The 1911 All-Western college football team consists of
American football
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players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the
1911 college football season.
All-Western selections
Ends
*
Stanfield Wells, Michigan (AX, CEP, ECP-1, EWC, GWA, LGS, SFE, SJ, WE)
*
Joseph Hoeffel, Wisconsin (EWC, LGS, SFE, WE)
* Paul Harold Tobin, Minnesota (AX, ECP-2, GWA)
*
Knute Rockne, Notre Dame (SJ)
* Chauncey B. Oliver, Illinois (ECP-2)
Tackles
*
Alfred L. Buser, Wisconsin (AX, CEP, ECP-1, EWC
uard GWA, SFE)
*
Frederick L. Conklin, Michigan (AX, ECP-2, EWC, GWA, LGS, WE)
*
Charles M. Rademacher
Charles Martin Rademacher was an American football player and college sports coach. He served as the head football coach (1915), basketball coach (1915–1916) and baseball coach (1916) at the University of Idaho. Rademacher later served as the he ...
, Chicago (CEP, ECP-1, LGS, SFE, WE)
* Leonard Frank, Minnesota (ECP-2)
Guards
* Horace F. Scruby, Chicago (CEP, ECP-1, EWC, GWA, LGS, SFE, WE)
* Sylvester V. Shonka, Nebraska (AX, CEP, ECP-2, EWC
ackle SFE, SJ
ackle WE)
* Lucius A. Smith, Minnesota (ECP-1, LGS, SJ)
* Charles H. Belting, Illinois (AX, GWA)
* Charles J. Robinson, Minnesota (SJ)
*
Paul Belting
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, Illinois (ECP-2)
Centers
* Willis "Fat" O'Brien, Iowa (AX, CEP, GWA, LGS, SFE, SJ)
* Clifford F. Morrell, Minnesota (ECP-1, EWC, WE)
* R. E. Branstad, Wisconsin (ECP-2)
Quarterbacks
* John "Keckie" Moll, Wisconsin (AX, CEP, ECP-2, EWC, GWA, LGS, SJ, WE)
*
Thomas Andrew Gill
Thomas Andrew Gill (January 23, 1887 – March 8, 1947) was an American football, and baseball player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball.
Coaching career
Gill was the head football coach at Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois in 1 ...
, Indiana (SFE)
* Edmund Gillette, Wisconsin (ECP-1)
Halfbacks
* Reuben Martin Rosenwald, Minnesota (AX, CEP
ullback ECP-1, GWA, LGS, SFE, SJ, WE)
* Clark Sauer, Chicago (AX
ullback CEP, ECP-1, GWA
ullback LGS, SFE, WE)
*
James B. Craig, Michigan (AX, CEP, ECP-2, EWC, GWA)
* Owen A. Frank, Nebraska (EWC, SJ
ackle
* Lewis C. Stevens, Minnesota (ECP-2, SJ)
Fullbacks
*
George C. Thomson, Michigan (ECP-1, EWC, SFE, WE)
*
Ralph Capron
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, Minnesota (CEP
nd ECP-1
nd LGS, SJ)
*
Stanley R. Pierce, Chicago (ECP-2)
Key
Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors
AX = G. W. Axelson
CEP = ''Chicago Evening Post''
[
ECP = E. C. Patterson of ''Collier's Weekly''][
GWA = G. W. Axelson, sporting editor of ''Chicago Record-Herald''][
LGS = L. G. Sullivan, sporting editor of ''Chicago Daily News''][
SJ = Edgar L. Shave and John L. Johnson in the ''St. Paul Daily News''][
WE = ]Walter Eckersall
Walter Herbert "Eckie" Eckersall (June 17, 1883 – March 24, 1930) was an American college football player, official, and sportswriter for the ''Chicago Tribune''.
He played for the Maroons of the University of Chicago, and was elected to the ...
San Francisco Examiner
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Once self-dubbed the "Monarch of the Dailies" by then-owner William Randolph Hearst, and flagship of the Hearst Corporat ...
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]
See also
* 1911 College Football All-America Team
References
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