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1953 College Football All-America Team

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The 1953 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 1953 college football season. The organizations choosing the teams included the United Press, Associated Press, Time, and the Newspaper Editors Association.

All-American selections for 1953[]

Key[]

  • Bold = Consensus All-American[1]
  • AP = Associated Press[2]
  • UP = United Press: "selected by 265 sports writers and broadcasters in a nationwide ballot"[3]
  • FWAA = Football Writers Association of America[4]
  • AFCA = American Football Coaches Association, for Collier's Magazine
  • TSN = The Sporting News: selected "by 150 sportswriters and broadcasters"[5]
  • NEA = Newspaper Editors Association[6]
  • WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation[7]

Ends[]

  • Don Dohoney, Michigan State (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA; AFCA; TSN; NEA-1; WC)
  • Carlton Massey, Texas (AP-2; UP-1; FWAA; TSN; NEA-3; WC)
  • Sam Morley, Stanford (AP-1; UP-2; NEA-2)
  • Don Penza, Notre Dame (UP-2)
  • Steve Meilinger, Kentucky (AP-2; UP-3; AFCA; NEA-1)
  • John Carson, Georgia (UP-3; FWAA; NEA-3)
  • Clyde Bennett, South Carolina (AP-3)
  • Gary Knafele, Colorado (AP-3)
  • Ken Buck, Pacific (FWAA)
  • Dick Dietrich, Pittsburgh (NEA-2)

Tackles[]

  • Stan Jones, Maryland (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA; AFCA; TSN; NEA-1; WC)
  • Art Hunter, Notre Dame (AP-2; UP-1; FWAA; TSN; NEA-2; WC)
  • Jack Shanafelt, Pennsylvania (AP-1; FWAA; NEA-3)
  • John Hudson[disambiguation needed], Rice (NEA-1)
  • Sid Fournet, LSU (AP-2)
  • Ed Meadows, Duke (UP-2; FWAA; NEA-3)
  • Jim Ray Smith, Baylor (AP-3; UP-2; AFCA)
  • George Jacoby, Ohio State (AP-3; UP-3)
  • Eldred Kraemer, Pittsburgh (UP-3)
  • Bob Farris, Army (NEA-2)

Guards[]

  • J.D. Roberts, Oklahoma (Outland Trophy and College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA; TSN; NEA-1; WC)
  • Crawford Mims, Mississippi (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA; AFCA; TSN; NEA-1; WC)
  • Ray Correll, Kentucky (FWAA; NEA-2)
  • Bob Fleck, Syracuse (AFCA)
  • Gene Lamone, West Virginia (AP-2)
  • Bob Eisenhauer, Navy (UP-2)
  • Milt Bohart, Washington (AP-2; UP-2; FWAA; NEA-2)
  • Norm Manoogian, Stanford (UP-3)
  • Joe D'Agostino, Florida (UP-3)
  • Morgan Williams, Texas Christian (AP-3)
  • Bob Burrows, Duke (AP-3)
  • John Bauer, Illinois (NEA-3)
  • George Timberlake, Southern California (NEA-3)

Centers[]

  • Larry Morris, Georgia Tech (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; AFCA; TSN; NEA-2; WC)
  • Jerry Hilgenberg, Iowa (AP-2; FWAA; NEA-3)
  • Matt Hazeltine, California (UP-2; FWAA)
  • Bob Orders, West Virginia (UP-3; NEA-1)
  • Steve Korchek, George Washington (AP-3)

Quarterbacks[]

Halfbacks[]

  • Johnny Lattner, Notre Dame (Heisman Trophy winner and College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA; AFCA; TSN; WC)
  • Paul Cameron, UCLA (AP-1; UP-1; FWAA; AFCA; TSN; NEA-2; WC)
  • J.C. Caroline, Illinois (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-1; FWAA; AFCA; TSN; NEA-2; WC)
  • Bobby Cavazos, Texas Tech (AP-2)
  • Leroy Bolden, Michigan State (UP-2; NEA-3)
  • Neil Worden, Notre Dame (UP-3)
  • Leon Hardeman, Georgia Tech (UP-3)
  • Dick Clasby, Harvard (AP-3)
  • Larry Grigg, Oklahoma (NEA-3)

Fullbacks[]

  • Alan Ameche, Wisconsin (AP-3; UP-2; FWAA)
  • David "Kosse" Johnson, Rice (AP-1; FWAA; NEA-2)
  • Tommy Allman, West Virginia (NEA-3)

Heisman Trophy voting[]

The chart below reflects the point total in the 1953 Heisman Trophy voting.

Rank Name Position School Heisman points
1 Johnny Lattner Halfback Notre Dame 1,850
2 Paul Giel Quarterback Minnesota 1,794
3 Paul Cameron Halfback UCLA 444
4 Bernie Faloney Quarterback Maryland 258
5 Bobby Garrett Quarterback Stanford 231
6 Alan Ameche Fullback Wisconsin 211

Other individual awards[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners
  2. ↑ Ted Smits (1953-12-04). "Cavazos Is Named To'AP's Second All-American Team: Rice Star On First Team". Morning Avalanche (Lubbock, TX).
  3. ↑ "UP Names All-American Gridders". Daily Telegram (Wisc.). 1953-11-26.
  4. ↑ "FWAA All America". Football Writers Association of America. Archived from the original on 26 March 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090326165534/http://www.sportswriters.net/fwaa/awards/allamerica/alltime.pdf. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
  5. ↑ "Lattner Heads All-American Selections By Sports Paper". Evening Journal (Lubbock, Texas). 1953-11-30.
  6. ↑ Harry Grayson (1953-11-29). "Harry Grayson Picks All-America for 1953". Independent Record (Helena, Montana).
  7. ↑ "All-America Teams". Walter Camp Football Foundation. http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards/. Retrieved 19 April 2009.
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