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The 1925 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 1925.
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 ...
died in March 1925, marking the end of his "official" All-American selections for ''
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''. The wire services and others moved in to fill the void in 1925, with both the
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and
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offering their own All-American teams for the first time. The eight selectors recognized by the
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as "official" for the 1925 season are (1) the All-America Board (AAB), (2) the
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(AP), (3) ''Collier's Weekly'', with
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replacing Camp as the selector, (4) ''
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'' magazine, (5) the
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(INS), (6) ''
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'' magazine, (7) the
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(NEA), and (8) the
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(UP). The only two unanimous All-Americans in 1925 were tackle
Ed Weir Samuel Edwin Weir (March 14, 1903 – May 15, 1991) was an American collegiate and professional football player. He was the first Nebraska Cornhuskers football player elected to the College Football Hall of Fame and is known as one of Nebraska ...
of
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and halfback
Andy Oberlander Andrew James "Swede" Oberlander (February 17, 1905 – January 1, 1968) was an American football player and coach. He was an All-American halfback for Dartmouth College's Indians undefeated and national championship football team in 1925. Oberla ...
of Dartmouth.
Red Grange Harold Edward "Red" Grange (June 13, 1903 – January 28, 1991), nicknamed "the Galloping Ghost" and "the Wheaton Iceman", was an American football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and the short-lived New York Yankees ...
of Illinois and
Bennie Oosterbaan Benjamin Oosterbaan ( ; February 24, 1906 – October 25, 1990) was a three-time first team College Football All-America Team, All-American American football, football End (gridiron football), end for the Michigan Wolverines football team, two-tim ...
of Michigan each received first-team designations from seven of the eight official selectors.


Consensus All-Americans

1925, the NC recognizes eight 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.


Death of Walter Camp and calls to end the All-Americans

For more than 25 years before 1925, the selections made by
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 ...
for ''
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'' were considered the "official" All-American selections. With the death of Camp in March 1925, the field was open as to which selector's choices would be recognized as the "official" All-Americans. Some advocated putting an end to the tradition of selecting All-American teams. Edward K. Hall, chairman of the inter-collegiate rules committee, advocated that position at the New York banquet honoring the
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's 1925 All-Americans. Hall said, "I say with all the earnestness that is in me that I hope this is the last dinner to an all-American team that will ever be held in America." Hall argued that such selections place an over-emphasis on the importance of individual players in a team sport. Hall also denounced as a menace the manner in which professional football promoters were luring college players to play professional football for "easy money and quick money."


Proliferation of All-American teams

Despite the calls of some for the end to All-American teams, the death of Walter Camp did not bring an end to the tradition. Instead, Camp's death led to a proliferation of yet more experts naming their own All-American teams. Even
Ring Lardner Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Wo ...
jumped into the All-American mix in 1925 offering a satirical All-American team consisting of
Red Grange Harold Edward "Red" Grange (June 13, 1903 – January 28, 1991), nicknamed "the Galloping Ghost" and "the Wheaton Iceman", was an American football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and the short-lived New York Yankees ...
at
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with Lardner, his friends and family members (men and women, elderly and children) filling out the remaining spots. Lardner wrote: "As soon as you have Grange and a center to pass him the ball you don't need or want no more football players and can take advantage of the opportunity to fill out other positions with relatives and congenial friends." Frank Getty of the United News Service wrote: “Now that All-American teams, All-Eastern teams, All-Conference teams and All-Colored teams for 1925 have been picked by everyone including the janitor, the janitor’s boy and Natalia Crane it’s about time to admit that it’s a futile practice. At best. No one is qualified to select an All-American team on his own, because no one can watch more than one game each Saturday during the season, nor see more than eight or nine games at the most.”


Rise of the wire service teams

One of the major developments in 1925 was the rise of All-American teams selected by wire services based on polls of sports writers and coaches across the country. In late November 1925,
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coach
Fielding H. Yost Fielding Harris Yost (; April 30, 1871 – August 20, 1946) was an American football player, coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at: Ohio Wesleyan University, the University of Nebraska, the University ...
publicly advocated a new system. Yost opined that the selection was not a job to be undertaken by any individual or any group of football experts. Yost said: "As Walter Camp has stated to me more than once, during the last five years of his life, this job of selecting an All-American was growing more and more difficult because of the great number of good football men in America." Both the
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and
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named All-American teams in 1925. United Press sports editor Henry L. Farrell described the service's purpose in entering the All-American business: "The average season consists of from eight to ten Saturdays and it is a physical impossibility for any one to see more than one game and it is likewise impossible for any human with ordinary vision equipment to see in action all the good teams in the country." For that reason, Farrell announced that he had submitted questionnaires to 75 leading coaches and officials and picked a team based on those results.


