1938 College Football All-America Team

Official list of the best college football players of 1938

1938 College Football All-America Team
College Football All-America Team
1938 college football season
1936 1937 ← → 1939 1940

The 1938 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 1938. The nine selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1938 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) Liberty magazine, (7) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), (8) Newsweek, and (9) the Sporting News.

Four players were unanimous All-Americans on all of the major All-American teams: TCU quarterback (and 1938 Heisman Trophy winner) Davey O'Brien, Pittsburgh fullback Marshall Goldberg, Michigan guard Ralph Heikkinen and Notre Dame tackle Ed Beinor.

Consensus All-Americans

For the year 1938, the NCAA recognizes nine published All-American teams as "official" designations for purposes of its consensus determinations. The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans and displays which first-team designations they received.

Name	Position	School	Number	Official	Other
Ed Beinor	Tackle	Notre Dame	9/9	AAB, AP, CO, INS, LIB, NEA, NW, SN, UP	CP, DT, ID, NYS, PW, WC
Ralph Heikkinen	Guard	Michigan	9/9	AAB, AP, CO, INS, LIB, NEA, NW, SN, UP	CP, DT, NYS, PW, WC
Davey O'Brien	Quarterback	TCU	9/9	AAB, AP, CO, INS, LIB, NEA, NW, SN, UP	CP, DT, NYS, PW, WC
Marshall Goldberg	Fullback	Pittsburgh	9/9	AAB, AP, CO, INS, LIB, NEA, NW, SN, UP	CP, ID, NYS, PW, WC
Waddy Young	End	Oklahoma	6/9	AP, CO, INS, LIB, NEA, NW	CP, DT, ID, NYS, PW, WC
Bob MacLeod	Halfback	Dartmouth	6/9	AAB, CO, INS, LIB, NEA, NW	NYS, PW, WC
Alvord Wolff	Tackle	Santa Clara	6/9	AP, INS, NEA, NW, SN, UP	PW
Ki Aldrich	Center	TCU	5/9	AP, CO, NW, SN, UP	DT, NYS
Vic Bottari	Halfback	California	4/9	AAB, CO, NW, SN	CP, DT, ID, WC
Jerome H. Holland	End	Cornell	3/9	AP, NW, SN	ID
Bowden Wyatt	End	Tennessee	2/9	AAB, CO	NYS
Parker Hall	Halfback	Ole Miss	2/9	AP, UP	NYS
Ed Bock	Guard	Iowa State	3/9	AP, LIB, NEA	--

All-American selections for 1938

Ends

Jerome H. Holland, Cornell (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; NEA-2; NW; SN; ID-1)
Bowden Wyatt, Tennessee (AAB; AP-2; CO-1; NEA-2; NYS-1)
Waddy Young, Oklahoma (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; CP-1; CO-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; WC-1; INS; LIB; NW; ID-1; DT; PW)
Earl Brown, Notre Dame (AAB; AP-2; NEA-3; WC-1; LIB; ID-2; DT)
Bill Daddio, Pittsburgh (UP-1; SN; AP-3)
John Wysocki, Villanova (UP-1; CP-1; NEA-1; ID-2; PW)
Howard Weiss, Wisconsin (NEA-2 [fullback]; INS; ID-1 [halfback])
John Shirk, Oklahoma (NEA-3)
Sam Boyd, Baylor (AP-3)

Tackles

Ed Beinor, Notre Dame (AAB; AP-1; UP-1; CP-1; CO-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; WC-1; INS; LIB; NW; SN; ID-1; DT; PW);
Alvord Wolff, Santa Clara (AP-1; UP-1; NEA-1; INS; NW; SN; ID-2; PW)
William McKeever, Cornell (CO-1; DT; AP-3)
A. Sidney Roth, Cornell (AP-2 [guard]; CO-1, (NYS-1) [guard])
I. B. Hale, TCU (AP-2; NEA-2; LIB; ID-1)
Bo Russell, Auburn (AP-2)
Bob Voigts, Northwestern (AAB; WC-1)
Joe Delaney, Holy Cross (NEA-3; NYS-1)
Steve Maronic, North Carolina (NEA-2; CP-1; AP-3)
Eddie Gatto, LSU (ID-2)
Joe Boyd, Texas A&M (NEA-3)

