1912 College Football All-America Team

The only individual who has been recognized as an "official" selector by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for the 1912 season is Walter Camp.{{cite web|title=Football Award Winners|publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)|year=2016|access-date=October 21, 2017|page=6|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2016/awards.pdf}} Accordingly, the NCAA's official listing of "Consensus All-America Selections" mirrors Camp's first-team picks. Nine of Camp's first-team All-Americans in 1912 played on teams from the Ivy League. The only two players recognized by Camp from outside the Ivy League were Jim Thorpe from the Carlisle School and Bob Butler of Wisconsin.

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The dominance of Ivy League players on Camp's All-America teams led to criticism over the years that his selections were biased against players from the leading Western universities, including Chicago, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Notre Dame.{{cite news|title=All-American Teams of East Are Jokes: Critics Who Never Saw Western Teams Play to Name Best in Country -- Forget About Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois|newspaper=The Mansfield News|date=December 8, 1910}}{{cite news|author=Ross Tenney|title=Much Dissatisfaction Over Camp's All-American Team: Football Dean Is Accused of Favoring East; Walter Camp Soundly Scored For 'Poorest Teams Ever Foisted Upon Public'|newspaper=The Des Moines Capital|date=December 31, 1922}} Camp's first-team All-Americans in 1912 included:

• Douglas Bomeisler, end from Yale, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972.{{cite news|title=Doug "Bo" Bomeisler|publisher=College Football Hall of Fame|url={{College Football HoF/url|id=1336}}}}
• Charles Brickley, halfback for Harvard, led Harvard to a perfect 9–0 record in 1912.{{cite web|title=1912 Harvard football |publisher=Fanbase |url=http://www.fanbase.com/Harvard-Crimson-Football-1912 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421122731/https://www.fanbase.com/Harvard-Crimson-Football-1912 |archive-date=2012-04-21 }} and later served as the head football coach at Johns Hopkins, Boston College, and Fordham.{{cite web|title=Charles E. Brickley Records by Year|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=238|access-date=2013-01-31|archive-date=2012-04-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403041426/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=238|url-status=dead}}
• Bob Butler, tackle from Wisconsin, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972.{{cite news|title=Bob "Butts" Butler|publisher=College Football Hall of Fame|url={{College Football HoF/url|id=1325}}}} Camp said of Butler, "He was powerful, active, and excellent at sizing up plays, good at blocking his man, and dangerous in his breaking through."
• George Crowther, quarterback at Brown, nicknamed "Kid" because he weighed between 130 and 135 pounds while playing at Brown.{{cite web|title=From Martha Mitchell's Encyclopedia Brunoniana: Football|publisher=Brown University|url=http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=F0200}}
• Wesley Englehorn, tackle for Dartmouth, later served as head coach at Washington State.{{cite web|title=Wesley Englehorn Records by Year|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=4317|access-date=2013-01-31|archive-date=2014-02-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225101043/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=4317|url-status=dead}}
• Sam Felton, end for Harvard, was considered one of the best punters in the country.{{cite news|title=Sam Felton, Harvard's Star End, One of the Season's Best Puters|publisher=The Lowell Sun|date=1912-10-31}}{{cite news|author=Grantland Rice|title=The Sportlight|newspaper=Newport Daily News|date=1953-02-27}}
• Hank Ketcham, center for Yale, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1968.{{cite news|title=Henry "Hank" Ketcham|publisher=College Football Hall of Fame|url={{College Football HoF/url|id=1338}}}}
• Leroy Mercer, fullback for Penn, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955.{{cite news|title=Leroy "Roy" Mercer|publisher=College Football Hall of Fame|url={{College Football HoF/url|id=1321}}}}
• Stan Pennock, guard from Harvard, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954.{{cite news|title=Stan "Bags" Pennock|publisher=College Football Hall of Fame|url={{College Football HoF/url|id=1286}}}}
• Jim Thorpe, halfback for Carlisle, inducted into both the College and Pro Football Hall of Fame. He won gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics, but had the medals taken back for violations of amateurism rules.{{cite news|title=Jim Thorpe|publisher=Pro Football Hall of Fame|url=http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.aspx?player_id=213|access-date=2013-01-31|archive-date=2012-06-04|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120604170054/http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.aspx?player_id=213|url-status=dead}}

