1913 College Football All-America Team
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The 1913 College Football All-America team consists of American football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 players selected to the College Football All-America Team
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 selected by various organizations in 1913. The organizations that chose the teams included 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....

 selected by 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...

.

Key

  • WC = 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....

     as selected by 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...

  • HW = Harper's Weekly, as selected by football critic Herman Reed
  • INS = Frank G. Menke
    Frank G. Menke
    Frank Grant Menke was an American newspaper reporter, author, and sports historian. He wrote for the Hearst Newspapers from 1912 to 1932 and his articles appeared daily in 300 newspapers across the country. He was billed by the Hearst syndicate as "America's Foremost Sport Writer"...

    , sporting editor of the International News Service
  • MFP = Milwaukee Free Press
  • FY = Fielding H. Yost, head coach at the University of Michigan
  • PHD = Parke H. Davis
    Parke H. Davis
    Parke Hill Davis was an American football player, coach and historian who retroactively named the national championship teams in American college football from the 1869 through the 1932 seasons. He also named co-national champions at the conclusion of the 1933 season...

    , Princeton's representative on the football rules committee
  • TT = Tom Thorp
    Tom Thorp
    -References:...

    , former captain of Columbia football team
  • TET = Trenton Evening-Times, selected by a "well known gridiron critic whose name is withheld by special request"
  • Bold - Consensus All-American
  • 1 - First Team Selection
  • 2 - Second Team Selection
  • 3 - Third Team Selection

Ends

  • Robert H. Hogsett, Dartmouth (WC–1; INS-1; MFP-2; TET-1)
  • Louis A. Merrilat
    Louis A. Merrilat
    Louis Alfred "Merry" Merrilat, Jr. was an American football end and military officer. He played college football with Army and was selected as a first-team All-American in both 1913 and 1914. He was wounded in battle while serving in France during World War I and later played in the National...

    , Army (WC–1; INS-1; PHD-1; TET-1)
  • Fritz, Cornell (WC–2; FY-1)
  • Huntington "Tack" Hardwick
    Huntington Hardwick
    Huntington Reed "Tack" Hardwick was an American football player. He played at the halfback and end positions for Harvard University and was selected as a unanimous first-team All-American in 1914...

    , Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–2)
  • Lorin Solon
    Lorin Solon
    Lorin Solon was an All-American football player who played at the end and fullback positions for the University of Minnesota....

    , Minnesota (WC–3; INS-2; MFP-1; FY-1)
  • Knute Rockne
    Knute Rockne
    Knute Kenneth Rockne was an American football player and coach. He is regarded as one of the greatest coaches in college football history...

    , Notre Dame (WC–3; HW-2; MFP-2)
  • Huntington, Chicago (INS-2)
  • Benjamin F. Avery, Yale (MFP-1; TT-1)
  • J. Huber Wagner, Pitt (PHD-1; TT-2)
  • O'Brien, Harvard (TT-1)
  • K.P. Gilchrist, Navy (TT-2)

Tackles

  • Miller Pontius
    Miller Pontius
    Miller Hall Pontius was an All-American football tackle and end for the Michigan Wolverines from 1911 to 1913. He also played baseball with coach Branch Rickey and pitcher George Sisler while a student at the University of Michigan. He later served as an assistant football coach at Michigan and...

    , Michigan (INS-1; MFP-2; FY-1; PHD-1; TT-1)
  • Harold R. Ballin
    Harold Ballin
    Harold Roy "Hal" Ballin was an American football player. He played at the tackle position for Princeton University from 1912 to 1914 and was a consensus first-team All-American in both 1913 and 1914...

    , Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; INS-2; FY-1; PHD-1; TT-1; TET-1)
  • Nelson S. Talbott
    Bud Talbott
    Nelson S. "Bud" Talbott was a head coach of the Dayton Triangles of the "Ohio League" and later a charter member of the National Football League. He served in World War I, World War II and the Korean War and rose to the rank of Brigadier General...

