All-American: Facts

Marcus Ray was an All-American member of the record-setting 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team's defense?
"Ma" Newell (pictured), one of the few four-year All-Americans in college football history, was run over by a railroad engine on Christmas Eve 1897?
Louis Jordan was the first University of Texas All-American football player and the first Texas officer killed in action in World War I?
Julius Franks was the first African-American Michigan Wolverines football player to earn All-American honors?
Hugh Knox, son of the U.S. Secretary of State and Attorney General, was an All-American halfback at Yale?
"Moose" Englehorn, who played for Washington State and Dartmouth College, was the oldest living All-American football player when he died in 1993 at age 103?
actor Nate Parker was an All-American wrestler in both high school and college?
three-time All-American Eddie Mahan was named by Jim Thorpe as the greatest football player of all time?
twice named All-American football tackle Robert "Brick" Wahl later became CEO of a Fortune 500 irrigation equipment company?
in 1899 Isaac Seneca became the first Native American to be named as an All-American football player while playing halfback for the Carlisle Indian School?
flags at the University of Iowa were flown at half-mast following the death from peritonitis of Jim Trickey, one year after he became the first Hawkeye to win All-American honors in 1912?
despite being an All-American running back with the University of Evansville, Sean Bennett played fullback at Northwestern?
Gaynell Tinsley, a two-time All-American end at LSU, set an NFL record with 675 receiving yards as a rookie in 1937?
Frederick Josiah Bradlee was a Boston Brahmin, an All-American halfback and the father of Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee?
Harvard All-American Sam Felton averaged between 60 and 70 yards (55 to 64 meters) on football punts in 1912?
Michigan Wolverines football player Bill Yearby was an All-American football player as well as a champion shot putter who the coaches felt could have starred for the Wolverines basketball team?
gridiron football defensive end Justin Brown was named in six All-American teams when playing at East Central University from 2001 to 2004?
Brown's All-American 135-pound quarterback "Kid" Crowther played with an elastic band around his head in lieu of a helmet?
All-American Rickey Dixon set several school interception records with the 1987 Oklahoma Sooners football team?
Northwestern's Max Morris was a consensus All-American in both basketball and football, played both sports professionally, and twice led the Big Ten in scoring?
Pitt All-American Tom Davies threw a touchdown pass, ran 80 yards for a touchdown, returned a kickoff 90 yards and returned an interception 60 yards in the same game?
College Sports Information Directors of America has conferred Academic All-American to athletes in all National Collegiate Athletic Association championship sports since 1952?
Bill Dague was the first consensus All-American football player from the United States Naval Academy?
Yale's two-time All-American "Bo" Bomeisler, called "King of the Hard Luck Players," had his foot crushed by a trolley car on Brooklyn's Flatbush Avenue in 1914?
Nebraska's first All-American Vic Halligan was called "The premier punter of the West, A master of the forward pass, A tackler equal to the best"?
1933 Michigan Wolverines football All-Americans Ted Petoskey and Whitey Wistert debuted for the Major League Baseball Cincinnati Reds two days apart in September 1934?

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