By 1912, there was a proliferation of newspapers, sports writers, coaches and others choosing All-America teams. Recognizing the difficulties faced by any single person who could only watch one game per week, some began to seek better methodologies for selecting a true "consensus" All-America team. One writer, Louis A. Dougher of the Washington Times published a "Consensus Team" which he arrived at by aggregating the picks made by 23 newspapers, writers, coaches and football experts. The 23 All-America teams aggregated by Dougher included those picked by Walter Camp, football historian Parke H. Davis, Dartmouth coach Frank Cavanaugh, former Harvard star Hamilton Fish III, Fordham coach Tom Thorp, former Chicago star Tiny Maxwell, the New York American, The New York Globe, the New York World, The Evening World, the New York Tribune, the New York Press, The Sun (New York), The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Public Ledger (Philadelphia), The Philadelphia Press, the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, The Baltimore Sun, the Baltimore News, the Pittsburgh Dispatch; the Pennsylvanian, and Dougher's own selections.

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Dougher's efforts revealed that a number of Camp's picks were not truly "consensus" picks. For example, five of the eleven players identified by Dougher as consensus picks were overlooked by Camp. They are:

• Robert Treat Paine Storer. Storer was a tackle at Harvard. He was selected as a first-team All-American by 21 of the 23 selectors polled by Dougher. Yet, Camp did not name Storer to his first, second or even third team.
• Rip Shenk. Shenk was a guard for Princeton. He was selected as a first-team player by 14 of Dougher's selectors. Yet, Camp did not name him to his first, second or third teams.
• John Brown. Brown was a tackle for Navy. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.{{cite web|title=John "Babe" Brown|publisher=College Football Hall of Fame|url={{College Football HoF/url|id=1290}}}} He was selected as a first-team All-American by 13 of Dougher's selectors. He was selected by Camp for his third team.
• Hobey Baker. Baker was a halfback at Princeton. He has been inducted into Halls of Fame in two sports—the College Football Hall of Fame (in 1975) and the Hockey Hall of Fame (in 1945).{{cite web|title=Hobey Baker|publisher=College Football Hall of Fame|url={{College Football HoF/url|id=1304}}}} Baker was selected as a composite All-American with votes from nine of Dougher's selectors. Camp placed Baker on his third team. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a fellow Princeton student who idolized Baker and included several references to him in his first novel, This Side of Paradise.{{cite news|author=Ron Fimrite|title=A Flame That Burned Too Brightly|work=SportsIllustrated.com|date=March 18, 1991 |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1118992/1/index.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102213229/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1118992/1/index.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 2, 2012|access-date=July 23, 2010}}{{cite book|author=Jack Falla|year=2008|page=[https://archive.org/details/openicereflectio00jack/page/203 203]|title=Open Ice: Reflections and Confessions of a Hockey Lifer|publisher=John Wiley & Sons Canada|location=Mississauga, Ontario|isbn=978-0-4701530-5-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/openicereflectio00jack/page/203}}
• Pat Pazetti. Pazetti of Lehigh was the consensus pick on Dougher's list with seven votes. Pazetti was chosen by Camp for his second team.

Dougher sought to explain the lack of representation of players from the West as follows: "The complete absence of any western players from all the selections except Camp's is easily explained in that western writers call their teams all-western instead of all-America as do the writers of the eastern sheets."

