1908 College Football All-America Team

The 1908 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 1908 college football season. The organizations that chose the teams included Walter Camp for Collier's Weekly and Casper Whitney for Outing Magazine.

All-American selections for 1908[]

WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter Camp^[1]
CON = Consensus based on All-American teams selected by 25 football experts; number indicates how many of the 25 experts selected the individual as a first-team All-American; any player with at least 5 of 25 selections is listed hear as a second-team selection: CON-2^[2]
NYW = New York World, selected by former Yale quarterback Tad Jones^[3]
PI = Philadelphia Inquirer, selected by Franklin^[4]
FY = Fielding H. Yost, football coach of the University of Michigan^[5]
TT = Tom Thorpe, former star tackle and captain of Columbia^[6]
NYG = New York Globe^[7]
CSM = Christian Science Monthly^[8]
NYT = The New York Times^[9]
NYET = New York Evening Telegram^[9]
BSU = Brooklyn Standard Union^[8]
BP = Boston Post^[8]
PD = Pittsburgh Dispatch^[10]
NHR = New Haven Register^[10]
TJ = Tad Jones^[10]
KCJ = Kansas City Journal^[10]
PP = Philadelphia Press^[11]
PT = Philadelphia Times^[11]
PES = Philadelphia Evening Star^[11]
WH = Washington Herald, selected by William Peet^[10]
CIO = Chicago Inter-Ocean^[10]
FC = Fred Crolius^[10]
Bold - Consensus All-American^[12]
1 - First Team Selection
2 - Second Team Selection
3 - Third Team Selection

Hunter Scarlett, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CON-1 [23]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; FC)
George Schildmiller, Dartmouth (WC-1; CON-1 [18]; PI; TT; NYG; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; PT; PES; CIO; FC)
Fisher, Syracuse (NYW; FY; TJ; KCJ)
Dennie, Brown (WC-2; CSM; NHR)
Reifsnider, Navy (WC-2)
Harlan Page, Chicago (WC-3)
Johnson, Army (WC-3)
Kennedy, Dartmouth (NYT; NHR; WH)
Brown, Harvard (PP)

Hamilton Fish, Harvard (WC-1; CON-1 [14]; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYT; BSU; BP; KCJ; PT; FC)
Frank Horr, Syracuse (WC-1; CON-2 [9]; NYG; NYET; PD [g]; PES [g])
Percy Northcroft, Navy (WC-3; CIO)
Dexter Draper, Penn (WC-3; CON-1 [13]; PI; TT; BSU; BP; PD; NHR; PP; PT; PES; WH; FC)
Rudolph Siegling, Princeton (WC-2; CON-2 [11]; NYW-1; NYT; BP [g]; PD; TJ; PP; WH; CIO)
Daniel Pullen, Army (NYW; FY; TJ; KCJ)
McKay, Harvard (CSM)
Arthur Brides, Yale (NHR)

Hamlin Andrus, Yale (WC-2; CON-1 [13]; NYW; NYT; NYET; BSU; TJ; KCJ; PT; PES)
William Goebel, Yale (WC-1; CON-1 [16]; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYT; PD; NHR; PP; WH; CIO; FC)
Bernard O'Rourke, Cornell (WC-2; NYET; PES; WH [g])
Clark Tobin, Dartmouth (WC-1; CON-2 [12]; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYET; BSU; BP; KCJ)
Hoar, Harvard (WC-3; NYW; TJ; PP)
Francis Burr, Havard (PT)
John Messmer, Wisconsin (WC-2)
Forest Van Hook, Illinois (WC-3)
Waugh, Syracuse (NHR)
Rich, Dartmouth (FC)

Charles Nourse, Harvard (WC-1; CON-1 [12]; NYG; NYT; CIO [g])
Germany Schulz, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (CON-2 [9]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; CSM; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; NHR; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES)
Wallace Philoon, Army (WC-2; WH; CIO; FC)
Brusse, Dartmouth (WC-3)

Walter Steffen, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; FY; NYET; PD; NHR; KCJ)
Ed Lange, Navy (CON-1 [12]; TT; NYG; BP; PP; WH; CIO)
Albert Miller, Penn (WC-3; CON-2 [6]; PI; BSU; TJ; PT; PES; FC)
Cutler, Harvard (WC-2; CSM; NYT)

Hamilton Corbett, Harvard (CIO)
Bill Hollenback, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CON-1 [21]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; NYG; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; FC)
Frederick Tibbott, Princeton (WC-1; CON-1 [21]; NYW; FY; TT; CSM; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; NHR; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; CIO)
Jim Thorpe, Carlisle (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; PI)
Ernest Ver Wiebe, Harvard (WC-2; CSM; NHR)
John W. Mayhew, Brown (WC-2)
Gray, Amherst (WC-3)
Walder, Cornell (PD)

Ted Coy, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CON-1 [24]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; NHR; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; CIO [e]; FC)
George Walder, Cornell (WC-2; CIO; FC)
George McCaa, Lafayette (WC-3)

↑ "Walter Camp Football Foundation". http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards//.
↑ ""Consensus" All-American Football Team of 1908". Philadelphia Inquirer. 1908-12-20.
↑ "Anoter All-American. Tad Jones of Yale Picks Best Football Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1908-12-05.
↑ Franklin (1908-12-06). ""All American" Team Should Have Clever Placement Kicker: Thorpe Is Best Man". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
↑ Franklin (1908-12-11). "Penn Best, Says Yost: But Puts Only Scarlet and Hollenback on All-American Team". Grand Forks Daily Herald.
↑ Tom Thorpe (1908-11-30). "Thorpe Picks All American Eleven". The Evening Telegram (Salt Lake city).
↑ "More All-American: The New York Globe Would Have Horr As Tackle". Syracuse Herald. 1908-12-04.
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 ^8.2 Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1909. p. 27. http://www.archive.org/stream/officialnational05nati#page/n15/mode/2up.
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 Spalding, p. 23
↑ ^10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 ^10.3 ^10.4 ^10.5 ^10.6 Spalding, p. 27
↑ ^11.0 ^11.1 ^11.2 Spalding, p. 25
↑ Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners

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