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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 1923. The only two selectors recognized by the

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as "official" for the 1923 season are

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, whose selections were published in ''

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'', and ''

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'' magazine. Additional selectors who chose All-American teams in 1923 include ''

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'' magazine, selected by 500 coaches, Norman E. Brown, sports editor of the Central Press Association, and Davis J. Walsh, sports editor for the

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. The consensus All-Americans recognized by the NCAA include: halfback

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, known as "The Galloping Ghost" and who in 2008 was named by

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as the best college football player of all time; halfback Harry Wilson of

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, who was later inducted into the

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;

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, who later became a

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;

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of Vanderbilt, who became one of the first Southern players to be recognized as a consensus All-American; tackle Marty Below of

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, who Red Grange called "the greatest lineman that I ever played against"; and

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of Michigan, who later played professional baseball for the

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Consensus All-Americans

For the year 1923, the NCAA recognizes two All-American teams as "official" designations for purposes of its consensus determinations. The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans and displays which first-team designations they received.

All-Americans of 1923

Ends

, Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-2; WC-1; FW) * Ray Eklund, Minnesota (AW-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-2; TT-1; PH-1, BE) * Pete MacRae, Syracuse (AW-1; WC-2; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1; PH-1, BE) *

Homer Hazel Homer Howard "Pop" Hazel (June 2, 1895 – February 3, 1968) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Rutgers University in 1916 and again from 1923 to 1924. Considered an outstanding punter, kicker, and passer, he ...

, Rutgers (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1) * Henry Wakefield, Vanderbilt (NB-2; DW-1, BE) * Richard Luman, Yale (AW-3; WC-3; DW-2, BE) *

Bill Supplee William C. "Zuke" Supplee (December 21, 1903 – July 1966) was an American educator and college athlete. He attended the University of Maryland where he played college football and basketball for the Maryland Terrapins, and competed in track ...

, Maryland (LP-2; DW-3; TT-2, BE) *

Charles Tallman Charles Cameron "Trusty" Tallman (September 18, 1899 – November 16, 1973) was an American football player and, coach of football and basketball, and law enforcement officer. "Trusty" was the only person in West Virginia sports history who was pla ...

, West Virginia (AW-3; WC-2, BE) *

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 (AW-2) * Frank Rokusek, Illinois (LP-2) *

Elmer A. Lampe Elmer Andrew Lampe (December 11, 1900 – January 30, 1978) was a basketball coach and American football player and coach. Lampe was the head basketball coach at the University of Georgia from 1938 to 1946 and at Dartmouth College from 1946 to 195 ...

, Chicago (NB-2) * Fred Graham, West Virginia (TT-2) * Edmund Stout, Princeton (WC-3) *Frank L. Henderson, Cornell (DW-3) *Wayne Hall, Washington (TT-3) * Henry Bjorkman, Dartmouth (TT-3) * John W. Hancock, Iowa (BE) * Jim Lawson, Stanford (BE)

Tackles

Century Milstead Century Allen "Wally" Milstead (January 1, 1901 – June 2, 1963) was a collegiate and professional American football player. He played college football at Wabash College and at Yale University, where his play earned him All-America recognition ...

, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-1; WC-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1; PH-1, BE) * Marty Below, Wisconsin (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-1; FW; LP-2; NB-1; DW-1; TT-2, BE) * Frank Sundstrom, Cornell (AW-2; WC-1; LP-1; NB-2; DW-3; TT-3; PH-1, BE) *

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 (AW-2; LP-2; NB-2, BE) *

Chet Widerquist Chester C. Widerquist (September 23, 1895 - July 14, 1976) was a professional American football player for the Milwaukee Badgers, Rock Island Independents, Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Wolverines and Minneapolis Red Jackets. He attended Washi ...

, Washington & Jefferson (WC-2; TT-2, BE s g *

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 coa ...

