1931 College Football All-America Team

The 1931 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 1931. The organizations that chose the teams included: Associated Press, United Press, Collier's Weekly/Grantland Rice, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Hearst/INS, Central Press Association, and College Humor.

The only unanimous All-American selection in 1931 was Tulane's Gerald “Jerry” Dalrymple.

NCAA consensus All-American team

The following players make up the consensus All-American team recognized in the NCAA All-American guide.

Position	Name	School	Unanimous	College Hall of Fame
Ends	Jerry Dalrymple Vernon “Catfish” Smith	Tulane Georgia	Yes No	Dalrymple HOF Profile Smith HOF Profile
Tackles	Dallas “Dal” Marvil Jess Quatse Jack Riley	Northwestern Pittsburgh Northwestern	No No No	No No Riley HOF Profile
Guards	Clarence “Biggie” Munn John “Johnny” Baker	Minnesota Southern California	No No	Munn HOF Profile Baker HOF Profile
Center	Thomas Yarr	Notre Dame	No	Yarr HOF Profile
Quarterback	Barry Wood	Harvard	No	Wood HOF Profile
Halfbacks	Marchmont "Marchy" Schwartz Ernest “Pug” Rentner	Notre Dame Northwestern	No No	Schwartz HOF Profile Rentner HOF Profile
Fullback	Gaius Shaver	Southern California	No	No

Proliferation of All-American teams

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Damon Runyon described the proliferation of All-American teams as a virulent plague.

In 1931, Damon Runyon wrote a column about the proliferation of “All-America” teams. He noted: “The ‘All’ boys are it, tooth and nail. They are ‘All’-ing North, South East and West. They will wind up ‘All’-Americaing, the most virulent form of the ‘All’ plague that besets us every Winter. The late Walter Camp little realized what he was bringing upon the country . . . At the moment, Mr. Camp probably had no idea that he was sowing the seed of a fearful pestilence.” Runyon noted that Camp’s word was viewed as gospel, but with his passing “the rush to fill his shoes was prodigious,” and the “’All’ business became a national obsession.”

All-Americans of 1931

Key

Bold - Consensus All-American

Selectors recognized by NCAA in consensus determinations

• AP = Associated Press
• UP = United Press
• COL = Collier's Weekly as selected by Grantland Rice
• NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association
• INS = International News Service, the wire service of the Hearst newspapers
• AAB = All America Board

Other selectors

• CP = Central Press Association, also known as the Captain's Poll, selected by a poll of the captains of the major football teams
• WCFF = Walter Camp Football Foundation
• HSM = All-American team selected by 18,006 fans through nation-wide contest sponsored by clothier Hart, Schaffner and Marx
• CH = College Humor magazine
• LP = selected by Lawrence Perry, a former Princetonian who wrote a nationally-syndicated sports colyum called For The Game's Sake

Ends

• Gerald "Jerry" Dalrymple, Tulane (AP–1; UP–1; COL–1; CP–1; NEA–1; INS–1; WCFF; HSM; CH-1; LP; AAB)
• Vernon "Catfish" Smith, Georgia (AP-1; COL–1; NEA–2; INS–2; HSM; CP–1; CH-2; LP)
• Henry Cronkite, Kansas State (AP–2; UP–1; NEA–1; INS-2; CP–3; CH-1)
• John "Johnny" Orsi, Colgate (AP–2; CP–2; NEA–2; INS-1; WCFF; CH-2; AAB)
• Paul Moss, Purdue (NEA–3; INS-3l CP–2; )
• Koontz, Southern Methodist (CP-3)
• Bill Hewitt, Michigan (NEA-3)
• Garrett Arbelbide, Southern California (AP-3)
• Fred Felber, Univ. of North Dakota (AP-3)
• Barres, Yale (INS-3)

Tackles

• Dallas "Dal" Marvil, Northwestern (AP–1; NEA–3; INS-1; CP–1; CH-2; HSM)
• Jesse Quatse, Pittsburgh (UP–1; COL–1; CP-2; WCFF; CH-1; AAB)
• Jack Riley, Northwestern (NEA–1; INS-2; WCFF; AAB)
• Paul Schwegler, Washington (AP–1; COL–1; INS-3; CP–2)
• Joseph Kurth, Notre Dame (AP–2; UP–1; NEA–1; INS–2; CP–3; LP)
• John "Jack" Price, Army (AP–3; CP–1; NEA–2; INS-1; CH-2)
• James MacMurdo, Pittsburgh (AP–2; NEA–3; INS-3; HSM)
• Ira Hardy, Harvard (NEA–2; CH-1; LP)
• Hugh Rhea, Nebraska (AP-3)
• Saunders, Tennessee (CP-3)

