The 1951 All-Eastern football team consists of American football players chosen by various selectors as the best players at each position among the Eastern colleges and universities during the 1951 college football season.
Offensive selections Backs Dick Kazmaier, Princeton (AP-1; UP-1) Harry Agganis, Boston University (AP-1; UP-1) Charles Maloy, Holy Cross (AP-1; UP-1) Burt Talmage, Bucknell (AP-1; UP-1) Mitch Prince, Columbia (AP-2; UP-2) Johnny Turco, Holy Cross (AP-2; UP-2) Brad Myers, Bucknell (AP-2) Bob Haner, Villanova (AP-2) Hal Seidenberg, Cornell (UP-2) Bob Bestwick, Pittsburgh (UP-2)
Ends Karl Kluckhohn, Colgate (AP-1; UP-1) Tom McCann, Holy Cross (AP-1; UP-2) Wesley Bomm, Columbia (AP-2) Robert Capuano, Holy Cross (AP-2)
Tackles Paul Tetreault, Navy (AP-1; UP-1) Charles Metzler, Cornell (AP-1) Robert Evans, Penn (AP-2) Charles Deen, Yale (AP-2)
Guards Gerald Audette, Columbia (AP-1; UP-2) John Pietro, Brown (AP-1) Frank Vitale, Cornell (AP-2) James Otis, Princeton (AP-2)
Centers William Vesprini, Dartmouth (AP-1; UP-2) Albert Lemay, Harvard (AP-2)
Defensive selections Defensive ends Frank McPhee, Princeton (AP-1; UP-1) Eddie Bell, Penn (AP-1; UP-2) Tom Hanlon, Penn (AP-2) William Owens, Colgate (AP-2)
Defensive tackles Gerald McGinley, Penn (AP-1; UP-2) John Feltch, Holy Cross (AP-2; UP-1) George Young, Bucknell (AP-1) James Jerome, Cornell (AP-2; UP-2)
Defensive guards Nick Liotta, Villanova (AP-1; UP-1) Victor Bihl, Princeton (AP-1; UP-1) Bradley M. Glass, Princeton (AP-2; UP-2) Chet Millett, Holy Cross (AP-2)
Defensive center David Hickok, Princeton (AP-1; UP-1) Edward Sexton, Brown (AP-2)
Defensive backs Robert Spears, Yale (AP-1) William Whelan, Cornell (AP-1) Richard Pivirotto, Princeton (AP-1) Frank Hauff, Navy (AP-1) Bob Albert, Bucknell (AP-2) William Kirk, Cornell (AP-2) Avatus Stone, Syracuse (AP-2) Donald Fuqua, Army (AP-2)
Key AP = Associated Press
UP = United Press
See also 1951 College Football All-America Team
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