All-American selections for 1925


Ends

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Bennie Oosterbaan Benjamin Oosterbaan ( ; February 24, 1906 – October 25, 1990) was a three-time first team College Football All-America Team, All-American American football, football End (gridiron football), end for the Michigan Wolverines football team, two-tim ...
, Michigan (AAB-1; AP-1; COL-1; FW; INS; NEA; UP; A&S-1; BE-1; NB-1; RKN; Sun-1; WC; WE–1, BEHR) * George Tully, Dartmouth (AP-1; COL-3; INS; LIB; NEA; UP; A&S-1; BE-1; NB-1; Sun–1; SW; WE-2, BEHR) * George Thayer, Pennsylvania (AP-2; COL-1; WE-3; RKN; Sun-2, BEHR) * Charles F. Born, Army (AAB-1; AP-2; BE-2; Sun–2; WC) *Dick Romey, Iowa (COL-2; LIB) *
Ted Sloane Theodore P. Sloane (March 22, 1903 – December 21, 1984) was an American football player and coach and state legislator. Sloane attended Valley Junction High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, before enrolling at Drake University. He played co ...
, Drake (AAB-2; FW; WE-3, BEHR) *
LaVern Dilweg LaVern Ralph "Lavvie" Dilweg (November 1, 1903 – January 2, 1968) was a professional football player, attorney, and U.S. Congressman from Wisconsin. Football Born and raised in Milwaukee, Dilweg attended its public schools and graduated from ...
, Marquette (WE–1) * Cookie Cunningham, Ohio State (HR) *Henry Baxter, Army (HR) *
Chuck Kassel Charles Edward Kassel (November 20, 1903 – November 30, 1977) was a professional American football player who played as an end in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons with the Chicago Bears, the Frankford Yellow Jackets, and th ...
, Illinois (AAB-3; COL-2; BE-2; WE-2, BEHR) *
Ted Shipkey Theodore E. Shipkey (September 28, 1904 – July 18, 1978) was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator. Playing football at Stanford University from 1924 to 1926, he was a two-time and ...
, Stanford (AAB-2; NB-2; SW, BEHR) *
Vic Hanson Victor Arthur Hanson (July 30, 1903 – April 10, 1982) was an American football player and coach, basketball player, and baseball player. A three-sport college athlete, he played football, basketball, and baseball at Syracuse University in th ...
, Syracuse (AP-3) * J. G. Lowe, Tennessee (AP-3, BEHR) *
Carl Bacchus Robert Carl Bacchus (July 31, 1904 – March 2, 1985) was an American football player. Bacchus was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in 1904. He played at the end position in the National Football League for the 1927 Cleveland Bulldogs and the 1 ...
, Missouri (COL-3) *Edwards, Washington & Jefferson (NB-2) * Ray Wagner, Columbia (AAB-3) *Gus Merkle, Georgia Tech (BEHR) *Hobbs Adams, USC (BEHR)


