1908 College Football All-America Team
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The 1908 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 Team
s for the 1908 college football season
. The organizations that chose the teams included Walter Camp
for Collier's Weekly
and Casper Whitney for Outing Magazine.
College Football All-America Team
The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best American college football players at their respective positions. The original usage of the term All-America seems to have been to the 1889 College Football All-America Team selected by Casper Whitney and published in This...
s for the 1908 college football season
1908 college football season
The 1908 college football season ran from Saturday, September 19, until November 28 . The Quakers of the University of Pennsylvania and the Crimson of Harvard University finished the season unbeaten, though each had been tied once during the season. The Tigers of Louisiana State University went...
. The organizations that chose the teams included Walter Camp
Walter Camp
Walter Chauncey Camp was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football...
for Collier's Weekly
Collier's Weekly
Collier's Weekly was an American magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957. With the passage of decades, the title was shortened to Collier's....
and Casper Whitney for Outing Magazine.
Key
- WC = Collier's WeeklyCollier's WeeklyCollier's Weekly was an American magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957. With the passage of decades, the title was shortened to Collier's....
as selected by Walter CampWalter CampWalter Chauncey Camp was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football... - CON = Consensus based on All-American teams selected by 25 football experts; number indicates how many of the 25 experts selected the individual as a first-team All-American; any player with at least 5 of 25 selections is listed hear as a second-team selection: CON-2
- NYW = New York WorldNew York WorldThe New York World was a newspaper published in New York City from 1860 until 1931. The paper played a major role in the history of American newspapers...
, selected by former Yale quarterback Tad Jones - PI = Philadelphia Inquirer, selected by Franklin
- FY = Fielding H. Yost, football coach of the University of Michigan
- TT = Tom ThorpTom Thorp-References:...
e, former star tackle and captain of Columbia - NYG = New York Globe
- CSM = Christian Science Monthly
- NYT = The New York Times
- NYET = New York Evening Telegram
- BSU = Brooklyn Standard Union
- BP = Boston Post
- PD = Pittsburgh Dispatch
- NHR = New Haven Register
- TJ = Tad Jones
- KCJ = Kansas City Journal
- PP = Philadelphia Press
- PT = Philadelphia Times
- PES = Philadelphia Evening Star
- WH = Washington Herald, selected by William Peet
- CIO = Chicago Inter-Ocean
- FC = Fred CroliusFred CroliusFrederick Joseph Crolius was a professional baseball and football player. He is best remembered as being the first player from Tufts University to come to play Major League Baseball. He was at Tufts in 1894, and at Dartmouth College, where he also played college football, from 1896 until 1899...
- Bold - Consensus All-American
- 1 - First Team Selection
- 2 - Second Team Selection
- 3 - Third Team Selection
Ends
- Hunter ScarlettHunter ScarlettHunter Watt Scarlett was a notable ophthalmologist, and is best known for his college football career for the Penn Quakers from 1904 to 1908. During World War I, he worked in both French and American military hospitals...
, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CON-1 [23]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; FC) - George SchildmillerGeorge Schildmiller-External links:...
, Dartmouth (WC-1; CON-1 [18]; PI; TT; NYG; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; PT; PES; CIO; FC) - Fisher, Syracuse (NYW; FY; TJ; KCJ)
- Dennie, Brown (WC-2; CSM; NHR)
- Reifsnider, Navy (WC-2)
- Harlan PageHarlan Page-Basketball:-External links:* at the Basketball Hall of Fame* at College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com* at Hoopedia.NBA.com...
, Chicago (WC-3) - Johnson, Army (WC-3)
- Kennedy, Dartmouth (NYT; NHR; WH)
- Brown, Harvard (PP)
Tackles
- Hamilton FishHamilton Fish IIIHamilton Fish III was a soldier and politician from New York State...
, Harvard (WC-1; CON-1 [14]; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYT; BSU; BP; KCJ; PT; FC) - Frank HorrBill Horr-External links:* * at Syracuse Hall of Fame*...
, Syracuse (WC-1; CON-2 [9]; NYG; NYET; PD [g]; PES [g]) - Dexter Draper, Penn (WC-3; CON-1 [13]; PI; TT; BSU; BP; PD; NHR; PP; PT; PES; WH; FC)
- Rudolph Siegling, Princeton (WC-2; CON-2 [11]; NYW-1; NYT; BP [g]; PD; TJ; PP; WH; CIO)
- Daniel Pullen, Army (NYW; FY; TJ; KCJ)
- Bernard O'Rourke, Cornell (WC-2; NYET; PES; WH [g])
- Percy NorthcroftPercy NorthcroftPercy Wilfred Northcroft was an American football player and Naval officer. He played tackle for the Navy Midshipmen football team from 1905 to 1908 and was selected as an All-American in 1906 and 1908. He later served as an officer in the U.S. Navy.-Biography:Northcroft was a native of...
