The 1937 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 1937 college football season . 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 1937 [ ] Key [ ] UP = United Press , "selected by United Press sports writers, aided by 12 of the nation's foremost coaches"[ 2]
COL = Collier's Magazine[ 3] INS = International News Service[ 4]
NEA = Newspaper Editors Association[ 5]
CP = Central Press Association : "Chosen by more than 30 captains of leading universities and college teams in every part of the country, the eighth annual Captain's All-American is presented herewith."[ 6]
CE = Collyer’s Eye, selected by "sixty-seven nationally prominent football coaches, representing every major institution of learning, conference and district in the United States"[ 7]
WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation[ 8] Bold = Consensus All-American[ 9]
1 - First Team Selection
2 - Second Team Selection
3 - Third Team Selection Ends [ ] Chuck Sweeney (AP-1; UP-1; INS-3; CP-1) Andy Bershak (AP-3; UP-2; COL-1; INS-3; NEA-1; CP-1; CE-1) John Wysocki , Villanova (UP-1; INS-1; NEA-1; CP-3) Raymond King , Minnesota ( UP-3; INS-1; CP-2; CE-1; WC-1) Jerome H. Holland , Cornell (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; COL-1) Perry Schwartz , California (WC-1) Frank Souchak , Pittsburgh (UP-2; INS-2) William Jordan, Georgia Tech (AP-2; INS-2)
Jim Benton , Arkansas (AP-3; CP-3) Elmer Dohmann, Nebraska (CP-2)
Pete Smith, Oklahoma (AP-2)
Bill Daddio , Pittsburgh (UP-3) Tackles [ ] Ed Franco (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; CP-1) Tony Matisi (AP-1; UP-2; INS-2; CE-1; WC-1) Frank "Bruiser" Kinard , Mississippi (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-1; INS-1; NEA-1; CE-1) Ed Beinor , Notre Dame (UP-3; NEA-1; CP-3; WC-1) Vic Markov , Washington (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; COL-1; INS-1) Ryba, Alabama (INS-3; CP-1)
Fred Shirey , Nebraska (UP-2; INS-2) John Mellus , Villanova (AP-2) Kevorkian, Harvard (CP-2)
Edward Gatto, Louisiana State (AP-3)
Tipton, Alabama (UP-3)
Al Babartsky , Fordham (INS-3) Ted Doyle , Nebraska (CP-3) Guards [ ] Joe Routt (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS-2; NEA-1; CP-1; CE-1) Leroy Monsky (AP-1; UP-2; COL-1; INS-2; CP-2; WC-1) Vard Stockton, California (UP-1; INS-1; NEA-1; CP-1)
Gust Zarnas , Ohio State (WC-1) Phil Dougherty, Santa Clara (INS-1)
Hedwig, California (CE-1)
Frank Twedell , Minnesota (AP-2; UP-2; INS-3; CP-3) Gregory Zitrides, Dartmouth (AP-3; INS-3)
Sivell, Auburn (AP-3; CP-2)
Albin Lezouski (AP-2)
Norman Buckner, Tulane (UP-3)
Steve Slivinski , Washington (UP-3) Joe Nee, Harvard (CP-3) Centers [ ] Alex Wojciechowicz (AP-3; UP-1; INS-1; CP-2; CE-1; WC-1) Carl Hinkle , Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; COL-1; INS-2; CP-1) Charley Brock , Nebraska (NEA-1) Bob Herwig , California (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-3; INS-3) Ki Aldrich , Texas Christian (College Football Hall of Fame) (First pick in the 1939 NFL Draft ) (AP-2) Elmore Hackney, Duke (INS-2)
Phil Doherty, Santa Clara (CP-3) Quarterbacks [ ] Clint Frank ( AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS-1; NEA-1; CP-1; CE-1; WC-1) Sid Luckman , Columbia (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (Second pick in the 1939 NFL Draft ) (AP-3; UP-2) Andy Puplis , Notre Dame (UP-3; CP-3) Halfbacks [ ] Marshall Goldberg (AP-1; UP-1 [fb] ; COL-1; INS-1 [hb]; NEA-1; CP-1; CE-1; WC-1) Byron "Whizzer" White (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS-1; NEA-1; CP-1; CE-1) Corbett Davis , Indiana (First pick in the 1938 NFL Draft ) (INS-2 [fb]; CP-1WC-1) Davey O'Brien , Texas Christian (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-3; CP-2 [qb]) John Pingel , Michigan State (College Football Hall of Fame) ((AP-2; INS-3; CP-3) William "Bullet Bill" Osmanski , Holy Cross (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; INS-2) Bob MacLeod , Dartmouth (College Football Hall of Fame) ((AP-3; CP-2) Hugh Wolfe, Texas (UP-2)
Joseph Gray, Oregon State (AP-2)
James Allen McDonald , Ohio State (Second pick in the 1938 NFL Draft ) (AP-3) Vic Bottari , California (College Football Hall of Fame) ((UP-3) Andy Stopper, Villanova (INS-3)
William "Bullet Bill" Patterson, Baylor (CP-3) Fullbacks [ ] Sam Chapman (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS-2; CP-2 [fb]; WC-1) Joe Kilgrow, Alabama (UP-2 [hb]; INS-1; CP-2 [hb])
George Karamatic , Gonzaga (UP-2; NEA-1) Johnny "Jelly Belly" Meek, California (INS-3 [qb]; CE-1)
Cecil Isbell , Purdue (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-3; CP-3) George "Pinky" Rohm, Louisiana State (INS-3) Notes [ ]
↑ Alan Gould (1937-12-04). "Associated Press 1937 All-America Is Team of Iron Men". The Daily Tribune (Wisconsin Rapids). ↑ Stuart Cameron (UP Sports Editor) (1937-12-01). Oshkosh Daily Northwestern. ↑ "Frank, White Unanimous Choices on Collier Team". Daily Capital News. 1937-12-10. ↑ "INS All-American Grid Selections". Waterloo Daily Courier. 1937-12-01. ↑ Harry Grayson (1937-11-24). "Routt of Texas Aggies Places on All-America Picked by Grid Experts". Brownsville Herald.↑ Bill Braucher (1937-12-03). "NATION'S CAPTAINS PICK CENTRAL PRESS ALL-AMERICANS". Hammond Times. ↑ "Collyer's All-American Places Herwig at Guard: Californian Moves Over for 'Wojie'". Middletown Times Herald. 1937-12-13. ↑ "Walter Camp Football Foundation" . http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards// .↑ Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners
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