Tackles

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Ed Weir Samuel Edwin Weir (March 14, 1903 – May 15, 1991) was an American collegiate and professional football player. He was the first Nebraska Cornhuskers football player elected to the College Football Hall of Fame and is known as one of Nebraska ...
, Nebraska (AAB-1; AP-1; COL-1; FW; INS; LIB; NEA; UP; A&S-1; BE-1; HR; NB-1; RKN; Sun–1; WC; WE–1, BEHR) * Ralph E. Chase, Pittsburgh (AAB-1; AP-1; COL-1; FW; BE-2; Sun-2; WE-2, BEHR) * Nathan Parker, Dartmouth (AAB-3; AP-2; COL-2; UP; Sun-2; WE-2, BEHR) * Harry Hawkins, Michigan (FW uard AAB-3; WE-3, BEHR) *
Johnny Joss John Hubbard Joss (March 18, 1902 – March 22, 1955) was an American football player, lawyer, and government official. Early years Joss was born in Indianapolis in 1902. He attended the Taft School in Connecticut before enrolling at Yale Co ...
, Yale (LIB; BE-2; NB-2; Sun–1, BEHR) *
Ed Lindenmeyer Edgar William Lindenmeyer (July 18, 1901 – July 24, 1981) was an American football player. Lindenmeyer attended the Missouri Military Academy (MMA) before enrolling at the University of Missouri. He played college football at the tackle pos ...
, Missouri (AAB-2; AP-2; COL-3; INS; NEA; A&S-1; BE-2; RKN; SW; WE-3, BEHR) * Tom Edwards, Michigan (AP-3; COL-2; NB-2; WE–1) *Bub Henderson, Chicago (NB-1) * Rip Bachor, Detroit (HR) * Hector Cyre, Gonzaga (AP-3) * Walden Erickson, Washington (COL-3, BEHR) *
Bud Sprague Mortimer "Bud" Sprague (September 8, 1904 – April 25, 1973) was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1970. He was one of the eight children born to Minna and George Sprague, of the Oak Cliff ne ...
, Army (AAB-2; SW) * Goldy Goldstein, Florida (BEHR) *
Bob Rives Robert Franklin Rives (November 12, 1903 – March 1, 1956) was an American football tackle. He played college football for Vanderbilt University. Early years Bob Rives was born on November 12, 1903, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to R. H. Rives. H ...
, Vanderbilt (BEHR) *John Sargent, California (BEHR) *Stonewall McMannon, Notre Dame (BEHR)


Guards

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Carl Diehl Carl Herman "Dutch" Diehl (May 2, 1904 – November 13, 1997) was an American college football player. Listed at and , Diehl played at the Guard (gridiron football), guard position for the Dartmouth Big Green football team. He was a consensus ...
, Dartmouth (AAB-1; AP-1; COL-1; FW; INS; UP; BE-2; NB-1; Sun–1; SW; WC; WE-1, BEHR) * Ed Hess, Ohio State (AAB-2; AP-2; COL-1; LIB; NEA; UP; A&S-1; BE-1; NB-1; HR; WE-2, BEHR) * Herbert Sturhahn, Yale (AAB-1; AP-1; COL-3; RKN enter Sun–1; WC; WE-1, BEHR) *
Brice Taylor Brice Union Taylor (July 4, 1902 – September 18, 1974) was an American football player and coach and track athlete. He played college football as a guard at the University of Southern California (USC), where he was one of first All-Americans in ...
, USC (FW; SW; BEHR) * Dana Carey, California (AAB-2; AP-3; COL-2; LIB; NB-2) * Emerson Carey, Cornell (A&S-1) * Ed McMillan, Princeton (BE-1) * Walter Mahan, West Virginia (AP-3; AAB-3; WE-3; BE-2, BEHR) * Bill Buckler, Alabama (AP-2; WE-3, BEHR) *Kilgore, Harvard (Sun–2; NB-2) *Len Walsh, Minnesota (WE–2) *August William Lentz, Jr., Navy (Sun–2) * Walt Godwin, Georgia Tech. (COL-2; RKN, BEHR) *Ray J. Stipek, Wisconsin (COL-3) *
Zeke Wissinger Zoner Albert "Zeke" Wissinger (October 30, 1902 – November 28, 1963) was an American football player from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, who played professionally during the early years of the National Football League (NFL). Wissinger attended and pl ...
, Pittsburgh (AAB-3) *
Merwin Mitterwallner Merwin Mitterwallner (July 4, 1897 – December 1, 1974), sometimes known as Bubbles Mitterwallner, was an American football player. Mitterwallner was born in Trumansburg, New York. He played college football at the guard position at both the U ...
, Illinois (HR) *Ernest Schmidt, Army (RKN) *
Bernie Shively Bernie A. Shively (May 26, 1902 – December 10, 1967) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He was the athletic director at the University of Kentucky from 1938 until his death. Shively served as an assista ...
, Illinois (BEHR) *
Fred H. Swan Frederick Haviside Swan (July 28, 1902 – October 27, 1993) was an American football player and coach. He was the 13th head football coach at Temple University, serving for one season, in 1939, compiling a record of 2–7. Swan served as li ...
, Stanford (BEHR) *Egbert Brix, Washington (BEHR) * Clipper Smith, Notre Dame (BEHR)