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• Douglas Bomeisler, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; COMP-1 (20); NYS-1; PI-1; CSM-1; BS; RE-1; WJM-1; TC-1; PHD-1; PW-1; TET-1; HF-1; PP-1; MDJ-2)
• Sam Felton, Harvard (WC–1; COMP-1 (13); NYS-2; PI-2; CSM-1; RE-1; WJM-1; ASH-1; PHD-1; TET-1; HF-1; PP-2; MDJ-1)
• Dexter Very, Penn. State (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; COMP-2 (9); NYS-1; PW-1; PP-1; MDJ-2)
• K. P. Gilchrist, Navy (NYS-2; COMP-2 (3); PI-1; BS; HF-2; PP-3)
• Miller Pontius, Michigan (ASH-1)
• Busty Ashbaugh, Brown (WC-3; TC-1; HF-2)
• Francis Joseph O'Brien, Harvard (MDJ-1)
• Joseph Hoeffel, Wisconsin (WC-2)
• Al Jordan, Bucknell (WC-3)
• John O'Hearn, Cornell (PI-2)
• Lon Jourdet, Penn (PP-2)
• Harold R. Eyrick, Cornell (PP-3)

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• Wesley Englehorn, Dartmouth (WC–1; COMP-1 (15); NYS-1; PI-2; RE-1; TC-1; PHD-1; PW-1; HF-2 [g]; PP-1; MDJ-1)
• Bob Butler, Wisconsin (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; ASH-1; HF-2)
• Bob Storer, Harvard (NYS-1; COMP-1 (21); PI-1; BS; RE–1; WJM-1; TC-1; PW-1; TET-1; HF-1; PP-1; MDJ-2)
• Leland Devore, Army (WC-3; COMP-2 (4); BS; CSM-1; HF-1; PP-3; MDJ-2 [g])
• Joe Guyon, Carlisle (College Football Hall of Fame) (COMP-2 (3); NYS-2; WJM–1; MDJ-2)
• Phillips, Princeton (PHD–1; TET-1; PP-2)
• Harvey Hitchock, Harvard (PI-2; CSM-1; HF-2; MDJ-1)
• Wilder Penfield, Princeton (PI-1)
• Jim Trickey, Iowa (WC-2; ASH-1)
• Rudy Probst, Syracuse (WC-2; NYS-2)
• Wagonhurst, Lafayette (PP-2)
• Clark Shaughnessy, Minnesota (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3)
• Al Wilson, Penn State (PP-3)

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• Stan Pennock, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; COMP-2 (6); PI-1; CSM-1; RE-1; ASH-1; TC-1; PHD-1; PW-1; TET-1)
• John Logan, Princeton (WC–1; ASH-1)
• John Brown, Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; COMP-1 (13); NYS-1; PI-2; CSM-1; BS; PHD-1; PW-1; HF-1; PP-1)
• Rip Shenk, Princeton (COMP-1 (14); NYS-1; PI-2; RE–1; TET-1; PP-1; MDJ-2)
• Ray L. Bennett, Dartmouth (WC-3; COMP-2 (5); BS; HF-1; PP-2; MDJ-1)
• Carroll T. Cooney, Yale (WC-2; WJM-1)
• Talbot Pendleton, Yale (PI-1; PP-2)
• George T. Howe, Navy (TC–1)
• Gerard Timothy Driscoll, Harvard (MDJ-1)
• D. H. Kulp, Brown (WC-2)
• John James Munns, Cornell (NYS-2)
• Hamner Huston, Army (NYS-2)
• Britain Patterson, William & Jefferson (PP-3)
• James "Red" Bebout, Penn State (PP-3)

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• Hank Ketcham, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame (WC–1; COMP-1 (22); NYS-1; PI-1; CSM-1; BS; RE-1; WJM-1; ASH-1; TC-1; PW-1; TET-1; HF-1; PP-1; MDJ-1)
• Arthur Bluethenthal, Princeton (WC-3; COMP-2 (1); PI-2; HF-2 [g]; PP-3; MDJ-2)
• Howard L. Benson, Lafayette (PHD–1)
• Derric Choate Parmenter, Harvard (WC-2; NYS-2; HF-2)
• Simpson, Penn State (PP-2)

• George Crowther, Brown (WC–1; WJM-1)
• Pat Pazetti, Lehigh (WC-2; COMP-1 (7); NYS-2; PI-2; BS; PHD-1; PW-1; HF-2; PP-1; MDJ-2)
• Everett Bacon, Wesleyan (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; COMP-2 (5); NYS-1; RE-1)
• Eddie Gillette, Wisconsin (CSM-1; ASH-1; TC-1)
• Henry Burchell Gardner, Harvard (PI-1; TET-1; PP-3)
• Harry Costello, Georgetown (MDJ-1)
• Shorty Miller, Penn State (College Football Hall of Fame) (COMP-2 (5); PP-2)

