1963 College Football All-America Team#Consensus All-Americans

For the year 1963, the NCAA recognizes seven published All-American teams as "official" designations for purposes of its consensus determinations. Four players were unanimously chosen as first-team All-Americans by all seven official selectors. They were: (1) Navy quarterback Roger Staubach, who was awarded the 1963 Heisman Trophy; (2) Illinois center/linebacker Dick Butkus, won the 1963 Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Big Ten Conference's Most Valuable Player; (3) tackle Scott Appleton who won the Outland Trophy and led the 1963 Texas Longhorns football team to a national championship; and (4) Nebraska guard Bob "The Boomer" Brown, who was the second player chosen in the 1964 NFL draft. Staubach, Butkus and Brown were each subsequently inducted into both the College and Pro Football Hall of Fames. The consensus All-American team also included College and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees Gale Sayers (running back, Kansas) and Carl Eller (tackle, Minnesota).

The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans and displays which first-team designations they received.

• Vern Burke, Oregon State (AFCA-1, FWAA, NEA-2, UPI-1, CP, FN, WC)
• Larry Elkins, Baylor (NEA-1, SN, CP, UPI-2, FN, WC)
• Bob Lacey, North Carolina (AP-1, FWAA, NEA-2, FN)
• Billy Martin, Georgia Tech (Time, NEA-1, SN, UPI-2, FN)
• Jim Kelly, Notre Dame (AFCA-1, UPI-1)
• Dave Parks, Texas Tech (AP-1, SN)
• Charles Brooks, Memphis State (FN)
• Billy Truax, LSU (FN)
• Hal Bedsole, USC (Time)
• Mel Profit, UCLA (AFCA-2, AP-2, NEA-3, UPI-3)
• John Simmons, Tulsa (AFCA-2, UPI-3)
• Don Montgomery, North Carolina St. (AP-2)
• Allen Brown, Ole Miss (NEA-3)

• Scott Appleton, Texas (AFCA-1, AP-1, FWAA, NEA-1, SN, UPI-1, CP, WC, FN, Time)
• Carl Eller, Minnesota (AFCA-1, AP-1, FWAA, NEA-3, UPI-1, CP, WC, FN, Time)
• Ernie Borghetti, Pittsburgh (AP-2, FWAA, NEA-3, FN)
• Harry Schuh, Memphis State (NEA-1)
• Ken Kortas, Louisville (FWAA)
• Whaley Hall, Ole Miss (AFCA-2, UPI-2)
• Ralph Neely, Oklahoma (AFCA-2, AP-2, UPI-2, FN)
• Archie Sutton, Illinois (NEA-2, UPI-3)
• Jim Freeman, Navy (NEA-2, FN)
• Al Hillebrand, Stanford (FN)

• Bob Brown, Nebraska (AFCA-1, AP-1, FWAA, NEA-1, SN, UPI-1, CP, WC, FN, Time)
• Rick Redman, Washington (AFCA-1, FWAA, NEA-1, SN, UPI-1, CP, FN, WC)
• Herschel Turner, Kentucky (SN, UPI-3 [tackle], Time)
• Damon Bame, USC (AP-1, NEA-3, UPI-2)
• Steve DeLong, Tennessee (AFCA-2, FWAA, UPI-3, FN)
• Mike Reilly, Iowa (AP-2, FWAA)
• Dick Nowak, Army (AFCA-2, UPI-2, FN)
• Bob Lehman, Notre Dame (AP-2)
• Ed Adamchik, Pittsburgh (NEA-2)
• Bill Budness, Boston Univ. (NEA-2)
• Don Croftcheck, Indiana (NEA-3)
• Earl Lattimer, Michigan State (UPI-3, FN)
• Robbie Hucklebridge, LSU (FN)

• Dick Butkus, Illinois (AFCA-1, AP-1, FWAA, NEA-1, SN, UPI-1, CP, WC, FN, Time)
• Kenny Dill, Mississippi (AP-2, FWAA, FN)
• Ronnie Caveness, Arkansas (FN)
• Malcolm Walker, Rice (NEA-2, UPI-3)
• Ray Kubala, Texas A&M (AFCA-2)
• Pat Watson, Mississippi State (UPI-2)
• Orville Hudson, East Texas St. (NEA-3)

