The 1955 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 1955 college football season.
Quarterbacks George Welsh, Navy (AP-1 [b], UP-1, INS-1) Claude Benham, Columbia (AP-2, INS-2)
Halfbacks Jim Brown, Syracuse (AP-1 [b], UP-1, INS-1) Lenny Moore, Penn State (AP-1 [b], UP-1, INS-1) Patrick Uebel, Army (AP-2, INS-2) Alfred Ward, Yale (AP-2) Jim Robertson, Cornell (INS-2) Dennis McGill, Yale (UP-1, INS-2)
Fullbacks Charles Sticka, Trinity (NC) (AP-1 [b], INS-1) R. Martin, Princeton (AP-2)
Ends Ron Beagle, Navy (AP-1, UP-1, INS-1) John Paluck, Pittsburgh (AP-1, UP-1, INS-2) Joe Walton, Pittsburgh (INS-1) Monte Pascoe, Dartmouth (AP-2) Jimmy Ridlon, Syracuse (AP-2) Joe Direnzo, Princeton (INS-2)
Tackles Phil Tarasovic, Yale (AP-1, INS-1) Thomas Powell, Colgate (AP-1, UP-1, INS-2) Bill Doremus, Lehigh (INS-1) John Hopkins, Navy (AP-2, UP-1) James McGuinness, Brown (AP-2) Charles Gibbons, Rhode Island (INS-2)
Guards Bill Meigs, Harvard (AP-1, INS-1) Stanley Slater, Army (AP-1, UP-1, INS-2) Jim Buonopane, Holy Cross (AP-2, UP-1, INS-1) Robert Howard, Rutgers (AP-2) George Peck, Princeton (INS-2)
Center John Cenci, Pittsburgh (AP-1) Frank Reich, Penn State (INS-1) Edward Szvetecz, Army (UP-1) Robert A'Lizzi, Dartmouth (AP-2) Bill Brown, Syracuse (INS-2)
Key AP = Associated Press UP = United Press INS = International News Service
See also 1955 College Football All-America Team
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