, Syracuse (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-3; DW-2) *Stewart "Stew" Beam, California (WC-3; DW-2, BE) *Henry Bassett, Nebraska (AW-3; WC-3, BE) *Art Delbel, Lafayette (WC-2) * Edwin F. Blair, Yale (DW-3) *

Joe Bach Joseph Anthony Bach (January 17, 1901 – October 24, 1966) was one of Notre Dame's famed "Seven Mules" and later the head coach for the NFL's Pittsburgh Pirates (1935–36) and later the renamed Pittsburgh Steelers (1952–53). As a senio ...

, Notre Dame (TT-1) *Norman Anderson, USC (TT-3) * Joe Bennett, Georgia (BE) * Robbie Robinson, Florida (BE)

Guards

* Charles Hubbard, Harvard (AW-1; WC-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-2; PH-1, BE) * Jim McMillen, Illinois (AW-1; FW; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1, BE) *

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 (AW-2; WC-1; DW-2; TT-3; PH-1, BE) * Edliff Slaughter, Michigan (LP-1) *James Welsh, Colgate (AW-2; LP-2; NB-2; DW-2; TT-1) * August Farwick, Army (AW-3; NB-2; DW-3; TT-2) *Cyril Aschenback, Dartmouth (AW-3; WC-2; LP-2; TT-3) *Harvey Brown, Notre Dame (WC-2) *Arthur G. Carney, Navy (WC-3) *William Johnson, Texas A&M (WC-3) *Richard Faville, Stanford (DW-3, BE) * Goldy Goldstein, Florida (BE) * Tuck Kelly, Vanderbilt (BE) * Adolph Bieberstein, Wisconsin (BE)

Centers

, Michigan (AW-1; WC-1; FW; NB-1; DW-1, BE) * Edgar Garbisch, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-2; WC-3; NB-2; DW-2; TT-1; PH-1, BE) * Edwin C. Horrell, California (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-3; LP-1; DW-3, BE) * Winslow Lovejoy, Yale (WC-2; LP-2; TT-2, BE) * Adam Walsh, Notre Dame (TT-3) *

Clyde Propst Ralph Clyde "Shorty" Propst (May 12, 1898 – October 13, 1959) was an American college football player and coach. He served as head coach at both Howard and Southwestern from 1934 to 1937. During his tenure as a head coach, Propst had an overa ...

, Alabama (BE) *

Claire Frye Claire Alanson Frye (May 10, 1899 – October 16, 1971) was a college football player. College football Frye played football for many years. In 1917 and 1918 he was All A. E. F. center in France. He scrubbed at Tech a year and won letters i ...

, Georgia Tech (BE) * Ralph Claypool, Purdue (BE) * Dolph Eckstein, Brown (BE)

Quarterbacks

, Cornell (AW-1; WC-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1; PH-1, BE) *Lyle Richeson, Yale (WC-2; DW-2; TT-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 (AW-2; NB-2, BE) * Irwin Uteritz, Michigan (LP-2; DW-3, BE) *

Harry Stuhldreher Harry Augustus Stuhldreher (October 14, 1901 – January 26, 1965) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played quarterback at University of Notre Dame from 1922 to 1924, where he was a three-time All-A ...

, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-3; TT-3, BE) * Red Dunn, Marquette (WC-3) * Herb Covington, Centre (BE) *Harold Chapman, Oregon (BE) * Charles Darling, Boston College (BE)

Halfbacks

, Illinois (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-1; WC-1; FW; LP-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1; PH-1, BE) * Harry Wilson, Penn State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-1; WC-2; FW; DW-2; TT-2; PH-1, BE) * Don Miller, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (LP-2; NB-1; DW-1; TT-2 b BE) *

Earl Martineau Earl Thomas Martineau (August 30, 1896 – January 20, 1966) was an American college football player and coach. He played halfback at the University of Minnesota and was selected as an All-American in 1922 and 1923 and served as the captain of th ...

, Minnesota (AW-3; WC-1; NB-2; TT-3 b BE) *

Harry Kipke Harry George Kipke (; March 26, 1899 – September 14, 1972) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach. He was the head football coach at Michigan State College in 1928 and at the University of Michigan from 1929 to 193 ...

, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-2; LP-1; TT-3) *

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, California (AW-2; TT-1; BE) *

Mal Stevens Marvin Allen "Mal" Stevens (April 14, 1900 – December 6, 1979) was an American football player, coach, naval officer, and orthopedic surgeon. He served as the head football coach at Yale University from 1928 to 1932 and at New York University f ...

, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2 b LP-2; DW-3; TT-3) *

Dave Noble David Gordon Noble (July 29, 1900 – January 24, 1983), nicknamed "Big Moose", was an American football running back. He played college football for the University of Nebraska, where he scored the first touchdown in Memorial Stadium history. Af ...

, Nebraska (LP-2; DW-2; TT-2) *

Eddie Tryon Joseph Edward Tryon (July 25, 1900 – May 1, 1982) was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1963. Biography Tryon played the Halfback (American football), halfback position at Colgate University fro ...

, Colgate (AW-3; WC-2; BE) *

Walter Koppisch Walter Frederic Koppisch (June 6, 1901 – November 5, 1953) was an American football halfback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Buffalo Bisons and New York Giants. He attended Columbia University. At 23 years old, Koppisch, a local ...

, Columbia (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3) * Karl Bohren, Pittsburgh (WC-3) *

Gil Reese David Argillus "Gil" Reese (January 14, 1901 – May 30, 1993) nicknamed "The Tupelo Flash" was an American football, basketball, and baseball player for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University. He was captain of all three his senior ...

, Vanderbilt (DW-3, BE)

Fullbacks

Bill Mallory William Guy Mallory (May 30, 1935 – May 25, 2018) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Miami University (1969–1973), the University of Colorado at Boulder (1974–1978), Northern Illinois Universi ...

, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (AW-2; WC-1; NB-1; DW-1; TT-1; PH-1, BE) * John Levi, Haskell (AW-1; FW, BE) *

Elmer Layden Elmer Francis Layden (May 4, 1903 – June 30, 1973) was an American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and professional sports executive. He played college football at the University of Notre Dame where he starred at full ...

, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (LP-1; DW-2, BE) *Merrill Taft, Wisconsin (LP-2; NB-2, BE) *

Ernie Nevers Ernest Alonzo Nevers (June 11, 1902 – May 3, 1976), sometimes known by the nickname "Big Dog", was an American football and baseball player and football coach. Widely regarded as one of the best football players in the first half of the 20th ...

, Stanford (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AW-3; WC-3, BE) *

John Webster Thomas John Webster Thomas (February 13, 1900 – August 19, 1977) was an American football player and coach. He played college football as a Fullback (gridiron football), fullback at the University of Chicago from 1921 to 1923 under Amos Alonzo Stagg. T ...

, Chicago (DW-3) *

Doug Wycoff Stephen Douglas Wycoff (September 16, 1903 – October 27, 1981) was an American football running back for the New York Giants, Staten Island Stapletons, and Boston Redskins in the National Football League (NFL), the Newark Bears in the fi ...

, Georgia Tech (BE) *

Gus Eckberg Gustav Anthony Ekberg (August 25, 1898 – September 23, 1952), sometimes spelled Gus Eckberg, was a professional American football fullback in the National Football League (NFL). He played in one game for the Cleveland Bulldogs The Clevelan ...

, West Virginia (BE) * Charles E. Cassidy, Cornell (BE)

Key

NCAA recognized selectors for 1923 * WC =

as selected by

* FW = ''

'' magazine Other selectors * AW = ''

'' magazine, selected by 500 coaches * NB = Norman E. Brown, sports editor of the Central Press Association * LP = Lawrence Perry * DW = Davis J. Walsh, sports editor for the

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* TT =

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, for the ''Baltimore News'' * PH =

Percy Haughton Percy Duncan Haughton (July 11, 1876 – October 27, 1924) was an American football and baseball player and coach. He served as head football coach at Cornell University from 1899 to 1900, at Harvard University from 1908 to 1916, and at Columbia ...

, Cornell coach * BE =

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's "National Honor Roll" Bold = Consensus All-American * -1 – First-team selection * -2 – Second-team selection * -3 – Third-team selection

References

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