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...
  
  : "Alan J. Gould, Associated Press general sports editor, selected the Associated Press All-America football team. He was assisted by his staff of writers all over the country, sports editors of member papers, and eading coaches whose co-operation he sought."
• UP = United Press
• 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:...
  
  
• NEA = Newspaper Editors Association
• INS = International News Service selected by Davis Walsh
• LIB = Liberty Magazine: "Fifteen hundred and forty Intercollegiate players from 93 major universities voted, according to Norman L. Sper who conducted the selection for Liberty"
• NANA = North American Newspaper Alliance, selected for NANA "by four famous coaches: Andy Kerr, of Colgate; Dan E. McGugin, of Vanderbilt; James Phelan, of Washington; and 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...
  
  , of Detroit."
• 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...
  
  
• NYS = New York Sun
• 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
• CSW = College Sports Writers

• 1 - First Team Selection
• 2 - Second Team Selection
• 3 - Third Team Selection

Ends

• Don Hutson
  Don Hutson
  Donald Montgomery Hutson was the first star wide receiver in National Football League history. He is considered by many to have been the first modern receiver....
  
  , Alabama (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; INS-1; LIB-1; NANA-2; NYS-1; WC-1; CSW-2)
• Frank Larson, Minnesota (AP-1; NANA-1; NEA-1; CP-1; NYS-1)
• Jim "Monk" Moscrip
  Jim Moscrip
  James Henderson "Monk" Moscrip was an American football player. Born in Adena, Ohio, attended The Kiski Prep School in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania before enrolling at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California...
  
  , Stanford (AP-2; UP-1; NEA-1; LIB-1; NANA-2; CP-1; WC-1)
• Joseph Bogdanski, Colgate (AP-3; NANA-1)
• Merle Wendt
  Merle Wendt
  Merle Wendt was an All-American football player at Ohio State University. Wendt played at the end position for Ohio State and was selected as an All-American in 1935.-Biography:...
  
  , Ohio State (INS-1)
• Lester Borden,Fordham (AP-2)
• Willis Ward
  Willis Ward
  Willis F. Ward was a track and field athlete and American football player who was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1981....
  
  , Michigan (CSW-2)
• Lawrence Kelly, Yale (AP-3)

Tackles

• Bill Lee
  Bill Lee (American football)
  William E. Lee, Sr. was an American football player....
  
  , Alabama (AP-1; LIB-1; NANA-1)
• Bob Reynolds, Stanford (AP-1; INS-1; NANA-1; NYS-1)
• James Steen, Syracuse (AP-2; UP-1; LIB-1; CP-1)
• George Maddox
  George Maddox
  George Maddox , was an Australian cricket player, who played four games for Tasmania.He has the distinction of having participated in the first ever first class cricket match in Australia. Maddox's catch to dismiss the Victorian batsman W...
  
  , Kansas State (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1)
• Clyde Carter, Southern Methodist (UP-1)
• Gentry, Oklahoma (NEA-1; CSW-2)
• Carter, Navy (NEA-1)
• Ed Widseth
  Ed Widseth
  Edwin Clarence Widseth was an American football tackle. He was an All-American at the University of Minnesota in 1935 and an All-Pro in the National Football League for the New York Giants. He has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.-University of Minnesota:Widseth was born in...
  
  , Minnesota (College Football Hall of Fame) (INS-1)
• Theodoratus, Washington State (NEA-1)
• Joseph Ferrara, Columbia (AP-2)
• Slade Cutter, Navy (AP-3)
• Charles Galbreath, Illinois (AP-3)
• Bengston, Minnesota (NANA-2)
• Hamrcik, Ohio State (NANA-2)
• Harvey, Holy Cross (CSW-2)

Guards

• Chuck Hartwig, Pittsburgh (AP-1; INS-1; LIB-1; NANA-1; CP-1; NYS-1; WC-1)
• Bill Bevan, Minnesota (AP-2; UP-1; LIB-1; NANA-1)
• Regis Monahan
  Regis Monahan
  John Regis Head Monahan was a professional football player in the NFL.-College career:...
  
