The 1938 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 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 9/9AAB, AP, CO, INS, LIB, NEA, NW, SN, UPCP, DT, ID, NYS, PW, WC Ralph Heikkinen Guard Michigan 9/9AAB, AP, CO, INS, LIB, NEA, NW, SN, UPCP, DT, NYS, PW, WC Davey O'Brien Quarterback TCU 9/9AAB, AP, CO, INS, LIB, NEA, NW, SN, UPCP, DT, NYS, PW, WC Marshall Goldberg Fullback Pittsburgh 9/9AAB, AP, CO, INS, LIB, NEA, NW, SN, UPCP, ID, NYS, PW, WC Waddy Young End Oklahoma6/9AP, CO, INS, LIB, NEA, NWCP, DT, ID, NYS, PW, WC Bob MacLeod Halfback Dartmouth6/9AAB, CO, INS, LIB, NEA, NW NYS, PW, WC Alvord Wolff Tackle Santa Clara6/9AP, INS, NEA, NW, SN, UPPW Ki Aldrich Center TCU5/9AP, CO, NW, SN, UPDT, NYS Vic Bottari Halfback California4/9AAB, CO, NW, SNCP, DT, ID, WC Jerome H. Holland End Cornell3/9AP, NW, SNID Bowden Wyatt End Tennessee2/9AAB, CONYS Parker Hall Halfback Ole Miss 2/9AP, UPNYS Ed Bock Guard Iowa State3/9AP, 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 – First-team selection -2 – Second-team selection -3 – Third-team selection

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

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

See also 1938 Little All-America college football team 1938 All-Big Six Conference football team 1938 All-Big Ten Conference football team 1938 All-Pacific Coast Conference football team 1938 All-SEC football team

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