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. HuntSpalding's Official Football Guide 1915 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
See also 1914 All-Eastern football team 1914 College Football All-Southern Team 1914 All-Western college football team 1914 All-Western Conference football team
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