Guards

• Clarence "Biggie" Munn, Minnesota (AP–1; UP–1; COL–1; NEA–1; INS–1; CP–1; HSM; CH-1; LP; WCFF; AAB)
• Johnny Baker, Southern California (AP–2; UP–1; NEA–1; INS–1; CP–2; WCFF; HSM; CH-2; LP; AAB)
• Herman Hickman, Tennessee (AP–3; COL–1; NEA–3; INS-3; CP–1; CH-1)
• Frank (Nordy) Hoffman, Notre Dame (AP-1; NEA–2; INS-2)
• Joe Zeller, Indiana (NEA-2)
• Ignatius "Jim" Zyntell, Holy Cross (CP-2)
• James Evans, Northwestern (AP–2; CP-3)
• Maurice "Mush" Dubofsky, Georgetown (NEA-3)
• Gregory Kabat, Wisconsin (AP–3; CP-3)
• Milton "Red" Leathers, Georgia (INS-2)
• H.R. Myerson, Harvard (INS-3)
• Corbus, Stanford (CH-2)

Centers

• Tommy Yarr, Notre Dame (AP–1; NEA–2; INS-1; WCFF; HSM; CH-2; AAB)
• Maynard Morrison, Michigan (AP–3; COL–1; NEA-1; CP–3)
• Ralph Daugherty, Pittsburgh (AP–2; NEA–3; INS–3; CP–1; LP)
• Charles Miller, Purdue (UP-1; CH-1)
• Pete Gracey, Vanderbilt (CP-2)
• McDuffie, Columbia (INS-2)

Quarterbacks

• W. Barry Wood, Jr., Harvard (AP–1; COL–1; NEA–1; INS-1; CP–1; HSM; CH-2)
• Austin Downes, Georgia (CP-3)
• William Morton, Dartmouth (AP–2; NEA–2; INS-3; CH-1)
• Carl Cramer, Ohio State (AP-3)

Halfbacks

• Marchmont "Marchy" Schwartz, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP–1; UP–1; COL–1; NEA–1; INS–1; WCFF; HSM; CH-1; LP; AAB)
• Ernie "Pug" Rentner, Northwestern (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP–1; COL–1; NEA–1; INS–1 [named as fullback by Hearst]; CP–1; WCFF; HSM [named as fullback]; CH-1; LP; AAB)
• Donald Zimmerman, Tulane (AP–2; NEA–2; INS-1; CP–1; CH-2)
• Bob Monnett, Michigan State (CP-1)
• Eugene McEver, Tennessee (AP–2; NEA–2; INS-2; CP–2)
• Francis "Bud" Toscani, St. Marys (NEA-2)
• Cornelius Murphy, Fordham (CP-3; CH-2) {Murphy died from a ruptured blood vessel in the brain in December 1931}
• J.W. Crickard, Harvard (NEA-3)
• Albert J. "Mighty Atom" Booth, Jr., Yale (AP–3; INS-2)
• Weldon Mason, Southern Methodist (AP-3)
• Ray Stecker, Army (INS-3)

Fullbacks

• Gaius "Gus" Shaver, Southern California (COL–1 [selected as fullback]; UP–1 [selected as quarterback]; NEA–3 [selected as quarterback]; INS–2 [selected as quarterback]; CP–1 [selected as fullback]; WCFF [selected as quarterback]; LP [selected as quarterback]; AAB)
• Erny Pinckert, Southern California (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP–1; NEA–1; INS–3 [picked as halfback]; HSM [named as halfback]; CH-1)
• Johnny Cain, Alabama (UP–1; NEA–3 [picked as halfback]; INS-3; WCFF; CH-2; AAB)
• Ralston "Rusty" Gill, California (NEA–3; LP)
• Orville Mohler, Southern California (AP-3; CP-2 [picked as quarterback])
• Jack Manders, Minnesota (CP-2)
• Bart J. Viviano, Cornell (AP-2)
• Clarke Hinkle, Bucknell (INS-2)
• Nollie Felts, Tulane (CP-3)

Notes

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