Centers

* Ed McMillan, Princeton (AAB-1; AP-1; COL-1; NEA; UP; HR; NB-2; Sun–1; WC; WE-1; WC, BEHR) * Robert Brown, Michigan (AP-2; COL-2; INS; LIB; NEA; A&S-1; BE-1; NB-1; Sun-2; SW, BEHR) * Tim Lowry, Northwestern (AAB-2; COL-3; FW; BE-2; WE-3, BEHR) *Harold Hutchinson (Hutchison), Nebraska (AP-3; WE–2) *
Jeff Cravath Newell Jefferson Cravath (February 3, 1903 – December 10, 1953) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach the University of Denver from 1929 to 1931, at the University of San Francisco in 1941, and at the U ...
, USC(AAB-3, BEHR) *
Amos Kent Amos Kent (January 3, 1902 – August 25, 1986) was a college football player and lumber salesman. Early years Amos Kent was born on January 3, 1902, in Kentwood, Louisiana, to Walter Campbell Kent and Katherine Esther Varnado. His great gran ...
, Sewanee (BEHR)


Quarterbacks

* Benny Friedman, Michigan (AAB-1; AP-2; COL-2; LIB; UP; BE-2; RKN; Sun–1; SW; WE–2, BEHR) * George Pease, Columbia (Sun–2) *Kenny Hyde, Colorado Aggies (AP-3) * Lester Lautenschlaeger (College Football Hall of Fame), Tulane (COL-3) * Morley Drury, U.S.C. (AAB-3, BEHR
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* George Guttormsen, Washington (BEHR) * Bill Kelly, Montana (BEHR) * Edgar C. Jones, Florida (BEHR) *Earl Graham, Fordham (BEHR)


Halfbacks

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Andy Oberlander Andrew James "Swede" Oberlander (February 17, 1905 – January 1, 1968) was an American football player and coach. He was an All-American halfback for Dartmouth College's Indians undefeated and national championship football team in 1925. Oberla ...
, Dartmouth (AAB-1; AP-1; COL-1; FW; INS; LIB; NEA; UP; A&S-1; BE-1; HR; NB-1; RKN; Sun–1; SW; WC; WE-1, BEHR) *
Red Grange Harold Edward "Red" Grange (June 13, 1903 – January 28, 1991), nicknamed "the Galloping Ghost" and "the Wheaton Iceman", was an American football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and the short-lived New York Yankees ...
, Illinois (AAB-2 b AP-1 b COL-1 b FW; INS; LIB; NEA; UP b A&S-1; BE-1 b HR b NB-1 b RKN b Sun-1 b SW b WC b WE–1 b BEHR) *
Wildcat Wilson George Schly "Wildcat" Wilson (September 6, 1901 – December 27, 1963) was an American football player. After earning All-American honors in 1925 as a halfback for the University of Washington, he played professionally, including three season ...
, Washington (AAB-1; AP-1; COL-1; FW b INS; BE-2; HR b RKN b WC; WE-1 b BEHR) *
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 (AAB-3; AP-2; COL-2; FW; A&S-1; BE-2; NB-2; Sun-1; SW; WE-2, BEHR) * Peggy Flournoy, Tulane (AAB-2; AP-2; COL-3; NEA; BE-1; HR b NB-1; WE–3 b BEHR) * Jackson Keefer, Brown (AP-3; COL-3; WE-3) * Ralph Baker, Northwestern (NB-2) *
Al Kreuz Albert F. Kreuz (August 21, 1898 – August 1975) was an American football fullback. He played on the Philadelphia Quakers' 1926 American Football League (AFL) team, which won the league's only championship. Kreuz played college football at ...
, Penn (Sun–2, BEHR) *
Johnny Mack Brown John Brown (September 1, 1904 – November 14, 1974) was an American college football player and film actor billed as John Mack Brown at the height of his screen career. He acted and starred mainly in Western (genre), Western films. Early lif ...
, Alabama (AP-3, BEHR) *Doyle Harmon, Wisconsin (WE–3) *
Christie Flanagan Christopher S. "Christie" Flanagan Jr. (December 8, 1905 – March 22, 1991), also known as Christy Flanagan in certain Notre Dame materials, was an All-American college football College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to ...
, Notre Dame (BEHR) *Austin "Five Yards" McCarty, Chicago (BEHR)


