The 1920 College Football All-America team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-America Teams selected by various organizations for the 1920 college football season .
Key [ ]
WC = Walter Camp[1]
UP = Henry L. Farrell, United Press Staff Correspondent[2]
WE = Walter Eckersall, of the Chicago Tribune[3]
NEA = Newspaper Association of America, by Dean Snyder[4] [5]
LP = Lawrence Perry, "acknowledged authority on college sports," for the Consolidated Press[6]
INS = International News Service, selected by Jake Velock[7]
FW = Football World magazine[8]
MS = Frank Menke Syndicate, Frank G. Menke (sporting editor King Features Syndicate)[8]
NYT = The New York Times[9]
Bold - Consensus All-American[10]
1 - First Team Selection
2 - Second Team Selection
3 - Third Team Selection
All-Americans of 1920 [ ]
Ends [ ]
Charles Carney , Illinois (WC-1; UP-1; WE-1; NEA-1; LP-1; INS-2)
Bill Fincher , Georgia Tech (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1)
Luke Urban , Boston College (WC-2; LP-1; FW; MS; NYT)
Eddie Anderson , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-1; NEA-2)
Armant Legendre , Princeton (WC-2; UP-3; WE-1; LP-2; INS-1; FW)
Carroll, Washington & Jefferson (NYT)
Frank Weston , Wisconsin (WE-2; NEA-2; LP-2; INS-3; MS)
Lester Belding , Iowa (WE-2; INS-2)
Eddie Ewen , Navy (WC-3)
Harold "Brick" Muller , California (WC-3; NEA-1)
Roger Kiley , Notre Dame(INS-1)
Clarence Swanson , Nebraska (College Football Hall of Fame) (INS-3)
Cyril E. Myers , Ohio State (UP-3)
Tackles [ ]
Stan Keck , Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; UP-1; WE-1; NEA-1; LP-1; INS-1; FW; MS; NYT)
Ralph Scott , Wisconsin (WC-1; NEA-2)
Bertrand Gulick , Syracuse (UP-1; INS-1; NYT)
Angus Goetz , Michigan (WC-2)
Dan McMillan , Cal (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2)
Tillie Voss , Detroit (WC-3; WE-1)
Gus Sonnenberg , Dartmouth (WE-2; UP-3; NEA-1; LP-2)
Bill Fincher , Georgia Tech (College Football Hall of Fame) (LP-1)
Frank Coughlin , Notre Dame (WE-2; INS-2)
Thomas V. Dickens , Yale (WC-3; INS-3)
Roy "Soupy" Smoot , Oklahoma (NEA-2)
Elton Wieman , Michigan (LP-2)
Bob Sedgwick , Harvard (INS-2; FW)
Clyde W. King , Navy (UP-3; INS-3)
Guards [ ]
Tim Callahan , Yale (WC-1; UP-1; INS-1)
Tom Woods , Harvard (WC-1; NEA-2; LP-1; INS-2; FW; NYT)
Iolas Huffman , Ohio State (LP-1; MS)
Percy W. Griffiths , Penn State (UP-1; WE-2; NEA-1; INS-1; FW)
John Acosta , Yale (WE-1; NEA-2)
James R. Tolbert , Harvard (WE-1; NEA-1; MS)
Harold Hess , Penn State (NYT)
Edward E. Wilkie , Navy (WC-2; UP-3)
Fritz Breidster , Army (WC-3; WE-2)
Dean Trott , Ohio State (WC-3)
La Bey, Georgia Tech (LP-2)
George Hartong , Chicago (LP-2)
John L. Taylor , Ohio State (INS-2)
Charles McGuire , Chicago (INS-3; MS)
Albert W. T. Mohr , Illinois (INS-3)
Centers [ ]
Herb Stein , Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; WE-2; MS)
Joe Alexander , Syracuse (WC-2 [g]; UP-1; NEA-2; INS-1; FW; NYT)
Polly Wallace , Ames (WE-1)
"Texas Bill" Cunningham , Dartmouth (WC-2; INS-2)
Charles Havemeyer , Harvard (WC-3)
Jack Depler , Illinois (NEA-1)
George Bunge , Wisconsin (LP-1; UP-3 [g])
Andrew J. Nemecek , Ohio State (LP-2)
Day, Nebraska (INS-3)
Jack Heaphy , Boston College (UP-3)
Quarterbacks [ ]
Halfbacks [ ]
Gaylord Stinchcomb , Ohio State (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; WE-1; NEA-2; LP-1; INS-2; MS)
Charles Way , Penn State (WC-1; UP-1; INS-1)
Tom Davies , Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; UP-1; WE-2; INS-2; FW; MS; NYT)
Phil White , Oklahoma (NEA-1)
Hinkey Haines , Penn State (WC-3; WE-2; NEA-2)
Jimmy Leech , Virginia Military Institute (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; UP-3)
George Owen , Harvard (INS-3)
Fullbacks [ ]
George Gipp , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; UP-1; WE-1 [hb]; NEA-1 [hb]; LP-1 [hb]; INS-1 [hb]; MS; FW)
Arnold Horween , Harvard (WC-3; WE-1; NEA-1; LP-2; INS-1)
Hank Garrity , Princeton (WC-2 [hb]; LP-1; NYT [hb])
Walter French , Army (WC-2; LP-2 [hb]; INS-3; FW)
Robertson, Dartmouth (NYT)
Jack Crangle , Illinois (WE-2; NEA-2; INS-2)
Buck Flowers , Georgia Tech (UP-3 [hb]; INS-3)
Fred Strauss , Penn (UP-3)
Notes [ ]
↑ "Camp Names Gridiron Stars". Post-Standard (Syracuse). 1920-12-15.
↑ Henry L. Farrell (1920-12-10). "Brilliant Backs Are Features of 1920 Eleven: United Press Scribe Picks An All-American Eleven Himself". Middletown Daily Herald.
↑ "Weston on Second All-American Team". Janesville Daily Gazette. 1920-12-13.
↑ Dean Snyder (1920-11-29). "East Divides All-American Honors: Snyder's Selection Gives West Even Break In Coveted Places". Bismarck Tribune.
↑ Dean Snyder (1920-12-01). "N.E.A.’s Choice of Season’s Best: 1920 All-American". Lowell Sun.
↑ "Perry Selects the Best Foot Ball Players". Lebanon Daily News. 1920-12-02.
↑ Jacob Velock (1920-12-07). "Hard Task To Pick All-American Team From This Season's Galaxy of Stars". Trenton Evening Times.
↑ 8.0 8.1 ESPN College Football Encyclopedia, p. 1154
↑ 1921 Official NCAA Football Guide
↑ Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners