1929 College Football All-America Team

The 1929 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 1929. The seven selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1929 season are (1) Collier's Weekly, as selected by Grantland Rice, (2) the Associated Press, (3) the United Press, (4) the All-America Board, (5) the International News Service (INS), (6) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), and (7) the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

Consensus All-Americans

Following the death of Walter Camp in 1925, there was a proliferation of All-American teams in the late 1920s. For the year 1929, the NCAA recognizes seven published All-American teams as "official" designations for purposes of its consensus determinations. Only two players, Notre Dame quarterback Frank Carideo and Pittsburgh end Joe Donchess, were unanimous first-team selections on all seven of the NCAA-recognized teams. The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans and displays which first-team designations they received.

Name Position School Number Selectors

First-team selections

Frank CarideoQuarterbackNotre Dame7/7AP, UP, COL, NEA, INS, NANA, AAB
Joe DonchessEndPittsburgh7/7AP, UP, COL, NEA, INS, NANA, AAB
Bronko NagurskiTackle/FullbackMinnesota6/7AP, UP, COL, NEA, INS, NANA
Jack CannonGuardNotre Dame6/7AP, UP, COL, NEA, INS, AAB
Ben TicknorCenterHarvard6/7AP, UP, COL, INS, NANA, AAB
Ralph WelchFullbackPurdue6/7UP, COL, NEA, INS [hb], NANA, AAB
Ray MontgomeryGuardPittsburgh5/7UP, COL, NEA, INS, AAB
Elmer SleightTacklePurdue4/7AP, COL, INS, AAB
Francis Tappaan[1]EndUSC4/7UP, NEA, NANA, AAB
Red CagleHalfbackArmy3/7AP, COL, AAB
Gene McEverHalfbackTennessee3/7UP, NEA, NANA
Wes Fesler[1]EndOhio State2/7AP, INS

All-American selections for 1929

Ends

Tackles

Guards

Centers

Quarterbacks

Halfbacks

Fullbacks

Key

  • Bold – Consensus All-American recognized by NCAA[2]
  • -1 – First-team selection
  • -2 – Second-team selection
  • -3 – Third-team selection

Selectors recognized by NCAA

Other selectors

  • CP = Central Press Association, "selected by the readers of hundreds of client newspapers of the Central Press Association"[10]
  • NYS = New York Sun[11][12]
  • NYP = New York Post[13]
  • DW = Davis Walsh of the International News Service[14]
  • LP = Lawrence Perry: "Lawrence Perry selected his 1929 All-America football team after traveling many thousands of miles and watching most of the country's leading teams in play or practice"[15]
  • WT = Washington Times[16]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Tappan is not recognized by the NCAA as a consensus All-American despite receiving four official first-team designations. For some reason, Wes Fesler receives the consensus recognition even though he received only two official first-team designations.
  2. ↑ "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 5. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
  3. ↑ "All-America Football Board Selects 1929 Honor Team: Rockne, Warner, Jones, Alexander Present Choices for Season's Best". Salt Lake Tribune. 1929-12-08.
  4. ↑ Alan Gould (AP Sports Editor) (1929-12-07). "Three Big Ten Players on A.P. All-American Team: Carideo and Cannon Land Honor Posts". The News-Palladium (Michigan).
  5. ↑ "United Press Selects Its 1929 All-American Football Eleven". Charleston Gazette. 1929-12-04.
  6. ↑ "Nagurski Gets Post On Rice’s All-American: Minnesota Star Placed At Tackle on All-Star Aggregation; Glassgow and Welch Other Big Ten Aces". The Evening Tribune (Albert Lea, MN). 1929-12-20.
  7. ↑ William Braucher (NEA Service Sports Writer) (1929-12-06). "NEA Names Three Big 10 Stars on All-American: Place Carideo of Notre Dame at Quarterback". Sheboygan Journal.
  8. ↑ "International News Service Announces All-American Teams: Leading Coaches And Writers Of Nation Aid In Selections; Carideo, Marsters, Welch And Parkinson Picked In First Team Backfield". New Castle News. 1929-12-05.
  9. ↑ "Race for All-Star Picking Gets Going: Great Coach Critics for Standard in Their Annual Huddle Agree on Choices". Montana Standard. 1929-12-01.
  10. ↑ "Gene M'Ever Gains Place on Popular All-American Team: Hundreds of Thousands of Football Followers Select Fourth Annual Mythical Eleven by Good Old-Fashioned Election Method". Kingsport Times. 1929-12-10.
  11. ↑ "Bear Schwartz on One All-American". Montana Standard. 1929-12-01.
  12. ↑ "Sleight Picked for All-America: Purdue Tackle Placed On New York Sun's Mythical Team; Welch On Second Eleven". Kokomo Tribune. 1929-11-30.
  13. ↑ "First and Second All-American Are Named by N.Y. Post". Sterling Daily Gazette (IL). 1929-12-02.
  14. ↑ "Walsh's All-American 1929 Football Team". Logansport Pharos-Tribune. 1929-12-04.
  15. ↑ "Lawrence Perry's 1929 All-American". Evening Huronite. 1929-12-10.
  16. ↑ "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. November 2008.
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