The 1944 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 1944 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 1944 [ ] Key [ ] AP = Associated Press [1]
UP = United Press : "selected for the United Press ... by sports editors and writers from all over the country"[2]
FWAA = Football Writers Association of America[3]
COL = Collier's Weekly : "chosen by Grantland Rice and 10 veteran football writers from all sections of the country"[4]
CP = Central Press Association : "Mighty Army, Navy, and Ohio State dominated the 1944 Central Press Captains' All-American team, picked for the 14th straight season with the help of the nation's football captains. As in the past two years, service players are not included in the selections."[5] [6]
INS = International News Service[7]
NEA = Newspaper Editors Association: "It still is the duty of every football writer, it seems, to pick an All-America team. Selecting one has become a futility that even a World War can't stop. So without further ado and with no apologies, here we go again."[8]
LOOK = Look Magazine, selected by NBC sports reporter and commentator Bill Stern[9]
WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation[10] Bold = Consensus All-American[11]
1 - First Team Selection
2 - Second Team Selection
3 - Third Team Selection Ends [ ] Phil Tinsley (AP-1; UP-2; FWAA-2; COL; INS-1; NEA; CP-1; LOOK; WC) Paul Walker (UP-2; FWAA-1; COL; INS-2; NEA; CP-1; LOOK) Jack Dugger (AP-3; UP-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; CP-2; WC) Hub Bechtol , Texas (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1) Henry Walker, Virginia (AP-2)
Leon Bramlett , Navy(AP-2) Barney Poole , Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-1; INS-2; CP-2) Frank Bauman , Purdue (UP-3; FWAA-2) H. Martin, Navy (UP-3)
Arthur Renner , Michigan (UP-4) Tackles [ ] Don Whitmire (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; COL; INS-1; NEA; CP-1; LOOK; WC) John Ferraro (AP-1; UP-2; FWAA-1; COL; INS-1; NEA [g]; CP-1; WC) George Savitsky , Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-3; NEA) Bill Willis , Ohio State (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-1; FWAA-2; INS-2; LOOK) Milan Lazetich , Michigan (AP-2; UP-3; FWAA-2; INS-2; CP-2) Monte Moncrief, Texas A&M (AP-3)
Robert McClure, Nevada (AP-3; UP-4)
DeWitt "Tex" Coulter , Army (UP-2) George Owen, Wake Forest (UP-4)
George Sullivan, Notre Dame (UP-4; CP-2) Guards [ ] Bill Hackett (AP-1; UP-2; FWAA-1; COL; INS-2; CP-1; WC) Ben Chase (UP-1; FWAA-2; INS-1; CP-1; WC) Hamilton Nichols, Jr. , Rice (AP-1) Joseph Stanowicz , Army (UP-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; CP-2) Clyde Flowers , Texas Christian (NEA) John Green , Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; COL; INS-2) William Hachten , California (AP-2; UP-4; LOOK) Ralph Serpico , Illinois (AP-3; UP-3; FWAA-2) Robert Dobelstein , Tennessee (AP-3) Pat Filley , Notre Dame (UP-2) Ellis Jones , Tulsa (UP-3; CP-2; LOOK) Ernie Knotts , Duke (UP-4) Centers [ ] John Tavener (UP-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; CP-1; LOOK) Caleb Warrington , Auburn (AP-1; UP-3; FWAA-2; COL; INS-2; NEA; WC) Felto Prewitt , Tulsa (AP-2) Robert St. Onge , Army (AP-3) John T. Martin , Navy (UP-2) Gordon Appleby , Ohio State (UP-4) Gordon Berlin , Washington (CP-2) Quarterbacks [ ] Les Horvath (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; COL [fb]; INS-1; NEA; CP-1; LOOK; WC) Buddy Young , Illinois (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-2; INS-2; CP-2; LOOK) Doug Kenna , Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-3; COL; CP-2) Jim Hardy , Southern California (UP-4; FWAA-2) Frank Broyles , Georgia Tech (FWAA-2) Halfbacks [ ] Glenn Davis (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; NEA; CP-1; WC) Bob Jenkins (AP-2; UP-1; FWAA-2; COL; INS-2; NEA; WC) Bob "Blonde Bomber" Fenimore , Oklahoma A&M (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-3; FWAA-1; COL; INS-2; NEA; CP-2) Earl "Jug" Girard , Wisconsin (LOOK) Robert Kelly, Notre Dame (AP-3; UP-2; INS-2)
Tom "Shorty" McWilliams, Mississippi State (AP-2; UP-2)
Thomas Davis, Duke (AP-3; UP-4; CP-2)
Harold Hamburg, Navy (AP-3; UP-3)
Clyde "Smackover" Scott , Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-4) Fullbacks [ ] Doc Blanchard (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; CP-1; LOOK; WC) Babe Dimancheff , Purdue (AP-2; UP-2; FWAA-2; INS-1; CP-1) Bob Wiese , Michigan/Navy (UP-3) Gordon Gray, Southern California (AP-3; UP-4) Notes [ ]
↑ Orlo Robertson (1944-12-08). "Army, Ohio State Land 2 Players On AP All-American '44 Grid Team". Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune. ↑ Leo H. Petersen (1944-11-30). "1944 All-American Squad Announced: Bob McCIure Of Nevada U. Rated On UP Fourth Team". Nevada State Journal. ↑ "FWAA All America" . Football Writers Association of America. http://www.sportswriters.net/fwaa/awards/allamerica/alltime.pdf .↑ "Colliers All-American Includes 4 Army Men". Long Beach Independent. 1944-12-08. ↑ Walter L. Johns (1944-12-04). "Army, Navy,Ohio State Dominate Central Press All-American Team". Wisconsin State Journal. ↑ "Central Press All-American". New Castle News. 1944-12-01. ↑ "INS Selects All-American". Chester Times. 1944-12-02. ↑ Red Grange (1944-12-). "Navy Wins Two Places On NEA All-American Eleven; Davis, Jenkins, Fenimore And Horvath Are Backs". The News, Frederick, MD. ↑ Hal Sayles (1944-11-30). "Speaking of Sports". Abilene Reporter-News. ↑ "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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