The 1943 All-America college football team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose All-America college football teams in 1943. The eight selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1943 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) Football News, (6) the International News Service (INS), (7) Look magazine, and (8) the Sporting News.

Consensus All-Americans For the year 1943, the NCAA recognizes eight 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 selectors Other selectors Cas Myslinski Center Army8/8AAB, AP, CO, FN, INS, LK, SN, UPCP, SS Bill DaleyHalfbackMichigan8/8AAB, AP, CO, FN, INS, LK, SN, UPCP, NYS, SS Creighton MillerHalfbackNotre Dame7/8AAB, AP, CO, FN, INS, SN, UP-- Angelo BertelliQuarterbackNotre Dame7/8AAB, CO, FN, INS, LK, SN, UPCP, NYS, SS Ralph HeywoodEnd USC 6/8AAB, AP, FN, INS, LK, UPCP, SS Jim WhiteTackle Notre Dame6/8AAB, AP, CO, INS, SN, UPCP Alex AgaseGuard Purdue6/8AAB, FN, INS, LK, SN, UPCP Bob OdellHalfbackPenn5/8AP, CO, INS, LK, NYS -- Don WhitmireTackle Navy4/8AAB, INS, LK, UPCP Merv PregulmanTackles Don Whitmire and Merv Pregulman each received four of eight official first-team selections. Whitmire is recognized by the NCAA as a consensus All-American; Pregulman is not.TackleMichigan4/8CO, FN, LK, SNSS Pat FilleyGuardNotre Dame4/8CO, FN, SN, UP-- John YonakorEndNotre Dame 3/8INS, SN, UPCP

All-American selections for 1943

Ends Ralph Heywood, USC (AAB; AP-1; FN; INS-1; LK; UP-1; CP-1; SS-1) John Yonakor, Notre Dame (AAB; UP-1; INS-1; SN; CP-1) Pete Pihos, Indiana (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-3; SN; UP-2; CO-1; NYS-1) Albert Channell, Navy (AP-3; FN; LK) John Monahan, Dartmouth (AP-2; NYS-1) Roe Johnston, Navy (SS-1) Herb Hein, Northwestern (CO-1) Joe Parker, Texas (AP-1) Robert Hall, Colorado College (AP-2) Bob Gantt, Duke (UP-2)

Tackles Don Whitmire, Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; INS-1; LK; UP-1; CP-1) Jim White, Notre Dame (AAB; AP-1; CO-1; INS-1; SN; UP-1; CP-1) Merv Pregulman, Michigan (AP-3; CO-1 [g]; FN; LK; SN; UP-2; SS-1) Art McCaffray, College of the Pacific (UP-2; CO-1; NYS-1) George Connor, Holy Cross (AP-2; NYS-1) Ralph Calcagni, Cornell (SS-1) Pat Preston, Duke (AP-1) Francis Merritt, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; FN) Solon Burnett, Southwestern (Texas) (AP-3)

Guards Alex Agase, Purdue (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-3; FN; INS-1; LK; SN; UP-1; CP-1) Pat Filley, Notre Dame (AP-2; CO-1; FN; SN; UP-1) John Steber, Georgia Tech. (AAB; AP-1 [tackle]; UP-2; INS-1; NYS-1) Bill Milner, Duke (SS-1; CP-1) Harold Fisher, Southwestern (LK) Bill Milner, Duke (NYS-1) Don Alvarez, Dartmouth (SS-1) George Brown, Navy (AP-1) John Jaffurs, Penn State (AP-2; UP-2) Richard Ward, Washington (AP-3)

Centers Cas Myslinski, Army (AAB; AP-1; CO-1; FN; INS-1; LK; SN; UP-1; CP-1; SS-1) Jack Martin, Navy (NYS-1) Bill Gray, USC (AP-2) Herbert Coleman, Notre Dame (UP-2) Lester Gatewood, Tulane (AP-3)

Quarterbacks Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-2; CO-1; FN; INS-1; LK; SN; UP-1; CP-1; NYS-1; SS-1) Otto Graham, Northwestern (AAB [hb]; AP-1; FN; UP-2; CP-1)

Halfbacks Bill Daley, Michigan (AAB [fb]; AP-1; CO-1 [fb]; FN; INS-1; LK; SN; UP-1; CP-1; NYS-1; SS-1) Bob Odell, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; CO-1; INS-1; LK; NYS-1) Creighton Miller, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-1; CO-1; FN; INS-1; SN; UP-1) Eddie Prokop, Georgia Tech (AP-2; UP-2) Alvin Dark, Southwestern Louisiana (AP-2) Harold Hamburg, Navy (UP-2) Steve Van Buren, LSU (AP-3) Robert Hoernschemeyer, Indiana (AP-3) Bob Steuber, DePauw (AP-3)

Fullbacks John Podesto, College of the Pacific (AP-3; LK; SS-1 [halfback]; NYS-1) Tony Butkovich, Purdue (killed on Okinawa, World War II) (AP-2; SN; UP-1; CP-1; SS-1)

Key Bold = Consensus All-American -1 – First-team selection -2 – Second-team selection -3 – Third-team selection

Official selectors AAB = All-America Board AP = Associated Press CO = Collier's Weekly, selected by Grantland Rice FN = Football News INS = International News Service LK = NBC radio and Look magazine, selected under the supervision of Bill Stern, by 138 sports announcers and 25 key sports writers SN = Sporting News, selected through a poll of 86 sports writers in 40 states UP = United Press

Other selectors CP = Central Press Association, selected with the assistance of the nation's football captains MS = Maxwell Stiles, noted California sports writer, based on the number of weeks a player was named player of the week at his position NYS = New York Sun SS = Stars and Stripes, selected by the sports writers for the Army publication WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation

See also 1943 All-Big Six Conference football team 1943 All-Big Ten Conference football team 1943 All-Pacific Coast Conference football team 1943 All-SEC football team

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