• Roger Staubach, Navy (AFCA-1, AP-1, FWAA, NEA-1, SN, UPI-1, CP, WC, FN, Time)
• Billy Lothridge, Georgia Tech (AP-1, FWAA, UPI-2, FN [halfback])
• Don Trull, Baylor (AFCA-2, AP-2, FWAA, NEA-2, UPI-2, FN)
• George Mira, Miami (AP-2)
• Gary Wood, Cornell (NEA-2)
• Bob Schweickert, Virginia Tech, (AP-3){{Cite news |date=1963-12-06 |title=Schweickert named to third A-A team |pages=20 |work=The World-News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-world-news-schweickert-named-to-thir/136370146/ |access-date=2023-12-06}}

• Sherman Lewis, Michigan State (AP-1, CP, NEA-3, UPI-1, FN, WC)
• Paul Martha, Pittsburgh (AFCA-2, CP, NEA-1, SN, UPI-2, FN)
• Gale Sayers, Kansas (AFCA-1, AP-2, FWAA, NEA-1, SN, UPI-1, FN, WC)
• Jay Wilkinson, Duke (AFCA-1, AP-2, FWAA, NEA-3, UPI-1, FN)
• Jimmy Sidle, Auburn (AP-1, FWAA, NEA-3 [qb], UPI-3, FN [qb])
• Mel Renfro, Oregon (AFCA-2, NEA-2, UPI-3, Time)
• Paul Warfield, Ohio State (Time)
• Tommy Ford, Texas (FWAA, FN)
• Tom Vaughn, Iowa State (AFCA-2, FWAA)
• Benny Nelson, Alabama (NEA-2)
• Cosmo Iacavazzi, Princeton (NEA-3, UPI-3)

• Jim Grisham, Oklahoma (CP, NEA-1, SN, UPI-2, FN)
• Tommy Crutcher, TCU (AFCA-1, UPI-3)
• Tom Nowatzke, Indiana (FN)
• Tony Lorick, Arizona State (FN)

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

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• AFCA = American Football Coaches Association{{cite news|title=Coaches Association Says Jay Wilkinson All-American|newspaper=Star News, Wilmington, N.C.|date=November 26, 1963|page=11|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19631126&id=cDtjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NXQNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2841,4209308}}
• AP = Associated Press{{cite news|title=Staubach, Sidle, Lewis, Lothridge On All-America|author=Bob Hoobing|newspaper=The Morning Record, Meriden, Conn.|date=December 6, 1963|page=4|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2512&dat=19631206&id=DKZIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NAENAAAAIBAJ&pg=2736,4488968}}
• CP = Central Press Association
• FWAA = Football Writers Association of America{{cite web|title=FWAA All-America Since 1944: The All-Time Team|editor=Ted Gangi|access-date=February 8, 2015|url=http://www.sportswriters.net/fwaa/awards/allamerica/alltime.pdf|archive-date=June 12, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150612055653/http://www.sportswriters.net/fwaa/awards/allamerica/alltime.pdf|url-status=dead}}
• NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association{{cite news|title=Staubach Leads Youthful NEA All-Americans|newspaper=Evening Independent, St. Petersburg, FL|date=December 2, 1963|page=14A|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19631202&id=VFdQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7FYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6942,94054}}
• SN = Sporting News{{cite book|title=ESPN College Football Encyclopedia|page=1269|publisher=ESPN Books|year=2005|isbn=1401337031}}
• UPI = United Press International{{cite news|title=Wilkinson Named To UPI All-American Team|newspaper=The Times-News, Hendersonville, N.C.|date=December 5, 1963|page=7|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19631203&id=YUMaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XCMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6904,4528622}}

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• FN = The Football News, consisting of 33 selected by The Football News selection panel{{cite news|title=All-America Selected|newspaper=The Football News|editor=Roger Stanton |date=November 30, 1963|pages=1, 3}}
• Time = Time, the U.S. news magazine{{cite magazine|title=Where the Money Will Go|magazine=Time|date=1963-11-27|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,871403,00.html?promoid=googlep|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090727093943/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,871403,00.html?promoid=googlep|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 27, 2009}}
• WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation{{cite web|title=Walter Camp Football Foundation All-American Selections |url=http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards/ |publisher=Walter Camp Football Foundation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071218214203/http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards/ |archive-date=2007-12-18 |url-status=dead |access-date=2009-04-05 }}

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• 1963 All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team
• 1963 All-Big Eight Conference football team
• 1963 All-Big Ten Conference football team
• 1963 All-Pacific Coast football team
• 1963 All-SEC football team
• 1963 All-Southwest Conference football team

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