1927 College Football All-America Team

The 1927 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 Teams in 1927. The organizations that chose the teams included: the United Press; the Associated Press; Collier's Weekly selected by Grantland Rice; and the New York Sun.

All-American selections for 1927

AP = Associated Press^[1]
UP = United Press, selected based on consensus among UP newspapers throughout the country and prominent football coaches^[2]
COL = Collier's Weekly as selected by Grantland Rice with assistance from well-known coaches, including Glenn Warner, Robert Zuppke, Knute Rockne and Dan McGugin^[3]
CP = Central Press Association, billed as the "Real" All-American team with selections based on fan input with cooperation from "hundreds of newspapers throughout the country"^[4]
HE = Hearst newspapers, consensus selection of more than 100 sports writers and editors at the Hearst newspapers^[5]
DJW = Davis J. Walsh^[6]
NYS = New York Sun^[7]
BE = Billy Evans^[8]
WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation^[9]
LP = Lawrence Perry^[10]
AAB = All America Board^[11]
Bold - Consensus All-American^[12]
1 - First Team Selection
2 - Second Team Selection
3 - Third Team Selection

Bennie Oosterbaan, 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, 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, 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)

Jesse Hibbs, 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, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; CP-1; HE-1; DJW-1)
Bill Kern, Pittsburgh (HE-2; NYS-2; BE-1)
John Smith, Penn (AP-2; COL-1; DJW-3)
Leo Raskowski, 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 (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])

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, 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)

John Charlesworth, Yale (UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; HE-2; BE-1)
Larry Bettencourt, 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)

Morley Drury, 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, Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; CP-2; HE-3; DJW-1; LP-2)
Joel Hunt, 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)

Gibby Welch, 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, Nebraska (AP-2; UP-2; HE-2; DJW-2; NYS-2; BE-2; LP-1)
Chuck Carroll, Washington (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3)
Hunt, Texas A&M (BE-3; LP-2)
Louis Gilbert, 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)

Herb Joesting, 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, Washington & Jefferson (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)

^ "East, West and South Share All-American Honors: Mythical Eleven Averages 185 Pounds With Every Man A Captain". Billings Gazette. 1927-12-11.
^ Frank Getty (1927-11-27). "Famous Grid Coaches Pick Stars Of Year: Westerners Land Seven Places On Mythical Team". Syracuse Herald.
^ "6 Westerners On Grantland Rice All-Stars". Woodland Daily Democrat. 1927-12-02.
^ Norman E. Brown (1927-12-10). "Fans Help Select Stars of Gridiron: Oosterbaan and Joesting Found To Be Most Popular Football Stars in Country". The Evening Independent (Massilon, OH).
^ "How About These For All-American Elevens?". San Antonio Light. 1927-12-04.
^ Davis J. Walsh (1927-11-29). "Three Midwest Griddes Get Places on Walsh's All-American: Oosterbann and Joesting Given First Team Jobs". Waterloo Evening Courier.
^ "N.Y. Sun's All-American Team Features Caldwell For Halfback Position". The Bee (Danville, VA). 1927-11-26.
^ Billy Evans (1927-12-01). "Billy Evans' All-American". The Anniston Star.
^ "Walter Camp Football Foundation". http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards//.
^ Lawrence Perry (1927-12-10). "Lawrence Perry Selects His All-American Eleven". Oakland Tribune.
^ Christy Walsh (1932-12-11). "ALL-AMERICA BOARD HONORS CAPT. BOB SMITH OF COLGATE". Syracuse Herald.
^ Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners

1927 College Football All-America Team consensus selections

QB Morley Drury \| HB Red Cagle \| HB Gibby Welch \| FB Herb Joesting C Larry Bettencourt \| C John Charlesworth \| G John Smith \| G Bill Webster \| T Ed Hake \| T Jesse Hibbs \| E Tom Nash \| E Bennie Oosterbaan

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