1944 College Football All-America Team

The 1944 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 for the 1944 college football season. The organizations that chose the teams included: the United Press; the Associated Press; Collier's Weekly selected by Grantland Rice; and the New York Sun.

Key

 * AP = Associated Press
 * UP = United Press: "selected for the United Press ... by sports editors and writers from all over the country"
 * FWAA = Football Writers Association of America
 * COL = Collier's Weekly: "chosen by Grantland Rice and 10 veteran football writers from all sections of the country"
 * CP = Central Press Association: "Mighty Army, Navy, and Ohio State dominated the 1944 Central Press Captains' All-American team, picked for the 14th straight season with the help of the nation's football captains. As in the past two years, service players are not included in the selections."
 * INS = International News Service
 * NEA = Newspaper Editors Association: "It still is the duty of every football writer, it seems, to pick an All-America team. Selecting one has become a futility that even a World War can't stop. So without further ado and with no apologies, here we go again."
 * LOOK = Look Magazine, selected by NBC sports reporter and commentator Bill Stern
 * WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation

Bold = Consensus All-American


 * 1 - First Team Selection
 * 2 - Second Team Selection
 * 3 - Third Team Selection

Ends

 * Phil Tinsley, Georgia Tech (AP-1; UP-2; FWAA-2; COL; INS-1; NEA; CP-1; LOOK; WC)
 * Paul Walker, Yale (UP-2; FWAA-1; COL; INS-2; NEA; CP-1; LOOK)
 * Jack Dugger, Ohio State (AP-3; UP-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; CP-2; WC)
 * Hub Bechtol, Texas (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1)
 * Henry Walker, Virginia (AP-2)
 * Leon Bramlett, Navy (AP-2)
 * Barney Poole, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-1; INS-2; CP-2)
 * Frank Bauman, Purdue (UP-3; FWAA-2)
 * H. Martin, Navy (UP-3)
 * Arthur Renner, Michigan (UP-4)

Tackles

 * Don Whitmire, Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; COL; INS-1; NEA; CP-1; LOOK; WC)
 * John Ferraro, Southern California (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; FWAA-1; COL; INS-1; NEA [g]; CP-1; WC)
 * George Savitsky, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-3; NEA)
 * Bill Willis, Ohio State (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-1; FWAA-2; INS-2; LOOK)
 * Milan Lazetich, Michigan (AP-2; UP-3; FWAA-2; INS-2; CP-2)
 * Monte Moncrief, Texas A&M (AP-3)
 * Robert McClure, Nevada (AP-3; UP-4)
 * DeWitt "Tex" Coulter, Army (UP-2)
 * George Owen, Wake Forest (UP-4)
 * George Sullivan, Notre Dame (UP-4; CP-2)

Guards

 * Bill Hackett, Ohio State (AP-1; UP-2; FWAA-1; COL; INS-2; CP-1; WC)
 * Ben Chase, Navy (UP-1; FWAA-2; INS-1; CP-1; WC)
 * Hamilton Nichols, Jr., Rice (AP-1)
 * Joseph Stanowicz, Army (UP-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; CP-2)
 * Clyde Flowers, Texas Christian (NEA)
 * John Green, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; COL; INS-2)
 * William Hachten, California (AP-2; UP-4; LOOK)
 * Ralph Serpico, Illinois (AP-3; UP-3; FWAA-2)
 * Robert Dobelstein, Tennessee (AP-3)
 * Pat Filley, Notre Dame (UP-2)
 * Ellis Jones, Tulsa (UP-3; CP-2; LOOK)
 * Ernie Knotts, Duke (UP-4)

Centers

 * John Tavener, Indiana (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; CP-1; LOOK)
 * Caleb Warrington, Auburn (AP-1; UP-3; FWAA-2; COL; INS-2; NEA; WC)
 * Felto Prewitt, Tulsa (AP-2)
 * Robert St. Onge, Army (AP-3)
 * John T. Martin, Navy (UP-2)
 * Gordon Appleby, Ohio State (UP-4)
 * Gordon Berlin, Washington (CP-2)

Quarterbacks

 * Les Horvath, Ohio State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; COL [fb]; INS-1; NEA; CP-1; LOOK; WC)
 * Buddy Young, Illinois (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-2; INS-2; CP-2; LOOK)
 * Doug Kenna, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-3; COL; CP-2)
 * Jim Hardy, Southern California (UP-4; FWAA-2)
 * Frank Broyles, Georgia Tech (FWAA-2)

Halfbacks

 * Glenn Davis, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; NEA; CP-1; WC)
 * Bob Jenkins, Navy (AP-2; UP-1; FWAA-2; COL; INS-2; NEA; WC)
 * Bob "Blonde Bomber" Fenimore, Oklahoma A&M (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-3; FWAA-1; COL; INS-2; NEA; CP-2)
 * Earl "Jug" Girard, Wisconsin (LOOK)
 * Robert Kelly, Notre Dame (AP-3; UP-2; INS-2)
 * Tom "Shorty" McWilliams, Mississippi State (AP-2; UP-2)
 * Thomas Davis, Duke (AP-3; UP-4; CP-2)
 * Harold Hamburg, Navy (AP-3; UP-3)
 * Clyde "Smackover" Scott, Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-4)

Fullbacks

 * Doc Blanchard, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; CP-1; LOOK; WC)
 * Babe Dimancheff, Purdue (AP-2; UP-2; FWAA-2; INS-1; CP-1)
 * Bob Wiese, Michigan/Navy (UP-3)
 * Gordon Gray, Southern California (AP-3; UP-4)