1921 College Football All-America Team
Official list of the best college football players of 1921
The 1921 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 1921. The only selector recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1921 season is Walter Camp , whose selections were published in Collier's Weekly . Additional selectors who chose All-American teams in 1921 included: Football World magazine, based on collected opinions of 267 coaches; Walter Eckersall of the Chicago Tribune ; Jack Veiock , sports editor of the International News Service ; and Norman E. Brown of the Central Press Association .
Consensus All-Americans
For the year 1921, the NCAA recognizes only Walter Camp 's selections as "official" for purposes of its consensus determinations. Nevertheless, the NCAA's consensus All-America team does not mirror Camp's selections. The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans and displays which first-team designations they received.
Name
Position
School
Official
Other
Total
Aubrey Devine
Quarterback
Iowa
WC
BE, FW, JV, LP, MM, WE
7/8
Mac Aldrich
Halfback
Yale
WC
BE, JV, MM, NB, WE
6/8
Herb Stein
Center
Pittsburgh
--
BE, FW, JV, MM, WE
5/8
Glenn Killinger
Halfback
Penn State
WC
BE, FW, JV, LP
5/8
Harold Muller
End
California
WC
FW, MM-1, NB
4/8
Bo McMillin
Quarterback
Centre
--
FW, LP, MM, NB
4/8
Dan McMillan
Tackle
California
--
FW, JV, WE
3/8
Fiske Brown
Guard
Harvard
WC
BE, LP
3/8
Stan Keck
Guard
Princeton
--
BE, FW, MM
3/8
Duke Slater [ 1]
Tackle
Iowa
--
BE, WE, JV
3/8
Iolas Huffman
Tackle
Ohio State
--
FW, LP
2/8
Eddie Anderson
End
Notre Dame
--
FW, WE
2/8
Frank Schwab
Tackle
Lafayette
WC
FW
2/8
Eddie Kaw
Fullback
Cornell
WC
WE
2/8
All-Americans of 1921
Ends
Brick Muller of Cal.
Harold Muller , California (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-1; WC-1; JV-3; MM-1; NB-1)
Eddie Anderson , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-1; BE-2; WE-1; JV-2)
Fritz Crisler , Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-2; WC-3; LP-2; WE-1; MM-2)
Red Roberts , Centre (WC-1; FW-2 [g]; JV-3; MM-2)
Warren S. Parr , Navy (LP-1)
Paul G. Goebel , Michigan (LP-1)
Roger Kiley , Notre Dame (FW-2; WC-2; BE-1; JV-1; MM-1)
Charles Clark Macomber, Harvard (BE-1)
A. Barr Snively , Princeton (NB-1)
Clarence Swanson , Nebraska (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; BE-2)
Brodie Stephens , California (WC-3; JV-1)
Cyril Myers, Ohio State (NB-2)
David Munns, Cornell (NB-2)
Stanley McCollum , Penn State (LP-2)
Lester Belding , Iowa (FW-3; JV-2)
Owen Reynolds , Georgia (FW-3)
Tackles
Dan McMillan , California (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-1; WC-3; WE-1; JV-1)
Iolas Huffman , Ohio State (FW-1; LP-1; BE-2; JV-2; NB-2)
Duke Slater , Iowa (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-2; WC-2; BE-1; WE-1; JV-1; MM-2)
Charles McGuire, Chicago (FW-2; WC-1; BE-2; JV-3; MM-1)
Russ Stein , Washington & Jefferson (WC-1)
Bertrand Gullick, Syracuse (NB-1)
Buck Shaw , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-2 [as g]; LP-1)
Drumm, Princeton (LP-2)
Franklin Cappon , Michigan (NB-2)
Albert N. Into, Yale (WC-3; JV-3)
James Brader, Wisconsin (FW-3)
Century Milstead , Wabash (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-3)
Clyde W. King, Navy (JV-2)
Johnny Boyle, USC (MM-2)
Guards
Fiske Brown , Harvard (WC-1; LP-1; BE-1; JV-2)
