The 1922 College Football All-America team is composed of

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players who were selected as

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ns by various organizations and writers that chose

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s in 1922. The only selector recognized by the

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as "official" for the 1922 season is

Walter Camp Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". Among a long list of inventions, he created the sport's line of scrimmage and the system ...

, whose selections were published in ''

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''. Additional selectors who chose All-American teams in 1922 included: ''

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'' magazine, selected by 214 coaches; Norman E. Brown, sports editor of the

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; the ''

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'', selected by Ray McCarthy with advice from

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and William B. Hanna;

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 ...

, of the ''

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'';

Frank G. Menke Frank Grant Menke (October 10, 1885 – May 13, 1954) was an American newspaper reporter, author, and sports historian. He wrote for the Hearst Newspapers from 1912 to 1932 and his articles appeared daily in 300 newspapers across the country. He ...

; and

Billy Evans William George Evans (February 10, 1884 – January 23, 1956), nicknamed "The Boy Umpire", was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1906 to 1927. He became, at age 22, the youngest umpire in majo ...

, who polled 200 sports editors. Iowa quarterback

Gordon Locke Gordon C. Locke (August 3, 1898 – November 9, 1969) was an American college football player and coach He played college football at the University of Iowa, where he was an All-American. Locke served as the head football coach at Western Reser ...

was the only player chosen as a first-team All-American by all 10 selectors referenced herein. Locke led the undefeated 1922 Iowa Hawkeyes to a 6–0 win over Yale, which had never before lost to a team from the "West". After returning by train from Yale, Locke scored Iowa's only touchdown in an 8–7 win over

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. Cornell back

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was chosen as a first-team All-American by 9 of the 10 selectors, and he also had more votes (122) than any other player in the All-America survey conducted by the Romelke Press Clipping Bureau, based on votes of "nearly every important pressman who has picked an All-American team."

Consensus All-Americans

For the year 1922, the NCAA recognizes only

's selections as "official" for purposes of its consensus determinations. Accordingly, the NCAA's consensus All-America team mirrors Camp's selections. The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans and displays which first-team designations they received.

Dissatisfaction with Camp's selections

By 1922, there was growing dissatisfaction with relying on the selections of the aged Walter Camp, who was perceived as being biased to Eastern players and who saw only a small number of games each year. Among the major selectors in 1922, Camp was alone in naming several Eastern players as first-team All-Americans, including Harvard guard Charles Hubbard, Navy end Wendell Taylor, and Penn tackle John Thurman. A syndicated columnist from Ohio accused Camp of favoritism:

"We print with apologies the All-American football teams selected by Walter Camp. We print them because Walter picks them and for years ehave been accustomed to regard Camp's choices as official. But in our opinion Camp's teams this year are positively the poorest that the dean of football critics has ever foisted upon the public. For we find Camp drifting unquestionably back into the old rut of letting his eastern feelings dominate his selections. It is a positive travesty upon All-American selections to have six members of the first team honor teams chosen from the eastern Big Three—Harvard, Yale and Princeton . . . Camp should begin once more to see the light or the first thing he knows folks will forget the halo with which he has been for years blessed in the opinion of football followers."

Notable omissions from Camp's 1922 squad included halfback George Owen who received the second most All-America points out of all players at all positions in the Romelke survey discussed below. Likewise, ends

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and

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received the most votes at their position in the Romelke survey, but were not selected by Camp.

Romelke approach

An alternate attempt at developing a consensus All-America team was developed in 1922 by the Romelke Press Clipping Bureau. Romelke assembled a consensus All-American team based on its compilation of the votes of "nearly every important pressman who has picked an All-American team." In addition to naming players to five All-American teams based on the consensus voting, Romelke also compiled the total number of votes compiled by each school and ranked how the schools ranked in the voting. The team statistics compiled by Romelke showed the following schools receiving the highest vote count.

All-Americans of 1922

Ends

Harold Muller Harold Powers "Brick" Muller (June 12, 1901 – May 17, 1962) was a professional football player-coach for the Los Angeles Buccaneers during their only season in the National Football League in 1926. He was also an American track and fi ...