Guards

Ralph Heikkinen, Michigan (AAB; AP-1; UP-1; CP-1; CO-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; WC-1; INS; LIB; NW; SN; ID-2; DT; PW)
Ed Bock, Iowa State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; NEA-1; LIB; ID-2)
Bob Suffridge, Tennessee (UP-1; NEA-2; AP-3) (College Football Hall of Fame)
Frank Twedell, Minnesota (AP-2; NEA-2; INS; SN; ID-1; PW)
Harry Smith, USC (AAB; NEA-3; WC-1; NW; DT)
Gus Zitrides, Dartmouth (CP-1; ID-1)
Matt Landry, Rice (NEA-3)
Vaughn Lloyd, BYU (AP-3)

Centers

Ki Aldrich, TCU (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; CO-1; NEA-2; NYS-1; NW; SN; ID-2; DT)
Dan Hill, Duke (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-2; CP-1; NEA-1; WC-1; INS; LIB; PW)
John Ryland, UCLA (AP-3)
Charley Brock, Nebraska (NEA-3; ID-1)

Quarterbacks

Davey O'Brien, TCU (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-1; UP-1; CP-1; CO-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; WC-1; INS; LIB; NW; SN; ID-2; DT; PW)
Sid Luckman, Columbia (AP-2; SN)
George Cafego, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; CP-1; NEA-1; LIB; ID-1; DT; PW)
Grenny Lansdell, USC (NEA-2)
Everett Kischer, Iowa State (NEA-3)

Halfbacks

Bob MacLeod, Dartmouth (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-3; CO-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; WC-1; INS; LIB; NW; ID-2; PW)
Vic Bottari, California (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-2; CP-1; CO-1; NEA-2; WC-1; NW; SN; ID-1; DT)
Parker Hall, Ole Miss (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; NYS-1)
John Pingel, Michigan State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; NEA-2; INS; DT)
Eric Tipton, Duke (UP-1)
Billy Patterson, Baylor (AP-2)
Merl Condit, Carnegie Tech (ID-2)
Bill Osmanski, Holy Cross (ID-2)
Hugh McCullough, Oklahoma (NEA-3)
Paul Christman, Missouri (NEA-3)
Warren Brunner, Tulane (AP-3)
Paul Shu, VMI (AP-3)
Howard Weiss, Wisconsin (AP-3)

Fullbacks

Marshall Goldberg, Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-1; UP-1; CP-1; CO-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; WC-1; INS; LIB; NW; SN; ID-1; PW)
John McLaughry, Brown (NEA-3)

Key

Bold = Consensus All-American^[1]

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

Official selections

AAB = All-America Board^[2]
AP = Associated Press^[2]
CO = Collier's Weekly, selected by Grantland Rice^[3]
INS = International News Service^[2]
LIB = Liberty magazine^[2]
NEA = NEA Sports Syndicate^[4]
NW = Newsweek^[2]
SN = Sporting News^[2]
UP = United Press^[2]

Other selections

CP = Central Press Association, selected by the captains of more than 50 football teams across the country^[5]
DT = Detroit Times by J.R. Gnau^[6]
ID = Irving Dix^[6]
NYS = New York Sun^[7]
WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation^[8]
AR = Albert Richard^[6]
PW = Paul Williamson

References

^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 7. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ESPN College Football Encyclopedia. ESPN Books. 2005. p. 1174. ISBN 1401337031.
^ "Waddy Young On Collier's All-Team". The Ada Evening News. December 9, 1938.
^ Harry Grayson (November 26, 1926). "O'Brien, Goldberg, Cafego, MacLeod ALl-American Backs". Lowell Sun.
^ Bill Beaucher (November 27, 1938). "Only 2 Big 10 Players Named To Captains' Selections". Wisconsin State Journal.
^ ^a ^b ^c "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. May 1999. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 10, 2010.
^ "Parker Picked As Best Back". Logansport Pharos-Tribune. December 5, 1938.
^ "Walter Camp Football Foundation All-American Selections". Walter Camp Football Foundation. Archived from the original on December 18, 2007.

1938 College Football All-America Team consensus selections

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