The 1940 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by various selectors for the 1940 college football season. Tennessee won the conference.
Buddy Elrod, Miss. St. (AP-1, INS, UP)Holt Rast, Alabama (AP-1, INS, UP)Ed Cifers, Tennessee (AP-2)Bob Ison, Georgia Tech (AP-2)Fergie Ferguson, Florida (AP-3)Harold Newman, Alabama (AP-3)Abe Shires, Tennessee (AP-1, INS, UP)Charles Dufour, Tulane (AP-2, INS)John Tripson, Miss. St. (AP-2, UP)Fred Davis, Alabama (AP-1)John Eibner, Kentucky (AP-3)John Barrett, LSU (AP-3)Bob Suffridge, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, INS, UP)John W. Goree, LSU (AP-3, INS, UP)Hunter Corhern, Miss. St. (AP-1)Ed Molinski, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2)Edward Hickerson, Alabama (AP-2)Julius Battista, Florida (AP-3)Bob Gude, Vanderbilt (AP-1, INS, UP)Norbert Ackermann, Tennessee (AP-2)Bob Foxx, Tennessee (AP-1, INS, UP)Harvey Johnson, Miss. St. (AP-2, INS, UP)John Hovious, Ole Miss (AP-1, INS)Jimmy Nelson, Alabama (AP-1, INS)James Thibaut, Tulane (AP-2, UP)Neal McGowen, Auburn (AP-1)Frank Sinkwich, Georgia (College Football Hall of Fame) (UP)John Butler, Tennessee (AP-2)Merle Hapes, Ole Miss (AP-2)Charles Ishmael, Kentucky (AP-3)John Bosch, Georgia Tech (AP-3)Rufus Deal, Auburn (AP-3)William Jefferson, Miss St. (AP-3)AP = compiled by the Associated Press, chosen by the conference coaches.
INS = International News Service.
UP = United Press
Bold = Consensus first-team selection
