The 1933 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose

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s in 1933. The eight selectors recognized by the

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as "official" for the 1933 season are (1) the All-America Board, (2) the

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(AP), (3) ''

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'', as selected by

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, (4) the

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(INS), (5) '' Liberty'' magazine, (6) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), (7) the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), and the

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(UP).(The ESPN College Football Encyclopedia lists the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) as the eighth selector and does not include the NANA as a consensus selector. Both NANA and FWAA are included as consensus selectors in this article.) The only unanimous selections were

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Cotton Warburton of USC.

Consensus All-Americans

For the year 1933, the NCAA recognizes eight 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 1933

Ends

* Joe Skladany, Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-1; CO-1; FWAA; INS-1; LIB; NANA-1; NEA-1; UP-3; CNS; CP-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; WC-1; WD-1) *

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, Centenary (AP-1; CO-2; INS-2; UP-1; CP-3; WD-1) * Bill Smith, Washington (AAB; AP-2; CO-3; INS-3; LIB; NANA-1; NEA-2; UP-2; MP-1; WC-1; WD-2) * Ted Petoskey, Michigan (AP-2; CO-2; INS-1; NANA-2; UP-2; CP-1; MP-1) *

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, Minnesota (CO-1; INS-2; NANA-2; NEA-1; CNS; NYS-1; WD-2) * Edgar Manske, Northwestern (UP-1) * Red Matal, Columbia (CO-3; FWAA; INS-3; CP-2; DJW-1) * Jim Moscrip, Stanford (College Football Hall of Fame) (NANA-3; NEA-3; CP-2) *

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, Notre Dame (AP-3) *Lester Borden, Fordham (AP-3) *Fred Conrinus, St. Mary's (UP-3) *Peter James Kopcsak, Army (CP-3) * Clary Anderson, Colgate (NANA-3)

Tackles

* Francis Wistert, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; CO-1; FWAA; INS-2; NANA-2; UP-1; CNS; CP-2; DJW-1; NYS-1; WC-1) * Fred Crawford, Duke (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; CO-1; INS-1; LIB; NANA-1; UP-1; CNS; CP-1; MP-1; WD-1) * Charles Ceppi, Princeton (AAB; AP-2; CO-3; FWAA; INS-1; LIB; NANA-1; NEA-2; UP-2; CP-1; DJW-1; WC-1; WD-2) * Adolphe Schwammel, Oregon State (AP-1; INS-3; UP-3 MP-1) * John Yezerski, St. Mary's (NEA-1) * Charles Harvey, Holy Cross (AP-2; INS-2; UP-3; CP-2) * Bud Jorgensen, St. Mary's (CO-2; INS-3; UP-2; NYS-1; WD-2) * Art Buss, Michigan State (AP-3; CO-3; NEA-2) *Cassius Gentry, Oklahoma (AP-3) * Frank Walton, Pittsburgh (UP-3; NANA-3) * Gail O'Brien, Nebraska (CP-3) *

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, North Carolina (AP-3 CP-3) * Peter Mehringer, Kansas (CO-2) *Lane, Princeton (NANA-2) * Ted Rosequist, Ohio State (NANA-3)

Guards

* Bill Corbus, Stanford (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-1; CO-1; FWAA; INS-1; LIB; NANA-1; NEA-1; UP-2; CNS; CP-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; WC-1; WD-1) * Aaron Rosenberg, USC (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-2; CO-1; INS-1; NANA-2; NEA-1; UP-1; CNS; CP-3; MP-1; NYS-1; WC-1; WD-1) * Zud Schammel, Iowa (AP-1; CO-2; LIB; NANA-1; INS-2; UP-1; CP-2; WD-2) * Thomas Hupke, Alabama (AP-2; CO-3; INS-3; NANA-3; NEA-2; UP-2; CP-1; WD-2) *Larry Stevens, USC (FWAA; INS-3; DJW-1) * Harvey Jablonsky, Army (AP-3; UP-3; NANA-3; NEA-2; INS-2; CP-2) * Bill Volok, Tulsa (CO-2) *Joseph Gailus, Ohio State (CO-3; NANA-2; MP-1) *Bunny Burzio, Carnegie Tech (CP-3)

