The North Carolina Tar Heels college football team competes as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), and represents the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). All-America selections are individual player recognitions made after each season when numerous publications release lists of their ideal team. The NCAA recognizes five All-America lists: the Associated Press (AP), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), Sporting News (TSN), and the Walter Camp Football Foundation (WC). In order for an honoree to earn a "consensus" selection, he must be selected as first team in three of the five lists recognized by the NCAA, and "unanimous" selections must be selected as first team in all five lists.

Since the establishment of the team in 1888, North Carolina has had 68 players honored a total of 85 times as an All-American for their performance on the field of play. Included in these selections are fourteen consensus selections, three of which were unanimous selections. The most recent All-Americans from North Carolina a came after the 2013 season, when Eric Ebron and Ryan Switzer were each named First Team All-America by various selectors.

Key

Consensus selection Unanimous selection

B BackIn American and Canadian football, a back is a player who is lined up behind the linemen, the players who line up closest to the line of scrimmage. K Kicker NT Nose tackle C Center LB Linebacker FB Fullback DB Defensive back P Punter HB Halfback DE Defensive end QB Quarterback WR Wide receiver DT Defensive tackle RB Running back G Guard E End T Tackle TE Tight end PR Punt Returner NG Nose Guard FS Free Safety TB Tailback

Selectors

AAB All-America Board AFCA American Football Coaches Association AP Associated Press APT All-Players Team AR Albert Richard ATH Athlon BCT Bill Cunningham Team BST Bill Stern Team BOS Boston Record CBS CBSSports.com CD Collegiate Digest CF Complete Football CFI College Football Illustrated (Sports Review) CH College Humor CHPT Charles Parker Team CNB Collyer’s News Bureau CPFN College and Pro Football Newsweekly CNNSI CNN/Sports Illustrated CP Central Press Association CS College Sports CSW College Sports Writers DBT Dr. L.H. Baker Team DHT Deke Houlgate Team EDT Eddie Dooley Team FC Football Coaches FD Football Digest FN Football News FWAA Football Writers Association of America GR Gridiron Record GRCE Grantland Rice GW Gridiron Weekly HLMS Helms HST Hearst INS International News Service JCT Jim Crowley Team JB Joel Buschbaum LLT Lou Little Team ILA Illustrated Football Annual MZLU Mizlou NEA Newspaper Enterprise Association NSWK Newsweek NYN New York News NYS New York Sun NYWT New York World-Telegram PFW Pro Football Weekly PG Police Gazette PIC PIC Scouts PMT Paramount PW Pop Warner RGT Red Grange Team RST Ray Scott Team RVLS Rivals.com SCT Scout.com SH Scripps-Howard SLGD St. Louis Globe-Democrat SR Sports Review SW Sports Week Time Time Magazine TSN The Sporting News TTT Tom Thorp Team USA USA Today UP United Press UPI United Press International WC Walter Camp WILL Paul Williamson WWF What’s What in Football

