Key

• AP = Associated Press
  Associated Press
  The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
  
  
• UP = United Press, selected based on consensus among UP newspapers throughout the country and prominent football coaches
• COL = 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 Grantland Rice
  Grantland Rice
  Grantland Rice was an early 20th century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio.-Biography:...
  
   with assistance from well-known coaches, including Glenn Warner, Robert Zuppke
  Robert Zuppke
  Robert Carl Zuppke was an American football coach. He served the head coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1913 until 1941, compiling a career college football record of 131–81–12. Inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951, Zuppke coached his...
  
  , 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...
  
   and Dan McGugin
  Dan McGugin
  Daniel Earle McGugin was an American football player, coach, and lawyer. He served as the head football coach at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1904 to 1917 and again from 1919 to 1934, compiling a record of 197–55–19. He played college football at the University...
  
  
• CP = Central Press Association
  Central Press Association
  The Central Press Association was an American newspaper syndication company based in Cleveland, Ohio. It was in business from 1910 to 1971. At its peak, the Central Press supplied features, columns, and photographs to more than 400 newspapers and 12 million daily readers.-History:Virgil Venice...
  
  , billed as the "Real" All-American team with selections based on fan input with cooperation from "hundreds of newspapers throughout the country"
• HE = Hearst newspapers, consensus selection of more than 100 sports writers and editors at the Hearst newspapers
• DJW = Davis J. Walsh
• NYS = New York Sun
• BE = Billy Evans
  Billy Evans
  William George Evans , nicknamed "The Boy Umpire," was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1906 to 1927...
  
  
• WC = 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...
  
   Football Foundation
• LP = Lawrence Perry
• AAB = All America Board
• Bold - Consensus All-American
• 1 - First Team Selection
• 2 - Second Team Selection
• 3 - Third Team Selection

Ends

• Bennie Oosterbaan
  Bennie Oosterbaan
  Benjamin Gaylord "Bennie" Oosterbaan was a three-time first team All-American football end for the Michigan Wolverines football team, two-time All-American basketball player for the basketball team and an All-Big Ten Conference baseball player for the baseball team...
  
  , Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB)
• Tom Nash
  Tom Nash (American football)
  Thomas Acton Nash was an American football player. He played most of his seven year career with the Green Bay Packers. Nash played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs...
  
  , Georgia (AP-3; UP-3; COL-1; HE-1; DJW-1; BE-3; LP-1; AAB)
• Ivy Shiver, Georgia Tech (AP-1; UP-1; CP-2; HE-2; DJW-3; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-2)
• Fishwick, Yale (CP-1)
• George Cole
  George Cole
  George Edward Cole, OBE is a veteran British film and television actor whose successful career has spanned over 70 years in show business....
  
  , Dartmouth (AP-2; HE-3; DJW-2)
• Raymond Matthews, Texas Christian (AP-2; DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-3)
• Irvine Phillips, California (AP-3; CP-2)
• Scott, Yale (UP-2; BE-2)
• Born, Army (UP-2; HE-2; DJW-3; NYS-2; BE-2)
• Moeser, Princeton (HE-3; LP-2)
• Walsh, Notre Dame (UP-3)

Tackles

• Jesse Hibbs
  Jesse Hibbs
  Jesse John Hibbs was an American film and television director and assistant director. He was previously an All-American offensive tackle for the University of Southern California football team in 1927 and 1928....
  
  , Southern California (AP-2; UP-1; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-2; LP-1; AAB)
• Ed Hake, Penn (AP-1; UP-1; CP-2; HE-2; BE-3)
• Bud Sprague
  Bud Sprague
  Mortimer 'Bud' Sprague was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1970....
  
  , Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1)
• Bill Kern
  Bill Kern
  William Franklin "Bill" Kern was an American football player and coach. He played college football as a tackle at the University of Pittsburgh in 1925 and 1927 and then with the Green Bay Packers of the NFL in 1929 and 1930...
  
  , Pittsburgh (HE-2; NYS-2; BE-1)
• John Smith, Penn (AP-2; COL-1; DJW-3)
• Leo Raskowski
  Leo Raskowski
  Leo Thomas Raskowski was an American college and professional football player of the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and received All-American honors at Ohio State University in 1926 and 1927 where he was also a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity...
  
  , Ohio State (AP-3; COL-1; HE-3; BE-1; LP-1)
• Pickard, Alabama (UP-2; CP-2)
• Leo Nowack, Illinois (AP-3)
• Perry, Army (NYS-1; BE-2)
• Jap Douds, 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...
  
   (HE-3; BE-3)
• Quarrier, Yale (UP-3; AAB)
• Fitzgerald, Tufts (UP-3)
• Alton C. Sprott, Texas A&M (DJW-3; NYS-2; BE-3 [g])

Guards

• Bill Webster, Yale (AP-1; UP-2; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB)
• John P. "Clipper" Smith, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; AAB)
• Crane, Illinois (COL-1; LP-2)
• Ray Baer, Michigan (AP-2; UP-2; CP-2; HE-2; DJW-2; BE-2)
• John Barnhill, Tennessee (AP-2)
• Harold Hanson, Minnesota (AP-3; UP-1; CP-2; HE-2; DJW-3; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-1)
• Gene Smith
  Gene Smith
  Gene Smith may refer to:* Gene Smith , current general manager for the Jacksonville Jaguars* Gene Smith , current athletic director at the Ohio State University...
  
