1938 College Football All-America Team

The 1938 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers. The organizations choosing the teams included: the United Press, the Associated Press, Collier's Weekly, and the New York Sun. Four players were unanimous All-Americans on all of the major All-American teams: Texas Christian quarterback (and 1938 Heisman Trophy winner) Davey O'Brien, Pittsburgh fullback Marshall Goldberg, Michigan guard Ralph Heikkinen and Notre Dame tackle Ed Beinor.

Consensus All-Americans

The chart below reflects the published point total from the United Press poll (360 points possible), and also reflects the number of polls in which the leading candidates were selected as a first-team All-American, and their point total in the 1938 Heisman Trophy voting.

All-American selections for 1938

Key

• AP = Associated Press
• UP = United Press
• CP = Central Press, selected by the captains of more than 50 football teams across the country^[1]
• CO = Collier's Weekly, selected by Grantland Rice^[2]
• NYS = New York Sun^[3]
• NEA = NEA Sports Syndicate^[4]
• WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation^[5]

Bold = Consensus All-American

• 1 - First Team Selection
• 2 - Second Team Selection
• 3 - Third Team Selection

Ends

• Waddy Young, Oklahoma (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; CP-1; CO-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; WC-1)
• Bowden Wyatt, Tennessee (AP-2; CO-1; NYS-1)
• John Wysocki, Villanova (UP-1; CP-1; NEA-1)
• Jerome H. Holland, Cornell (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1)
• Earl Brown, Notre Dame (AP-2; WC-1)
• Louis Daddio,Pittsburgh (UP-1)

Tackles

• Ed Beinor, Notre Dame (AP-1; UP-1; CP-1; CO-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; WC-1)
• Alvord Wolff, Santa Clara (AP-1; UP-1; NEA-1)
• William McKeever, Cornell (CO-1)
• A. Sidney Roth, Cornell (AP-2 [center]; CO-1)
• Insull Hall, Texas Christian (AP-2)
• Bo Russell, Auburn (AP-2)
• Robert Voigts, Northwestern (WC-1)
• Delaney, Holy Cross (NYS-1)
• Steve Maronic, North Carolina (CP-1)

Guards

• Ralph Heikkinen, Michigan (AP-1; UP-1; CP-1; CO-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; WC-1)
• Ed Bock, Iowa State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; NEA-1)
• Bob Suffridge, Tennessee (UP-1)
• Francis Twedell, Minnesota (AP-2)
• Harry Smith, Minnesota (WC-1)
• Roth, Cornell (NYS-1)
• Gus Zlrides, Dartmouth (CP-1)

Centers

• Ki Aldrich, Texas Christian (AP-1; UP-1; CO-1; NYS-1)
• Dan Hill, Duke (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; CP-1; NEA-1; WC-1)
• John Ryland, UCLA (AP-3)

Quarterbacks

• Davey O'Brien, Texas Christian (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; CP-1; CO-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; WC-1)
• Sid Luckman, Columbia (AP-2)
• George Cafego, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; CP-1; NEA-1)

Halfbacks

• Bob MacLeod, Dartmouth (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; CO-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; WC-1)
• Vic Bottari, California (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; CP-1; CO-1; WC-1)
• Parker Hall, Mississippi (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; NYS-1)
• John Pingel, Michigan State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1)
• Eric Tipton, Duke (UP-1)
• William Patterson, Baylor (AP-2)

Fullbacks

• Marshall Goldberg, Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; CP-1; CO-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; WC-1)

Notes