1927 College Football All-America Team

The 1927 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 1927. 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 based on consensus among UP newspapers throughout the country and prominent football coaches
 * COL = Collier's Weekly as selected by Grantland Rice with assistance from well-known coaches, including Glenn Warner, Robert Zuppke, Knute Rockne and Dan McGugin
 * CP = Central Press Association, billed as the "Real" All-American team with selections based on fan input with cooperation from "hundreds of newspapers throughout the country"
 * HE = Hearst newspapers, consensus selection of more than 100 sports writers and editors at the Hearst newspapers
 * DJW = Davis J. Walsh
 * NYS = New York Sun
 * BE = Billy Evans
 * WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation
 * LP = Lawrence Perry
 * AAB = All America Board
 * Bold - Consensus All-American
 * 1 - First Team Selection
 * 2 - Second Team Selection
 * 3 - Third Team Selection

Ends

 * Bennie Oosterbaan, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB)
 * Tom Nash, Georgia (AP-3; UP-3; COL-1; HE-1; DJW-1; BE-3; LP-1; AAB)
 * Ivy Shiver, Georgia Tech (AP-1; UP-1; CP-2; HE-2; DJW-3; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-2)
 * Dwight Fishwick, Yale (CP-1)
 * George Cole, Dartmouth (AP-2; HE-3; DJW-2)
 * Raymond Matthews, Texas Christian (AP-2; DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-3)
 * Irvine Phillips, California (AP-3; CP-2)
 * Stewart Scott, Yale (UP-2; BE-2)
 * Charles Born, Army (UP-2; HE-2; DJW-3; NYS-2; BE-2)
 * Charlie Moeser, Princeton (HE-3; LP-2)
 * Charles Walsh, Notre Dame (UP-3)

Tackles

 * Jesse Hibbs, Southern California (AP-2; UP-1; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-2; LP-1; AAB)
 * Ed Hake, Penn (AP-1; UP-1; CP-2; HE-2; BE-3)
 * Bud Sprague, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1)
 * Bill Kern, Pittsburgh (HE-2; NYS-2; BE-1)
 * John Smith, Penn (AP-2; COL-1; DJW-3)
 * Leo Raskowski, Ohio State (AP-3; COL-1; HE-3; BE-1; LP-1)
 * Fred Pickhard, Alabama (UP-2; CP-2)
 * Leo Nowack, Illinois (AP-3)
 * George Perry, Army (NYS-1; BE-2)
 * Jap Douds, Washington & Jefferson (HE-3; BE-3)
 * Sidney Quarrier, Yale (UP-3; AAB)
 * Fitzgerald, Tufts (UP-3)
 * Alton C. Sprott, Texas A&M (DJW-3; NYS-2; BE-3 [g])

Guards

 * Bill Webster, Yale (AP-1; UP-2; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB)
 * John P. "Clipper" Smith, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; AAB)
 * Russell Crane, Illinois (COL-1; LP-2)
 * Ray Baer, Michigan (AP-2; UP-2; CP-2; HE-2; DJW-2; BE-2)
 * John Barnhill, Tennessee (AP-2)
 * Harold Hanson, Minnesota (AP-3; UP-1; CP-2; HE-2; DJW-3; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-1)
 * Gene Smith, Georgia (AP-3)
 * William Wright, Washington (DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-3; LP-2)
 * Justin Whitlock Dart, Northwestern (UP-3)
 * R. Van I. Miller, Amherst (UP-3)
 * Dan McMullen, Nebraska (DJW-3)
 * French, Princeton (HE-3)
 * Seraphim Post, Stanford (HE-3)

Centers

 * John Charlesworth, Yale (UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-2; BE-1)
 * Larry Bettencourt, St. Mary's (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; CP-2; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-2; LP-2; AAB)
 * Claude Grigsby, Georgetown (AP-2; HE-3)
 * Ken Rouse, Chicago (AP-3; UP-3)
 * Robert Reitsch, Illinois (DJW-3; NYS-2; BE-3; LP-1)
 * John McCreery, Stanford (UP-2)
 * Elvin Butcher, Tennessee (DJW-2)

Quarterbacks

 * Morley Drury, Southern California (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1 [hb]; UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1 [hb]; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB)
 * Bill Spears, Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; CP-2; HE-3; DJW-1; LP-2)
 * Joel Hunt, Texas A&M (AP-2; DJW-3)
 * Harold Almquist, Minnesota (AP-3)
 * Jack Connor, New York Univ. (HE-2; DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-2)
 * Gerald Mann, Southern Methodist (BE-3)

Halfbacks

 * Gibby Welch, Pittsburgh (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB)
 * Red Cagle, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-3; COL-1; HE-2; AAB)
 * Christy Flanagan, Notre Dame (UP-1; CP-1; HE-3; DJW-3; BE-1)
 * Alton Marsters, Dartmouth (AP-2; UP-2; HE-3; DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-2)
 * Glenn Presnell, Nebraska (AP-2; UP-2; HE-2; DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-1)
 * Chuck Carroll, Washington (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3)
 * Joel Hunt, Texas A&M (BE-3; LP-2)
 * Louis Gilbert, Michigan (UP-3 [qb]; CP-2; BE-3)
 * Walter Gebert, Marquette (UP-3; DJW-3; LP-2)
 * Bruce Caldwell, Yale (CP-2; HE-1; NYS-1; LP-2)

Fullbacks

 * Herb Joesting, Minnesota (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB)
 * Herdis McCrary, Georgia (AP-2; UP-2; HE-3; DJW-2)
 * Bill Amos, Washington & Jefferson (AP-3; HE-2; BE-3)
 * Mike Miles, Princeton (NYS-2; BE-2)
 * Pat Wilson, Washington (LP-2)
 * Biff Hoffman, Stanford (DJW-3; LP-2)
 * Lou Tesreau, Washington (UP-3)
 * Frank Briante, New York Univ. (CP-2)