Key

• FW = Football World, based on collected opinions of 267 coaches
• WC = Walter Camp
• LP = Lawrence Perry
• BE = Billy Evans
• WE = Walter Eckersall
• JV = Jack Veiock
  Jack Veiock
  Eugene Ruppert "Jack" Veiock , sometimes known as "J.R.", was an American sportswriter and editor. He was the sporting editor of the International News Service from 1916 to 1921....
  
  , International News Service Sports Editor
• MM = Malcolm McLean
• NB = Norman E. Brown of the Central Press
• Bold - Consensus All-American
• 1 - First Team Selection
• 2 - Second Team Selection
• 3 - Third Team Selection

Ends

• Harold "Brick" Muller
  Harold Muller
  Harold Powers "Brick" Muller was a professional football player-coach for the Los Angeles Buccaneers during their only season in the National Football League in 1926. He was also an American track and field athlete who competed mainly in the high jump...
  
  , California (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-1; WC-1; JV-3; MM-1; NB-1)
• Eddie Anderson, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-1; BE-2; WE-1; JV-2)
• Fritz Crisler
  Fritz Crisler
  Herbert Orin "Fritz" Crisler was an American football coach who is best known as "the father of two-platoon football," an innovation in which separate units of players were used for offense and defense. Crisler developed two-platoon football while serving as head coach at the University of...
  
  , Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-2; WC-3; LP-2; WE-1; MM-2)
• James "Red" Roberts
  Red Roberts (American football)
  James Madison "Red" Roberts was an American football player and coach in the United States. He played football for the Centre Praying Colonels in Danville, Kentucky. After college Roberts,played in the early National Football League for the Toledo Maroons and the Akron Pros. He also played in the...
  
  , Centre (WC-1; FW-2 [g]; JV-3; MM-2)
• Warren S. Parr, Navy (LP-1)
• Paul G. Goebel
  Paul G. Goebel
  Paul Gordon Goebel was an American football end who played for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1920 to 1922. He was an All-American in 1921 and was the team's captain in 1922. He played professional football from 1923 to 1926 with the Columbus Tigers, Chicago Bears, and New York Yankees...
  
  , Michigan (LP-1)
• Roger Kiley, Notre Dame (FW-2; WC-2; BE-1; JV-1; MM-1)
• C.C. Macomber, Harvard (BE-1)
• Sniveley, Princeton (NB-1)
• Clarence Swanson
  Clarence Swanson
  Clarence Swanson was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1973....
  
  , Nebraska (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; BE-2)
• Brodie Stephens, California (WC-3; JV-1)
• Myers, Ohio State (NB-2)
• Munns, Cornell (NB-2)
• Stan McCollum, Penn State (LP-2)
• Lester Belding
  Lester Belding
  Lester C. Belding was an American athlete and coach in football and track and field. He was the first football player from the University of Iowa to be named an All-American...
  
   Belding, Iowa (FW-3; JV-2)
• James Reynolds, Georgia (FW-3)

Tackles

• Dan McMillan
  Dan McMillan
  Dan McMillan was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971....
  
  , California (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-1; WC-3; WE-1; JV-1)
• Iolas Huffman
  Iolas Huffman
  Iolas Melitus Huffman was an American football and baseball player. He was a first-team All-American football player for Ohio State in 1920 and 1921 and was the captain of the 1920 Buckeyes football team that won the Western Conference championship...
  
  , Ohio State (FW-1; LP-1; BE-2; JV-2; NB-2)
• Duke Slater
  Duke Slater
  Frederick Wayman "Duke" Slater was an American football player and one of the great black players of his era. Slater played for the University of Iowa in college and played professionally for ten years...
  
  , Iowa (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-2; WC-2; BE-1; WE-1; JV-1; MM-2)
• Charles McGuire, Chicago (FW-2; WC-1; BE-2; JV-3; MM-1)
• Russ Stein
  Russ Stein
  Russell Frederick Stein was born in Warren, Ohio. After high school Stein attended Washington & Jefferson College. While in College he was the captain on W&J’s 1921 undefeated football team, which played to the only scoreless tie in the history of the 1922 Rose Bowl against the University of...
  
  , Washington & Jefferson
  Washington & Jefferson Presidents football
  The Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team represents Washington & Jefferson College in collegiate level football. The team competes in NCAA Division III and is affiliated with the Presidents' Athletic Conference...
  
   (WC-1)
• Gullick, Syracuse (NB-1)
• Buck Shaw
  Buck Shaw
  Lawrence T. "Buck" Shaw was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach for Santa Clara University, the University of California, Berkeley, the San Francisco 49ers, the United States Air Force Academy, and the Philadelphia Eagles...
  
  , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (LP-1)
• Drumm, Princeton (LP-2)
• Franklin Cappon
  Franklin Cappon
  Franklin C. "Cappy" Cappon was a college athlete and coach. He played football and basketball at Phillips University and the University of Michigan and coached basketball and football at Luther College , the University of Kansas , the University of Michigan , and Princeton University .The son of a...
  