Centers

, Michigan (AAB; AP-1; CO-1; FWAA; INS-1; LIB; NANA-1; NEA-1; UP-1; CNS; CP-1; DJW-1; MP-1; NYS-1; WC-1; WD-1) * Johnny Dell Isola, Fordham (UP-3; CO-2; NANA-2; INS-2; CP-2; WD-2) * Lee Coats, UCLA (AP-2; NEA-2) *Roy Oen, Minnesota (UP-2; INS-3) * Larry Siemering, San Francisco (AP-3) * Tal Maples, Tennessee (CP-3) *Mike Vuchinich, Ohio State (CO-3) *Howard Christie, California (NANA-3)

Quarterbacks

* Cotton Warburton, USC (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-1; CO-1; FWAA; INS-1; LIB; NANA-1; NEA-1; UP-1; CNS; CP-1; DJW-1; MP-1; NYS-1; WC-1; WD-1) * Cliff Montgomery, Columbia (AP-3; UP-2; INS-2; CP-3) *

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, Iowa (CO-2; NANA-2; INS-3; DW-2) *Paul Johnson, Army (AP-2; NEA-2) *Manning Smith, Centenary (UP-3) * Deke Brackett, Tennessee (CP-2) * Bobby Grayson, Stanford (CO-3; NANA-2 b

Halfbacks

* Beattie Feathers, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-2; CO-1; FWAA; INS-1; LIB; NANA-1; NEA-1; UP-2; CNS; CP-1; DJW-1; NYS-1; WC-1; WD-1) * George Sauer, Nebraska (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-1; CO-1; FWAA; INS-1; LIB; NANA-1 b NEA-1; CNS b CP-2; DJW-1; MP-1; WC-1; WD-1) * Jack Buckler, Army (AP-1; CO-2; INS-2; NANA-2; NEA-1; UP-1; CNS; CP-1; MP-1; NYS-1; WD-2) *

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, Minnesota (AP-1; CO-2; FWAA; INS-1; NANA-2; UP-2 b CP-1 b DJW-1; MP-1; WD-2 b *Norman Franklin, Oregon State (AP-3; CO-3; INS-3; NEA-2; UP-1; WD-2) * Herman Everhardus, Michigan (COL-3; INS-2; NANA-3 b NEA-2) * Ed Danowski, Fordham (CO-2 b INS-2 b NANA-3; UP-3) * Doug Nott, Detroit (UP-2; CP-3) *George Wilson, St. Mary's (AP-3; UP-3; CP-2) *

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, Alabama (CP-3) *Garrett LeVan, Princeton (NANA-3)

Fullbacks

Duane Purvis Duane Purvis (November 13, 1912 – March 18, 1989) was an All-American football player and track and field performer. A native of Mattoon, Illinois, Purvis played halfback and fullback for the Purdue Boilermakers from 1932 to 1934. He w ...

, Purdue (AAB; AP-2 b CO-1 b INS-3 b LIB; NANA-1 b UP-1; CP-2 b WC-1; WD-1 b * Mike Mikulak, Oregon (AP-2; CO-3; INS-3; NANA-3; UP-3; NYS-1) * Ralph Graham, Kansas State (NEA-2) * Ralph Kercheval, Kentucky (AP-3; CP-3)

Key

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

NCAA recognized "official" selectors

* AAB = All-America Board * AP =

* CO = ''

'', selected by

* INS = Hearst Consensus All-American Selections, selected through an all-season survey of 210 of the country's coaches, sports writers, football officials and observers for the

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* LIB = '' Liberty'' magazine * NANA = North American Newspaper Alliance * NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association, selected by the NEA All-American Committee of coaches, including

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(Pitt), Noble Kizer (Purdue),

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(Georgia), Bill Spaulding (UCLA),

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(Utah),

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(Kansas State), and

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(Arkansas) * UP =

Other selectors

* CP = Central Press Association, as picked by football team captains * NYS = ''New York Sun'' * WC =

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* DJW = Davis J. Walsh, sports editor of International News Service * FWAA = Football Writers Association of American * WD = Walter Dobbins, a consensus based on the selections of Collier's, the United Press, the Associated Press, the All America Board, the ''New York Sun'', the North America Newspaper Alliance, and Hearst * MP = ''Midweek Pictorial'' * CNS = Consensus team based on combined selections of the United Press, Associated Press, NEA News Service and the ''Collier's Weekly'' team by Grantland Rice

References

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