  , Georgia (AP-3)
• Wright, Washington (DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-3; LP-2)
• Dart, Northwestern (UP-3)
• Miller, Amherst (UP-3)
• McMullin, Nebraska (DJW-3)
• French, Princeton (HE-3)
• Post, Stanford (HE-3)

Centers

• John Charlesworth, Yale (UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-2; BE-1)
• Larry Bettencourt
  Larry Bettencourt
  Lawrence Joseph Bettencourt is a former outfielder and third baseman for the St. Louis Browns and a center for the Green Bay Packers....
  
  , St. Mary's (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; CP-2; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-2; LP-2; AAB)
• Claude Grigsby, Georgetown (AP-2; HE-3)
• Ken Rouse, Chicago (AP-3; UP-3)
• Reitsch, Illinois (DJW-3; NYS-2; BE-3; LP-1)
• McCreery, Stanford (UP-2)
• Butcher, Tennessee (DJW-2)

Quarterbacks

• Morley Drury
  Morley Drury
  Morley E. Drury , nicknamed "The Noblest Trojan of Them All," was a quarterback for the University of Southern California.-College career:...
  
  , Southern California (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1 [hb]; UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1 [hb]; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB)
• Bill Spears
  Bill Spears
  William "Bill" Spears was an American football player and stand-out quarterback for the Vanderbilt Commodores football team from 1925 to 1927. Spears was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1962....
  
  , Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; CP-2; HE-3; DJW-1; LP-2)
• Joel Hunt
  Joel Hunt
  Oliver Joel "Lil' Joel" Hunt was American football and baseball player and coach of football. He played college football at Texas A&M University from 1925 to 1927 and served as the head football coach at the University of Georgia in 1938 and the University of Wyoming in 1939...
  
  , Texas A&M (AP-2; DJW-3)
• Almquist, Minnesota (AP-3)
• Connor, New York Univ. (HE-2; DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-2)
• Mann, Southern Methodist (BE-3)

Halfbacks

• Gibby Welch
  Gibby Welch
  Gilbert Laverne "Gibby" Welch was an American football player who played college football for the University of Pittsburgh. He broke Red Grange's single season yardage record in 1926 and was an All-American in 1927...
  
  , Pittsburgh (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB)
• Red Cagle, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-3; COL-1; HE-2; AAB)
• Christy Flanagan, Notre Dame (UP-1; CP-1; HE-3; DJW-3; BE-1)
• Alton Marsters, Dartmouth (AP-2; UP-2; HE-3; DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-2)
• Glenn Presnell
  Glenn Presnell
  Glenn Emery "Press" Presnell was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He set the NFL single-season scoring record in 1933 and led the league in total offense. He was the last surviving member of the Detroit Lions inaugural 1934 team and helped lead the team to...
  
  , Nebraska (AP-2; UP-2; HE-2; DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-1)
• Chuck Carroll
  Chuck Carroll
  Chuck Carroll was an American football player from Washington.He played for Garfield High School and earned 17 varsity letters while there. He would be given the title of Garfield Athlete of the First Half of the Century in 1950...
  
  , Washington (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3)
• Hunt, Texas A&M (BE-3; LP-2)
• Louis Gilbert
  Louis Gilbert
  Louis Matthew Gilbert was an American football player. He played at the halfback position for the Michigan Wolverines football teams from 1925 to 1927. He was selected as a first-team All-Big Ten Conference player in 1927 and was selected by Fielding H...
  
  , Michigan (UP-3 [qb]; CP-2; BE-3)
• Walter Gebert, Marquette (UP-3; DJW-3; LP-2)
• Caldwell, Yale (CP-2; HE-1; NYS-1; LP-2)

Fullbacks

• Herb Joesting
  Herb Joesting
  Herbert W. Joesting was a professional American football player and coach in the early National Football League. Nicknamed "The Owatonna Thunderbolt", he played at the University of Minnesota, where he was an All-American in 1926 and 1927.In 1929, Joesting joined the Minneapolis Red Jackets as...
  
  , Minnesota (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; BE-1; LP-1; AAB)
• McCrary, Georgia (AP-2; UP-2; HE-3; DJW-2)
• Bill Amos
  Bill Amos
  William E. "Bill" Amos was a highly decorated college football player and coach. He is considered to be one of the best college football players in Washington & Jefferson College history....
  
  , 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...
  
  (AP-3; HE-2; BE-3)
• Miles, Princeton (NYS-2; BE-2)
• Wilson, Washington (LP-2)
• Hoffman, Stanford (DJW-3; LP-2)
• Tesreau, Washington (UP-3)
• Briante, New York Univ. (CP-2)