team. Five players have earned that honor four times:[4] They are:
- Charles Dudley Daly, Quarterback, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901 at Harvard and Army
- Gordon Brown, Guard, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900 at Yale
- Truxtun Hare, Guard, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900 at Penn
- Frank Hinkey, End, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894 at Yale
- Marshall Newell, Tackle, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893 at Harvard
Selectors
Associated Press
The Associated Press has a panel of sportswriters who vote to determine the AP All-America Team. It has selected an All-America team since 1925.
AFCA
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The American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) has selected an All-America team every year since 1945. It is often referred to as the "Coaches' All-America Team". The Selection Process is an All-America Selection Committee is made up of three head coaches from each of the AFCA's nine I-A (Bowl Division) districts, one of whom serves as a district chairman, along with another head coach who serves as the chairman of the selection committee. The coaches in each district are responsible for ranking the top players in their respective districts; that information, along with ballots submitted by FBS head coaches, are used to select the AFCA FBS Coaches' All-America Team.snake
The Coaches' All-America Team has been sponsored by various entities throughout the years but it is now under its own banner, the AFCA. These are the sponsors/publishers of the team throughout the years.
1945–1947: Published in
1948–1956: Published in
1957–1959: General Mills
1960–1993: Eastman Kodak
1994: Schooner's International
1995–1996: AFCA
1997–1999: Burger King
2000–present: AFCA
FWAA
The
The Writers' Team has been highlighted in various media forums. From 1946 to 1970,
WCFF
The Walter Camp Football Foundation (WCFF) All-America team is selected by the head coaches and sports information directors of the 120 Football Bowl Subdivision schools and certified by UHY Advisors, a New Haven-based accounting firm. Walter Camp, "The Father of American Football", first selected an All-America team in 1889. The WCF claims an 80% participation rate in the voting for its All-America team.[5]
Sporting News
UPI
United Press International (UPI) selected players in a national poll of sportswriters and began selecting teams in 1925 as "United Press". In 1958, after it merged with the International News Service (INS), it became United Press International. The INS had chosen teams since 1913. UPI continued to choose an All-America team, based on a poll of sportswriters, through the 1996 season.
Central Press
The Central Press Association, a newspaper syndicate based in Cleveland, polled team school captains for its "Captain's All-America Team"
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Another media group who polled writers and players to compose its team. It ran from 1924 through 1996.
Others
Time magazine selected All-America teams from 1956 through 1976. ESPN's selections are made by veteran college football writer Ivan Maisel. Maisel's began selecting an All-America team for ESPN.com in 2002. CBS Sports.com is voted on by writers, producers and staff of CBS Sports. Two of the newest, seemingly driven by the internet, are Scout.com and Rivals.com.
During the 1930s, Chester L. Washington, sports editor of the Pittsburgh Courier, selected All-America teams of players at historically black colleges and universities (HBCU).[8][9][10]
Division III
In 1999,
References
- ^ The All-America Team for 1889 selected by Casper Whitney is identified in the NCAA guide to football award winners Archived July 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2018. p. 5. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
- ^ "Crabtree Grabs FWAA All-America Honor". Archived from the original on 2007-12-14.
- ^ NCAA Football Media Guide, 2008, pp. 161, 171
- ^ "2008 Walter Camp All-American Team Announced". Archived from the original on 2008-12-14.
- ^ "Sporting News Archives". Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
- ^ The Sporting News, December 18, 1976, pg. 22.
- ^ Washington, Chester L. (December 29, 1934). "The All-American Eleven!". Pittsburgh Courier. p. 2-5. Retrieved August 20, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ Washington, Chester L. (December 28, 1935). "'Bama State, Kentucky Get 2 Places on 11". Pittsburgh Courier. p. 2-5. Retrieved August 20, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ Washington, Chester L. (January 2, 1937). "Here Are Ches Washington's Courier All-Americans For The Year 1936". Pittsburgh Courier. p. 2-5. Retrieved August 20, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ D3football.com All-Americans Archived 2011-01-08 at the Wayback Machine. D3football.com. Retrieved 2010-12-31.