The 1943 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers. The organizations choosing the teams included: the United Press , the Associated Press , Collier's Weekly , the New York Sun , and Sporting News.
Consensus All-Americans [ ]
The chart below reflects the published point total from the United Press poll (___ points possible), and also reflects the number of polls in which the leading candidates were selected as a first-team All-American, and their point total in the 1943 Heisman Trophy voting.
All-American selections for 1943 [ ]
Ends [ ]
Ralph Heywood , USC (AP-1; UP-1; SS-1; INS-1; CP-1)
John Yonakor , Notre Dame (UP-1; INS-1; CP-1)
Pete Pihos , Indiana (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-2; CO-1; NYS-1)
John Monahan , Dartmouth (AP-2; NYS-1)
Roe Johnston , Navy (SS-1)
Herb Hein , Northwestern (CO-1)
Joe Parker, Texas (AP-1)
Robert Hall, Colorado College (AP-2)
Albert Channell, Navy (AP-3)
Robert Gantt, Duke (UP-2)
Tackles [ ]
Don Whitmire , Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-1; INS-1; CP-1)
Jim White , Notre Dame (AP-1; UP-1; CO-1; INS-1; CP-1)
Art McCaffray , College of the Pacific (UP-2; CO-1; NYS-1)
George Connor , Holy Cross (AP-2; NYS-1)
Cleo Calgani , Cornell (SS-1)
Pattison Preston, Duke (AP-1)
Merv Pregulman , Michigan (AP-3; UP-2; CO-1 [guard]; SS-1])
Francis Merritt , Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2)
Solon Burnett, Southwestern (Texas) (AP-3)
Guards [ ]
Alex Agase , Purdue (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-1; INS-1; CP-1)
Pat Filley , Notre Dame (AP-2; UP-1; CO-1)
John Steber , Georgia Tech. (AP-1 [tackle]; UP-2; INS-1; NYS-1)
Bill Milner , Duke (SS-1; CP-1)
Charles Milner , Duke (NYS-1)
Don Alvarez , Dartmouth (SS-1)
George Brown, Navy (AP-1)
John Jaffurs , Penn State (AP-2; UP-2)
Richard Ward, Washington (AP-3)
Centers [ ]
Cas Myslinski , Notre Dame (AP-1; UP-1; CO-1; SS-1; INS-1; CP-1)
Jack Martin , Navy (NYS-1)
Bill Gray , Southern California (AP-2)
Herbert Coleman, Notre Dame(UP-2)
Lester Gatewood , Tulane (AP-3)
Quarterbacks [ ]
Angelo Bertelli , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-1; CO-1; SS-1; INS-1; CP-1; NYS-1)
Otto Graham , Northwestern (AP-1; UP-2; CP-1)
Halfbacks [ ]
Fullbacks [ ]
John Podesto , College of the Pacific (AP-3; SS-1 [halfback]; INS-1; NYS-1)
Tony Butkovich , Purdue (killed on Okinawa, World War II) (AP-2; UP-1; SS-1; CP-1)
Key [ ]
AP = Associated Press [1]
UP = United Press [2]
CO = Collier's Weekly , selected by Grantland Rice [3]
NEA = NEA Sports Syndicate
SN = Sporting News, selected through a poll of 86 sports writers in 40 states
INS = International News Service (Hearst syndicate)
CP = Central Press Association , selected with the assistance of the nation's football captains
LK = NBC radio and Look magazine, selected under the supervision of Bill Stern, by 138 sports announcers and 25 key sports writers
SS = Stars and Stripes, selected by the sports writers for the Army publication[4]
NYS = New York Sun [5]
WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation [6]
MS = Maxwell Stiles , noted California sports writer, based on the number of weeks a player was named player of the week at his position
Bold = Consensus All-American
1 - First Team Selection
2 - Second Team Selection
3 - Third Team Selection
Notes [ ]
v · d · e 1943 College Football All-America Team consensus selections