, Navy (WC-3; CIO) - McKay, Harvard (CSM)
- Arthur BridesArthur Brides-External links:...
, Yale (NHR)
Guards
- William GoebelWilliam GoebelWilliam Justus Goebel was an American politician who served as the 34th Governor of Kentucky for a few days in 1900 after having been mortally wounded by an assassin the day before he was sworn in...
, Yale (WC-1; CON-1 [16]; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYT; PD; NHR; PP; WH; CIO; FC) - Clark Tobin, Dartmouth (WC-1; CON-2 [12]; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYET; BSU; BP; KCJ)
- Hamlin Andrus, Yale (WC-2; CON-1 [13]; NYW; NYT; NYET; BSU; TJ; KCJ; PT; PES)
- Hoar, Harvard (WC-3; NYW; TJ; PP)
- Francis BurrFrancis BurrFrancis Hardon Burr was an American football player. He was a first-team All-American end in 1906 and captain of the 1908 Harvard Crimson football team. After he died of typhoid fever in 1910, the Francis H. Burr Award was established in his honor.-Biography:Burr was raised in Brookline,...
, Havard (PT) - John MessmerJohn MessmerJohn Messmer was an American football player and discus thrower for the University of Wisconsin. He was selected as a second-team All-American by Walter Camp in 1908...
, Wisconsin (WC-2) - Forest Van Hook, Illinois (WC-3)
- Waugh, Syracuse (NHR)
- Rich, Dartmouth (FC)
Centers
- Charles Nourse, Harvard (WC-1; CON-1 [12]; NYG; NYT; CIO [g])
- Germany SchulzGermany SchulzAdolph George "Germany" Schulz was an All-American American football center for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1904 to 1905 and from 1907 to 1908. While playing at Michigan, Schulz is credited with having invented the spiral snap and with developing the practice of standing behind the...
, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (CON-2 [9]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; CSM; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; NHR; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES) - Wallace Philoon, Army (WC-2; WH; CIO; FC)
- Brusse, Dartmouth (WC-3)
Quarterbacks
- Walter SteffenWalter SteffenWalter Steffen was an American football player and coach in the United States. He played college football as a quarterback at the University of Chicago from 1906 to 1908 and was a two-time All-American selection...
, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; FY; NYET; PD; NHR; KCJ) - Ed LangeEd LangeEd Lange was an American author of several classic nudist pictorial books. He was very active in the Western Sunbathing Association and in the first stirrings of the Free Beach movement in the 1960s in California....
, Navy (CON-1 [12]; TT; NYG; BP; PP; WH; CIO) - Albert Miller, Penn (WC-3; CON-2 [6]; PI; BSU; TJ; PT; PES; FC)
- Cutler, Harvard (WC-2; CSM; NYT)
Halfbacks
- Frederick Tibbott, Princeton (WC-1; CON-1 [21]; NYW; FY; TT; CSM; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; NHR; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; CIO)
- Bill HollenbackBill Hollenback-References:* *, which tracks the Football history of the Union Club of Phoenixville-External links:...
, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CON-1 [21]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; NYG; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; FC) - Jim ThorpeJim ThorpeJacobus Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe * Gerasimo and Whiteley. pg. 28 * americaslibrary.gov, accessed April 23, 2007. was an American athlete of mixed ancestry...
, Carlisle (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; PI) - Ernest Ver Wiebe, Harvard (WC-2; CSM; NHR)
- John W. MayhewJohn W. Mayhew-External links:* at College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com...
, Brown (WC-2) - Gray, Amherst (WC-3)
- Walder, Cornell (PD)
- Hamilton Corbett, Harvard (CIO)
Fullbacks
- Ted CoyTed CoyEdward Harris "Ted" Coy was an American football player. Coy was selected as a first-team All-American three straight years from 1907 to 1909 and was later selected as the fullback on Walter Camp's All-Time All-America team. He also served as Yale's head football coach in 1910...
, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CON-1 [24]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; NHR; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; CIO [e]; FC) - George Walder, Cornell (WC-2; CIO; FC)
- George McCaa, Lafayette (WC-3)