1928 College Football All-America Team

The 1928 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 1928. 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 1928

Key

Bold - NCAA "consensus" All-Americans^[1]

Selectors recognized by NCAA in its consensus All-American determinations:

• AAB = All America Board
• AP = Associated Press^[2]
• COL = Collier's Weekly, as selected by Grantland Rice with assistance from Knute Rockne, Glenn Warner, Jesse Hawley, Fielding H. Yost, Robert Zuppke, Lou Young, Bill Roper, Wallace Wade, Dan McGugin and Clarence M. Price.^[3]
• NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association^[4]
• UP = United Press, as selected by United Press sports editor Frank Getty, with advice from "coaches and officials throughout the country."^[5]

Other selectors:

• CP = Central Press Association, billed as the "Real" All-American team^[6]
• PAB = Pan-American Bank^[7]
• WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation^[8]

• 1 - First Team Selection
• 2 - Second Team Selection
• 3 - Third Team Selection
• Utility Selection - Only Grantland Rice in Collier's Weekly used this designation for three players in addition to those at eleven specified positions.
• HM - Honorable Mention Selection - Used by Frank Getty in the United Press All-America Team.

Ends

• Irvine Phillips, California (UP-1, WC-1, AAB, PAB, AP-2)
• Wes Fesler, Ohio State (College Football Hall of Fame) (CO-1, NEA-1, UP-1, WC-1, AAB, AP-2, CP-2)
• Dale Van Sickel, Florida (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, NEA-1, CO-Utility, UP-HM)
• Malcolm Franklin, St. Mary's (AP-1, UP-2)
• Ken Haycraft, Minnesota (CO-1, UP-2)
• Abernathy, Vanderbilt (CP-1, UP-3)
• Rosenzweig, Carnegie Tech (CP-1, NEA-2, UP-HM)
• Edward Messinger, Army (PAB, CP-2, AP-3)
• Miller Brown, Missouri (AP-3)
• Barns, Hobart (UP-3)

Tackles

• Otto Pommerening, Michigan (AP-1, CO-1, UP-1, NEA-3)
• Mike Getto, Pittsburgh (CO-1, NEA-1, WC-1, AP-2, UP-2, AAB)
• Jap Douds, Washington & Jefferson (UP-1, CO-Utility)
• Hibbs, Southern California (CP-1, NEA-1, UP-3)
• Gordy Brown, Texas (CP-1, AP-2, UP-3)
• Albert J. Nowack, Illinois (WC-1, UP-2, AP-3, AAB)
• Crane, Illinois (CP-1)
• Frank Speer, Georgia Tech (AP-1)
• Lassman, New York Univ. (CP-2, NEA-2)
• Sprague, Army (CP-2)
• Jimmy Steele, Florida (NEA-2)
• Melvyl Dressell, Washington State (AP-3)
• Bancroft, California (PAB)
• Miller, Notre Dame (PAB)

Guards

• Seraphim Post, Stanford (AP-1, CO-1, CP-1, NEA-1, WC-1, AAB)
• Don Robesky, Stanford (UP-1, NEA-2)
• Edward Burke, Navy (AP-1, CO-1, CP-2, NEA-2)
• George Gibson, Minnesota (UP-1, WC-1, AP-2, NEA-3, AAB)
• Dan McMullen, Nebraska (AP-2, NEA-3, UP-3, PAB)
• Bill McRae, Florida (UP-2)
• Brown, Vanderbilt (UP-2)
• Bruce Dumont, Colgate (AP-3)
• Choc Sanders, Southern Methodist (AP-3, UP-3)
• Greene, Yale (CP-2)
• Dreshar, Carnegie Tech (PAB)

Centers

• Peter Pund, Georgia Tech (College Football Hall of Fame) (CO-1, NEA-1, UP-1, WC-1, CP-2, AP-3, AAB)
• Charles Howe, Princeton (AP-1, CP-1, NEA-2, UP-2, PAB)
• Nathan Barrager, Southern California (AP-2)

Quarterbacks

• Howard Harpster, Carnegie Mellon (College Football Hall of Fame) (CO-1, CP-1, NEA-1, UP-1, WC-1, AP-3, PAB, AAB)
• Earl H. "Dutch" Clark, Colorado College (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1)
• Howard Maple,Oregon State (AP-2, UP-3)
• Frederick L. Hovde, Minnesota (CP-2)
• Williams, Southern California (UP-2)
• Moynihan, Notre Dame (UP-3)

Halfbacks

• Red Cagle, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, CO-1, CP-1, NEA-1, UP-1, WC-1, PAB, AAB)
• Chuck Carroll, Washington (AP-1, UP-1 [fb], WC-1, NEA-2, AAB)
• Paul Scull, Penn (CO-1, NEA-1, WC-1, AP-2, UP-2 [fb], AAB)
• Warner Mizell, Georgia Tech (AP-2, CP-2, NEA-2, UP-2)
• Clyde Crabtree, Florida (AP-3, NEA-3, UP-3 [fb])
• Willis Glassgow, Iowa (CP-2, AP-3, NEA-3)
• Bill Banker, Tulane (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-2)
• Lloyd Brazil, Univ. of Detroit (CO-Utility, UP-3)
• Hume, Southern Methodist (UP-3)
• Thomas, Univ. South. Calif. (NEA-2, PAB)

Fullbacks

• Ken Strong, New York Univ. (AP-1, CO-1, CP-1 [hb], NEA-1, UP-1 [hb])
• Howell, Nebraska (CP-1)
• Clifford Hoffman, Stanford (AP-2)
• Gerald Snyder, Maryland (AP-3)
• Burgess, Texas A&M (CP-2)
• McLain, Iowa (PAB)

Notes