The Consensus 1929 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of two major All-American teams[1]. To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Helms Athletic Foundation, College Humor Magazine and the Christy Walsh Syndicate.
| Player | Class | Team |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Churchill | Junior | Oklahoma |
| Vern Corbin | Senior | California |
| Charley Hyatt | Junior | Pittsburgh |
| Stretch Murphy | Junior | Purdue |
| Joe Schaaf | Senior | Pennsylvania |
| Cat Thompson | Junior | Montana State |
| All-America Team | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First team | Second team | Third team | ||||||
| Player | School | Player | School | Player | School | |||
| Helms[2] | Vern Corbin | California | No second or third teams | |||||
| Bruce Drake | Oklahoma | |||||||
| Charley Hyatt | Pittsburgh | |||||||
| Gene Lambert | Arkansas | |||||||
| Stretch Murphy | Purdue | |||||||
| Harlow Rothert | Stanford | |||||||
| Joe Schaaf | Pennsylvania | |||||||
| Carey Spicer | Kentucky | |||||||
| Cat Thompson | Montana State | |||||||
| Frank Ward | Montana State | |||||||
| College Humor | Tom Churchill | Oklahoma | Vern Corbin | California | Howard Bollerman | Colgate | ||
| Charley Hyatt | Pittsburgh | Ed Dougherty | Fordham | Werner Jensen | Creighton | |||
| Stretch Murphy | Purdue | Marshall Glenn | West Virginia | Jesse Mortensen | Southern California | |||
| Tom Pickell | Arkansas | Oral Hildebrand | Butler | Jim Strickland | Indiana | |||
| Joe Schaaf | Pennsylvania | Elmer Tenhopen | Wisconsin | Maurice Swarthout | Dartmouth | |||
| Eddie Wineapple | Providence | Joseph Truskowski | Michigan | |||||
| Christy Walsh Syndicate | Tom Churchill | Oklahoma | No second or third teams | |||||
| Vern Corbin | California | |||||||
| Ed Dougherty | Fordham | |||||||
| Bud Foster | Wisconsin | |||||||
| Charley Hyatt | Pittsburgh | |||||||
| Harold McClary | Washington | |||||||
| Ernest McCoy | Michigan | |||||||
| Stretch Murphy | Purdue | |||||||
| Joe Schaaf | Pennsylvania | |||||||
| Edward Smith | Notre Dame | |||||||
| Cat Thompson | Montana State | |||||||
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