The 1908 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1908 college football season. The only two individuals who have been recognized as "official" selectors by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for the 1908 season are Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney, who had originated the College Football All-America Team 14 years earlier in 1889. Camp's 1908 All-America Team was published in Collier's Weekly, and Whitney's selections were published in Outing magazine.
Many other sports writers, newspapers, coaches and others also selected All-America teams in 1910. The Philadelphia Inquirer published a consensus All-America team based on the first-team All-America selections made by 25 football experts.
The only two individuals who have been recognized as "official" selectors by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for the 1908 season are Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney, who had originated the College Football All-America Team 14 years earlier in 1889. In its official listing of "Consensus All-America Selections," the NCAA designates players who were selected by either Camp or Whitney as "consensus" All-Americans. Using this criteria, the NCAA recognizes 16 players as "consensus" All-American for the 1908 football season. The consensus All-Americans are identified in bold on the list below ("All-Americans of 1908").
Hunter Scarlett, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CON-1 [23]; ERB-1 [30]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; FC)
George Schildmiller, Dartmouth (WC-1; CON-1 [18]; ERB-1 [23]; PI; TT; NYG; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; PT; PES; CIO; FC)
Claude Fisher, Syracuse (NYW; FY; TJ; KCJ)
Dennie, Brown (WC-2; CSM; NHR)
Lawrence Fairfax Reifsnider, Navy (WC-2)
Harlan Page, Chicago (WC-3)
Johnson, Army (WC-3)
George Kennedy, Dartmouth (NYT; NHR; WH)
Gilbert Goodwin Browne, Harvard (PP)
Hamilton Fish, Harvard (WC-1; CON-1 [14]; ERB-1 [25]; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYT; BSU; BP; KCJ; PT; FC)
Bill Horr, Syracuse (WC-1; CON-2 [9]; NYG; NYET; PD [g]; PES [g])
Percy Northcroft, Navy (WC-3; CIO)
Dexter Draper, Penn (WC-3; CON-1 [13]; ERB-1 [25]; PI; TT; BSU; BP; PD; NHR; PP; PT; PES; WH; FC)
Rudolph Siegling, Princeton (WC-2; CON-2 [11]; NYW-1; NYT; BP [g]; PD; TJ; PP; WH; CIO)
Daniel Pullen, Army (NYW; FY; TJ; KCJ)
Robert McKay, Harvard (CSM)
Arthur Brides, Yale (NHR)
Hamlin Andrus, Yale (WC-2; CON-1 [13]; ERB-1 [18]; NYW; NYT; NYET; BSU; TJ; KCJ; PT; PES)
William Goebel, Yale (WC-1; CON-1 [16]; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYT; PD; NHR; PP; WH; CIO; FC)
Bernard O'Rourke, Cornell (WC-2 [t]; NYET; PES; WH [g])
Clark Tobin, Dartmouth (WC-1; CON-2 [12]; ERB-1 [28]; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYET; BSU; BP; KCJ)
Samuel Hoar, Harvard (WC-3; NYW; TJ; PP)
Francis Burr, Havard (PT)
John Messmer, Wisconsin (WC-2)
Forest Van Hook, Illinois (WC-3)
Orlo L. Waugh, Syracuse (NHR)
Edward Rich, Dartmouth (FC)
Charles Nourse, Harvard (WC-1; CON-1 [12]; NYG; NYT; CIO [g])
Germany Schulz, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (CON-2 [9]; ERB-1 [20]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; CSM; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; NHR; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES)
Wallace Philoon, Army (WC-2; WH; CIO; FC)
Joseph C. Brusse, Dartmouth (WC-3)
Walter Steffen, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; FY; NYET; PD; NHR; KCJ)
Ed Lange, Navy (CON-1 [12]; TT; NYG; BP; PP; WH; CIO)
Albert Miller, Penn (WC-3; CON-2 [6]; ERB-1 [20]; PI; BSU; TJ; PT; PES; FC)
Johnny Cutler, Harvard (WC-2; CSM; NYT)
Hamilton Corbett, Harvard (CIO)
Bill Hollenback, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CON-1 [21]; ERB-1 [30]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; NYG; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; FC)
Frederick Tibbott, Princeton (WC-1; CON-1 [21]; ERB-1 [25]; NYW; FY; TT; CSM; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; NHR; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; CIO)
Jim Thorpe, Carlisle (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; PI)
Ernest Frederocl Ver Wiebe, Harvard (WC-2; CSM; NHR)
John W. Mayhew, Brown (WC-2)
Edward Gray, Amherst (WC-3)
Ted Coy, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CON-1 [24]; ERB-1 [30]; NYW; PI; FY; TT; NYG; CSM; NYT; NYET; BSU; BP; PD; NHR; TJ; KCJ; PP; PT; PES; WH; CIO [e]; FC)
George Walder, Cornell (WC-2; CIO; FC; PD [hb])
George McCaa, Lafayette (WC-3)
NCAA recognized selectors for 1908
WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter Camp
Other selectors
CON = Consensus based on All-American teams selected by 25 football experts; number indicates how many of the 25 experts selected the individual as a first-team All-American; any player with at least 5 of 25 selections is listed hear as a second-team selection: CON-2
ERB = Composite All-America team selected by E. R. Bushnell based on aggregating the opinions of 30 football critics; number indicates how many of the 30 critics selected the individual as a first-team All-American
NYW = New York World, selected by former Yale quarterback Tad Jones
PI = Philadelphia Inquirer, selected by Franklin
FY = Fielding H. Yost, football coach of the University of Michigan
TT = Tom Thorpe, former star tackle and captain of Columbia
NYG = New York Globe
CSM = Christian Science Monitor
NYT = New York Times
NYET = New York Evening Telegram
BSU = Brooklyn Standard Union
BP = Boston Post
PD = Pittsburgh Dispatch
NHR = New Haven Register
TJ = Tad Jones
KCJ = Kansas City Journal
PP = Philadelphia Press
PT = Philadelphia Times
PES = Philadelphia Evening Star
WH = Washington Herald, selected by William Peet
CIO = Chicago Inter-Ocean
FC = Fred Crolius
Bold = Consensus All-American
1 – First-team selection
2 – Second-team selection
3 – Third-team selection