  , Ohio State (AP-2; UP-1; NEA-1; CP-1; NYS-1 [t]; WC-1; CSW-2)
• George T. Barclay, North Carolina (AP-1; NEA-1; NANA-1; WC-1; CSW-2)
• Charles Mucha, Washington (AP-3; NANA-2)
• Kenneth Ormiston, Pittsburgh (AP-3; INS-1; NYS-1)
• Weller, Princeton (NANA-2)

Centers

• Jack Robinson, Notre Dame (AP-2; NANA-1; WC-1; CSW-2)
• Darrell Lester
  Darrell Lester
  Darrell George Lester was two-time All-American center for Texas Christian University in the 1930s.A native of Jacksboro, Texas, Lester was not only a great football player at TCU...
  
  , TCU (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; INS-1; NANA-1; NYS-1)
• George Shotwell, Pittsburgh (UP-1; NANA-2; CP-1)
• Ward, Utah State (NEA-1)
• Ellmore Patterson, Chicago (LIB-1)
• Franklin Meier, Nebraska (AP-3)

Quarterbacks

• Bobby Grayson
  Bobby Grayson
  Bobby Grayson was an American football player. He was a two-time consensus All-American player who led the Stanford University football team to three consecutive Rose Bowl Games from 1933 to 1935....
  
  , Stanford (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; NEA-1; INS-1 [fb]; NANA-1; CP-1 [fb]; NYS-1; WC-1)
• Arleigh Williams
  Arleigh Williams
  Arleigh Taber Williams was an American football and baseball player and university administrator. He played at the halfback and quarterback positions for the California Golden Bears football team from 1932 to 1934...
  
  , California (AP-2; INS-1)
• Ed Goddard
  Ed Goddard
  Edwin Vinson Goddard was an American football player. Goddard played college football at the quarterback and halfback positions for Washington State University. Goddard also served as a punter for Washington State...
  
  , Washington State (LIB-1)
• Miller Munjas, Pittsburgh (AP-3; NANA-2)

Halfbacks

• Dixie Howell
  Dixie Howell
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  , Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-1; NEA-1; INS-1; NANA-1; CP-1; AP-2; LIB-1; WC-1; CSW-2)
• Buzz Borries
  Buzz Borries
  Buzz Borries was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1960. Fred “Buzz” Borries was a Naval Academy halfback from 1932-4....
  
  , Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; NANA-2; CP-1; NYS-1)
• William Wallace, Rice (AP-1)
• Robert Hamilton, Stanford (LIB-1)
• Jay Berwanger
  Jay Berwanger
  John Jacob "Jay" Berwanger was an American football halfback born in Dubuque, Iowa. He was the first winner of the Downtown Athletic Club Trophy in 1935 ; the trophy is awarded annually to the nation's most outstanding college football player...
  
  , Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; WC-1)
• Wilcox, Southern Methodist (NEA-1)
• Richard Hoskin, Ohio State (AP-3)
• Claude Simons, Jr.
  Claude Simons, Jr.
  Claude M. "Little Monk" Simons, Jr. was an American college football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Tulane from 1942 to 1945 and amassed a 13–17–1 record...
  
   (AP-3)
• Duane Purvis
  Duane Purvis
  Duane Purvis was an All-American football player and track and field performer.A native of Mattoon, Illinois, Purvis played halfback and fullback for the Purdue Boilermakers from 1932 to 1934. He was selected as an All-American in 1933 and 1934...
  
  , Purdue (NANA-2)
• Buckler, Army (CSW-2)

Fullbacks

• Pug Lund
  Pug Lund
  Pug Lund was an American football player. Francis L. "Pug" Lund was born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin and attended Rice Lake High School. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1958.-External links:*...
  
  , Minnesota (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; INS-1 [hb]; LIB-1; NANA-1 [hb]-1 [hb]; NYS-1 [hb]; WC-1)
• Izzy Weinstock, Pittsburgh (AP-2; NEA-1; NANA-1; CSW-2)
• Kostka, Minnesota (NANA-2; NYS-1; CSW-2)
• David Smuckler, Temple (AP-3)