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• Charles E. Brickley, Harvard (WC–1; COMP-1 (23); NYS-1; PI-1; CSM-1; BS; RE-1; WJM-1; ASH-1; TC-1; PHD-1; PW-1; TET-1 [fb]; HF-1; PP-1; MDJ-1)
• Jim Thorpe, Carlisle (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; COMP-1 (23) [f]; NYS-1 [fb]; PI-1; CSM-1; BS [fb]; RE-1; WJM-1; ASH-1; TC-1; PHD-1 [fb]; PW-1; TET-1; HF-1; PP-1 [fb]; MDJ-1 [fb])
• Hobey Baker, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; COMP-1 (9); NYS-2; BS; PHD-1; TET-1; HF-1 [qb]; PP-1; MDJ-1)
• Dave Morey, Dartmouth (WC-2; WJM-1 [guard]; MDJ-2)
• Nelson Norgren, Chicago (WC-2)
• Lewie Hardage, Vanderbilt (WC-3)
• Jesse Spalding, Yale (PI-2)
• E. Waller, Princeton (PI-2)
• Alex Arcasa, Carlisle (PP-2)
• L. Fred Gieg, Swarthmore (PP-3)
• S. W. Harrington, Penn (PP-3)
• Ted Hudson, Trinity (MDJ-2)

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• Leroy Mercer, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC–1; NYS-2 [hb]; HF-2 [hb])
• Wallace "Butch" De Witt, Princeton (PI-1; RE–1; PP-2)
• Percy Wendell, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; COMP-2 (4);Thorpe was a leading vote recipient in both the halfback and fullback positions. Thorpe received 15 votes at halfback and 8 at fullback. PI-2; CSM-1; WJM-1; HF-1; MDJ-2)
• Huntington Hardwick, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (COMP-2 (2); NYS-1 [hb]; TC-1; HF-2 [hb]; PP-2 [hb])
• Pete Mauthe, Penn State (College Football Hall of Fame) (NYS-2; PW-1; PP-3)
• Spencer Armstrong Pumpelly, Yale (WC-3)
• Ray Eichenlaub, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (ASH-1)
• George C. Thomson, Michigan (HF-2)

NCAA-recognized selectors for 1912

• WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter Camp{{cite news|title=The All-America Football Team|author=Walter Camp|work=Collier's|year=1912|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hXcjAQAAMAAJ&q=%22bluthenthal%22+princeton+football+1912&pg=RA10-PA10}}{{cite news|title=American Gridiron Lights Are Chosen: Camp Picks One Western Man on All-Star Team|work=The Indianapolis Star|date=1912-12-03}}

