1943 College Football All-America Team

The 1943 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers. The organizations choosing the teams included: the United Press, the Associated Press, Collier's Weekly, the New York Sun, and Sporting News.

Consensus All-Americans
The chart below reflects the published point total from the United Press poll (___ points possible), and also reflects the number of polls in which the leading candidates were selected as a first-team All-American, and their point total in the 1943 Heisman Trophy voting.

Ends

 * Ralph Heywood, USC (AP-1; UP-1; SS-1; INS-1; CP-1)
 * John Yonakor, Notre Dame (UP-1; INS-1; CP-1)
 * Pete Pihos, Indiana (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-2; CO-1; NYS-1)
 * John Monahan, Dartmouth (AP-2; NYS-1)
 * Roe Johnston, Navy (SS-1)
 * Herb Hein, Northwestern (CO-1)
 * Joe Parker, Texas (AP-1)
 * Robert Hall, Colorado College (AP-2)
 * Albert Channell, Navy (AP-3)
 * Robert Gantt, Duke (UP-2)

Tackles

 * Don Whitmire, Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-1; INS-1; CP-1)
 * Jim White, Notre Dame (AP-1; UP-1; CO-1; INS-1; CP-1)
 * Art McCaffray, College of the Pacific (UP-2; CO-1; NYS-1)
 * George Connor, Holy Cross (AP-2; NYS-1)
 * Cleo Calgani, Cornell (SS-1)
 * Pattison Preston, Duke (AP-1)
 * Merv Pregulman, Michigan (AP-3; UP-2; CO-1 [guard]; SS-1])
 * Francis Merritt, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2)
 * Solon Burnett, Southwestern (Texas) (AP-3)

Guards

 * Alex Agase, Purdue (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-1; INS-1; CP-1)
 * Pat Filley, Notre Dame (AP-2; UP-1; CO-1)
 * John Steber, Georgia Tech. (AP-1 [tackle]; UP-2; INS-1; NYS-1)
 * Bill Milner, Duke (SS-1; CP-1)
 * Charles Milner, Duke (NYS-1)
 * Don Alvarez, Dartmouth (SS-1)
 * George Brown, Navy (AP-1)
 * John Jaffurs, Penn State (AP-2; UP-2)
 * Richard Ward, Washington (AP-3)

Centers

 * Cas Myslinski, Notre Dame (AP-1; UP-1; CO-1; SS-1; INS-1; CP-1)
 * Jack Martin, Navy (NYS-1)
 * Bill Gray, Southern California (AP-2)
 * Herbert Coleman, Notre Dame (UP-2)
 * Lester Gatewood, Tulane (AP-3)

Quarterbacks

 * Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-1; CO-1; SS-1; INS-1; CP-1; NYS-1)
 * Otto Graham, Northwestern (AP-1; UP-2; CP-1)

Halfbacks

 * Bill Daley, Michigan (AP-1; UP-; CO-1 [fullback]; SS-1; INS-1; CP-1; NYS-1)
 * Bob Odell, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; CO-1; INS-1; NYS-1)
 * Creighton Miller, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; CO-1; INS-1)
 * Eddie Prokop, Georgia Tech (AP-2; UP-2)
 * Alvin Dark, Southwestern Louisiana (AP-2)
 * Harold Hamburg, Navy (UP-2)
 * Steve Van Buren, LSU (AP-3)
 * Robert Hoernschemeyer, Indiana (AP-3)
 * Bob Steuber, DePauw (AP-3)

Fullbacks

 * John Podesto, College of the Pacific (AP-3; SS-1 [halfback]; INS-1; NYS-1)
 * Tony Butkovich, Purdue (killed on Okinawa, World War II) (AP-2; UP-1; SS-1; CP-1)

Key

 * AP = Associated Press
 * UP = United Press
 * CO = Collier's Weekly, selected by Grantland Rice
 * NEA = NEA Sports Syndicate
 * SN = Sporting News, selected through a poll of 86 sports writers in 40 states
 * INS = International News Service (Hearst syndicate)
 * CP = Central Press Association, selected with the assistance of the nation's football captains
 * LK = NBC radio and Look magazine, selected under the supervision of Bill Stern, by 138 sports announcers and 25 key sports writers
 * SS = Stars and Stripes, selected by the sports writers for the Army publication
 * NYS = New York Sun
 * WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation
 * MS = Maxwell Stiles, noted California sports writer, based on the number of weeks a player was named player of the week at his position

Bold = Consensus All-American
 * 1 - First Team Selection
 * 2 - Second Team Selection
 * 3 - Third Team Selection