1908 All-America college football team

Consensus All-Americans

The only two individuals who have been recognized as "official" selectors by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for the 1908 season are Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney, who had originated the All-America college football team 14 years earlier in 1889. Using this criterion, the NCAA recognizes 16 players as "consensus" All-American for the 1908 football season. The consensus All-Americans are identified in bold on the list below ("All-Americans of 1908").

All-American selections for 1908

Ends

• Hunter Scarlett, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CON-1 [23]; ERB-1 [30]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; FC)
• George Schildmiller, Dartmouth (WC-1; CON-1 [18]; ERB-1 [23]; PI; TT; NYG; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; PT; PES; CIO; FC)
• Claude Fisher, Syracuse (NYW; FY; TJ; KCJ)
• Frank Dennie, Brown (WC-2; CSM; NHR)
• Lawrence Fairfax Reifsnider, Navy (WC-2)
• Harlan Page, Chicago (WC-3)
• Ronald D. Johnson, Army (WC-3)
• George Kennedy, Dartmouth (NYT; NHR; WH)
• Gilbert Goodwin Browne, Harvard (PP)

Tackles

• Hamilton Fish, Harvard (WC-1; CON-1 [14]; ERB-1 [25]; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYT; BSU; BP; KCJ; PT; FC)
• Bill Horr, Syracuse (WC-1; CON-2 [9]; NYG; NYET; PD [g]; PES [g])
• Percy Northcroft, Navy (WC-3; CIO)
• Dexter Draper, Penn (WC-3; CON-1 [13]; ERB-1 [25]; PI; TT; BSU; BP; PD; NHR; PP; PT; PES; WH; FC)
• Rudolph Siegling, Princeton (WC-2; CON-2 [11]; NYW-1; NYT; BP [g]; PD; TJ; PP; WH; CIO)
• Daniel Pullen, Army (NYW; FY; TJ; KCJ)
• Robert McKay, Harvard (CSM)
• Arthur Brides, Yale (NHR)

Guards

• Hamlin Andrus, Yale (WC-2; CON-1 [13]; ERB-1 [18]; NYW; NYT; NYET; BSU; TJ; KCJ; PT; PES)
• William Goebel, Yale (WC-1; CON-1 [16]; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYT; PD; NHR; PP; WH; CIO; FC)
• Bernard O'Rourke, Cornell (WC-2 [t]; NYET; PES; WH [g])
• Clark Tobin, Dartmouth (WC-1; CON-2 [12]; ERB-1 [28]; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYET; BSU; BP; KCJ)
• Samuel Hoar, Harvard (WC-3; NYW; TJ; PP)
• Francis Burr, Havard (PT)
• John Messmer, Wisconsin (WC-2)
• Forest Van Hook, Illinois (WC-3)
• Orlo L. Waugh, Syracuse (NHR)
• Edward Rich, Dartmouth (FC)

Centers

• Charles Nourse, Harvard (WC-1; CON-1 [12]; NYG; NYT; CIO [g])
• Germany Schulz, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (CON-2 [9]; ERB-1 [20]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; CSM; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; NHR; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES)
• Wallace Philoon, Army (WC-2; WH; CIO; FC)
• Joseph C. Brusse, Dartmouth (WC-3)

Quarterbacks

• Walter Steffen, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; FY; NYET; PD; NHR; KCJ)
• Ed Lange, Navy (CON-1 [12]; TT; NYG; BP; PP; WH; CIO)
• Allie Miller, Penn (WC-3; CON-2 [6]; ERB-1 [20]; PI; BSU; TJ; PT; PES; FC)
• Johnny Cutler, Harvard (WC-2; CSM; NYT)

Halfbacks

• Hamilton Corbett, Harvard (CIO)
• Bill Hollenback, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CON-1 [21]; ERB-1 [30]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; NYG; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; FC)
• Frederick Tibbott, Princeton (WC-1; CON-1 [21]; ERB-1 [25]; NYW; FY; TT; CSM; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; NHR; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; CIO)
• Jim Thorpe, Carlisle (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; PI)
• Ernest Frederocl Ver Wiebe, Harvard (WC-2; CSM; NHR)
• John W. Mayhew, Brown (WC-2)
• Edward Gray, Amherst (WC-3)

Fullbacks

• Ted Coy, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CON-1 [24]; ERB-1 [30]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; NHR; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; CIO [e]; FC)
• George Walder, Cornell (WC-2; CIO; FC; PD [hb])
• George McCaa, Lafayette (WC-3)

Key

NCAA recognized selectors for 1908

• WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter Camp

Other selectors

• CON = Consensus based on All-American teams selected by 25 football experts; number indicates how many of the 25 experts selected the individual as a first-team All-American; any player with at least 5 of 25 selections is listed hear as a second-team selection: CON-2
• ERB = Composite All-America team selected by E. R. Bushnell based on aggregating the opinions of 30 football critics; number indicates how many of the 30 critics selected the individual as a first-team All-American
• NYW = New York World, selected by former Yale quarterback Tad Jones
• PI = The Philadelphia Inquirer, selected by Franklin
• FY = Fielding H. Yost, football coach of the University of Michigan
• TT = Tom Thorp, former star tackle and captain of Columbia
• NYG = New York Globe
• CSM = The Christian Science Monitor
• NYT = The New York Times
• NYET = New York Evening Telegram
• BSU = Brooklyn Standard Union
• BP = Boston Post
• PD = Pittsburgh Dispatch
• NHR = New Haven Register
• TJ = Tad Jones
• KCJ = Kansas City Journal
• PP = Philadelphia Press
• PT = Philadelphia Times
• PES = Philadelphia Evening Star
• WH = Washington Herald, selected by William Peet
• CIO = Chicago Inter-Ocean
• FC = Fred Crolius

Bold = Consensus All-American

• 1 – First-team selection
• 2 – Second-team selection
• 3 – Third-team selection

References

References

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13. Spalding, p. 27
14. Spalding, p. 25