1932 College Football All-America Team

The 1932 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 1932. The organizations that chose the teams included: the United Press and the Associated Press.

Key

 * AP = Associated Press
 * UP = United Press
 * CO = Collier's Weekly, selected by Grantland Rice
 * AAB = All America Board selected by Christy Walsh in collaboration with Glenn Warner, W.A. Alexander, Jesse C. Harper, Edward L. Casey
 * NEA = NEA Sports Syndicate
 * INS = INS (Hearst) newspaper syndicate
 * CP = Central Press Association, the captains' poll
 * NYS = New York Sun
 * WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation
 * NYW = New York World-Telegram
 * TR = Ted A. Ramsay, an attempt to create a consensus All-American team using the selections of the six most prominent selectors: the All-America Board, NEA, UP, AP, New York Sun and New York World. Three players, Moss, Kurth and Newman were unanimously selected by all six.
 * PD = Parke H. Davis
 * PM = Philip Martin
 * Bold - Consensus All-American
 * 1 - First Team Selection
 * 2 - Second Team Selection
 * 3 - Third Team Selection

Ends

 * Paul Moss, Purdue (AP-1; UP-1; CO-1; AAB-1; NEA-1; INS-1; CP-1; NYS-1; NYT-1; WC-1; TR-1; PD; PM)
 * Joe Skladany, Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-1; NEA-1; INS-1; CP-2; TR-1)
 * Ted Petoskey, Michigan (UP-3; WC-1; AAB-1; INS-3; NYS-2)
 * Jose Martinez-Zorilla, Cornell (AP-1)
 * David Ariall, Auburn (NEA-2; CP-1)
 * Richard King, Army (AP-2; UP-3; NEA-2; INS-2; NYS-1)
 * David Nisbet, Washington (AP-3; CO-1; INS-2)
 * Clary Anderson, Colgate (NEA-3; NYT-1)
 * Frank Meadow, Brown (AP-3)
 * Edwin Kosky, Notre Dame (UP-2)
 * Virgil Rayburn, Tennessee (NYS-2)
 * Anthony "Tony" Matal, Columbia (UP-2; NEA-3; PM)
 * Francis "Hands" Slavich, Santa Clara (INS-3)
 * Sidney Gillman, Ohio State (PD)
 * Ivy Williamson, Michigan (CP-2)
 * Ford Palmer, Univ. Southern Calif. (CP-3)
 * Madison Pruitt, Texas Christian (CP-3)

Tackles

 * Joe Kurth, Notre Dame (AP-1; UP-1; CO-1; AAB-1; NEA-1; INS-1; CP-1; NYS-1; NYT-1; WC-1; TR-1; PM)
 * Ernie Smith, Southern California (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; CO-1; AAB-1; NEA-1; INS-1; CP-1; NYS-2; NYT-1; WC-1; TR-1; PD)
 * Edward Krause, Notre Dame (AP-2; UP-3; NEA-2; INS-2; CP-2)
 * Fred Crawford, Duke (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-2; CP-3)
 * Raymond Brown, Southern California (AP-3; UP-3; NEA-2; INS-2; CP-3; NYS-1; PM)
 * Howard Colehower, Penn (AP-3; UP-2; NEA-3; INS-3; CP-2)
 * L. Brown, Brown (NEA-3)
 * Ted Rosequist, Ohio State (INS-3)
 * John Wilbur, Yale (NYS-2)
 * Irad Hardy, Harvard (PD)

Guards

 * Milton Summerfelt, Army (AP-1; UP-1; CO-1; NEA-1; INS-1; CP-1; NYS-1; NYT-1; TR-1; PD; PM)
 * Bill Corbus, Stanford (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-1; CO-1; AAB-1; NEA-1; CP-2; NYS-1; WC-1; TR-1)
 * Robert Smith, Colgate (AP-2; UP-2; AAB-1; NEA-2; INS-1; CP-1; NYS-2; WC-1; PD)
 * Johnny Vaught, Texas Christian (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; INS-3; CP-3; NYT-1)
 * Joseph Gailus, Ohio State (AP-2; UP-3; NEA-2; INS-2; CP-3; NYS-2; PM)
 * Mike Steponovich, St. Mary's (AP-3; NEA-3)
 * James Harris, Notre Dame (NEA-3)
 * Aaron Rosenberg, Southern California (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-3; INS-2)
 * Gregory Kabat, Wisconsin (INS-3)
 * Thomas Hupke, Alabama (CP-2)

Centers

 * Clarence "Pete" Gracey, Vanderbilt (AP-2; UP-1; NEA-2; INS-2; NYS-2; NYT-1; TR-1)
 * Lawrence Ely, Nebraska (AP-1; UP-2; CO-1; AAB-1; INS-3; NYS-1)
 * Chuck Bernard, Michigan (AP-3; NEA-1; INS-1; CP-2)
 * Cap Oehler, Purdue (NEA-3)
 * Tom Gilbane, Brown (CP-1)
 * Art Krueger, Marquette (WC-1; PM)
 * Peter Gracey, Vanderbilt (CP-3; PD)
 * Joe Tormey, Pitt (UP-3)

Quarterbacks

 * Harry Newman, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; CO-1; AAB-1; NEA-1; INS-1; CP-1; NYS-1; NYT-1; WC-1; TR-1; PD; PM)
 * Clifford Montgomery, Columbia (AP-2; UP-3; INS-2; NYS-2)
 * Felix Vidal, Army (AP-3)
 * Bob Monnett, Michigan State (NEA-2)
 * Johnny Cain, Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (NEA-3)
 * Robert Ramsay Chase, Brown (INS-3; CP-2; NYS-1 [fb])
 * Charles R. Soleau, Colgate (UP-3)
 * William "Bill" Beasley, St. Mary's (CP-3)

Halfbacks

 * Warren Heller, Pittsburgh (AP-1; UP-1; CO-1 [fb]; AAB-1; NEA-1; INS-1; CP-1; NYS-1; WC-1; TR-1; PM)
 * Jimmy Hitchcock, Auburn (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; CO-1; AAB-1; NEA-1; INS-1; CP-2; NYS-2; NYT-1; WC-1; TR-1; PD; PM)
 * Don Zimmerman, Tulane (AP-1 [fb]; UP-1; CO-1; NEA-3; INS-2; CP-1; NYT-1)
 * Harrison Stafford, Texas (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2)
 * George Sanders, Washington State (AP-2; UP-3; NEA-2; NYS-2)
 * Beattie Feathers, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-3; INS-3)
 * John Crickard, Harvard (AP-3)
 * Gil Berry, Illinois (NEA-2; CP-3)
 * Frank Christensen, Utah (NEA-3)
 * Johnny Cain, Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (INS-2)
 * Whitey Ask, Colgate (INS-3)
 * Robert Lassiter, Yale (PD)
 * Bohn Hilliard, Texas (CP-2)
 * Henry "Hank" Schaldach, California (CP-3)

Fullbacks

 * Roy Horstmann, Purdue (UP-2; AAB-1; NEA-1; INS-1; CP-2; NYS-1 [hb]; NYT-1; WC-1; TR-1; PM)
 * Frank Christensen, Utah (UP-1; CP-3)
 * Jack Manders, Minnesota (CP-1; INS-3)
 * Bart Viviano, Cornell (AP-2; NYS-2)
 * Duane Purvis, Purdue (AP-3)
 * George Melinkovich, Notre Dame (UP-2 [halfback]; NEA-2; INS-2; PD)
 * Angelo Brovelli, St. Mary's (UP-3; NEA-3)