1914 College Football All-America Team

The 1914 College Football All-America team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-America Teams selected by various organizations in 1914. The organizations that chose the teams included Collier's Weekly selected by Walter Camp.
The Los Angeles Times reported that "Maulbetsch, Michigan's hero, is about the only one of 1914's stars who received an almost unanimous vote."[1]

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Overview

Harvard end Huntington Hardwick was the only player who was unanimously selected as a first-team All-American by all 27 selectors identified below. Other players selected as a first-team All-American by a majority of the selectors were Harvard halfback Eddie Mahan (26 selections), Harvard guard Stan Pennock (26 selections), Princeton tackle Harold Ballin (22 selections), Michigan halfback John Maulbetsch (20 selections), Cornell quarterback Charley Barrett (19 selections), and Dartmouth guard Clarence Spears (16 selections).

The chart below reflects the number of polls in which the leading candidates (any player with at least two first-team All-American desigantions) were selected as a first-team All-Americans.

Name Position School First-team selections
Huntington Hardwick End Harvard 27
Eddie Mahan Halfback Harvard 26
Stan Pennock Guard Harvard 26
Harold Ballin Tackle Princeton 22
John Maulbetsch Halfback Michigan 20
Charley Barrett Quarterback Cornell 19
Clarence Spears Guard Dartmouth 16
Louis A. Merrilat End Army 12
Harry LeGore Fullback Yale 9
Bud Talbott Tackle Yale 9
John McEwan Center Army 8
Paul Des Jardien Center Chicago 8
Johnny Spiegel Halfback Washington & Jefferson 8
Lawrence Whitney Fullback Dartmouth 7
John O'Hearn End Cornell 7
Burleigh Cruikshank Center Washington & Jefferson 6
Patterson Tackle Washington & Jefferson 6

All-Americans of 1914

Key

Ends

Tackles

Guards

Centers

Quarterbacks

Halfbacks

Fullbacks

Notes

  1. ^ "All-American and Western Football Teams Are Named". Los Angeles Times. 1914-11-30. 
  2. ^ "Walter Camp’s Three All-American Elevens". The Syracuse Herald. 1914-12-13. 
  3. ^ "Spiegel Gets Place on Star Grid Eleven". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 1914-11-22. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fh4bAAAAIBAJ&sjid=M0kEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2754,5987764&dq=football+all-american+1914+maulbetsch&hl=en. 
  4. ^ "All-America Addendum". College Football Historical Society Newsletter. May 2006. http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv19/CFHSNv19n3f.pdf. 
  5. ^ "Eckersall Names All-Stars: Eckersall Names One Western Man; Maulbetsch of Michigan on All-American". Waterloo Evening Courier. 1914-12-07. 
  6. ^ "Menke Selects Annual All-American Eleven". New Castle News. 1914-11-25. 
  7. ^ Monty (1914-11-28). "Another All-American Team: EICHENLAUB IS PLACED ON SECOND ELEVEN; "Monty" Selects Mythical Eleven for Daily News Readers—Gives His Reasons". The Fort Wayne Daily News. 
  8. ^ a b "JAMES P. SINNOT PUTS TOOHEY ON HIS ALL-AMERICAN ELEVEN". New Brunswick Times. 1914-12-01. 
  9. ^ "Herbert Reed, Mack Whalen And The Newark News Selected Toohey On Their All-American Eastern Team". New Brunswick Times. 1914-12-07. 
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Spalding's Official Football Guide 1915
  11. ^ "FOOTBALL ROLL OF HONOR: The Men Whom the Best Coaches of the Country Have Named as the Stars of the Gridiron in 1914". Outing. 1915. p. 498. http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/Outing/Volume_65/outLXV04/outLXV04s.pdf. 
  12. ^ Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners
  13. ^ "Howell Heads Trinity Eleven" (PDF). The New York Times. 1913-12-07. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F00E2DF1F3BE633A25754C0A9649D946296D6CF. 
  14. ^ "Michail M. Dorizas biography". University of Pennsylvania. http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1800s/dorizas_michail.html. 
1914 College Football All-America Team consensus selections