Selections

+ List of All-Americans showing the year won, player, position and selectors Year Player name Position Selector(s) 1929 G NEA-2; AP-3 1933 G AP-3; CP-3 1934 G AP-1; CP-2; NEA-1; NANA-1; WC-1; CSW-2; GR-1; AAB-1; NYWT-1; CD-2; AR-1; ILA-1HST-1; LLT-1; WILL-1; NYS-1; CHPT-2; UP-2; TTT-2; APT-2; RGT-2; BCT-2 1934 B AAB-HM 1935 B AP-2; CP-2; NEA-2 1936 E AP-2; 1937 E AP-3; UP-2; COL-1; INS-3; NEA-1; CP-1; CE-1 1938 T CP-1; UP-2; NEA-2; AP-3. EDT-1; NSWK-2; WWF-2; CH-3 1939 B CP-2; NEA-3; BCT-3 1939 B BST-2; INS-2; NEA-3; HST-3; WILL-3 1939 E AP-1; WILL-1; NEA-2; DBT-3; UP-3; WWF-3 1940 E AP-1; WILL-1; NEA-1; DBT-1; UP-2; WWF-2; NYN-1; BOS-1; NSWK-1; CNB-1; BST-2; CSW-2 CP-2; INS-2; NYS-2; BCT-2; JCT-2 1943 E BST-3 1946 TB AP-3; UP-2; NEA-2; FC-3; SW-3; GW-2; PIC-2 1947 TB AP-2; NEA-2; INS-3; CP-3; 1947 FB APT-3 1948 TB AP-1; UP-2; NEA-1; FC-1; SW-1; INS-1; CP-1; AAB-1; WILL-1; APT-1; TSN-1; PMT-1 BST-1; PG-1; FD-1; BOS-1; CFI-1; NYN-1; CF-1; DHT-1; FWAA-2 1948 T FWAA-2 1948 E FWAA-1; NYS-1; TSN-2; APT-2; CP-3; NEA-2 1949 TB AP-1; UP-2; FC-1; INS-1; CP-1; AAB-1; WILL-1; APT-1; TSN-1; PMT-1; PG-1; FD-1 CFI-1; FWAA-3 1949 E NEA-1 1949 E FWAA-2; UP-1; TSN-1; NYN-1; SR-1; SLGD-1; DHT-1; APT-2; CP-2; NEA-3; INS-2; FD-2 PG-2 1950 C, LB AP-1; NEA-1; APT-1; AAB-1; FD-1; BST-1; BOS-1; GR-1; PG-1; HLMS-1; UP-2; CP-2 TSN-2 1958 T FD-2; CP-3 1958 B FWAA-1; NEA-1 1961 G NEA-3 1963 E AP-1; FWAA-1; NEA-2 1964 FB FC-2 1969 G AP-3 1970 TB AP-1; FWAA-1; FC-1; CP-1; WC-1; FN-1; UP-2 1972 G AP-1; UP-2; FWAA-2; FC-1; FN-2 1972 T FN-2 1974 G AP-1; FC-1; NEA-1; TSN-1; WC-1; Time-1; PW-1; FN-2; UP-2 1974 TE TSN-1 1976 C FN-2 1976 TB AP-2; UPI-2 1977 DT AP-1; FWAA-1; FC-1; UP-2; NEA-2; CPFN-2 1977 G FN-3 1979 DB RST-1; FN-2 1979 G FN-2 1980 C AP-2; FN-3 1980 TB FN-3; CPFN-3 1980 LB AP-1; UP-1; FC-1; FWAA-1; TSN-1; FN-1; CPFN-1; NEA-2 1980 DT FN-3 1980 G FN-1; WC-1; NEA-1; MZLU-1; UP-2; CPFN-2; AP-3 1981 G FWAA-1; FN-2 1981 DB FN-3 1982 G FWAA-1; FN-1; WC-1; MZLU-1; AP-2; UP-2; NEA-2; CPFN-2 1982 DT FWAA-1; FN-1; CPFN-1; AP-2 1983 T AP-1; NEA-1; UP-2; CPFN-2; FN-3 1983 DT FN-1; CPFN-1; FC-1; WC-1; TSN-1; AP-2; UP-2; NEA-2 1983 TB FN-3 1984 TB AP-3; UPI-2 1986 T AP-1; NEA-1; ATH-1; JB-1; TSN-2; FN-3 1986 RB CPFN-3 1987 NG NEA-2 1988 C AP-3 1989 G MZLU-1; FN-3 1990 T CPFN-3 1992 TB FN-3 1992 C AP-3 1993 FS FC-1; FWAA-1; SH-1; AP-2; UP-2; TSN-2; FN-3 1994 DE, DT AP-3 1995 DE, DT AP-1; FC-1; WC-1; UP-1; CS-1; TSN-2 1996 TE FN-3 1996 CB AP-1; WC-1; FWAA-1; TSN-1; FN-2 1996 DE TSN-2; AP-3; FN-3 1996 LB AP-2; TSN-2 1997 CB AP-1; WC-1; FWAA-1; FN-1; TSN-3 1997 DE AP-1; WC-1; FC-1; FN-1; TSN-2 1997 LB AP-3 1997 LB AP-1; WC-1; FN-1; TSN-3 1998 CB WC-1; FN-3 1999 P TSN-1 2000 DE AP-2; WC-2; FN-2; CNNSI-1 2001 DT AP-3 2001 DE AP-1; WC-1; FN-1; TSN-1; FWAA-1; FC-1; CNNSI-1 2004 C PFW-1 2008 DB AP-2; WC-2; RVLS-3 2010 DE SCT-2 2012 RB AP-3 2012 G AP-1; WC-1; FWAA-1; AFCA-1; TSN-1; PFW-1 2012 DT PFW-1 2013 TE ESPN-1; AP-2; ATH-2; CBS-2; CNNSI-2; USA-2; WC-2 2013 WR, PR FWAA-1; ESPN-1; ATH-1; CBS-2; USA-2 2015 G AP-1; ATH-1; FWAA-2; CBS-2 2015 APB AFCA-1

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