AP = Associated Press: "To help settle the All-America argument, the Associated Press this year conducted the most comprehensive poll of expert opinion yet attempted. A total of 213 sports editors and writers scanning the gridiron activities in all sections of the country, contributed their selections after studying all the available information."[1]
UP = United Press, "selected by the United Press sports staff in collaboration with leading coaches in every section of the country"[2]
INS = International News Service, based not only on "the writer's personal observations but on the basis of reports from International News Service footballexperts from all parts of the country"[4]
NEA = Newspaper Editors Association, chosen by the 33 members of the NEA Service National Bord of Football Coaches, Officials and Sports Writers[5]
CP = Central Press Association: "Two hundred captains of college football teams were polled by the Central Press Association in a nation-wide survey. Each captain was asked to name only those men against or with whom he played."[6]
Clarke Hinkle, Bucknell (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (NEA-2)
Notes[]
↑Alan Gould (1930-12-06). "MIDDLE WEST HOLDS EDGE IN SELECTION OF 1930 ALL-AMERICAN GRID TEAMS: POLL BY ASSOCIATED PRESS SELECTS STARS FOR MYTHICAL ELEVEN". Evening Independent.
↑L.S. Cameron (1930-12-08). "UNITED PRESS HAS ALL-AMERICA GRID TEAM OF THE YEAR: Milo Lubratovich of the University of Wisconsin Team is Placed on the First Team". Oshkosh Daily Northwestern.
↑"RICE PICKS ALL-AMERICA: Ticknor and Carideo, of 1929 Eleven, Named Again on Honor Team; Two Utility Players Added to Lineup". Charleston Daily Mail. 1930-12-19.
↑James Kilgallen (1930-12-01). "ALL-AMERICAN TEAM SELECTED: Two Notre Dame Men, Carideo and Schwartz, Are Named". Chester Times.