1945 College Football All-America Team

The 1945 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 1945 college football season. The organizations that chose the teams included: the United Press; the Associated Press; the Football Writers Association of America; Collier's Weekly selected by Grantland Rice; and the New York Sun.

Ends

 * Dick Duden, Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; COL-1; CP-1; INS-2; YANK; NYS; OF-1; WC-1; CNS-1; NL)
 * Hub Bechtol, Texas (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; FWAA-2; COL-1; CP-2; LOOK; CNS-1)
 * Bob Ravensberg, Indiana (UP-2; FWAA-1; SN; CP-1; INS-2; LOOK; CNS-2)
 * Max Morris, Northwestern (AP-2; UP-2; FWAA-2; CP-2; INS-1; YANK; WC-1)
 * Hank Foldberg, Army (AP-2; UP-1; CP-3; INS-1; NEA-1; NYS; OF-1; CNS-2)
 * Henry Walker, Virginia (AP-3)
 * Neill Armstrong, Oklahoma A&M (AP-3)
 * Paul Walker, Yale (CP-3; NL)
 * Richard Pitzer, Army (NEA-1)

Tackles

 * Tex Coulter, Army (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; COL-1; CP-1; INS-1; NEA-1; NYS; OF-1; WC-1; CNS-1; NL)
 * George Savitsky, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; COL-1; CP-1; INS-2; LOOK; WC-1; CNS-1)
 * Albert Nemetz, Army (AP-1; UP-2; FWAA-2; INS-2; NEA-1; YANK; NYS; CNS-2)
 * Tom Hughes, Purdue (UP-2; FWAA-2; CP-2; LOOK; OF-1; CNS-2; NL)
 * Thomas Dean, Southern Methodist Univ. (AP-2; YANK)
 * Mike Castronis, Georgia (INS-1)
 * Jim Kekeris, Missouri (AP-2; CP-2)
 * Clarence Esser, Wisconsin (AP-3)
 * Buster McClure, Nevada (CP-3)
 * Monte Moncrief, Texas A&M (CP-3)

Guards

 * Warren Amling, Ohio State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; COL-1; CP-1; INS-1; LOOK; NYS; OF-1; WC-1; CNS-1; NL)
 * John Green, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; COL-1; NYS; OF-1; WC-1; CNS-1)
 * Al Sparlis, UCLA (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; CP-1; INS-2; LOOK; CNS-2)
 * John Mastrangelo, Notre Dame (AP-2; UP-2; FWAA-2; CP-2; INS-1; YANK; CNS-2)
 * James Carrington, Navy (UP-2; FWAA-2; INS-2)
 * Joseph Dickinson, Penn (AP-2; CP-2)
 * Jim Lecture, Northwestern (AP-3; CP-3)
 * John Green, Army (CP-3; NEA-1; YANK)
 * Arthur Gerometta, Army (NEA-1)
 * Hills, Georgia Tech (NL)

Centers

 * Vaughn Mancha, Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; COL-1; CP-1; INS-1; YANK; NYS; OF-1; CNS-1)
 * Dick Scott, Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-2; FWAA-2; CP-2; INS-2; LOOK; WC-1; CNS-2; NL)
 * Ralph Jenkins, Clemson (AP-3)
 * Harold Watts, Michigan (CP-3)
 * Herschel Fuson, Army (NEA-1)

Quarterbacks

 * Harry Gilmer, Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-2; FWAA-2; SN; COL-1; CP-2; INS-2; LOOK; NYS; OF-1 [qb]; CNS-1; NL)
 * Frank Dancewicz, Notre Dame (AP-2; UP-2; FWAA-2; CP-1; CNS-2)
 * Arnold Tucker, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (CP-3; INS-2; NEA-1)
 * Gene Rossides, Columbia (CP-3)

Halfbacks

 * Glenn Davis, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; COL-1; CP-1; INS-1; NEA-1; YANK; LOOK; NYS; OF-1; WC-1; CNS-1; NL)
 * Herman Wedemeyer, St. Mary's (Calif.) (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; COL-1; CP-1; INS-1; LOOK; OF-1; WC-1; CNS-1; NL)
 * Bob Fenimore, Oklahoma State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; CP-2; INS-1; WC-1; CNS-2)
 * Jake Leicht, Oregon (YANK; NYS)
 * George Taliaferro, Indiana (AP-3; CP-3; INS-2; CNS-2)
 * Clyde Scott, Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-2)
 * Stan Kozlowski, Holy Cross (AP-3; CP-2)
 * Robert Evans, Penn (AP-3)
 * Thomas McWilliam, Army (NEA-1)

Fullbacks

 * Doc Blanchard, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; COL-1; CP-1; INS-1; NEA-1; YANK; LOOK; NYS; OF-1; WC-1; CNS-1; NL)
 * Pete Pihos, Indiana (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-2; FWAA-2; CP-2; YANK; CNS-2)
 * Ollie Cline, Ohio State (AP-2; FWAA-2)
 * Walt Schlinkman, Texas Tech (INS-2)
 * Ed Cody, Purdue (CP-3)

Key

 * AP = Associated Press
 * UP = United Press
 * FWAA = Football Writers Association of America
 * SN = Sporting News, selected by a poll of 163 sports writers and sportscasters
 * COL = Collier's Weekly as selected by Grantland Rice
 * CP = Central Press Association, selected for the 15th straight year with the aid of the captains of the leading college teams
 * INS = International News Service, "selected on the basis of ballots and information gathered from International News Service sports writers and football authorities all over the nation"
 * NEA = Newspaper Editors Association. In a departure from normal practice, the NEA named the starters from the Army football team, which had  won 17 straight games, as its All-American team for 1945I
 * YANK = Yank Magazine, based on a poll of 25 of the country's most widely known college football coaches
 * LOOK = Look magazine
 * NYS = New York Sun
 * OF = Oscar Fraley, United Press sports writer
 * WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation
 * CNS = Consensus All-American team picked based on assigning points to players selected as All-Americans by Oscar Fraley, Christy Walsh, United Press, Look, New York Sun, New York News, International News, Associated Press, Sporting News, and Collies-Rice
 * NL = Navy Log

Bold = Consensus All-American


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

Heisman Trophy voting
The chart below reflects the point total in the 1945 Heisman Trophy voting.