1927 College Football All-America Team

The 1927 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 1927. The organizations that chose the teams included: the United Press; the Associated Press; Collier's Weekly selected by Grantland Rice; and the New York Sun.

All-American selections for 1927

Key

• AP = Associated Press
• UP = United Press, selected based on consensus among UP newspapers throughout the country and prominent football coaches
• COL = Collier's Weekly as selected by Grantland Rice with assistance from well-known coaches, including Glenn Warner, Robert Zuppke, Knute Rockne and Dan McGugin
• CP = Central Press Association, billed as the "Real" All-American team with selections based on fan input with cooperation from "hundreds of newspapers throughout the country"
• HE = Hearst newspapers, consensus selection of more than 100 sports writers and editors at the Hearst newspapers
• DJW = Davis J. Walsh
• NYS = New York Sun
• BE = Billy Evans
• WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation
• LP = Lawrence Perry
• AAB = All America Board
• Bold - Consensus All-American
• 1 - First Team Selection
• 2 - Second Team Selection
• 3 - Third Team Selection

Ends

• Bennie Oosterbaan, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB)
• Tom Nash, Georgia (AP-3; UP-3; COL-1; HE-1; DJW-1; BE-3; LP-1; AAB)
• Ivy Shiver, Georgia Tech (AP-1; UP-1; CP-2; HE-2; DJW-3; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-2)
• Dwight Fishwick, Yale (CP-1)
• George Cole, Dartmouth (AP-2; HE-3; DJW-2)
• Raymond Matthews, Texas Christian (AP-2; DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-3)
• Irvine Phillips, California (AP-3; CP-2)
• Stewart Scott, Yale (UP-2; BE-2)
• Charles Born, Army (UP-2; HE-2; DJW-3; NYS-2; BE-2)
• Charlie Moeser, Princeton (HE-3; LP-2)
• Charles Walsh, Notre Dame (UP-3)

Tackles

• Jesse Hibbs, Southern California (AP-2; UP-1; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-2; LP-1; AAB)
• Ed Hake, Penn (AP-1; UP-1; CP-2; HE-2; BE-3)
• Bud Sprague, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1)
• Bill Kern, Pittsburgh (HE-2; NYS-2; BE-1)
• John Smith, Penn (AP-2; COL-1; DJW-3)
• Leo Raskowski, Ohio State (AP-3; COL-1; HE-3; BE-1; LP-1)
• Fred Pickhard, Alabama (UP-2; CP-2)
• Leo Nowack, Illinois (AP-3)
• George Perry, Army (NYS-1; BE-2)
• Jap Douds, Washington & Jefferson (HE-3; BE-3)
• Sidney Quarrier, Yale (UP-3; AAB)
• Fitzgerald, Tufts (UP-3)
• Alton C. Sprott, Texas A&M (DJW-3; NYS-2; BE-3 [g])

Guards

• Bill Webster, Yale (AP-1; UP-2; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB)
• John P. "Clipper" Smith, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; AAB)
• Russell Crane, Illinois (COL-1; LP-2)
• Ray Baer, Michigan (AP-2; UP-2; CP-2; HE-2; DJW-2; BE-2)
• John Barnhill, Tennessee (AP-2)
• Harold Hanson, Minnesota (AP-3; UP-1; CP-2; HE-2; DJW-3; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-1)
• Gene Smith, Georgia (AP-3)
• William Wright, Washington (DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-3; LP-2)
• Justin Whitlock Dart, Northwestern (UP-3)
• R. Van I. Miller, Amherst (UP-3)
• Dan McMullen, Nebraska (DJW-3)
• French, Princeton (HE-3)
• Seraphim Post, Stanford (HE-3)

Centers

• John Charlesworth, Yale (UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-2; BE-1)
• Larry Bettencourt, St. Mary's (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; CP-2; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-2; LP-2; AAB)
• Claude Grigsby, Georgetown (AP-2; HE-3)
• Ken Rouse, Chicago (AP-3; UP-3)
• Robert Reitsch, Illinois (DJW-3; NYS-2; BE-3; LP-1)
• John McCreery, Stanford (UP-2)
• Elvin Butcher, Tennessee (DJW-2)

Quarterbacks

• Morley Drury, Southern California (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1 [hb]; UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1 [hb]; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB)
• Bill Spears, Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; CP-2; HE-3; DJW-1; LP-2)
• Joel Hunt, Texas A&M (AP-2; DJW-3)
• Harold Almquist, Minnesota (AP-3)
• Jack Connor, New York Univ. (HE-2; DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-2)
• Gerald Mann, Southern Methodist (BE-3)

Halfbacks

• Gibby Welch, Pittsburgh (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB)
• Red Cagle, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-3; COL-1; HE-2; AAB)
• Christy Flanagan, Notre Dame (UP-1; CP-1; HE-3; DJW-3; BE-1)
• Alton Marsters, Dartmouth (AP-2; UP-2; HE-3; DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-2)
• Glenn Presnell, Nebraska (AP-2; UP-2; HE-2; DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-1)
• Chuck Carroll, Washington (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3)
• Joel Hunt, Texas A&M (BE-3; LP-2)
• Louis Gilbert, Michigan (UP-3 [qb]; CP-2; BE-3)
• Walter Gebert, Marquette (UP-3; DJW-3; LP-2)
• Bruce Caldwell, Yale (CP-2; HE-1; NYS-1; LP-2)

Fullbacks

• Herb Joesting, Minnesota (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB)
• Herdis McCrary, Georgia (AP-2; UP-2; HE-3; DJW-2)
• Bill Amos, Washington & Jefferson (AP-3; HE-2; BE-3)
• Mike Miles, Princeton (NYS-2; BE-2)
• Pat Wilson, Washington (LP-2)
• Biff Hoffman, Stanford (DJW-3; LP-2)
• Lou Tesreau, Washington (UP-3)
• Frank Briante, New York Univ. (CP-2)

Notes

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