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1914 All-America college football team

Official list of the best college football players of 1914

Summary

Official list of the best college football players of 1914

The 1914 All-America college football team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1914 college football season. The only selectors for the 1914 season who have been recognized as "official" by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) are Walter Camp, whose selections were published in Collier's Weekly, and the International News Service (INS), a newswire founded by William Randolph Hearst.

Although not recognized by the NCAA, many other sports writers, newspapers, and coaches selected All-America teams in 1914. They include Vanity Fair, Parke H. Davis, Walter Eckersall, The New York Globe, the New York Herald, the New York Evening Mail, the Atlanta Constitution, the Detroit Evening News, The Boston Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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 Los Angeles Times reported that "Maulbetsch, Michigan's hero, is about the only one of 1914's stars who received an almost unanimous vote."

The chart below reflects the number of polls in which the leading candidates (any player with at least two first-team All-American designations) were selected as 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
Britain Patterson	Tackle	Washington & Jefferson	6

All-Americans of 1914

Ends

Huntington "Tack" Hardwick, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; VF; PHD; WE–1; FM-1; MO-1; NYH; NYEM-1; NYG; NC; PGT; BN; PEB; AC; PS; WH; DD; PET; SLT; MD; NES; DN; PPL; BP; TT; AW; PI; OUT)
Louis A. Merrilat, Army (WE–1; VF; PHD; WC-2; FM-3; MO-2; NYH; NYEM-2; NYG; NC; PGT; BN; PEB; AC; NES; TT; OUT)
John E. O'Hearn, Cornell (WC–1; WE–2; MO-1; NYEM-2; PS; PET; SLT; MD; DN; OUT)
Maurice R. "Red" Brann, Yale (WC–2; WH; BP; AW)
Bob Higgins, Penn State (College Football Hall of Fame) (NYEM-1; PPL)
Perry Graves, Illinois (FM–1)
Reginald Bovill, Washington & Jefferson (FM-3; MO-2; DD)
Boyd Cherry, Ohio State (FM–2; OUT)
Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Harvard (FM–2)
Harvey E. Overesch, Navy (WC–3)
Edwin Stavrum, Wisconsin (OUT)
Robbie Robinson, Auburn (OUT)

Tackles

Harold Ballin, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; VF; PHD; WE–1; FM-1; MO-1; NYH; NYEM-1; NYG; NC; BN; AC; PS; WH; SLT; MD; NES; DN; BP; TT; AW; PI; OUT)
Bud Talbott, Yale (WE–1; VF; MO-1; NYH; NYEM-2; BN; AC; WH; DD; PET; OUT)
Britain Patterson, Washington & Jefferson (WC–2; FM-3; PEB; PS; PET; PPL; BP; TT)
Walter Trumbull, Harvard (WC–1; PHD; DD; DN; AW; PI; OUT)
Vic Halligan, Nebraska (WC–3; WE–2; FM-1; PGT; MD; OUT)
Cub Buck, Wisconsin (WE–2; PGT; SLT; OUT)
John Toohey, Rutgers (NYEM-1; NYG; NC; NES)
Pete Maxfield, Lafayette (MO-2; PEB)
Ted Shultz, Washington & Lee (PPL)
Alex Weyand, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–3; FM-2)
Bob Nash, Rutgers (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–2)
Ray Keeler Wisconsin (FM–2; OUT)
Edward J. Gallogly, Cornell (NYEM-2)
George D. Howell, Trinity College (MO-2)
Lennox F. Armstrong, Illinois (FM-3)
Will Burton, Kansas (OUT)
Laurens Shull, Chicago (OUT)
Josh Cody, Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (OUT)
Farmer Kelly, Tennessee (OUT)
Bob Taylor Dobbins, Sewanee (OUT)