Frank Schwab , Lafayette (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-1; WC-1; LP-2)
Stan Keck , Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-1; WC-2; LP-2; BE-1; MM-1 [t])
Dean Trott, Ohio State (WC-2; LP-1; JV-1)
Art Carney , Navy (BE-1; MM-2)
Ray Baer, Penn State (WE-1; MM-1)
Robert J. Dunne , Michigan (NB-1)
Joe Bedenk , Penn State (WC-2)
Charles Marion Redmon, Chicago (LP-2; JV-2)
John Pucelik , Nebraska (WC-3; WE-1)
Hugh Whelchel , Georgia (WC-3)
Phillip Cruikshank, Yale (BE-2)
Heartley Anderson , Notre Dame (BE-2; JV-1)
Otto Vogel , Illinois (NB-2)
Joy Berquist, Nebraska (NB-2)
Carl Peterson, Nebraska (FW-3)
Lloyd Pixley , Ohio State (FW-3; NB-1)
Fritz Breidster , Army (JV-3)
Pink Baker, Princeton (JV-3)
Leonard C. Hanson , Cornell (MM-1; NB-1 [t])
Centers
Herb Stein , Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-1; WC-3; LP-2; BE-1; WE-1; JV-1; MM-1)
Ernie Vick , Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-3; WC-1; WE-3; MM-2)
Al Wittmer , Princeton (LP-1; BE-2; JV-2)
Polly Wallace , Iowa State (NB-1)
Larsen, Army (FW-2; WC-2)
George Bunge , Wisconsin (JV-3; MM-2 [g])
Emery Larson, Navy (NB-2)
Bo McMillin of Centre scoring on Harvard.
Quarterbacks
Aubrey Devine , Iowa (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-1 [hb]; WC-1; LP-1; BE-1; WE-1; JV-1 [hb]; MM-1; NB-2)
Bo McMillin , Centre (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-1; WC-2; LP-1 [hb]; BE-2; JV-2; MM-1; NB-1)
Donold Lourie , Princeton (WC-3)
Milton Romney , Chicago (FW-2; LP-2)
Charles O'Hearn, Yale (FW-3)
Hoge Workman , Ohio State (JV-3)
Halfbacks
Glenn Killinger of Penn State.
Glenn Killinger , Penn State (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-1; WC-1; LP-1; BE-1; JV-1 [qb])
Mac Aldrich , Yale (FW-2; WC-1; LP-2; BE-1; WE-1; JV-1; MM-1; NB-1)
George Owen , Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-2 [fb]; WC-2; BE-1 [fb]; WE-1 [fb]; JV-1 [fb]; NB-2)
Tom Davies , Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-2; WC-2; BE-2 [fb])
Walter E. French , Army (WC-3)
Stephen Barchet , Navy (WC-3)
Crip Toomey , California (FW-3; BE-2; JV-2)
Paul Castner , Notre Dame (JV-2)
Al Elliott , Wisconsin (JV-3; NB-2)
Red Barron , Georgia Tech (JV-3)
Gordon Locke , Iowa (MM-1; NB-1 [fb])
Jim Robertson , Dartmouth (MM-2)
Roscoe W. Fitts, Harvard (MM-2)
James Bradshaw , Nevada (MM-2)
Fullbacks
Key
NCAA recognized selector for 1921
Other selectors
Bold = Consensus All-American[ 7]
1 – First-team selection
2 – Second-team selection
3 – Third-team selection
See also
References
^ Not currently rated as a consensus All-American in the NCAA awards guide.
^ "Walter Camp's All-America Selections for 1921" (PDF) . The New York Times . December 21, 1921. Retrieved March 6, 2013 .
^ "All-American Football Team Is Selected By 267 Coaches: Both McMillin and Aubrey Devine Are Accorded". The Colorado Spring Gazette . December 22, 1921.
^ "Players from Coast to Coast Put on All-American Team by Veiock". Tulsa Daily World . December 4, 1921.
^ "All-America Addendum -- Part 2" (PDF) . College Football Historical Society Newsletter. November 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 12, 2012. Retrieved March 5, 2010 .
^ "Western Players Predominate On All American Team Picked By Normy Brown". Capital Times . November 28, 1921.
^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF) . National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017 .