  , Michigan (NB-2)
• Albert N. Into, Yale (WC-3; JV-3)
• James Brader, Wisconsin (FW-3)
• Century Milstead
  Century Milstead
  Century Allen "Wally" Milstead was a collegiate and professional American football player. He played college football at Wabash College and at Yale University, where his play earned him All-America recognition....
  
  , Wabash (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-3)
• Clyde W. King, Navy (JV-2)
• Boyle, Univ. South. Calif. (MM-2)

Guards

• John Brown, Harvard (WC-1; LP-1; BE-1; JV-2)
• Frank Schwab
  Frank Schwab
  Frank "Dutch" Schwab graduated from high school in 1912 and worked in coal mines until World War I, when he served as a sergeant in the Army. He played for a service team, where Coach "Jock" Sutherland of Lafayette College saw him. He persuaded Schwab to enroll after the war. Schwab stood 5'11" and...
  
  , Lafayette (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-1; WC-1; LP-2)
• Stan Keck
  Stan Keck
  James Stanton Keck was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played college football at Princeton University as a tackle and guard, and was selected as an All-American in 1920 and in 1921...
  
  , Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-1; WC-2; LP-2; BE-1; MM-1 [t])
• Dean Trott, Ohio State (WC-2; LP-1; JV-1)
• Carney, Navy (BE-1; MM-2)
• Baer, Penn State (WE-1; MM-1)
• Robert J. Dunne
  Robert J. Dunne
  Robert Jerome "Duke" Dunne was an American football player and coach and state court judge in Illinois. He played for the University of Michigan from 1918 to 1921. After graduating from Michigan in 1922, he attended law school at Northwestern University where he also served as the line coach for...
  
  , Michigan (NB-1)
• Bedenek, Penn State (WC-2)
• Redman, Chicago (LP-2; JV-2)
• John Pucelik, Nebraska (WC-3; WE-1)
• John Whelchel
  John Whelchel
  John Esten "Billick" Whelchel was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the United States Naval Academy from 1942 to 1943, compiling a record of 13–5...
  
  , Georgia (WC-3)
• Cruikshank, Yale (BE-2)
• H. Anderson, Notre Dame (BE-2; JV-1)
• Buck Shaw
  Buck Shaw
  Lawrence T. "Buck" Shaw was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach for Santa Clara University, the University of California, Berkeley, the San Francisco 49ers, the United States Air Force Academy, and the Philadelphia Eagles...
  
  , Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-2)
• Vogel, Illinois (NB-2)
• Berquist, Nebraska (NB-2)
• Carl Peterson, Nebraska (FW-3)
• Lloyd Pixley, Ohio State (FW-3; NB-1)
• Fritz Breidster
  Fritz Breidster
  Waldemar "Fritz" Breidster was an American football player who played college football for the United States Military Academy at West Point....
  
  , Army (JV-3)
• Baker, Princeton (JV-3)
• Hanson, Cornell (MM-1; NB-1 [t])

Centers

• Herb Stein
  Herb Stein
  Herb Stein was an American football player. After high school, Stein attended the University of Pittsburgh and served as the team's center from 1918 until 1921. He was a consensus All-American for Pitt in both his junior and senior years and served as the team captain in 1920...
  
  , Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-1; WC-3; LP-2; BE-1; WE-1; JV-1; MM-1)
• Ernie Vick
  Ernie Vick
  Henry Arthur "Ernie" Vick was an American football and baseball player. He was selected as an All-American center in 1921, played on the 1926 World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals, and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983.-University of Michigan:Born in Toledo, Ohio, Vick...
  
  , Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-3; WC-1; WE-3; MM-2)
• Al Wittmer, Princeton (LP-1; BE-2; JV-2)
• Wallace, Iowa State (NB-1)
• Larsen, Army (FW-2; WC-2)
• George Bunge, Wisconsin (JV-3; MM-2 [g])
• Larson, Navy (NB-2)

Quarterbacks

• Aubrey Devine
  Aubrey Devine
  Aubrey A. Devine was a college football player for the University of Iowa. He is enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame.-Background:...
  
  , Iowa (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-1 [hb]; WC-1; LP-1; BE-1; WE-1; JV-1 [hb]; MM-1; NB-2)
• Bo McMillin
  Bo McMillin
  Alvin Nugent "Bo" McMillin was an American football player and coach, who served at both the collegiate and professional levels. He played college football at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, where was a three-time All-American at quarterback, and led the Centre Praying Colonels to a...
  
  , Centre (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-1; WC-2; LP-1 [hb]; BE-2; JV-2; MM-1; NB-1)
• Donold Lourie
  Donold Lourie
  Donold B. Lourie was an American businessman, government official, and college football player. He served for many years as the president of the Quaker Oats Company, and held various other executive positions there and for several other businesses. President Dwight D...
  
