1911 All-Western college football team

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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=

=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{{cite news|title=Axelson Has Another Eleven: The Chicago Sporting Scribe Does Not Agree With Eckersall|newspaper=The Evening Times, Grand Forks, ND|date=November 27, 1911|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042373/1911-11-27/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=11%2F15%2F1911&index=2&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=all+all-western+football+FOOTBALL+western&proxdistance=5&date2=12%2F31%2F1911&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=all-western&andtext=football&dateFilterType=range&page=1}}

CEP = Chicago Evening Post

ECP = E. C. Patterson of Collier's Weekly{{cite news|title=Expert Chooses All-Western Team|newspaper=The Des Moines Register|date=December 20, 1911|page=8|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5230850/expert_chooses_allwestern_team/}}

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

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

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

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

WE = Walter Eckersall{{cite book|title=Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1911|editor=Walter Camp|publisher=American Sports Publishing Company|year=1911|page=25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mAs7AQAAMAAJ}}

SFE = San Francisco Examiner

See also

References

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