, California (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; AW-1; WE-1; NB-1; LP-2; BE; FM-1; RO-3) * Wendell Taylor, Navy (WC-1; RO-4) * Bernard Kirk, Michigan (WC-2; NYT-1; WE-1; NB-2; LP-2; BE; FH-1; RO-2) *

, Michigan (NYT-1; NB-1; AW-1; LP-1; BE; RO-1) *

, Princeton (WE-2; LP-1; BE; FH-1; RO-1) *

Lynn Bomar Robert Lynn Bomar (January 21, 1901 – June 11, 1964) was an American football end in the National Football League (NFL). Bomar played college football, basketball and baseball for Vanderbilt University, following coach Wallace Wade and ...

, Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; WE-3 ackle BE; FM-1) *

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, Centre (AW-1 ackle WE-2; FM-2; BE; RO-5) *

Gus Tebell Gustave Kenneth Tebell (September 6, 1897 – May 28, 1969) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. From 1925 to 1929, he coached football at North Carolina State University, where h ...

, Wisconsin (NYT-2; WE-3; BE; RO-3) *

Herb Kopf Herbert M. Kopf (June 25, 1901 – March 22, 1996) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Manhattan College from 1938 to 1942 and as the head coach for the Boston Yanks of the National Football League ...

, Washington & Jefferson (WC-3; RO-5) * Max Kadesky, Iowa (WC-3; NB-2; FH-2; RO-4) *Lee Spillers, Washington & Jefferson (WE-3) *

Ray Eklund Ray Eklund was the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team of the University of Kentucky in 1926. He compiled a 15-3 record. Eklund attended University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of M ...

, Minnesota (FM-2) *Steve Pulaski, Wisconsin (NYT-2) *Warren S. Parr, Navy (FH-2; RO-2) *

Charlie Berry Charles Francis Berry (October 18, 1902 – September 6, 1972) was an American athlete and sports official who enjoyed careers as a catcher and umpire in Major League Baseball and as an end and official in the National Football League. His fath ...

, Lafayette (BE)

Tackles

* John Thurman, Penn (WC-1; WE-3) *

Herb Treat Charles Herbert Treat (December 16, 1900 – April 19, 1947) was an American football player who played for Princeton University and was unanimously selected as an All-American at the tackle position in 1922. He was also the player-coach of the f ...

, Princeton (WC-1; WE-1; NB-1; LP-1; BE; FM-1; RO-1) * Mike Gulian, Brown (WC-3; AW-1; WE-2; NB-2; LP-1; BE; RO-1) *

Bub Weller Raymond Fred "Bub" Weller (June 30, 1902 – August 18, 1993) was an American football player who played college football for the University of Nebraska and played five years and 60 games of professional football in the early years of the Nation ...

, Nebraska (WE-1; BE; FM-2; FH-1) * Marty Below, Wisconsin (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; NYT-1; WE-2; NB-1; RO-2) * Leonard C. Hanson, Cornell (NB-2; BE; FH-1; RO-2) *Leonard Smith, Wisconsin (NYT-1) *

Gus Sonnenberg Gustave Adolph Sonnenberg (March 6, 1898 – September 9, 1944) was an American football player and professional wrestler of German descent and World Heavyweight Champion. As a wrestler, he was National Wrestling Association world heavyweight ch ...

, Detroit (FM-1) *

Pappy Waldorf Lynn Osbert "Pappy" Waldorf (October 3, 1902 – August 15, 1981) was an American college football player and coach. He received the first national collegiate football coach of the year award in 1935. Waldorf became known for his motivational coac ...

, Syracuse (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2) *Lloyd "Pudge" Neidlinger, Dartmouth (WC-2) *Leo Kriz, Iowa (NYT-2) *George Thompson, Iowa (NYT-2; RO-4) *Graham Penfield, Northwestern (LP-2; BE; RO-3) *

Stanley Muirhead Stanley Nelson Muirhead (August 29, 1902 – September 14, 1942) was an American football player. He played at the tackle position for the University of Michigan from 1921 to 1923, leading the Wolverines to consecutive undefeated seasons in ...

