1911 All-Western college football team

The 1911 All-Western college football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the 1911 college football season.

All-Western selections

Ends
  • Stanfield Wells, Michigan (AX, CEP, ECP-1, EWC, GWA, LGS, SFE, SJ, WE)
  • Joseph Hoeffel, Wisconsin (EWC, LGS, SFE, WE)
  • Paul Harold Tobin, Minnesota (AX, ECP-2, GWA)
  • Knute Rockne, Notre Dame (SJ)
  • Chauncey B. Oliver, Illinois (ECP-2)

Tackles

Guards
  • Horace F. Scruby, Chicago (CEP, ECP-1, EWC, GWA, LGS, SFE, WE)
  • Sylvester V. Shonka, Nebraska (AX, CEP, ECP-2, EWC [tackle], SFE, SJ [tackle], WE)
  • Lucius A. Smith, Minnesota (ECP-1, LGS, SJ)
  • Charles H. Belting, Illinois (AX, GWA)
  • Charles J. Robinson, Minnesota (SJ)
  • Paul Belting, Illinois (ECP-2)

Centers
  • Willis "Fat" O'Brien, Iowa (AX, CEP, GWA, LGS, SFE, SJ)
  • Clifford F. Morrell, Minnesota (ECP-1, EWC, WE)
  • R. E. Branstad, Wisconsin (ECP-2)

Quarterbacks
  • John "Keckie" Moll, Wisconsin (AX, CEP, ECP-2, EWC, GWA, LGS, SJ, WE)
  • Thomas Andrew Gill, Indiana (SFE)
  • Edmund Gillette, Wisconsin (ECP-1)

Halfbacks
  • Reuben Martin Rosenwald, Minnesota (AX, CEP [fullback], ECP-1, GWA, LGS, SFE, SJ, WE)
  • Clark Sauer, Chicago (AX [fullback], CEP, ECP-1, GWA [fullback], LGS, SFE, WE)
  • James B. Craig, Michigan (AX, CEP, ECP-2, EWC, GWA)
  • Owen A. Frank, Nebraska (EWC, SJ [tackle])
  • Lewis C. Stevens, Minnesota (ECP-2, SJ)

Fullbacks

Key

Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors

AX = G. W. Axelson[1]

CEP = Chicago Evening Post[2]

ECP = E. C. Patterson of Collier's Weekly[3]

EWC = Edward W. Cochrane, sporting editor of Kansas City Journal[2]

GWA = G. W. Axelson, sporting editor of Chicago Record-Herald[2]

LGS = L. G. Sullivan, sporting editor of Chicago Daily News[2]

SJ = Edgar L. Shave and John L. Johnson in the St. Paul Daily News[2]

WE = Walter Eckersall[2]

SFE = San Francisco Examiner[2]

See also

References
  1. "Axelson Has Another Eleven: The Chicago Sporting Scribe Does Not Agree With Eckersall". The Evening Times, Grand Forks, ND. November 27, 1911.
  2. Walter Camp, ed. (1911). Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1911. American Sports Publishing Company. p. 25.
  3. "Expert Chooses All-Western Team". The Des Moines Register. December 20, 1911. p. 8.
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