Other selectors

• COMP = Composite Eleven selected by Louis A. Dougher in the Washington Times{{cite news|title=Critics Unanimous in Selecting Thorpe and Brickley for Team|newspaper=The Saskatoon Phoenix|date=December 27, 1912|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nrdfAAAAIBAJ&pg=3082,8863059&dq=brickley+thorpe+felton&hl=en}}{{cite news|title=Composite Star Team: Washington Newspaper Man Picks All-American Eleven; Uses 23 Writers' Opinions; Selects Whole Backfield Given By The Sun--Thorpe And Brickley Are Popular Choices|newspaper=The Sun, Baltimore, Md.|date=Dec 10, 1912|page=8|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1652975492.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+10%2C+1912&author=&pub=The+Sun+(1837-1985)&desc=COMPOSITE+STAR+TEAM&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216160216/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1652975492.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+10,+1912&author=&pub=The+Sun+(1837-1985)&desc=COMPOSITE+STAR+TEAM&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 16, 2013}}
• PHD = Parke H. Davis, a noted football historian and Princeton's representative on the intercollegiate rules committee{{cite news|title=Davis Picks an All-America Team|work=Evening Standard|location=Ogden City, Utah|date=1912-12-17}}
• PW = Glenn S. "Pop" Warner, head football coach at Carlisle{{cite news|title=Warner Picks One Indian: Wonderful Thorpe Gets Place on Carlisle Coach's All-American Team|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1912-12-11|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/12/11/100563908.pdf}}
• BS = The Baltimore Sun{{cite news|title=All-American Teams: The Sun Selects Its Stars For The Honorary Elevens; Thorpe Is the One Best Bet; Brickley Is His Closest Rival, Ketcham And Bomeisler Are His Heels|newspaper=The Sun, Baltimore|date=December 3, 1912|url=https://secure.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1652971652.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+03%2C+1912&author=&pub=The+Sun+(1837-1985)&desc=ALL-AMERICAN+TEAMS&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216161142/https://secure.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1652971652.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+03,+1912&author=&pub=The+Sun+(1837-1985)&desc=ALL-AMERICAN+TEAMS&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 16, 2013}}
• NYS = The New York Sun
• PI = The Philadelphia Inquirer
• PP = The Philadelphia Press
• MDJ = Meriden Daily Journal from New Haven County, Connecticut{{cite news|title=Meriden Picks All-American Eleven|newspaper=Meriden Daily Journal|date=November 30, 1912|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IvtIAAAAIBAJ&pg=1493,6138487&dq=bomeisler+devore&hl=en}}
• CSM = The Christian Science Monitor{{cite news|title=Harvard Is Given Five Places on All-American: Capt. Percy L. Wendell Selected to Lead the Team That Should Be a Strong Aggregation in Every Department of Modern Football|newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor|date=December 3, 1912|page=3|url=https://secure.pqarchiver.com/csmonitor_historic/access/205859782.html?dids=205859782:205859782&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Dec+03%2C+1912&author=&pub=Christian+Science+Monitor&desc=HARVARD+IS+GIVEN+FIVE+PLACES+ON+ALL-AMERICAN&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216163005/https://secure.pqarchiver.com/csmonitor_historic/access/205859782.html?dids=205859782:205859782&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Dec+03,+1912&author=&pub=Christian+Science+Monitor&desc=HARVARD+IS+GIVEN+FIVE+PLACES+ON+ALL-AMERICAN&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 16, 2013}}
• RE = Robert W. Edgren, a nationally syndicated newspaper reporter who served as the sports editor of The Evening World{{cite news|title=Robert Edgren's All-American Eleven for 1912|work=Syracuse Herald|date=1912-12-05}}
• WJM = W.J. MacBeth{{cite news|title=MacBeth Nominates an All-American Eleven|work=Salt Lake Tribune|date=1912-12-08}}{{cite news|title=Picking "All-American" Teams a Fad: Here's Latest and It Comes from New York; And of Course, They're All Easterners, Havard, Carlisle and Dartmouth|work=The Lima News|date=1912-12-10}}
• ASH = Alfred S. Harvey of the Milwaukee Free Press{{cite news|title=Two Badgers on All-American Team|work=The La Crosse Tribune|date=1912-12-09}}
• TC = Tommy Clark{{cite news|title=All-American Football Team for 1912|work=Cedar Rapids Tribune|date=1912-12-27}}
• TET = Trenton Evening Times{{cite news|title=Times All-American Eleven|work=Trenton Evening Times|date=1912-12-02}}
• HF = Hamilton Fish III{{cite news|title=All-America Team As Picked by Fish: Expert Says the Season Was Rich in Halfbacks and Drop-Kickers|newspaper=Boston Daily Globe|author=Hamilton Fish, Jr.|date=December 2, 1912|page=7|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/720685162.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+02%2C+1912&author=&pub=Boston+Daily+Globe+(1872-1922)&desc=ALL-AMERICA+TEAM+AS+PICKED+BY+FISH&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216162003/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/720685162.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+02,+1912&author=&pub=Boston+Daily+Globe+(1872-1922)&desc=ALL-AMERICA+TEAM+AS+PICKED+BY+FISH&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 16, 2013}}

Bold = Consensus All-American

• 1 – First-team selection
• 2 – Second-team selection
• 3 – Third-team selection

• 1912 All-Southern college football team
• 1912 All-Western college football team

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