The 1930 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 1930. The seven selectors recognized by the

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as "official" for the 1930 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

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(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 1930, 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.

All-American selections for 1930

Ends

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) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS-1; NEA-1; CP-1; NANA; NYS-1; LAT; AAB) *

Frank Baker John Franklin "Home Run" Baker (March 13, 1886 – June 28, 1963) was an American professional baseball player. A third baseman, Baker played in Major League Baseball from 1908 to 1922 for the Philadelphia Athletics and New York Yankees. Althoug ...

, Northwestern (AP-1; UP-1; INS-1; NEA-2; CP-1; NYS-1; LAT) * Garrett Arbelbide, USC (AP-2; INS-3; NEA-1; NYEP-1) *

Herb Maffett Herbert Sidney Maffett (March 5, 1907 – December 26, 1994) was a college football player. University of Georgia Maffett was a prominent end and four-year starter on the Georgia Bulldogs football team. He was elected captain of the 1930 t ...

, Georgia (UP-3; NYEP-1) *

Jerry Dalrymple Gerald Richard Dalrymple (August 6, 1906 – September 25, 1962) was an American football and basketball player and coach. Dalrymple worked odd jobs at Ouachita Junior College in Arkadelphia for three years. He was a prominent end for coach Berni ...

, Tulane (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-2; COL-1; INS-2; CP-2; NANA; AAB) * Tom Conley, Notre Dame (AP-2; UP-2; NEA-2) *

Harry Ebding Harry Joseph Ebding (September 12, 1906 – September 11, 1980) was a professional American football End in the National Football League (NFL). He played seven seasons for the Portsmouth Spartans (1931–1933) and the Detroit Lions (1934–1937). ...

, St. Mary's (AP-3; INS-2; NEA-3) * Bill Schwartz, Vanderbilt (CP-2) * George A. Ellert, Syracuse (INS-3; CP-3) * Louie Long, SMU (NEA-3; CP-3) *

Bill McKalip William Ward McKalip (June 5, 1907 – July 11, 1993) is a former American football end and half back who played four seasons in the NFL with the Portsmouth Spartans/ Detroit Lions. College career McKalip chose to enroll at Oregon State for hi ...

, Oregon State (UP-3)

Tackles

Fred Sington Frederic William Sington (February 24, 1910 – August 20, 1998) was an American football and baseball player. Sington was also an accomplished saxophonist. Sington was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and was Jewish. He attended Phillips High Sch ...

, Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS-1; NEA-1; CP-1; NANA; NYEP-1; NYS-1; LAT; AAB) * Milo Lubratovich, Wisconsin (AP-3; UP-1; INS-2; NEA-1; CP-1) *

Turk Edwards Albert Glen "Turk" Edwards (September 28, 1907 – January 12, 1973) was an American professional football player who was a tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played his entire career for the Washington Redskins, starting with th ...

, Washington State (AP-1; UP-3; INS-1; NEA-2; CP-2; NYS-1) *

Hugh Rhea Hugh McCall Rhea (September 9, 1909 – October 18, 1973) was an American football player and track and field athlete. A native of Arlington, Nebraska, Rhea attended Arlington High School and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He played ...

, Nebraska (COL-1; INS-2; CP-2) * Harold Ahlskog, Washington State (NYEP-1) *

George Van Bibber Edward George Van Bibber (1909 – August 3, 1982) was an American football player, coach, and university professor. He served as the head football coach at Central Michigan University from 1931 to 1933 and at the University at Buffalo, University ...

, Purdue (AP-2; NEA-3; CP-3) * Jack Price, Army (AP-2; UP-2; NEA-3; NANA; LAT) * Al Culver, Notre Dame (UP-2) *

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, Northwestern (NEA-2) * Blimp Bowstrom, Navy (UP-3) * Frank Foley, Fordham (AP-3) * John Goodwillie, Dartmouth (INS-3) * Vance Maree, Georgia Tech (INS-3) *

Foots Clement Charles Baxter "Foots" Clement (June 12, 1904 – February 27, 1976) was a college football player and prominent Memphis businessman. He was posthumously inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1989. University of Alabama Clement was ...

