The 1937 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 1937. The ten selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1937 season are (1) Collier's Weekly, as selected by Grantland Rice, (2) the Associated Press (AP), (3) the United Press (UP), (4) the All-America Board (AAB), (5) the International News Service (INS), (6) Liberty magazine, (7) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), (8) Newsweek, (9) the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), and (10) the Sporting News (SN).

Consensus All-Americans For the year 1937, the NCAA recognizes 10 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 OtherClint FrankQuarterbackYale10/10AAB, AP, COL, INS, LIB, NANA, NEA, NW, SN, UPCP, CE, WCMarshall GoldbergHalfbackPittsburgh9/10AAB, AP, COL, INS, NANA, NEA, NW, SN, UPCP, CE, WCJoe RouttGuardTexas A&M8/10AP, COL, LIB, NANA, NEA, NW, SN, UPCP, CEByron WhiteHalfbackColorado7/10AP, COL, INS, LIB, NEA, SN, UPCP, CESam ChapmanFullbackCalifornia6/10AAB, AP, COL, LIB, NANA, UPWCEd FrancoTackleFordham5/10AP, COL, NW, SN, UPCPLeroy MonskyGuardAlabama5/10AAB, AP, COL, LIB, SNWCAndy BershakEndNorth Carolina4/10COL, NANA, NEA, SNCP, CEAlex WojciechowiczCenterFordham4/10INS, NANA, SN, UPCE, WCChuck SweeneyEndNotre Dame3/10AP, NW, UPCPTony MatisiTacklePittsburgh3/10AAB, AP, NANACE, WC

All-American selections for 1937 Ends Chuck Sweeney, Notre Dame (AP-1; UP-1; INS-3; CP-1; NW; NEA-3) Andy Bershak, North Carolina (AP-3; UP-2; COL-1; INS-3; NEA-1; CP-1; CE-1; SN; NANA) John Wysocki, Villanova (UP-1; INS-1; NEA-1; CP-3; LIB) Raymond King, Minnesota ( UP-3; INS-1; CP-2; CE-1; WC-1; AAB; NW; NEA-2 [t]) Jerome H. Holland, Cornell (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; COL-1) Bill Daddio, Pittsburgh (UP-3; SN) Perry Schwartz, California (WC-1; AAB) Frank Souchak, Pittsburgh (UP-2; INS-2; LIB; NEA-2) Bill Jordan, Georgia Tech (AP-2; INS-2; NEA-3) Jim Benton, Arkansas (AP-3; CP-3; NANA) Elmer Dohmann, Nebraska (CP-2) Pete Smith, Oklahoma (AP-2)

Tackles Ed Franco, Fordham (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; CP-1; SN; NW; NEA-2) Tony Matisi, Pittsburgh (AP-1; UP-2; INS-2; CE-1; WC-1; AAB; NANA; NEA-2 [e]) Bruiser Kinard, Ole Miss (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-1; INS-1; NEA-1; CE-1; SN) Ed Beinor, Notre Dame (UP-3; NEA-1; CP-3; WC-1; AAB) Vic Markov, Washington (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; COL-1; INS-1; LIB) Jim Ryba, Alabama (INS-3; CP-1) I. B. Hale, TCU (LIB) Al Babartsky, Fordham (INS-3; NANA) Fred Shirey, Nebraska (UP-2; INS-2; NW; NEA-3 [e]) John Mellus, Villanova (AP-2) Alexander Kevorkian, Harvard (CP-2) Eddie Gatto, LSU (AP-3) Jim Tipton, Alabama (UP-3) Ted Doyle, Nebraska (CP-3) Alvord Wolff, Santa Clara (NEA-3)

