1940 College Football All-America Team

The 1940 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, the New York Sun, and the Hearst newspapers. The individuals selected to the most All-American teams were Michigan halfback (and Heisman Trophy winner) Tom Harmon, Texas A&M fullfback John Kimbrough, and Tennessee guard Bob Suffridge.

Consensus All-Americans

The chart below reflects the published point total from the United Press poll (512 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 1940 Heisman Trophy voting.

All-American selections for 1940

Key

• AP = Associated Press
• UP = United Press
• CO = Collier's Weekly, selected by Grantland Rice
• NEA = NEA Sports Syndicate
• HE =Hearst newspaper syndicate
• CP = Central Press, selected with the assistance of the nation's football captains
• NYS = New York Sun
• WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation^[1]

Bold = Consensus All-American

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

Ends

• Gene Goodreault, Boston College (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-1; HE-2; CP-1; CO-1; WC-1)
• David Rankin, Purdue (AP-2; UP-1; CP-2; CO-1; WC-1)
• Paul Severin, North Carolina (AP-1; UP-2; CP-2; NEA-1)
• Ervin "Buddy" Elrod, Mississippi State (AP-1; CP-1; NYS-1)
• Jay MacDowell, Washington (NEA-1; NYS-1)
• Ed Frutig, Michigan (AP-3; UP-3; HE-1; CP-3)
• Joe Blalock, Clemson (UP-2; HE-1)
• Loren MacKinney, Harvard (AP-2)
• William Jennings, Oklahoma (AP-3)
• Robert Ison, Georgia Tech (UP-3)
• Roland Goss, Southern Methodist (CP-3)

Tackles

• Nick Drahos, Cornell (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; HE-1; CP-1; NEA-1; WC-1)
• Alf Bauman, Northwestern (AP-3; UP-1; HE-1; CP-3; CO-1; NYS-1; WC-1)
• Robert Reinhard, California (AP-1; HE-2; CP-2; CO-1)
• Forrest Behm, Nebraska (NEA-1)
• Tony Ruffa, Duke (AP-2; UP-3; CP-2)
• Fred Hartman, Rice (AP-2)
• Vic Sears, Oregon State (NYS-1)
• Joe Ungerer, Fordham (AP-3)
• Urban Odson, Minnesota (UP-2; CP-1)
• Mike Enich, Iowa (UP-2)
• Chip Routt, Texas A&M (UP-3)
• William Collins, Lafayette ( HE-2)
• Abe Shires, Tennessee (CP-3)

Guards

• Bob Suffridge, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; HE-2; CP-1; CO-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; WC-1)
• Marshall Robnett, Texas A&M (AP-2; UP-1; CP-1; HE-2; WC-1)
• Augie Lio, Georgetown (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-2; HE-1; CP-2; CO-1; NYS-1)
• Helge Pulkema, Minnesota (HE-1; NEA-1)
• Warren Alfson, Nebraska (AP-1; UP-2; CP-2)
• Hunter Cohern, Mississippi State (AP-2)
• George Kerr, Boston College (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3)
• Cecil Schefel, Denver (AP-3)
• Ray Frankowski, Washington (UP-3)
• Ed Molinski, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP-3; CP-3)
• Hal Lahar, Oklahoma (CP-3)

Centers

• Rudy Mucha, Washington (AP-2; UP-1; CP-1; CO-1; WC-1)
• Chet Gladchuk, Boston (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-2)
• Roy Frick, Penn (CP-3; NYS-1)
• Paul Hiemenz, Northwestern (HE-1)
• Leon Gajecki, Penn State ( HE-2; CP-2; NEA-1)
• Ray Apolskis, Marquette (AP-3; UP-3)

Quarterbacks

• Frankie Albert, Stanford (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; HE-1; CP-1; CO-1; WC-1)
• Paul Christman, Missouri (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; UP-2; CP-3)
• Henry Toczylowski, Boston College (NYS-1)
• Walter Matuszczak, Cornell ( HE-2)
• Don Scott, Ohio State (UP-3; CP-3)

Halfbacks

• Tom Harmon, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; HE-1; CP-1; CO-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; WC-1)
• George Franck, Minnesota (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; HE-2; CP-1; CO-1; NYS-1; WC-1)
• Charley O’Rourke, Boston College (AP-2; UP-2; HE-1; CP-2; NEA-1)
• Hugh Gallarneau, Stanford (College Football Hall of Fame) (NEA-1)
• Frank Reagan, Penn (AP-2; UP-2; HE-2; CP-2)
• ”Bullet Bill” Dudley, Virginia (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3)
• James Thompson, Texas A&M (AP-3)
• Bob Foxx, Tennessee (AP-3)
• James Kisselburgh, Oregon State (AP-3)
• Hapes, Mississippi (UP-3)
• Steve Juzwik, Notre Dame (UP-3)
• Jimmy Nelson, Alabama (CP-2)
• Dave Allerdice, Princeton (CP-3)
• Milt Piepul, Notre Dame (CP-3)

Fullbacks

• John Kimbrough, Texas A&M (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; UP-1; HE-1; CP-1; CO-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; WC-1)
• George Paskvan, Wisconsin (AP-2; UP-3)
• Norm Standlee, Stanford (UP-2; HE-2; CP-2)

Notes