    , Yale (WC–1; MFP-2; TET-1)
  • Harvey Rexford Hitchcock, Jr.
    Harvey Rexford Hitchcock, Jr.
    Harvey Rexford Hitchcock, Jr. was on the 1913 College Football All-America Team. From an influential missionary family in the Hawaiian Islands, he went insane during World War I.-Biography:...

    , Harvard (INS-1)
  • Robert P. "Bob" Butler, Wisconsin (WC–2; HW-1; MFP-1; TT-2)
  • Alex Weyand
    Alex Weyand
    Alexander Mathias "Babe" Weyand was an American football player, Olympian, Army officer and sports historian...

    , Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–2)
  • Vic Halligan
    Vic Halligan
    Victor H. Halligan was an American football player. He played for the University of Nebraska from 1912 to 1914 and was the first All-American football player to be selected from the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team....

    , Nebraska (WC–3)
  • Robert Treat Paine Storer
    Robert Treat Paine Storer
    Robert Treat Paine Storer was an American football player for Harvard University. In 1912, he scored Harvard's first touchdown against Yale since 1901 and was selected as a first-team All-American at the tackle position. In 1913, he was captain of Harvard's last undefeated, untied football team...

    , Harvard (WC–3; INS-2; MFP-1; TT-2)

Guards

  • John H. Brown, Jr.
    John Brown (football)
    John H. "Babe" Brown, Jr. was an American football player and an Admiral in the United States Navy. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951. As a defender he helped the United States Naval Academy football team shut out seven opponents in 1913...

    , Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; INS-1; MFP-1; PHD-1; TT-1; TET-1)
  • Stanley B. Pennock
    Stan Pennock
    Stanley Bagg "Bags" Pennock was an American football player. He was selected as a first-team All-American at the guard position three consecutive years while leading Harvard University to three undefeated seasons from 1912 to 1914. He was killed in 1916 in an explosion at a chemical plant in New...

    , Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; MFP-2; FY-1; TT-1; TET-1)
  • Ray "Tubby" Keeler, Wisconsin (INS-1; MFP-2)
  • Elmer "Pete" Busch
    Elmer Busch
    Elmer Eugene "Pete" Busch was a professional football player with the Oorang Indians of National Football League in 1922. He was a Native-American as a member of the Pomo tribe. He played his college football at the Carlisle Indian School...

    , Carlisle (WC–2)
  • Henry "Hank" Ketcham, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–2; INS-2)
  • Howard Parker "Tal" Talman, Rutgers (WC–3; PHD-1)
  • Alexander M. Weyand, Army (WC–3; INS-2)
  • John S. Pendleton, Yale (MFP-1)
  • Jimmie Munns, Cornell (WC-3 [tackle]; FY–1; TT-2)
  • Albert Journeay, Penn (TT-2)

Centers

  • Paul Des Jardien
    Paul Des Jardien
    Paul Raymond "Shorty" Des Jardien was an American football, baseball and basketball player. He played for the University of Chicago where he was selected as the first-team All-American center in both 1913 and 1914 and also pitched a no-hitter for the baseball team...

    , Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; HW-1; INS-1; TT-2)
  • William Marting, Yale (WC–2; MFP-2; PHD-1)
  • George "Bubbles" Paterson
    George C. Paterson
    George Cornell "Bubbles" Paterson was an American football player and engineer. He played center for the University of Michigan Wolverines football teams coached by Fielding H. Yost from 1911 to 1913. He was selected as an All-American in 1913.-Early years:Paterson was born in Austin,...

    , Michigan (WC–3; MFP-1)
  • Pete Garlow, Carlisle (INS-2)
  • Walter Simpson, Penn (FY–1)
  • Hank Ketcham, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (TT-1; TET-1)

Quarterbacks

  • Ellery C. Huntington Jr., Colgate (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; PHD-1)
  • Charles Emile "Gus" Dorais
    Gus Dorais
    Charles Emile "Gus" Dorais was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He played college football as a quarterback at the University of Notre Dame, where he was an All-American in 1913, and then professionally with the Fort Wayne Friars and Massillon Tigers...

    , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (HW-2; INS-1; MFP-1; TT-1; TET-1)
  • Ernest Hughitt
    Tommy Hughitt
    Ernest Fredrick Hughitt , was a National Football League utility player and coach. He was also an All-American quarterback for the University of Michigan in 1913....

    , Michigan (MFP-2; FY-1)
  • Alexander D. Wilson, Yale (WC–2; TT-2)
  • Ran Miller, Penn State (WC–3)
  • Russell, Chicago (HW-1; INS-2)
  • Vernon Prichard
    Vernon Prichard
    Vernon Edwin "Prich" Prichard was an American football quarterback and military officer. He played college football with Army and was selected as a first-team All-American in 1914. He became a career officer in the U.S. Army and rose to the rank of Major General...

    , Army (HW-2)

Halfbacks

  • James Craig
    James B. Craig
    James B. "Jimmy" Craig was an All American football halfback and quarterback who played with the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1911 to 1913. He was named an All-American in 1913...

    , Michigan (WC–1; HW-1; INS-1; MFP-1; FY-1; TT-1; TET-1)
  • Edward W. "Eddie" Mahan
    Eddie Mahan
    Edward William "Eddie" Mahan was an American football player. While playing halfback for Harvard, Mahan was selected as a first-team All-American three consecutive years from 1913–1915...

    , Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1 [fb]; INS–1; MFP-1; TT-2; TET-1
  • Johnny Spiegel
    Johnny Spiegel
    -External links:...

    , Washington & Jefferson
    Washington & Jefferson Presidents football
    The Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team represents Washington & Jefferson College in collegiate level football. The team competes in NCAA Division III and is affiliated with the Presidents' Athletic Conference...

     (WC–2)
  • Joe Guyon
    Joe Guyon
    Joseph Napoleon Guyon was a professional American football player in the National Football League...

    , Carlisle (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–2; INS-2; PHD-1; TT-1)
  • Hobart Amory Hare "Hobey" Baker
    Hobey Baker
    Hobart Amory Hare "Hobey" Baker was an American amateur athlete of the early twentieth century. Regarded as the first American star in ice hockey, he was also an accomplished football player. Born into a prominent family from Philadelphia, he enrolled at Princeton University in 1910...

    , Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–3; MFP-2)
  • Nelson Norgren
    Nelson Norgren
    Nelson H. Norgren was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. As a coach, he led the University of Utah to a national AAU basketball championship in 1916...

    , Chicago (WC–3; INS-2; MFP-2; FY-1)
  • Bob McWhorter
    Bob McWhorter
    Robert Ligon "Bob" McWhorter played football and baseball at the University of Georgia. As a halfback, he scored 61 touchdowns from 1910 to 1913. In 1913, McWhorter became UGA’s first All-American. He was the captain of both the baseball and football teams in his senior year...

    , Georgia (College Football Hall of Fame) (PHD-1)
  • Elmer Oliphant
    Elmer Oliphant
    Elmer Quillen Oliphant, nicknamed Catchie or Catchy, Olie or Ollie was an American football player.-High school:...

    , Purdue (College Football Hall of Fame) (TT-2)

Fullbacks

  • Charles E. Brickley
    Charles Brickley
    Charles Edward Brickley was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the Johns Hopkins University in 1915, at Boston College from 1916 to 1917, and at Fordham University in 1920 with Joseph DuMoe as co-coach, compiling a career college football record of 22–9...

    , Harvard (WC-1 [hb]; INS–1; MFP-1; FY-1; PHD-1; TT-1; TET-1)
  • Ray Eichenlaub
    Ray Eichenlaub
    Ray "Iron Eich" Eichenlaub was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972....

    , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–2; INS-2; MFP-2; TT-2)
  • Lawrence Whitney
    Lawrence Whitney
    Lawrence Whitney was an American athlete and baseball player who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockholm, Sweden. He won the bronze medal in the shot put, and also competed for the US in the exhibition baseball tournament.-External links:*...

    , Dartmouth (WC–3)
  • George E. "Carp" Julian, Michigan State (MFP–2)
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