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. Four players received first-team All-Eastern honors and were also consensus first-team All-Americans: halfback

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of Pittsburgh; tackle

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of Penn; guard Bill Webster; and center John Charlesworth of Yale. Sprague was later inducted into the

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All-Eastern selections

Quarterbacks

* Jack Connor, NYU (AP-1, UP-1) * Robert B. MacPhail, Dartmouth (AP-2, UP-2)

Halfbacks

, Pittsburgh (AP-1, UP-1) *

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, Dartmouth (AP-1, UP-1) * Eddie Wittmer, Princeton (AP-2, UP-2) *

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, Penn (AP-2) * Chris Cagle, Army (UP-2)

Fullbacks

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, Washington & Jefferson (AP-1, UP-1) * Mike Miles, Princeton (AP-2) * Frank Briante, NYU (UP-2)

Ends

* Stewart Scott, Yale (AP-1, UP-1) * George Cole, Dartmouth (AP-1) * Charles F. Born, Army (UP-1) * Charles R. Moeser, Princeton (AP-2) * Delph, Penn State (AP-2) * Joseph Lenzer, Penn (UP-2) * Dwight Fishwick, Yale (UP-2)

Tackles

* Bud Sprague, Army (AP-1, UP-1) *

, Penn (AP-1, UP-1) * Jim Fitzgerald, Tufts (AP-2, UP-2) *

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, Pittsburgh (AP-2) * Sidney S. Quarrier, Yale (UP-2)

Guards

* Bill Webster, Yale (AP-1, UP-1) * August Cervini, Holy Cross (AP-2, UP-1) * Bruce Dumont, Colgate (AP-1) * Woerner, Navy (AP-2) * Miller, Amherst (UP-2) * Edward Burke, Navy (UP-2)

Centers

* Claude Grigsby, Georgetown (AP-1, UP-2) * John Charlesworth, Yale (AP-2, UP-1)

Key

* AP = Associated Press, selected from opinions of 56 critics, sport writers, and officials in the East * UP = United Press

References

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