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players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1910 college football season. The only selector for the 1910 season who has been recognized as "official" by the

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(NCAA) is

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. Many other sports writers, newspapers, coaches and others also selected All-America teams in 1910. The magazine ''

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'' attempted to develop a consensus All-American by polling 16 football experts and aggregating their votes. Others who selected All-Americans in 1911 include ''

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'', and sports writer

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of the ''

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''. The 1910

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team compiled a record of 9–0–1 and outscored opponents 161 to 5. Harvard allowed only one team to score a point and played Yale to a 0–0 tie. A total of eight Harvard players were named first-team All-Americans by at least one selector. They are Hamilton Corbett, Robert Fisher, Richard Plimpton Lewis, Robert Gordon McKay,

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, Lawrence Dunlap Smith,

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, and Lothrop "Ted" Withington. Only three players from schools outside of the

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were selected as consensus first-team All-Americans. They are

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and Stanfield Wells from Michigan and James Walker of Minnesota.

Walter Camp's "official" selections

The only individual who has been recognized as an "official" selector by the

(NCAA) for the 1910 season is

. Accordingly, the NCAA's official listing of "Consensus All-America Selections" mirrors Camp's first-team picks. Eight of Camp's first-team All-Americans in 1910 played on teams from the

. The only players recognized by Camp from outside the Ivy League were

and Stanfield Wells from Michigan and James Walker of Minnesota. Camp's first-team selections for 1910 were: *

, guard from Michigan. Benbrook was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971. He weighed over 200 pounds, was considered "huge for his time," and was known as a "dominating force" due to his "exceptional quickness." * Ernest Cozens, center from Penn. Cozens was "one of the first of the roving centers." In the 1910 game between Penn and the Haskell Indian School, Cozens intercepted a pass and returned it 80 yards for a touchdown. He was also the catcher for the Penn baseball team. After graduating from Penn, Cozens was a football coach at

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. * Bob Fisher, guard from Harvard. Fisher later coached Harvard from 1919 to 1925 and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1973. * John "Kil" Kilpatrick. Kilpatrick played at the end position for Yale. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955. He later ran

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for more than 25 years and oversaw the operations of the

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from 1934 to 1960. He was inducted into the

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in 1960. * Robert McKay, tackle for Harvard. McKay later served as the commander of the 305th Infantry Machine Gun Division, known as "Death", during

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. * Leroy Mercer, fullback for Penn, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955. * Talbot Pendleton, halfback from Princeton. Talbot was also a sprinter for Princeton's track team.General News
(PDF), '' The Tech'', March 26, 1910. * Earl Sprackling, quarterback from Brown. Sprackling was inducted into the College Football of Fame in 1964. * James Walker, tackle from Minnesota. Walker later became an orthopedic surgeon. * Stanfield Wells, end from Michigan. Though known principally as an

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, Wells was Michigan's first forward passer of note. He threw two passes to help Michigan win the Western Conference championship against

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in 1910. He later played professional football. *

, halfback from Harvard. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972. He later coached football at Boston University, Williams College, and Lehigh.

Other selectors

By 1910, there was a proliferation of newspapers, sports writers, coaches and others choosing All-America teams. Recognizing the difficulties faced by any single person who could only watch one game per week, some began to seek better methodologies for selecting a true "consensus" All-America team. ''

'' sought to identify a consensus All-America team. Its team was compiled by

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, the editor of the official year book of the intercollegiate association of amateur athletics, by polling "sixteen men who he regards as the best experts in America." The experts polled were all associated with Eastern colleges and universities: Joseph B. Pendleton of Bowdoin,

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of Brown,

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of Penn, Carl Marshall of Harvard, M.V. Bergen and James Hugh Moffatt of Princeton, Thomas Murphy of Harvard, A.C. Whiting and Charles Morice of Cornell, Clarence Weymouth of Yale,

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of Dartmouth,

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of West Point,

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of Lehigh, and Wilmer G. Crowell of Swarthmore. Eleven of the twelve players selected as consensus All-Americans by ''Leslie's Weekly'' played for

teams. The sole exception was Albert Benbrook of Michigan. Bushnell's efforts revealed that two of Camp's picks were not truly "consensus" picks among the Eastern experts. The two players overlooked by Camp, but recognized by ''Leslie's Weekly'', are: * Lawrence Dunlap Smith, end from Harvard, was selected by 11 of 16 Eastern experts polled. Camp chose Stanfield Wells of Michigan instead of Smith. * Jim Scully, tackle from Yale, was selected by 8 of 16 Eastern experts polled. Camp chose James Walker of Minnesota instead of Scully.

