• Lester Belding was the first Iowa Hawkeyes football player to be named an All-American?
• James B. Craig, an All-American football halfback and quarterback, was the brother of Ralph Craig, a sprinter and gold medalist at the 1912 Summer Olympics?
• Jack Blott, an All-American football center for the Michigan Wolverines, had a Major League Baseball career with the Cincinnati Reds lasting only two games?
• Princeton All-American Dudley Riggs was the son of a wealthy banking family that lent $16 million to the United States to fund the Mexican-American War?
• Ralph Heikkinen was the first All-American football player from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, being raised in the Finnish-American communities of the Gogebic Range?
• Stanfield Wells was the first of more than ten All-American football players from Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio?
• the All-American football player John Maulbetsch was known as the "Featherweight Fullback" because he weighed only 155 pounds (70 kg) and ate two pies a day for dinner during his playing career?
• coach Harry Kipke had to travel to the home of All-American Maynard Morrison in 1930 to seek his father's permission to switch Morrison from a fullback to a center?
• William Cunningham became Michigan's first All-American based on his performance in an 1898 game against Chicago that inspired Louis Elbel to write the school's fight song, The Victors?
• Harvard All-American Bert Waters was accused of jabbing a finger into a Yale player's eye in the 1893 football game that became known as "The Bloodbath in Hampden Park"?
• cornerback Syd'Quan Thompson of California, a preseason All-America prospect, played his first game with a broken wrist and was outrun for two touchdowns by the wide receiver he was assigned?
• All-American end Ed Frutig was the main pass receiver for Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon from 1938-1940?
• All-American footballer Merv Pregulman, the Green Bay Packers' first pick in the 1944 NFL Draft, nearly died in a kamikaze attack on his ship before ever playing a pro football game?
• Army All-American Henry Torney, who later became a millionaire, was arrested at a 1910 Shirtwaist Strikers protest that led the New York Mayor to rebuke the "police dictators"?
• American football player Buddy Burris was the first Oklahoma Sooner to be named an All-American three times?
• All-American fullback Bill Daley is the only person ever to win Little Brown Jug games playing for both Minnesota and Michigan?
• All-American fullback John Baird was forced to withdraw from Princeton in 1898 after playing a football game on a wet field while recovering from tonsilitis?
• college football player Bob Ward is the only player to have been selected by the Associated Press as a first-team All-American in both an offensive and defensive position?
• All-American footballer Paul G. Goebel (pictured) recommended Gerald Ford to the coach of the Michigan football team and later urged Ford to run for Congress?
• All-American Bump Elliott and his brother Pete Elliott played halfback and quarterback for the Michigan football team that beat the USC Trojans 49-0 in the Rose Bowl 60 years ago on 1 Jan. 1948?
• American football tackle J.D. Maarleveld survived Hodgkin's lymphoma but was cut from the Notre Dame team anyway, transferred to Maryland, and became a consensus first-team All-American?

Facts on topics related to College Football All-America Team

2009 College Football All-America Team

• 2009 College Football All-America Team selection Zane Beadles was also a 2009 Academic All-America selection?

1948 College Football All-America Team

• the 1948 All-America team was the first to include separate offensive and defensive college football teams?