1955 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 1955 college football season . The organizations choosing the teams included the United Press , Associated Press , Time , and the Newspaper Enterprise Association .
All-American selections for 1955 [ ]
Ends [ ]
Ron Beagle , Navy (AP, UP, AFCA, FWAA, TSN, NEA, INS, CP, WC)
Ron Kramer , Michigan (UP, AFCA, FWAA, TSN, NEA, INS, WC)
Howard Schnellenberger , Kentucky (AP)
Joe Walton , Pittsburgh (CP)
Rommie Loudd , UCLA (FWAA)
Harold Burnine , Missouri (FWAA)
Tackles [ ]
Norm Masters , Michigan State (UP, FWAA, NEA, CP, WC)
Bruce Bosley , West Virginia (UP, AFCA, TSN, INS, WC)
Sam Huff , West Virginia (FWAA, NEA)
John Witte , Oregon State (INS)
Frank D'Agostino , Auburn (AP, AFCA)
Mike Sandusky , Maryland (TSN)
Paul Wiggin , Stanford (AP)
Herb Gray , Texas (FWAA)
Guards [ ]
Bo Bolinger , Oklahoma (UP, AFCA, FWAA, TSN, NEA, INS, CP, WC)
Cal Jones , Iowa (AP-2-[t], UP, FWAA, TSN, WC)
Hardiman Cureton , UCLA (AFCA, FWAA-[t], INS, CP-[t])
Jim Parker , Ohio State (FWAA, CP)
Tony Sardisco , Tulane (FWAA)
Pat Bisceglia , Notre Dame (AP)
Scott Suber , Mississippi State (NEA)
James D. Brown , UCLA (AP)
Centers [ ]
Bob Pellegrini , Maryland (AP, UP, AFCA, FWAA, TSN, NEA, INS, CP, WC)
Hugh Pitts , Texas Christian (FWAA)
Quarterbacks [ ]
Halfbacks [ ]
Howard "Hopalong" Cassidy , Ohio State (AP, UP, AFCA, FWAA, TSN, NEA, INS, CP, WC)
Paul Hornung , Notre Dame (UP, FWAA, TSN, NEA, WC)
Jim Swink , TCU (AP, UP, AFCA, FWAA, TSN, NEA, INS, CP, WC)
Jon Arnett , Southern California (UP, FWAA, NEA)
Tommy McDonald , Oklahoma (AP)
Art Davis , Mississippi State (FWAA)
Fullbacks [ ]
Don Schaefer , Notre Dame (AFCA, FWAA, INS, CP)
Joe Childress , Auburn (FWAA)
Key [ ]
Bold = Consensus All-American[1]
AP = Associated Press[2]
UP = United Press[3]
AFCA = American Football Coaches Association, for Colliers Magazine[4]
FWAA = Football Writers Association of America[5]
TSN = The Sporting News[6]
NEA = Newspaper Editors Association: All-Americans selected by the NEA received "solid gold Longines-Witlnauer watches, handsome and specially designed certificates and, perhaps best of all, testimonial dinners in their old home towns."[7]
INS = International News Service: selected based on "recommendations of INS football experts from coast-to-coast with the assistance of coaches, scouts, broadcasters and newspaper sports editors."[8]
CP = Central Press Association [9]
WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation[10]
Heisman Trophy voting [ ]
The chart below reflects the point total in the 1955 Heisman Trophy voting.
Other individual awards for 1955 [ ]
Notes [ ]
v · d · e 1955 College Football All-America Team consensus selections