The 1928 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as

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ns by various organizations and writers that chose

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s in 1928. The seven selectors recognized by the

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as "official" for the 1928 season are (1) ''

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'', as selected by

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, (2) the

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, (3) the

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, (4) the All-America Board, (5) the

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(INS), (6) the

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(NEA), and (7) the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

Consensus All-Americans

Following the death of

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in 1925, there was a proliferation of All-American teams in the late 1920s. For the year 1929, the NCAA recognizes seven published 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. Army halfback Red Cagle was the only player to be unanimously selected by all seven selectors as a first-team All-American.

All-American selections for 1928

Key

Bold – NCAA "consensus" All-Americans Selectors recognized by NCAA in its consensus All-American determinations: * AAB = All America Board * AP =

* COL = ''

'', as selected by

with assistance from Knute Rockne,

Glenn Warner Glenn Scobey Warner (April 5, 1871 – September 7, 1954), most commonly known as Pop Warner, was an American college football coach at various institutions who is responsible for several key aspects of the modern game. Included among his inn ...

, Jesse Hawley,

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 ...

Robert Zuppke Robert Carl Zuppke (July 2, 1879 – December 22, 1957) was an American football coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1913 until 1941, compiling a career college football record of 131–81� ...

, Lou Young, Bill Roper,

Wallace Wade William Wallace Wade (June 15, 1892 – October 7, 1986) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the University of Alabama fro ...

Dan McGugin Daniel Earle McGugin (July 29, 1879 – January 23, 1936) was an American football player and coach, as well as a lawyer. He served as the head football coach at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1904 to 1917 and again from ...

and Clarence M. Price. * NEA =

* UP =

, as selected by United Press sports editor Frank Getty, with advice from "coaches and officials throughout the country." * INS =

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* NANA = North American Newspaper Alliance Other selectors: * CP = Central Press Association, billed as the "Real" All-American team * PAB = Pan-American Bank * WC =

Football Foundation * 1 – First Team Selection * 2 – Second Team Selection * 3 – Third Team Selection * Utility Selection – Only Grantland Rice in ''Collier's Weekly'' used this designation for three players in addition to those at eleven specified positions. * HM – Honorable Mention Selection – Used by Frank Getty in the United Press All-America Team.

Ends

* Irvine Phillips, California (UP-1, WC-1, AAB, NANA, PAB, AP-2) *

Wes Fesler Wesley Eugene Fesler (June 29, 1908 – July 30, 1989) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach of football and basketball. He was a three-sport athlete at Ohio State University and a consensus first-team selection to ...

, Ohio State (College Football Hall of Fame) (CO-1, INS, NEA-1, UP-1, WC-1, AAB, AP-2, CP-2) *

Dale Van Sickel Dale Harris Van Sickel (November 29, 1907 – January 25, 1977) was an American college football, basketball and baseball player during the 1920s, who later became a Hollywood motion picture actor and stunt performer for over forty years. ...

, Florida (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, NEA-1, CO-Utility, UP-HM) * Malcolm Franklin, St. Mary's (AP-1, UP-2) *

Ken Haycraft Kenneth C. Haycraft (February 16, 1907 – June 29, 1995) was an American football player in the National Football League (NFL). Biography Haycraft was born on February 16, 1907, in Bemidji, Minnesota. Career Haycraft played with the Minneapolis ...

, Minnesota (CO-1, NANA, UP-2) * Dick Abernathy, Vanderbilt (CP-1, UP-3) * Theodore Rosenzweig, Carnegie Tech (CP-1, INS, NEA-2, UP-HM) * Edward Messinger, Army (PAB, CP-2, AP-3) * Miller Brown, Missouri (AP-3) * George Barna, Hobart (UP-3)

Tackles

* Otto Pommerening, Michigan (AP-1, CO-1, INS, UP-1, NEA-3) *

Mike Getto Michael J. Getto (September 18, 1905 – August 27, 1960) was a professional football coach in the National Football League for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1942. That season, he coached Brooklyn to a 3–8 record. Prior to his coaching career ...

