The 1955 All-Pacific Coast football team consists of

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players chosen by the

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(AP) and the

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(UP) as the best

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players by position in the Pacific Coast region during the

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. The AP team was limited to players form the

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(PCC) and was based on votes of football writers of more than 20 AP member newspapers on the west coast. The UP team included players from non-PCC schools. The

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won the PCC championship and was ranked No. 4 in the final

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. Six UCLA players were selected by either the AP or UP on the first team: backs Sam Brown and Bob Davenport; end Rommie Loudd; guards Hardiman Cureton and Jim Brown; and center Steve Palmer. Cureton was the only PCC player to be selected as a consensus first-team player on the 1955 All-America college football team.

Selections

Backs

Jon Arnett Jon Dwane "Jaguar Jon" Arnett (April 20, 1935 – January 16, 2021) was an American professional football player. He was a first-team All-American out of USC and Manual Arts High School. Arnett died on January 16, 2021, from heart failure in L ...

, USC (AP-1; UP-1) * Sam Brown, UCLA (AP-1; UP-1) * Bob Davenport, UCLA (AP-1; UP-1) * John Brodie, Stanford (AP-1; UP-2) * Bill Tarr, Stanford (AP-2; UP-1) * Dick James, Oregon (AP-2; UP-2) * Ronnie Knox, UCLA (AP-2) * Joe Francis, Oregon State (AP-2; UP-3) *

Art Luppino Arthur Luppino (born c. 1934), also known as "the Cactus Comet", was an American football player. He grew up in La Jolla, California, and played college football for the Arizona Wildcats football team. He twice led the NCAA major colleges in rus ...

, Arizona (UP-2) * Green, Washington (UP-2) * Ken Swearingen, Pacific (UP-3) * Teresa, San Jose State (UP-3) * Jim Shanley, Oregon (UP-3)

Ends

* Rommie Loudd, UCLA (AP-1; UP-1) * John Stewart, Stanford (AP-1; UP-2) * A. D. Williams, Pacific (UP-1) * Jim Carmichael, California (AP-2; UP-3) * Jim Houston, Washington (AP-2; UP-2) * Powell, San Jose State (UP-3)

Tackles

John Witte John August Witte (January 29, 1933 – March 17, 1993) was an American football tackle who played one season with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the ninth round of the 195 ...

, Oregon State (AP-1; UP-1) * Paul Wiggin, Stanford (AP-1; UP-2) * Fred Robinson, Washington (AP-2; UP-1) * Gil Moreno, UCLA (AP-2; UP-3) *

John Nisby John Edward Nisby (September 9, 1936 – February 6, 2011) was an American football guard in the National Football League. He played professionally for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Washington Redskins, and was one of the first African American pla ...

, Pacific (UP-2) * John Jankins, Arizona State (UP-3)

Guards

* Jim Brown, UCLA (AP-1; UP-2) *

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, USC (AP-1; UP-1) * Hardiman Cureton, UCLA (AP-2; UP-1) * Earl Monlux, Washington (AP-2; UP-3) * Tony Mosich, Stanford (UP-2) * Vaughan Hitchcock, Washington State (UP-3)

Centers

* Steve Palmer, UCLA (AP-1; UP-1) * Joe Long, Stanford (AP-2; UP-2) * Bert Watson, Washington (UP-3)

Key

AP =

, "selected by a vote of more than a score of football writers from AP member newspapers up and down the West Coast" UP =

References

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