Guards

Stan Pennock, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; VF; PHD; WE–1; FM-2; MO-1; NYH; NYEM-1; NYG; NC; PGT; BN; PEB; AC; PS; WH; DD; PET; SLT; MD; NES; DN; PPL; BP; TT; AW; PI; OUT)
Clarence Spears, Dartmouth (WC–3; WE–1; FM-1; NYH; NYEM-1; NYG; NC; PGT; BN; PEB; PS; DD; NES; PPL; BP; AW; PI)
Ralph Chapman, Illinois (WC–1; PHD; WE–2; FM-2; AC; SLT; MD; OUT)
Eddie Trenkmann, Princeton (MO-2; PET; TT)
Wilbur Shenk, Princeton (WC-2; VF; NYEM-2; OUT)
Arlie Mucks, Wisconsin (FM–1)
Michalis Dorizas, Penn(FM–1)
Harry Routh, Purdue (FM-3; DN)
Louis Jordan, Texas (WC-2)
Joseph J. "Red" O'Hare, Army (WE-2)
Harold White, Syracuse (NYEM-2; OUT)
Earl W. Mills, Navy (MO-2)
Laurence B. Meacham, Army (WC–3)
Dale Munsick, Cornell (FM-3)

Centers

John McEwan, Army (WC–1; WE-1; MO-2; NYG-1; PS; SLT; DN; BP; AW)
Paul Des Jardien, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–2; VF; FM-2; MO-1; PGT; BN; AC; DD; MD; TT; OUT)
Burleigh Cruikshank, Washington & Jefferson (WC-3; FM-3; NYH; NYEM-2; NC; PEB; WH; PET; PPL)
Albert Journeay, Penn (PHD; WE-2; NYEM-1; WH [g]; NES; PI; OUT)
Bob Peck, Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (FM–1)
Boles Rosenthal, Minnesota (OUT)
Willard Cool, Cornell (OUT)
James Raynsford, Michigan (OUT)
Boozer Pitts, Auburn (OUT)

Quarterbacks

Charley Barrett, Cornell (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–2; VF; WE–1; FM-1; NYH; NYEM-1; NYG [hb]; BN; PEB; AC; PS; WH; DD; PET; MD; NES; DN; PPL; TT; AW; OUT)
Milt Ghee, Dartmouth (WC–1; WE–2; FM-2; MO-1; NYEM-2; BP; PI)
Vernon Prichard, Army (NYG; NC; PGT; SLT; OUT)
Alexander D. Wilson, Yale (WC-3; OUT)
Potsy Clark, Illinois (FM-3; OUT)
Huntley, New York (MO-2)
David Paddock, Georgia (PHD; OUT)
Malcolm Justin Logan, Harvard (OUT)
Frank Glick, Princeton (OUT)
William H. Tow, Amherst (OUT)
Irby Curry, Vanderbilt (OUT)
Robert Kent Gooch, Virginia (OUT)
Paul Russell, Chicago (OUT)
Tommy Hughitt, Michigan (OUT)
Sammy Gross, Iowa (OUT)
Wilbur Hightower, Northwestern (OUT)
Louis E. Pickerel, Ohio State (OUT)

Halfbacks

John Maulbetsch, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; VF [fb]; PHD; WE–1; FM-1; MO-1; PGT [fb]; BN; AC; PS; DD; PET; SLT; MD; NES; DN; PPL; BP; AW; PI; OUT)
Eddie Mahan, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1 [fb]; VF; PHD; WE–1; FM-2; MO-1; NYH; NYEM-1; NYG; NC; PGT; BN; PEB; AC [fb]; PS; WH [fb]; DD; PET; SLT; MD [fb]; NES; DN [fb]; PPL; BP [fb]; TT; AW [fb]; PI; OUT)
Johnny Spiegel, Washington & Jefferson (WC–2; VF; PHD; FM-1; NYH; NYEM-1; AC; DN; AW)
Frederick Bradlee, Harvard (WC–1; WE-2; NYEM-2; WH; BP; TT; OUT)
Harold Pogue, Illinois (WC–3; WE-2; FM-3; PGT; MD; OUT)
William "Billy" Cahall, Lehigh (WC-2; MO-2)
Howard Parker Talman, Rutgers (WC–3)
William H. Miller, Pittsburgh (FM-3)
Andrew Toolan, Williams (MO-2; OUT)
Dick Rutherford, Nebraska (OUT)
Guy Chamberlain, Nebraska (OUT)
Tam Rose, Syracuse (OUT)
Marcus Wilkinson, Syracuse (OUT)
Carroll Knowles, Yale (OUT)
Moore, Princeton (OUT)
Eugene Mayer, Virginia (OUT)
Gray, Chicago (OUT)
Bart Macomber, Illinois (OUT)
Ammie Sikes, Vanderbilt (OUT)
Lee Tolley, Sewanee (OUT)
Dave Tayloe, North Carolina (OUT)

Fullbacks

Harry LeGore, Yale (WC–2; WE–2; FM-1; MO-1; NYH; NYEM-1; PS; WH [hb]; PET; TT; PI; OUT)
Lawrence Whitney, Dartmouth (WC–3; WE–1; FM-2 [hb]; NYEM-2 [hb]; NYG; NC [hb]; PEB [hb]; SLT; NES; PPL; OUT)
Lorin Solon, Minnesota (WC–3 [end]; WE–2 [end]; FM–2; BN; DD; OUT)
Ray Eichenlaub, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (MO-2; NC)
Haps Benfer, Albright (PEB; OUT)
Hugo Franck, Harvard (NYEM-2)
Charles Shuler, Jr., Cornell (FM-3)
Pete Calac, Carlisle (OUT)
Dan Kenan, Wesleyan (OUT)
Carl Philippi, Cornell (OUT)
Campbell "Honus" Graf, Ohio State (OUT)
Charles Brickley, Harvard (OUT)

Key

NCAA recognized selectors for 1914

WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter Camp
FM = Frank G. Menke, Sporting Editor of the I.N.S.

Other selectors

VF = Vanity Fair, selected based on selections of 175 "prominent newspapermen of the country"
PHD = Parke H. Davis, member of rules committee and noted football historian
WE = Walter Eckersall, of the Chicago Tribune
MO = Monty, New York sports writer
NYH = New York Herald
NYEM = James P. Sinnot, of the New York Evening Mail, "who is recognized as one of the best sporting writers in the East"
NYG = New York Globe, selected by Mack Whalen
NC = Newark Sunday Call, selected by William S. Hunt
PGT = Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, selected by Fred M. Walker
BN = Baltimore News
PEB = Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
AC = Atlanta Constitution, selected by sporting editor Dick Jemison
PS = Pittsburgh Sun, selected by sporting editor James J. Long
WH = Washington Herald, selected by William Peet
DD = Davis J. Davies in the Pittsburgh Dispatch
PET = Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, selected by sporting editor Louis M. Toughill
SLT = St. Louis Times, selected by George Henger
MD = Michigan Daily, selected by sporting editor F.M. Church
NES = Newark Evening Star, selected by sporting editor Joseph P. Norton
DN = Detroit Evening News, selected by sporting editor H.G. Salsinger
PPL = Philadelphia Public Ledger, selected by Robert W. Maxwell
BP = Boston Post, by Charles H. Parker
TT = Tom Thorp in the New York Evening Journal
AW = Alexander Wilson, Yale University
PI = Philadelphia Inquirer, selected by sporting editor M. Neagle Rawlins
OUT = Outing magazine's "FOOTBALL ROLL OF HONOR: The Men Whom the Best Coaches of the Country Have Named as the Stars of the Gridiron in 1914"

Bold = Consensus All-American

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

References

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(1913-12-07). "Howell Heads Trinity Eleven". The New York Times.
"Michail M. Dorizas biography". University of Pennsylvania.
(1914-12-13). "Walter Camp's Three All-American Elevens". The Syracuse Herald.
(1914-11-25). "Menke Selects Annual All-American Eleven". New Castle News.
(1914-11-22). "Spiegel Gets Place on Star Grid Eleven". The Pittsburg Press.
(May 2006). "All-America Addendum". College Football Historical Society Newsletter.
(1914-12-07). "Eckersall Names All-Stars: Eckersall Names One Western Man; Maulbetsch of Michigan on All-American". Waterloo Evening Courier.
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.
(1914-12-01). "JAMES P. SINNOT PUTS TOOHEY ON HIS ALL-AMERICAN ELEVEN". New Brunswick Times.
(1914-12-07). "Herbert Reed, Mack Whalen And The Newark News Selected Toohey On Their All-American Eastern Team". New Brunswick Times.
Spalding's Official Football Guide 1915
(1915). "FOOTBALL ROLL OF HONOR: The Men Whom the Best Coaches of the Country Have Named as the Stars of the Gridiron in 1914". Outing.
(2016). "Football Award Winners". National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

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