Guards Joe Routt, Texas A&M (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS-2; NEA-1; CP-1; CE-1; SN; LIB; NANA; NW) Leroy Monsky, Alabama (AP-1; UP-2; COL-1; INS-2; CP-2; WC-1; SN; AAB; LIB; NEA-2) Vard Stockton, California (UP-1; INS-1; NEA-1; CP-1; NANA) Gust Zarnas, Ohio State (WC-1; AAB; NW) Phil Dougherty, Santa Clara (INS-1; CP-3) Hedwig, California (CE-1) Frank Twedell, Minnesota (AP-2; UP-2; INS-3; CP-3; NEA-3) Gus Zitrides, Dartmouth (AP-3; INS-3) Jim Sivell, Auburn (AP-3; CP-2) Albin Lezouski, Pittsburgh (AP-2) Norman Buckner, Tulane (UP-3) Steve Slivinski, Washington (NEA-2; UP-3) Joe Nee, Harvard (CP-3) Joe Ruetz, Notre Dame (NEA-3)

Centers Alex Wojciechowicz, Fordham (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-1; INS-1; CP-2; CE-1; WC-1; SN; AAB; NANA; NEA-3) Carl Hinkle, Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; COL-1; INS-2; CP-1; LIB) Charley Brock, Nebraska (NEA-1) Bob Herwig, California (College Football Hall of Fame) (NEA-2; UP-3; INS-3; NW) Ki Aldrich, TCU (College Football Hall of Fame) (first pick in the 1939 NFL draft) (AP-2)

Quarterbacks Clint Frank, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) ( AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS-1; NEA-1 [hb]; CP-1; CE-1; WC-1; SN; AAB; LIB; NANA; NW) Sid Luckman, Columbia (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (second pick in the 1939 NFL draft) (AP-3; UP-2; NEA-3 [hb]) Andy Puplis, Notre Dame (UP-3; CP-3) Nile Kinnick, Iowa (NEA-3) Elmore Hackney, Duke (INS-2; NEA-2 [qb])

Halfbacks Marshall Goldberg, Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1 [fb] ; COL-1; INS-1 [hb]; NEA-1; CP-1; CE-1; WC-1; SN; AAB; NANA; NW) Byron White, Colorado (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS-1; NEA-1 [qb]; CP-1; CE-1; SN; LIB) Corbett Davis, Indiana (first pick in the 1938 NFL draft) (INS-2 [fb]; CP-1; WC-1; AAB [fb]; LIB; NANA; NW; NEA-2 [fb]) Davey O'Brien, TCU (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-3; CP-2 [qb]) John Pingel, Michigan State (College Football Hall of Fame) ((AP-2; INS-3; CP-3) Bill Osmanski, Holy Cross (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; INS-2; NEA-3 [fb]) Bob MacLeod, Dartmouth (College Football Hall of Fame) ((AP-3; CP-2) Hugh Wolfe, Texas (UP-2) Joe Gray, Oregon State (AP-2) Jim McDonald, Ohio State (second pick in the 1938 NFL draft) (AP-3) Vic Bottari, California (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-3; NEA-2) Andy Stopper, Villanova (INS-3) William "Bullet Bill" Patterson, Baylor (CP-3) Danny Dalfonso, University of Buffalo

Fullbacks Sam Chapman, California (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS-2; CP-2 [fb]; WC-1; AAB [hb]; LIB; NANA; NEA-3 [hb]) Joe Kilgrow, Alabama (UP-2 [hb]; INS-1; CP-2 [hb]; SN; NW; NEA-2 [hb]) George Karamatic, Gonzaga (UP-2; NEA-1) Johnny "Jelly Belly" Meek, California (INS-3 [qb]; CE-1) Cecil Isbell, Purdue (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-3; CP-3) George "Pinky" Rohm, LSU (INS-3)

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 COL = Collier's Weekly INS = International News Service LIB = Liberty magazine NANA = North American Newspaper Alliance NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association NW = Newsweek SN = The Sporting News UP = United Press, "selected by United Press sports writers, aided by 12 of the nation's foremost coaches"

Other selectors CP = Central Press Association: "Chosen by more than 30 captains of leading universities and college teams in every part of the country, the eighth annual Captain's All-American is presented herewith." CE = Collyer's Eye, selected by "sixty-seven nationally prominent football coaches, representing every major institution of learning, conference and district in the United States" WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation

See also 1937 Little All-America college football team 1937 All-Big Six Conference football team 1937 All-Big Ten Conference football team 1937 All-Pacific Coast Conference football team 1937 All-SEC football team

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