The 1945 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 1945 college football season . The organizations that chose the teams included: the United Press ; the Associated Press ; the Football Writers Association of America ; Collier's Weekly selected by Grantland Rice ; and the New York Sun .
All-American selections for 1945 [ ]
Ends [ ]
Dick Duden , Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; COL-1; CP-1; INS-2; YANK; NYS; OF-1; WC-1; CNS-1; NL)
Hub Bechtol , Texas (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; FWAA-2; COL-1; CP-2; LOOK; CNS-1)
Bob Ravensberg , Indiana (UP-2; FWAA-1; SN; CP-1; INS-2; LOOK; CNS-2)
Max Morris , Northwestern (AP-2; UP-2; FWAA-2; CP-2; INS-1; YANK; WC-1)
Hank Foldberg , Army (AP-2; UP-1; CP-3; INS-1; NEA-1; NYS; OF-1; CNS-2)
Henry Walker , Virginia (AP-3)
Neill Armstrong , Oklahoma A&M (AP-3)
Paul Walker , Yale (CP-3; NL)
Richard Pitzer , Army (NEA-1)
Tackles [ ]
Tex Coulter , Army (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; COL-1; CP-1; INS-1; NEA-1; NYS; OF-1; WC-1; CNS-1; NL)
George Savitsky , Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; COL-1; CP-1; INS-2; LOOK; WC-1; CNS-1)
Albert Nemetz , Army (AP-1; UP-2; FWAA-2; INS-2; NEA-1; YANK; NYS; CNS-2)
Tom Hughes , Purdue (UP-2; FWAA-2; CP-2; LOOK; OF-1; CNS-2; NL)
Thomas Dean , Southern Methodist Univ. (AP-2; YANK)
Mike Castronis , Georgia (INS-1)
Jim Kekeris , Missouri (AP-2; CP-2)
Clarence Esser , Wisconsin (AP-3)
Buster McClure , Nevada (CP-3)
Monte Moncrief , Texas A&M (CP-3)
Guards [ ]
Warren Amling , Ohio State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; COL-1; CP-1; INS-1; LOOK; NYS; OF-1; WC-1; CNS-1; NL)
John Green , Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; COL-1; NYS; OF-1; WC-1; CNS-1)
Al Sparlis , UCLA (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; CP-1; INS-2; LOOK; CNS-2)
John Mastrangelo , Notre Dame (AP-2; UP-2; FWAA-2; CP-2; INS-1; YANK; CNS-2)
James Carrington , Navy (UP-2; FWAA-2; INS-2)
Joseph Dickinson , Penn (AP-2; CP-2)
Jim Lecture , Northwestern (AP-3; CP-3)
John Green , Army (CP-3; NEA-1; YANK)
Arthur Gerometta , Army (NEA-1)
Hills, Georgia Tech (NL)
Centers [ ]
Vaughn Mancha , Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; COL-1; CP-1; INS-1; YANK; NYS; OF-1; CNS-1)
Dick Scott , Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-2; FWAA-2; CP-2; INS-2; LOOK; WC-1; CNS-2; NL)
Ralph Jenkins , Clemson (AP-3)
Harold Watts , Michigan (CP-3)
Herschel Fuson , Army (NEA-1)
Quarterbacks [ ]
Harry Gilmer , Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-2; FWAA-2; SN; COL-1; CP-2; INS-2; LOOK; NYS; OF-1 [qb]; CNS-1; NL)
Frank Dancewicz , Notre Dame (AP-2; UP-2; FWAA-2; CP-1; CNS-2)
Arnold Tucker , Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (CP-3; INS-2; NEA-1)
Gene Rossides , Columbia (CP-3)
Halfbacks [ ]
Glenn Davis , Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; COL-1; CP-1; INS-1; NEA-1; YANK; LOOK; NYS; OF-1; WC-1; CNS-1; NL)
Herman Wedemeyer , St. Mary's (Calif.) (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; COL-1; CP-1; INS-1; LOOK; OF-1; WC-1; CNS-1; NL)
Bob Fenimore , Oklahoma State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; CP-2; INS-1; WC-1; CNS-2)
Jake Leicht , Oregon (YANK; NYS)
George Taliaferro , Indiana (AP-3; CP-3; INS-2; CNS-2)
Clyde Scott , Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-2)
Stan Kozlowski , Holy Cross (AP-3; CP-2)
Robert Evans, Penn (AP-3)
Thomas McWilliam, Army (NEA-1)
Fullbacks [ ]
Doc Blanchard , Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA-1; SN; COL-1; CP-1; INS-1; NEA-1; YANK; LOOK; NYS; OF-1; WC-1; CNS-1; NL)
Pete Pihos , Indiana (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-2; FWAA-2; CP-2; YANK; CNS-2)
Ollie Cline , Ohio State (AP-2; FWAA-2)
Walt Schlinkman , Texas Tech (INS-2)
Ed Cody, Purdue (CP-3)
Key [ ]
AP = Associated Press [1]
UP = United Press [2]
FWAA = Football Writers Association of America[3]
SN = Sporting News, selected by a poll of 163 sports writers and sportscasters[4]
COL = Collier's Weekly as selected by Grantland Rice [5]
CP = Central Press Association , selected for the 15th straight year with the aid of the captains of the leading college teams[6]
INS = International News Service, "selected on the basis of ballots and information gathered from International News Service sports writers and football authorities all over the nation"[7]
NEA = Newspaper Editors Association. In a departure from normal practice, the NEA named the starters from the Army football team, which had won 17 straight games, as its All-American team for 1945I[8]
YANK = Yank Magazine, based on a poll of 25 of the country's most widely known college football coaches[9]
LOOK = Look magazine[10]
NYS = New York Sun [10]
OF = Oscar Fraley, United Press sports writer[11]
WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation[12]
CNS = Consensus All-American team picked based on assigning points to players selected as All-Americans by Oscar Fraley, Christy Walsh, United Press, Look, New York Sun, New York News, International News, Associated Press, Sporting News, and Collies-Rice[10]
NL = Navy Log[13]
Bold = Consensus All-American[14]
1 - First Team Selection
2 - Second Team Selection
3 - Third Team Selection
Heisman Trophy voting [ ]
The chart below reflects the point total in the 1945 Heisman Trophy voting.
Notes [ ]
↑ "Here's AP All-America". Abilene Reporter-News . 1945-12-11.
↑ Leo H. Peterson (1945-12-05). "Wedemeyer on United Press All-American". Oakland Tribune .
↑ "Blanchard Top Man in Critics' Poll". Los Angeles Times . 1945-12-18.
↑ "Wedemeyer Also Makes Sporting News Eleven". Oakland Tribune . 1945-12-05.
↑ "Army Dominates Colliers' 'All' Team". Dunkirk Evening Observer . 1945-12-07.
↑ Walter Johns (1945-12-05). "Army Given Three Places on Captains' All-American". The Wisconsin State Journal .
↑ Lawton Carver (1945-12-02). "Warren Amling On INS '45 All-American Football Team". Lima News .
↑ "Army's All Star Team is All American For NEA". Chester Times . 1945-11-27.
↑ "Yank Magazine Has All-American Team". Morning Herald (Hagerstown, MD) . 1945-12-21.
↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "Army Wins 4 Posts On Consensus All-America Team". Ogden Standard-Examiner . 1945-12-23.
↑ Oscar Fraley (1945-11-07). "Today's Sports Parade". Middlesboro Daily News .
↑ "Walter Camp Football Foundation" . http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards// .
↑ "All-America Addendum" . College Football Historical Society Newsletter. May 2006. http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv19/CFHSNv19n3f.pdf .
↑ Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners
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