Concerns over Eastern bias

The dominance of Ivy League players on Camp's All-America teams led to criticism over the years that his selections were biased against players from the leading Western universities, including Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Notre Dame. Many selectors picked only Eastern players. For example,

's All-American eleven for the ''

'' was made up of five players from Harvard, two from West Point, and one each from Yale, Princeton, Penn, and Brown. The selectors were typically Eastern writers and former players who attended only games in the East. In December 1910, '' The Mansfield News'', an Ohio newspaper, ran an article headlined: "All-American Teams of East Are Jokes: Critics Who Never Saw Western Teams Play to Name Best in Country -- Forget About Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois." The article noted: "Eastern sporting editors must be devoid of all sense of humor, judging by the way in which they permit their football writers to pick 'All-American' elevens. What man in the lot that have picked 'All-American' elevens this fall, saw a single game outside the North Atlantic States? With a conceit all their own they fail to recognize that the United States reaches more than 200 miles in any direction from New York. ... Suppose an Ohio football writer picked 'All-American' teams. Ohio readers would not stand for it. But apparently the eastern readers will swallow anything."

All-Americans of 1910

Ends

* Stanfield Wells, Michigan (WC–1; CP; OUT) * John Kilpatrick, Yale (WC–1; LES-1 (16); CP; OUT; ES; NYT-1; TC-1; NYEJ; NYS; NYH; TEL; NYEW; PP-1; COY-1; WT; PD; NYG; NYMT; PT; ALS; PL; Penn) * Lawrence Dunlap Smith, Harvard (WC–2; LES-1 (11); OUT; ES; NYT-1; TC-2; NYS; NYH; TEL; PP-1; PD; NYG; NYMT; PT) * Richard Plimpton Lewis, Harvard (TC-1; NYEJ) * Edward J. Daly, Dartmouth (WC–2; NYT-2; OUT; NYEW; PL) * Springer H. Brooks, Yale (NYT-2; WT) *

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, Indiana (OUT) * William Marks, Penn (TC-2; PP-2) * Woodcock, Lafayette (PP-2) * Tom Piollet, Penn State (ALS; Penn) * Harold Eyrich, Cornell (WC–3) * James Dean, Wisconsin (WC–3)

Tackles

* Robert McKay, Harvard (WC–1; LES-1 (14); CP; OUT; ES; NYT-1; TC-1; NYEJ; NYS; TEL; NYEW; PP-1; COY-1; WT; PD; NYG; NYMT; PT; ALS; Penn) * James Walker Minnesota (WC–1; TC-1; OUT) * James W. "Jim" Scully, Yale (WC–2; LES-1 (8); ES; NYT-2; NYS; NYH; TEL; NYEW; PP-2; PD; NYMT; PL; Penn) * Lothrop "Ted" Withington, Harvard (LES-2 (7); NYT-2; CP; OUT; NYEJ; NYH; PP-1; WT; NYG; PT; PL) * Ralph W. "Bud" Sherwin, Dartmouth (NYT-1; TC-2) * Brenton G. Smith, Brown (WC–2) * Rodgers, Penn (TC-2) * Alfred L. Buser, Wisconsin (OUT) * Homer Dutter, Illinois (OUT) * Rudolph "Rudy" Probst, Syracuse (OUT) * William Munk, Cornell (PP-2) * Huber “Polly” Grimm, Washington (WC–3) * Sylvester V. Shonka, Nebraska (WC–3)

Guards

, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; LES-1 (12); TC-1; CP; OUT; ES; TEL; PP-1; WT; PD; NYG; NYMT; PT; ALS; PL; Penn) * Bob Fisher, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; LES-1 (11); CP; OUT; ES; NYT-1; TC-1; NYEJ; NYS; NYH; TEL; NYEW; PP-2; WT; PD; NYMT; ALS; Penn) * Joseph L. Wier, West Point (WC–2; LES-2 (4); NYEJ; COY-1; PT) * John Brown, Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–2; LES-2 (4); NYT-2; NYS; NYH; ALS PL) * T. S. Wilson, Princeton (NYT-2; TC-2; NYEW; PP-1; NYG) *

, Harvard (NYT-1) * Effingham Morris, Yale (WC–2 s C COY-1) * Glenn D. Butzer, Illinois (OUT; WC–3) * George Bromley, Minnesota (TC-2) * Edwin Foresman, Lafayette (PP-2) *

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, Vanderbilt (WC–3)

Centers

* Ernest Cozens, Penn (WC–1; LES-1 (16); OUT; ES; NYT-1; TC-1; NYS; NYH; TEL; NYEW; PP-1; WT; NYG; NYMT; PT; ALS; Penn) * Archibald Vincent Arnold, Army (OUT; TC-2; NYT-2; NYEJ) * Effingham Morris, Yale (CP; OUT) * Ralph Galvin, Pittsburgh (PD; PL) * John Twist, Illinois (OUT) * Harry Hartman, Syracuse (OUT) * Forsman, Lafayette (OUT) * Charles P. Sisson, Brown (WC–3)