, Pittsburgh (CO-1, NANA, NEA-1, WC-1, AP-2, UP-2, AAB) * Forrest Douds, Washington & Jefferson (UP-1, CO-Utility) *

Jesse Hibbs Jesse John Hibbs (January 11, 1906 – February 4, 1985) was an American film and television director and American football player. He played college football at the University of Southern California (USC), where he was an All-American tackle ...

, USC (CP-1, NEA-1, UP-3) *

Gordy Brown Gordon "Gordy" Brown was a college football player. He was a prominent lineman for the Texas Longhorns football, Texas Longhorns, captain of their 1930 team. References

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, Texas (CP-1, AP-2, UP-3) *

Butch Nowack Albert J. "Butch" Nowack (1904 – September 28, 1952) was an American football player and coach. A native of Pana, Illinois, he played college football as a tackle at the University of Illinois under Robert Zuppke and was a member of the 19 ...

, Illinois (WC-1, UP-2, AP-3, AAB, NANA) * Russell Crane, Illinois (CP-1) *

Frank Speer Frank R. Speer (May 27, 1907 – June 10, 1938) was a college football player and wrestler. College football Speer was an All-American tackle for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets of the Georgia Institute of Technology; part of its national ...

, Georgia Tech (AP-1) * Alfred "Al" Lassman, New York Univ. (CP-2, NEA-2) *

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 (CP-2) * Jimmy Steele, Florida (NEA-2) * Melvyl Dressell, Washington State (AP-3) * Steve Bancroft, California (PAB) * Fred Miller, Notre Dame (INS, PAB)

Guards

Seraphim Post Seraphim Fred Post (August 1, 1904 – August 12, 1975) was an American football guard who played college football at Stanford University. He was a consensus All-American in 1928. Stanford guard Don Robesky was also a consensus All-American i ...

, Stanford (AP-1, CO-1, CP-1, INS, NEA-1, WC-1, AAB) *

Don Robesky Donald A. Robesky (May 15, 1906 – February 25, 2002) was an American football guard who played college football at Stanford University. He played high school football at Kern Union High School in Bakersfield, California. He was a consensus ...

, Stanford (UP-1, NANA, NEA-2) * Edward Burke, Navy (AP-1, CO-1, CP-2, NEA-2) * George Gibson, Minnesota (UP-1, WC-1, AP-2, NEA-3, AAB) *

Danny McMullen Daniel Edward McMullen (May 8, 1906 – August 22, 1983) was an American football player. He played college football at the guard position for the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 1925 to 1928. He was selected by the Associated Press as a second-te ...

, Nebraska (AP-2, INS, NEA-3, UP-3, PAB) * Leroy Wietz, Illinois (NANA) * Bill McRae, Florida (UP-2) * Bull Brown, Vanderbilt (UP-2) * Bruce Dumont, Colgate (AP-3) *

Choc Sanders Henry Jackson "Choc" Sanders (July 26, 1900 – March 16, 1972) was a college football player, coach and teacher. He was the first All-American for the Southern Methodist University Mustangs The mustang is a free-roaming horse of the West ...

, SMU (AP-3, UP-3) * Waldo Wittenmeyer Greene, Yale (CP-2) * John Dreshar, Carnegie Tech (PAB)

Centers

Peter Pund Henry Rudolph "Peter" Pund (January 27, 1907 – October 17, 1987) was an American college football player. He was elected to the Georgia Tech Hall of Fame in 1958, the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1977, and the College Football Hall of Fame i ...

, Georgia Tech (College Football Hall of Fame) (CO-1, INS, NEA-1, UP-1, WC-1, CP-2, AP-3, AAB) * Charles Howe, Princeton (AP-1, CP-1, NEA-2, UP-2, NANA; PAB) *

Nate Barragar Nathan Robert Barragar (June 3, 1907 – August 10, 1985) was an American collegiate and professional football player. Biography Barragar was the only son of Nathaniel Hawthorne Barragar (1872–1943), a clergyman, and Olive Jan (Littleton) Barr ...

, USC (AP-2) * Tim Moynihan, Notre Dame (UP-3)

Quarterbacks

Howard Harpster Howard Harpster (May 14, 1907 – April 9, 1980) was an American college football player and coach. He played football as a quarterback at the Carnegie Institute of Technology—now known as Carnegie Mellon University—from 1926 to 1928. He was ...

