1914 All-America college football team


The 1914 All-America college football team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1914 college football season. The only selectors for the 1914 season who have been recognized as "official" by the National Collegiate Athletic Association are Walter Camp, whose selections were published in Collier's Weekly, and the International News Service, a newswire founded by William Randolph Hearst.
Although not recognized by the NCAA, many other sports writers, newspapers, and coaches selected All-America teams in 1914. They include Vanity Fair, Parke H. Davis, Walter Eckersall, The New York Globe, the New York Herald, the New York Evening Mail, the Atlanta Constitution, the Detroit Evening News, The Boston Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Overview

Harvard end Huntington Hardwick was the only player who was unanimously selected as a first-team All-American by all 27 selectors identified below. Other players selected as a first-team All-American by a majority of the selectors were Harvard halfback Eddie Mahan, Harvard guard Stan Pennock, Princeton tackle Harold Ballin, Michigan halfback John Maulbetsch, Cornell quarterback Charley Barrett, and Dartmouth guard Clarence Spears. The Los Angeles Times reported that "Maulbetsch, Michigan's hero, is about the only one of 1914's stars who received an almost unanimous vote."
The chart below reflects the number of polls in which the leading candidates were selected as first-team All-Americans.
NamePositionSchoolFirst-team selections
Huntington HardwickEndHarvard27
Eddie MahanHalfbackHarvard26
Stan PennockGuardHarvard26
Harold BallinTacklePrinceton22
John MaulbetschHalfbackMichigan20
Charley BarrettQuarterbackCornell19
Clarence SpearsGuardDartmouth16
Louis A. MerrilatEndArmy12
Harry LeGoreFullbackYale9
Bud TalbottTackleYale9
John McEwanCenterArmy8
Paul Des JardienCenterChicago8
Johnny SpiegelHalfbackWashington & Jefferson8
Lawrence WhitneyFullbackDartmouth7
John O'HearnEndCornell7
Burleigh CruikshankCenterWashington & Jefferson6
Britain PattersonTackleWashington & Jefferson6

All-Americans of 1914

Ends

Huntington "Tack" Hardwick, Harvard

Tackles

Harold Ballin, Princeton

Guards

Stan Pennock, Harvard Clarence Spears, Dartmouth Ralph Chapman, Illinois
  • Eddie Trenkmann, Princeton
  • Wilbur Shenk, Princeton
  • Arlie Mucks, Wisconsin
  • Michalis Dorizas, Penn
  • Harry Routh, Purdue
  • Louis Jordan, Texas
  • Joseph J. "Red" O'Hare, Army
  • Harold White, Syracuse
  • Earl W. Mills, Navy
  • Laurence B. Meacham, Army
  • Dale Munsick, Cornell

Centers

John McEwan, Army

Quarterbacks

Charley Barrett, Cornell

Halfbacks

John Maulbetsch, Michigan Eddie Mahan, Harvard Johnny Spiegel, Washington & Jefferson

Fullbacks

Harry LeGore, Yale

Key

NCAA recognized selectors for 1914
Other selectors
  • VF = Vanity Fair, selected based on selections of 175 "prominent newspapermen of the country"
  • PHD = Parke H. Davis, member of rules committee and noted football historian
  • WE = Walter Eckersall, of the Chicago Tribune
  • MO = Monty, New York sports writer
  • NYH = New York Herald
  • NYEM = James P. Sinnot, of the New York Evening Mail, "who is recognized as one of the best sporting writers in the East"
  • NYG = New York Globe, selected by Mack Whalen
  • NC = Newark Sunday Call, selected by William S. Hunt
  • PGT = Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, selected by Fred M. Walker
  • BN = Baltimore News
  • PEB = Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
  • AC = Atlanta Constitution, selected by sporting editor Dick Jemison
  • PS = Pittsburgh Sun, selected by sporting editor James J. Long
  • WH = Washington Herald, selected by William Peet
  • DD = Davis J. Davies in the Pittsburgh Dispatch
  • PET = Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, selected by sporting editor Louis M. Toughill
  • SLT = St. Louis Times, selected by George Henger
  • MD = Michigan Daily, selected by sporting editor F.M. Church
  • NES = Newark Evening Star, selected by sporting editor Joseph P. Norton
  • DN = Detroit Evening News, selected by sporting editor H.G. Salsinger
  • PPL = Philadelphia Public Ledger, selected by Robert W. Maxwell
  • BP = Boston Post, by Charles H. Parker
  • TT = Tom Thorp in the New York Evening Journal
  • AW = Alexander Wilson, Yale University
  • PI = Philadelphia Inquirer, selected by sporting editor M. Neagle Rawlins
  • OUT = Outing magazine's "FOOTBALL ROLL OF HONOR: The Men Whom the Best Coaches of the Country Have Named as the Stars of the Gridiron in 1914"
Bold = Consensus All-American
  • 1 – First-team selection
  • 2 – Second-team selection
  • 3 – Third-team selection