, Michigan (LP-2; RO-4) * Russ Meredith, West Virginia (BE; FM-2) *

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, Brown (FH-2) *Denis J. Mulligan, Army (FH-2; RO-5) *Tiny McMahon, Penn State (BE) * Joe Bennett, Georgia (BE) *Harold Fletcher, Chicago (RO-3) *Harland "Pink" Baker, Princeton (RO-5)

Guards

* Charles Hubbard, Harvard (WC-1; WE-2; LP-2; RO-3) * Frank Schwab, Lafayette (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; AW-1; WE-1; BE; RO-1) * Fritz Breidster, Army (AW-1; WE-1; BE; FM-1; RO-2) * Paul Minick, Iowa (WC-2; NB-1; LP-2; FH-2; RO-1) * Jim McMillen, Illinois (WC-3; NYT-2; WE-2; NB-2; BE; FH-1; RO-2) *Harry Cross, Yale (WC-2; NB-1; FM-2; RO-5) * Lloyd Pixley, Ohio State (NYT-1; FM-2; RO-3) * Oscar Davis, Georgia Tech (LP-1; BE) *Ed Degree, Notre Dame (FM-1) * Joe Pondelik, Chicago (LP-1) *Thomas Long, Ohio State (NYT-1) *

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, USC (WE-3) *

Joe Bedenk Fred Joseph Bedenk (July 14, 1897 – May 2, 1978) was an American football and baseball player and coach. He served as the head baseball coach at Rice University from 1925 to 1926 and at Pennsylvania State University from 1931 to 1962. Bedenk wa ...

, Penn State (WE-3) *Joe Setron, West Virginia (WC-2; BE) *Mel Dickinson, Princeton (WC-3; NB-2) *

Jack Sack Jack Sack (February 22, 1902 – March 7, 1980; born Jacob Bernard Sacklowsky) was an American football player and coach. Sack was a college football player at the University of Pittsburgh and coach, and played professional football in both the ...

(born Jacob Bernard Sacklowsky), Pittsburgh (BE; RO-4) *Webster Clarke, California (BE) *Roy Miller, Illinois (NYT-2) *Phillip Cruikshank, Yale (FH-1) * Jim Welsh, Colgate (FH-2; RO-4)

Centers

* Edgar Garbisch, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; NYT-1; NB-1; BE; RO-1) *

Charley Bowser Charles W. Bowser (November 29, 1898 – July 29, 1989) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Grove City College from 1924 to 1926, at Bowdoin College from 1930 to 1934, and at the University of Pittsburgh from ...

, Pittsburgh (WE-1; BE; FM-1; RO-2) * John C. Heldt, Iowa (WE-3; LP-2; BE; FH-1; RO-3) *

Dudley DeGroot Dudley Sargent DeGroot (November 10, 1899 – May 5, 1970) was an American athlete and coach, primarily of American football. He served as the head coach for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL) from 1944 and 1945, tallyin ...

, Stanford (AW-1) * Frank Culver, Syracuse (LP-1) *Ralph King, Chicago (WE-2; FM-2; RO-4) *

Carl Peterson Carl D. Peterson (born May 26, 1943) For more than 50 years, Carl Peterson was a creative force in the world of American Football, starting at the high school level, through small college ball, to major college football, and on to professional fo ...

, Nebraska (WC-3) * Winslow Lovejoy, Yale (NB-2; BE) *John Heaphy, Boston College (BE) * Newsh Bentz, Penn State (BE) *Oliver Aas, Minnesota (BE; RO-5) * Ed Kubale, Centre (BE) * Al Crook, Washington & Jefferson (FH-2)

Quarterbacks

, Iowa (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; NYT-1; AW-1 b WE-1; NB-1 b LP-1 b BE b FM-1 b FH-1; RO-1 b * Charles Buell, Harvard (AW-1; WE-2; NB-1; BE; FH-2; RO-1) * Irwin Uteritz, Michigan (WC-3; WE-3; FM-1; RO-5) *George Smythe, Army (WC-2; BE; RO-4) *

George Pfann George R. Pfann (October 6, 1902 – December 17, 1996) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Cornell University, where he never lost while starring as a quarterback, twice named an All-American. Before gradua ...

, Cornell (College Football Hall of Fame) (BE; FM-2; RO-3) * Herb Covington, Centre (NB-2; BE) *

Hoge Workman Harry Hallworth "Hoge" Workman (September 25, 1899 – May 20, 1972) was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball and a player-coach in the National Football League. Listed at 5' 11", 170 lb., Workman batted and threw right-handed. A nativ ...