  , Princeton (WC-3)
• Milt Romney
  Milt Romney
  Milton Addas Romney was a professional American football player who played in the offensive backfield for six seasons for the Racine Legion and the Chicago Bears. He was also the head basketball coach of the Texas Longhorns men's basketball team in 1923 with an overall record of 11-7. He was born...
  
  , Chicago (FW-2; LP-2)
• Charles O'Hearn, Yale (FW-3)
• Hoge Workman
  Hoge Workman
  Harry Hallworth "Hoge" Workman was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball and a player-coach in the National Football League. Listed at 5' 11", 170 lb., Workman batted and threw right-handed...
  
  , Ohio State (JV-3)

Halfbacks

• Glenn Killinger
  Glenn Killinger
  William Glenn Killinger was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He letter in three sports at Pennsylvania State University, where he was an All-American in football in 1921...
  
  , Penn State (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-1; WC-1; LP-1; BE-1; JV-1 [qb])
• Malcolm Aldrich, Yale (FW-2; WC-1; LP-2; BE-1; WE-1; JV-1; MM-1; NB-1)
• George Owen
  George Owen (ice hockey)
  Harvard George Owen Jr. was a professional ice hockey defenceman for the Boston Bruins of the NHL. He was also elected into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983. In 1928, Owen became the first player to wear a helmet in an NHL game. He wore the same leather helmet that he had worn when...
  
  , Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-2 [fb]; WC-2; BE-1 [fb]; WE-1 [fb]; JV-1 [fb]; NB-2)
• Tom Davies
  Tom Davies
  Thomas J. Davies was an American football player and coach. He played as a halfback at the University of Pittsburgh and was a consensus All-American in 1918 and 1920...
  
  , Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-2; WC-2; BE-2 [fb])
• Walter E. French, Army (WC-3)
• Steve Barchet, Navy (WC-3)
• Irving "Crip" Toomey
  Toomey Field
  Toomey Field is a 10,111-seat multi-purpose stadium in Davis, California, United States. It opened in 1949 and was home to the University of California, Davis Aggies football team through the 2006 season. The first game, on November 18, 1949, was a 12–3 victory over Chico State...
  
  , California (FW-3; BE-2; JV-2)
• Paul Castner
  Paul Castner
  Paul Henry Castner was a professional baseball pitcher. He appeared in six games in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox in 1923, all in relief. In 10 innings pitched, Castner gave up 14 hits and 5 walks without striking out a batter....
  
  , Notre Dame (JV-2)
• Al Elliott, Wisconsin (JV-3; NB-2)
• Red Barron
  Red Barron
  David Irenus "Red" Barron was a three-sport letterwinner at Georgia Tech. He was named All American twice, All-Southern Conference three times, and was an inductee to Tech's Hall of Fame and the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame. He played baseball professionally with the Boston Braves in 1929...
  
  , Georgia Tech (JV-3)
• Gordon Locke
  Gordon Locke
  Gordon C. Locke was an American football player and coach in the United States. He played college football at the University of Iowa, where he was a two-time All-American...
  
  , Iowa (MM-1; NB-1 [fb])
• Robertson, Dartmouth (MM-2)
• Fitts, Harvard (MM-2)
• Bradshaw, Nevada (MM-2)
• Elliott, Wisconsin (NB-2)

Fullbacks

• Eddie Kaw
  Eddie Kaw
  Eddie Kaw was an American football player. He attended Cornell University and graduated in 1923. Kaw was elected into the Sphinx Head Society during his senior year....
  
  , Cornell (College Football Hall of Fame) (FW-3 [hb]; WC-1; LP-2; BE-2 [hb]; WE-1 [hb]; MM-2)
• G.A. "Gap" Powell
  Gap Powell
  George A. "Gap" Powell was an American football player.-Early life:Powell grew up in Portland, Oregon and was one of the first 12 students to graduate from Franklin High School.-Football career:...
  
  , Oregon Aggies (FW-1; MM-1)
• John Mohardt
  John Mohardt
  John Henry Mohardt is a former professional football and baseball player who was a teammate of three of the most notable athletes in American sports history....
  
  , Notre Dame (WC-2; LP-1 [hb])
• Jack Crangle
  Jack Crangle
  Walter Francis "Jack" Crangle was an American football fullback. He played college football for the University of Illinois and was selected as an All-American in 1920 and 1921. He was a member of Illinois' Big Ten Conference championship teams in 1919 and 1920...
  
  , Illinois (LP-2)
• Judy Harlan, Georgia Tech (WC-3; FW-3)
• Joe Lightner, Penn State (JV-2; NB-1 [hb])
• Hank Garrity
  Hank Garrity
  Henry "Hank" Garrity was the head football coach of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons football program from 1923 to 1924. During his tenure he compiled a 19-7-1 record. He currently has the school record for highest winning percentage among head coaches. He also served as the school's basketball coach...
  
  , Princeton (JV-3)
• Hewitt, Pittsburgh (NB-2)