, Carnegie Tech (College Football Hall of Fame) (CO-1, CP-1, NEA-1, UP-1, WC-1, AP-3, PAB, AAB) *

Dutch Clark Earl Harry "Dutch" Clark (October 11, 1906 – August 5, 1978), sometimes also known as the "Flying Dutchman" and the "Old Master", was an American football player and coach, basketball player and coach, and university athletic director. He gaine ...

, Colorado College (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1) * Howard Maple, Oregon State (AP-2, UP-3) * Frederick L. Hovde, Minnesota (CP-2) * Don Williams, USC (NANA, UP-2)

Halfbacks

Chris Cagle Christopher Norris Cagle (born November 10, 1968) is an American country music artist. He was first known for writing songs for David Kersh before signing to Virgin Records Nashville in 2000. Cagle made his debut on ''Billboard'' Hot Country Si ...

, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, CO-1, CP-1, INS, NANA, NEA-1, UP-1, WC-1, PAB, AAB) *

Chuck Carroll Charles Oliver Carroll (August 13, 1906 – June 23, 2003) was an American football player and attorney from Washington. Carroll played for Garfield High School and earned 17 varsity letters while there. He would be given the title of Garfield ...

, Washington (AP-1, UP-1 b WC-1, NEA-2, AAB) *

Paul Scull Paul Thomas "Butterball" Scull, Sr. (September 4, 1907 – December 11, 1997) was an American football player. Considered a triple-threat man while playing for Penn from 1926 to 1928, he was a consensus first-team All-American halfback in 1928. ...

, Penn (CO-1, INS, NANA, NEA-1, WC-1, AP-2, UP-2 b AAB) * Warner Mizell, Georgia Tech (AP-2, CP-2, INS, NANA, NEA-2, UP-2) *

Clyde Crabtree Clyde Crabtree (November 3, 1905 – April 21, 1994), nicknamed "Cannonball Crabtree," was an American college and professional football player who was a halfback and quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for a single season in 1930 ...

, Florida (AP-3, NEA-3, UP-3 b *

Willis Glassgow Willis Allen "Bill" Glassgow (April 21, 1907 – November 1, 1959) graduated from Shenandoah Iowa high school. Willis was an American football player and attorney. He played halfback for the University of Iowa from 1927 to 1929, was selected ...

, Iowa (CP-2, AP-3, NEA-3) * Bill Banker, Tulane (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-2) *

Lloyd Brazil Francis Lloyd Brazil (April 24, 1906 – April 3, 1965) was an American athlete, coach and athletic director at the University of Detroit for 38 years. He played Halfback (American football), halfback for the University of Detroit American footbal ...

, Univ. of Detroit (CO-Utility, UP-3) *

Redman Hume Theodore Redman Hume (January 30, 1906 – November 26, 1968) was an American football and baseball player and football coach. Hume was born in Kingston, Oklahoma, in 1906. He enrolled at Southern Methodist University and played at the Halfback ...

, Southern Methodist (UP-3) * Lloyd Thomas, Univ. South. Calif. (NEA-2, PAB)

Fullbacks

Ken Strong Elmer Kenneth Strong (April 21, 1906 – October 5, 1979) was an American football halfback and fullback who also played minor league baseball. Considered one of the greatest all-around players in the early decades of the game, he was inducted ...

, New York Univ. (AP-1, CO-1, CP-1 b INS, NEA-1, UP-1 b *

Blue Howell Edward E. "Blue" Howell (1905 – April 15, 1964) was an American football player and coach. He was the fifth head football coach at Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg—now known as Pittsburg State University—in Pitt ...

, Nebraska (CP-1) * Clifford Hoffman, Stanford (AP-2) *

Gerald Snyder Gerald Theodore "Snitz" Snyder (August 6, 1905 – June 28, 1983) was an American football player and Army officer. He played college football as a back for the Maryland Terrapins at the University of Maryland. Snyder played professionally for ...

, Maryland (AP-3) * Herschel Burgess, Texas A&M (CP-2) * Mayes McLain, Iowa (PAB)

References

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