, Ohio State (NYT-2) * Shorty Barr, Wisconsin (RO-2) * Charles Darling, Boston College (BE) * Jimmy Robertson, Carnegie Tech (BE) *

Oliver Kuhn Oliver Wall Kuhn (August 14, 1898 – October 8, 1968), nicknamed "Doc Kuhn", was an American football, baseball and basketball player for the Vanderbilt University Commodores and later a prominent businessman of Tampa, Florida. As a colle ...

, Vanderbilt (BE) *Matt "Matty" Brennan, Lafayette (BE)

Halfbacks

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, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; NYT-2; AW-1; WE-1; NB-1; LP-1 b BE; RO-2) *

, Cornell (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; AW-1; WE-1; NB-1 b LP-1; BE; FM-1; FH-1 b RO-1) * George Owen, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; WE-1 b NB-2; LP-2 b BE B FH-1; RO-1) *

Earl Martineau Earl Thomas Martineau (August 30, 1896 – January 20, 1966) was an American college football player and coach. He played Halfback (American football), halfback at the University of Minnesota and was selected as an All-American in 1922 College Foo ...

, Minnesota (NYT-1; WE-2; LP-2 b BE; FM-2; RO-3 b *Otis C. McCreery, Minnesota (NYT-1) *Jack Cleaves, Princeton (FH-1) * Nick Nardacci, West Virginia (WE-2; BE) *Leonard "Bots" Brunner, Lafayette (BE; FM-1; RO-3) *Ralph Edward Jordan, Yale (WC-3; WE-3; NB-2; RO-3) * Stephen Barchet, Navy (WC-3) * Donald Nichols, California (BE) *

Rollie Williams Rolland Franklin "Rollie" Williams (October 11, 1897 – April 5, 1968) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He played professional football in the National Football League (NFL) for the Racine Legion in 1923. He p ...

, Wisconsin (BE; RO-2; WE-3) *Arch Nesbit, California (FH-2) *Jonathan Miller, Penn (FH-2) * Harry Wilson, Penn State (RO-4)

Fullbacks

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, Chicago (WC-1; NYT-1; NB-2; LP-2; BE; RO-2) *

Paul Castner Paul Henry Castner (February 16, 1897 – March 3, 1986) was a professional baseball pitcher. He appeared in six games in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox in 1923, all in relief. In 10 innings pitched, Castner gave up 14 hits and 5 ...

, Notre Dame (WC-3; LP-1; BE; RO-5) *Duke Morrison, California (WC-2 b WE-2; LP-2 b BE; FM-2; RO-4 b *

Franklin Cappon Franklin C. "Cappy" Cappon (October 17, 1900 – November 29, 1961) was an American college football and college basketball player and coach. He played football and basketball at Phillips University and the University of Michigan and coached at Lu ...

, Michigan (WE-3; NYT-2 b FH-2; RO-5 b *

Red Barron David Irenus "Red" Barron (June 21, 1900 – October 4, 1982) was an American football and baseball player. Barron was a three-sport letterwinner at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In football, he was named second or third team All Ameri ...

, Georgia Tech (WC-2; BE b FM-2 b *

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, Army (BE; RO-5 b *Chick Hartley, Nebraska (BE) * John H. Fletcher, Georgia (BE) *Merrill Taft, Wisconsin (NYT-2) *

Orville Hewitt Orville Melville "Tiny" Hewitt (September 5, 1901 – October 29, 1955) was a college football player and coach. He played for both the Pittsburgh Panthers and Army Cadets as a 200-pound fullback. Hewitt coached for the Alabama Crimson Tide. ...

, Pittsburgh (RO-4)

Key

NCAA recognized selector for 1922 * WC = ''

'' as selected by

Other selectors * AW = ''

'' magazine, selected by 214 coaches * NYT = ''New York Tribune'', selected by Ray McCarthy of the New York Tribune with advice from Grantland Rice and William B. Hanna. McCarthy selected his ends, guards, tackles and halfbacks in pairs from a single team. * WE =

, of the ''

'' * NB = Norman E. Brown, sports editor of the Central Press Association * LP = Lawrence Perry * BE = Billy Evans National Honor Roll, as culled from the selections of 200 sports editors, include eight players at each position. * FM =

* FH = Fred A. Hayner, sports writer of the Chicago Daily News * RO = Romelke Press Clipping Bureau, based on votes of "nearly every important pressman who has picked an All-American team." Bold = Consensus All-American * 1 – First-team selection * 2 – Second-team selection * 3 – Third-team selection

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