, Alabama (CP-3) * Art Massucci, University of Detroit

Guards

* Ted Beckett, California (COL-1; INS-1; NEA-3; NANA; AAB) * Barton Koch, Baylor (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-2; COL-1; NEA-1; CP-1; NANA; NYS-1; LAT) *

Bert Metzger Bert Metzger (January 31, 1909 – March 7, 1986) was an American football player. A , guard from Chicago, Metzger played at the University of Notre Dame and was nicknamed the "watch-charm guard" because of his relatively small size. Metzger pl ...

, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; CP-2) *

Wade Woodworth Wade Stowell "Red" Woodworth (August 23, 1905 – June 29, 1992) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Cincinnati for the final five games of the 1937 season. Woodworth played college ...

, Northwestern (AP-1; UP-2; INS-2; NEA-1; CP-2; NYEP-1; LAT) *

Henry Wisniewski Henry F. "Pete" Wisniewski (August 7, 1908 – October 28, 1988) was an American football player and dentist. Wisniewski attended was an all-around athlete at Camden High School in Camden, New Jersey, lettering in football, basketball, base ...

, Fordham (UP-1; NEA-2; CP-1; NYEP-1) * Johnny Baker, USC (AP-2; UP-3; NYS-1) *

Ralph Maddox Ralph Carlyle "Red" Maddox (September 28, 1908 – November 16, 1944) was an American college football player and U.S. Army captain. College football Maddox was an All-Southern guard for the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia. ...

, Georgia (INS-1) * Frederick J. Linehan, Yale (UP-3; INS-3; AAB) * Charles Humber, Army (AP-3; INS-2) * Gabriel Bromberg, Dartmouth (AP-3; NEA-2) * Austin Colbert, Oregon (INS-3) *

Clarence Munn Clarence Lester "Biggie" Munn (September 11, 1908 – March 18, 1975) was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He was the head football coach at Albright College (1935–1936), Syracuse University (1946), and mos ...

, Minnesota (NEA-3) * Sam T. Selby, Ohio State (CP-3) * Doyle, Kentucky (CP-3)

Centers

Ben Ticknor Benjamin Holt Ticknor (January 9, 1909 – September 12, 1979) was an American college football player. He was a prominent center for the Harvard Crimson, known especially for his play on defense. He was captain of the 1930 team. Harvard did not ...

, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS-1; NEA-1; CP-2; NANA; NYS-1; LAT; AAB) *

Mel Hein Melvin Jack Hein (August 22, 1909 – January 31, 1992), sometimes known as "Old Indestructible", was an American football player and coach. In the era of one-platoon football, he played as a center (then a position on both offense and defense) ...

, Washington State (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-3; INS-2; NEA-2; CP-1; AAB * Thomas "Tony" Slano, Fordham (AP-3; UP-2; CP-3; NYEP-1) * Lloyd Roberts, Tulane (INS-3) *

Noble Atkins Noble Atkins was a college football and basketball player. He was a prominent center for the TCU Horned Frogs football team of Texas Christian. Atkins was selected All-Southern in 1929 by football fans of the south through ''Central Press'' news ...

, TCU (NEA-3)

Quarterbacks

Frank Carideo Francis F. Carideo (August 4, 1908 – March 17, 1992) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He played quarterback at the University of Notre Dame from 1928 to 1930, where he was a two-time unanimous All-American. ...

, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS-1; NEA-1; CP-1; NANA; NYEP-1; NYS-1; LAT; AAB) *

Bobby Dodd Robert Lee Dodd (November 11, 1908 – June 21, 1988) was an American college football player and coach, college baseball coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Georgia Tech from 1945 to 1966, compil ...

, Tennessee (AP-2; UP-2; COL-1; NEA-1 b CP-2) * Marshall Duffield, USC (AP-3; CP-3) * Bill Morton, Dartmouth (UP-3; NEA-3 b *

Albie Booth Albert James "Albie" Booth (February 1, 1908 – March 1, 1959) was an American football player. He was a star at Yale University from 1929 to 1931, and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1966. Booth, at only tall and , was kno ...

, Yale (AP-2 b INS-2; NEA-2) *

Harry Newman Harry Lawrence Newman (September 5, 1909 – May 2, 2000) was an All-Pro American football quarterback. He played for the University of Michigan Wolverines (1930–32), for whom in 1932 he was a unanimous first-team All-American, and the reci ...

, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (INS-3) *

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, Pittsburgh (NEA-3)

Halfbacks

* Marchy Schwartz, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; INS-1; NEA-1; CP-1; NANA; NYS-1; LAT) *

Erny Pinckert William Ernest Pinckert (May 1, 1907 – August 30, 1977) was an American football halfback. He played college football at the University of Southern California (USC) under head coach Howard Jones. Pinckert played professionally in the Nationa ...

, USC (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2; COL-1; NEA-1 b CP-2; NANA; NYS-1; LAT; AAB) *

John Suther John Henry "Flash" Suther (December 20, 1907 – March 15, 1984) was a college football player. Early years He attended Tuscaloosa High School where he was "one of the finest running backs ever in Alabama prep circles" and selected to the All-S ...

, Alabama (AP-3; UP-3; INS-2; CP-1; NYEP-1) * Phil Moffatt, Stanford (UP-1) * Cornelius Murphy, Fordham (INS-1) *

Louis Weller Louis "Rabbit" Weller (March 2, 1904 – April 17, 1979) was a professional football halfback with the Boston Redskins of the National Football League (NFL) in 1933. He was a Native American member of the Caddo tribe. He attended Haskell I ...

, Haskell (UP-2; NEA-2) * Marty Brill, Notre Dame (UP-3; INS-2; NEA-3; AAB) * Frank Christensen, Utah (INS-3; NEA-3 b * Hank Bruder, Northwestern (AP-2) * Red Bethea, Florida (CP-2) * Fred Stennett, St. Mary's (AP-3) * Eddie Risk, Purdue (INS-3) * Gil Berry, Illinois (CP-3) * Lou Kirn, Navy (CP-3)

Fullbacks

* Leonard Macaluso, Colgate (AP-1; UP-1; COL-1; INS-1; CP-1; NYEP-1 b NYS-1; LAT) *

Lafayette Russell Lafayette "Reb" Russell (born Lafayette H. Russell; May 31, 1905 – March 16, 1978) was an American football running back and later an actor. He played college football at the University of Nebraska and Northwestern University, and professi ...

, Northwestern (UP-2; NANA; NYEP-1; AAB) *

Joe Savoldi Joseph Anthony Savoldi Jr., (born Giuseppe Antonio Savoldi; March 5, 1908 – January 25, 1974) more commonly known by his nickname "Jumping Joe" Savoldi, was an Italian-American professional wrestler, football player, and Special Ops agent for ...

, Notre Dame (AP-2) * Jack Roberts, Georgia (INS-3; CP-2) *

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, Kansas (CP-3) *

Johnny Kitzmiller John Wesley "Dutch" Kitzmiller (November 25, 1904 – April 26, 1986) was an American football player from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He played college football at the University of Oregon and was later inducted into the College Football Hall of ...

, Oregon (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-3; NEA-2 b *

Elmer Schwartz Elmer George Schwartz (July 29, 1906 – March 21, 1949), sometimes listed as George Elmer Schwartz, and nicknamed "Elmer the Great", was an American football player. He played college football at Washington State College. He was the capta ...

, Washington State (AP-3) * John Lewis Cain, Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (INS-2) *

Clarke Hinkle William Clarke Hinkle (April 10, 1909 – November 9, 1988) was an American football player. He played on offense as a fullback, defense as a linebacker, and special teams as a kicker and punter. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame ...

, Bucknell (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (NEA-2)

Key

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

NCAA official selectors

* AAB = All America Board * AP =

: "To help settle the All-America argument, the Associated Press this year conducted the most comprehensive poll of expert opinion yet attempted. A total of 213 sports editors and writers scanning the gridiron activities in all sections of the country, contributed their selections after studying all the available information." * UP =

, "selected by the United Press sports staff in collaboration with leading coaches in every section of the country" * COL = ''

'', "picked annually by

and issued in the Collier's weekly magazine" * INS = International News Service, based not only on "the writer's personal observations but on the basis of reports from International News Service footballexperts from all parts of the country" * NEA = Newspaper Editors Association, chosen by the 33 members of the NEA Service National Bord of Football Coaches, Officials and Sports Writers * NANA = North American Newspaper Association

Other selectors

* CP =

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: "Two hundred captains of college football teams were polled by the Central Press Association in a nationwide survey. Each captain was asked to name only those men against or with whom he played." * NYEP = ''New York Evening Post'' * NYS = ''New York Sun'' * WC =

Football Foundation * LAT = ''Los Angeles Times''

References

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College Football All-America Teams