Fullbacks

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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 (AAB-1; AP-1; COL-1; INS; LIB; NEA; A&S-1; BE-1; NB-1; WC; WE-1, BEHR) * Jacob Slagle, Princeton (AAB-2 b AP-2; COL-2 b UP; BE-2; Sun–2 b WE-2 b BEHR) * Allison "Pooley" Hubert (College Football Hall of Fame), Alabama (COL-2, AAB-2 b WE-2, NB-2 b BEHR b *
Tony Plansky Anthony Joseph Plansky (June 20, 1900 – February 10, 1979) was an American football running back who played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants and Boston Braves. Biography A native of South Boston, Ma ...
, Georgetown (AAB-3
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COL-3; Sun–2, BEHR)
* Elmer Tesreau,
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(AP-3; AAB-3, BEHR) *
Bo Molenda John Joseph "Bo" Molenda (February 20, 1905 – July 20, 1986) was an American football player, primarily a fullback, who played for the University of Michigan and nine seasons in the NFL. He played for two Big Ten Conference championship teams ...
, Michigan (NB-2) * Rex Enright, Notre Dame (WE–3) *
Herb Joesting Herbert Walter Joesting (April 17, 1905 – October 1, 1963) was an American football player and coach. He was a consensus All-American fullback while playing for the Minnesota Golden Gophers in both 1926 and 1927. He also played three seasons i ...
, Minnesota (BEHR) *Loren L. Lewis, Northwestern (BEHR) *
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 (BEHR) *Windy White, VMI (BEHR) *
Andy Gustafson Andrew Gustafson (April 3, 1903 – January 7, 1979) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (VPI ...
, Pitt (BEHR)


Key

Bold = Consensus All-Americans * -1 – First-team selection * -2 – Second-team selection * -3 – Third-team selection


Selectors recognized by NCAA

* UP =
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based on interviews and questionnaires submitted to 75 coaches and officials * AP =
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teams "from country-wide opinions" * COL = ''
Collier's Weekly ''Collier's'' was an American general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. It was launched as ''Collier's Once a Week'', then renamed in 1895 as ''Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal'', shortened in 1905 to ''Colli ...
'' as selected by
Grantland Rice Henry Grantland "Granny" Rice (November 1, 1880July 13, 1954) was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio. Early years Rice wa ...
* AAB = The All-America Board; the Christy Walsh Syndicate asked an Inter-Sectional Board of Football Coaches made up of
Tad Jones Thaddeus Bunol "Tad" Jones (September 19, 1952 – January 1, 2007) was an American music historian and researcher. His extensive research is credited with definitively establishing and documenting Louis Armstrong's correct birth date, August ...
of Yale,
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of Notre Dame and Glenn "Pop" Warner of Stanford to deliberate and select an All-American team * FW = Football Writers Association of America * INS = International News Service * LIB = ''Liberty'' magazine * NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association


Other selectors

* A&S = ''Athlete and Sportsman'' magazine, selections made based on the votes of 228 leading football coaches, as canvassed by
Jim Thorpe James Francis Thorpe ( Sac and Fox (Sauk): ''Wa-Tho-Huk'', translated as "Bright Path"; May 22 or 28, 1887March 28, 1953) was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was the first Native ...
,
Charles Paddock Charles William Paddock (August 11, 1900 – July 21, 1943) was an American athlete and two time Olympic champion. Biography Paddock was born in Gainesville, Texas to Charles H. and Lulu (Robinson) Paddock. His family moved to Pasadena, Cal ...
, and James Fetzer. * Sun = ''
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'' * WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation * WE = selected by
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 ...
, football critic of the ''
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'' * BE =
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 ...
* NB = Norman E. Brown * HR = Herbert Reed * RKN =
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* BEHR = Billy Evans's "National Honor Roll"


See also

* 1925 All-Big Ten Conference football team * 1925 All-Missouri Valley Conference football team * 1925 All-Pacific Coast football team * 1925 All-Southern college football team * 1925 All-Southwest Conference football team * 1925 All-Eastern football team * 1925 All-Western college football team


References

{{College Football All-America Teams
All-America Team The All-America designation is an annual honor bestowed upon an amateur sports person from the United States who is considered to be one of the best amateurs in their sport. Individuals receiving this distinction are typically added to an All-Am ...
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