The 1954 All-Eastern football team consists of

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players chosen by various selectors as the best players at each position among the Eastern colleges and universities during the

1954 college football season The 1954 college football season saw three teams finish unbeaten and untied, with Ohio State Buckeyes and the UCLA Bruins sharing the national championship as the No. 1 picks of the AP Poll and the UPI Poll, respectively. Although the winners o ...

Quarterbacks

* George Welsh, Navy (UP-1, INS-2) * Pete Vann, Army (AP-1 UP-2, INS-1) * Cornelius Salvaterra, Pitt (AP-2)

Halfbacks

* Lenny Moore, Penn State (AP-1 UP-1, INS-1) * Tommy Bell, Army (AP-2, UP-1, INS-1) * Royce Flippin, Princeton (AP-1 UP-2, INS-2) *

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, Pitt (UP-2, INS-2) * Raymond Perkins, Syracuse (AP-2)

Fullbacks

* Sam Pino, Boston University (AP-1 UP-1, INS-2) * Pat Uebel, Army (UP-2, INS-1) * Charles Sticka, Trinity (AP-2)

Ends

Ron Beagle Ronald Beagle (February 7, 1934 – September 8, 2015) was an American football End (gridiron football), end. Beagle was born in Hartford, Connecticut but played high school football in Cincinnati. The 6 foot one inch, 185-pounder entered the Uni ...

, Navy (AP-1, UP-1, INS-1) *

Don Holleder Donald Walter Holleder (August 3, 1934 – October 17, 1967) was an American college football star while attending the United States Military Academy and later assistant football coach for the United States Military Academy, who was later killed i ...

, Army (AP-1, UP-1, INS-1) * James Garrity, Penn State (AP-2, UP-2) * Andy Nacrelli, Fordham (AP-2, INS-2) * Jim Castle, Penn (UP-2) *

Jesse Arnelle Hugh Jesse Arnelle (December 30, 1933 – October 21, 2020) was an American basketball player and attorney. Athletics Born in New Rochelle, New York, Arnelle played football and basketball for Penn State University. He led the basketball team ...

, Penn State (INS-2)

Tackles

Frank Morze Frank Joseph Morze, Jr. (March 21, 1933 – May 28, 2006) was an American football center and tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Francisco 49ers and Cleveland Browns. Career A native of Gardner, Morze graduated from Gar ...

, Boston College (AP-1, UP-1, INS-2) *

Eldred Kraemer Eldred Kraemer (October 2, 1929 – September 16, 1992) was an American football guard. He played for the San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners) are a professional American football team b ...

, Pitt (UP-2, INS-1) * Otto Kneidinger, Penn State (AP-1) * Rosey Grier, Penn State (UP-1) * Phil Tarasovic, Yale (INS-1) * Leonard Oniskey, Cornell (AP-2) *

Lou Palatella Louis Marino Palatella (born July 28, 1933) is a former American football player who played for San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). Early life Palatella played football for Vandegrift High School. College career Palatella ...

, Pitt (AP-2) * Hugh Webster, Navy (UP-2) * Paul Kernaklian, Syracuse (INS-2)

Guards

* Bill Meigs, Harvard (AP-1, UP-1, INS-2) *

Ralph Chesnauskas Ralph Joseph Chesnauskas (born c. 1935) was an American football player. Early years Chesnauskas grew up in Brockton, Massachusetts. He was an honor student at Brockton High School and on the school's football team as an end and on the baseba ...

, Army (AP-1, UP-1) * Leonard Benzi, Navy (AP-2, INS-1) * John Henn, Princeton (INS-1) * Jim Van Buren, Cornell (UP-2, INS-2) * Louis Lovely, Boston University (AP-2) * Thorne Shugart, Yale (UP-2)

Center

* Bill Chance, Army (UP-1, INS-2) * Charles Beemus, Colgate (AP-1) * Frank Reich, Penn State (INS-1) * James Doughan, Yale (AP-2) * Ed Bose, Pitt (UP-2)

Key

* AP =

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* UP =

United Press United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th c ...

* INS =

International News Service The International News Service (INS) was a U.S.-based news agency (newswire) founded by newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1909.

References

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