Quarterbacks

* Earl Sprackling, Brown (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; LES-1 (12); CP; OUT; ES; NYT-1; TC-2; NYEJ; NYS; NYH; TEL; NYEW; PP-2; COY-1; WT; PD; NYG; NYMT; PT; ALS; PL; Penn) *

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, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–2; NYT-2; OUT; PP-1) * John McGovern, Minnesota (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–3; TC-1; OUT) * John E. Ingersoll, Dartmouth (OUT; NYEW b * James Scott, Penn (OUT) * Schef, Illinois (OUT) * V. Ballou, Princeton (OUT) * Ashel Cunningham, Indiana (OUT) * James Dean, Wisconsin (OUT) * G. H. Fletcher, Purdue (OUT)

Halfbacks

, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; LES-1 (13); ES; NYT-1; TC-1; CP b OUT; NYS; NYH b TEL; NYEW; PP-1; COY-1; WT b PD; NYG; NYMT; PT; ALS; Penn) * Talbot Pendleton, Princeton (WC–1; LES-1 (7); CP; OUT; NYT-2; TC-2; NYEJ; NYH; NYEW; WT; PL) *

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, Michigan (LES-2 (5); TC-1; CP; OUT; TEL; PP-2; WT; PD; NYG; NYMT; PT; ALS; PL; Penn) * James Russell McKay, Brown (WC-2 b LES-2 (3); NYT-2 b TC-2; OUT; ES; NYS; PP-2; COY-1) * Hamilton Corbett, Harvard (NYT-2; OUT; NYEJ) * Fred "Tex" Ramsdell, Penn (WC-3; OUT; PP-1) * Fred J. Daly, Yale (NYT-1; OUT) * John W. Field, Yale (WC–2; OUT) * John P. Dalton, Navy (WC–2) * John Rosenwald, Minnesota(OUT) *

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, Indiana (OUT) * William Crawley, Chicago (OUT) * C. M. Taylor, Oregon (WC–3)

Fullbacks

* Leroy Mercer, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; LES-1 (9); OUT; ES; TC-1; NYEJ; NYS; NYH b TEL; PP-1; COY-1; NYG; NYMT; PT; ALS; PL; Penn) *

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, Navy (NYT-1; OUT) * Ed Hart, Princeton (LES-2 (3); TC-2; PP-2) * Reuben Johnson, Minnesota (OUT) * Pete Hauser, Carlisle (OUT) * Tex Richards, Pittsburgh (PD) * Ham Corbett, Harvard (WC–3)

Key

NCAA recognized selectors for 1910 * WC = ''

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'' as selected by

Other selectors * LES = ''

'', Consensus All-America team compiled by

, editor of the official year book of the intercollegiate association of amateur athletics, by polling "sixteen men who he regards as the best experts in America." The experts polled were all associated with Easter schools: Joseph B. Pendleton of Bowdoin,

of Brown,

of Penn, Carl Marshall of Harvard, M.V. Bergen and James Hugh Moffatt of Princeton, Thomas Murphy of Harvard, A.C. Whiting and Charles Morice of Cornell, Clarence Weymouth of Yale,

of Dartmouth, Horatio B. Hackett of West Point,

of Lehigh, and Wilmer G. Crowell of Swarthmore. The numbers in parentheses are the number of votes (out of 16 total) that the player received. Players not named to the consensus team, but who polled at least three votes, are identified as second team. * OUT = '' Outing'' magazine, honor roll of the game's top players "chosen on the judgement of various coaches of college football elevens"; at some positions multiple selections without designation as first or second teams * ES = ''

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''. This was determined by the consensus among the various Eastern football experts who picked All-American teams. * NYT = ''The New York Times'' * TC = Tommy Clark * NYEJ = Selected by sports writer, W.S. Farnsworth, of the ''

'' * NYS = ''

'' * NYH = ''

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'' * TEL = ''New York Telegraph'' * NYEW = ''

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'' * PP = ''

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'' * COY = Former Yale star

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* CP = ''

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''Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1911, p. 23. * WT = ''

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''Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1911, p. 21. * PD = ''

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'' * NYG = ''

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'', by Burton S. Brown * NYMT = ''

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'' * PT = ''Philadelphia Times'' * ALS = Andrew Latham Smith, Penn coach for the ''

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'' * PL = '' Pittsburgh Leader'' * Penn = ''The Pennsylvanian'' Bold = Consensus All-American * 1 – First-team selection * 2 – Second-team selection * 3 – Third-team selection

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