The 1945 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1945. The nine selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1945 season are (1) Collier's Weekly, as selected by Grantland Rice, (2) the Associated Press, (3) the United Press, (4) the All-America Board, (5) the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), (6) the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), (7) the International News Service (INS), (8) Look magazine, (9) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) and (10) the Sporting News.
For the year 1945, the NCAA recognizes 10 published All-American teams as "official" designations for purposes of its consensus determinations. The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans and displays which first-team designations they received.
Dick Duden, Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AFCA; AP-1; COL-1; FWAA-1; INS-2; SN; UP-1; YA; CNS-1; CP-1; NL; NYS; OF-1; WC-1)
Hub Bechtol, Texas (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; COL-1; FWAA-2; LK; CNS-1; CP-2)
Bob Ravensberg, Indiana (UP-2; FWAA-1; SN; CP-1; INS-2; LK; CNS-2)
Max Morris, Northwestern (AAB; AFCA; AP-2; FWAA-2; INS-1; UP-2; YA; CP-2; WC-1)
Hank Foldberg, Army (AP-2; INS-1; NEA-1; UP-1; CNS-2; CP-3; NYS; OF-1)
Henry Walker, Virginia (AP-3)
Neill Armstrong, Oklahoma A&M (AP-3)
Paul Walker, Yale (CP-3; NL)
Richard Pitzer, Army (NEA-1)
Tex Coulter, Army (AAB; AFCA; AP-1; COL-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; NEA-1; SN; UP-1; CNS-1; CP-1; NL; NYS; OF-1; WC-1)
George Savitsky, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AFCA; AP-3; COL-1; FWAA-1; INS-2; LK; SN; UP-1; CNS-1; CP-1; WC-1)
Albert Nemetz, Army (AP-1; FWAA-2; INS-2; NEA-1; UP-2; YA; NYS; CNS-2)
Tom Hughes, Purdue (LK; FWAA-2; UP-2; CP-2; OF-1; CNS-2; NL)
Thomas Dean, Southern Methodist Univ. (AP-2; YA)
Mike Castronis, Georgia (INS-1)
Jim Kekeris, Missouri (AP-2; CP-2)
Clarence Esser, Wisconsin (AP-3)
Buster McClure, Nevada (CP-3)
Monte Moncrief, Texas A&M (CP-3)
Warren Amling, Ohio State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AFCA; AP-1; COL-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; LK; SN; UP-1; CNS-1; CP-1; NL; NYS; OF-1; WC-1)
John Green, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AFCA; AP-1; COL-1; FWAA-1; SN; UP-1; CNS-1; NYS; OF-1; WC-1)
Al Sparlis, UCLA (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; INS-2; LK; CNS-2; CP-1)
John Mastrangelo, Notre Dame (AP-2; FWAA-2; INS-1; UP-2; YA; CNS-2; CP-2)
James Carrington, Navy (FWAA-2; INS-2; UP-2)
Joseph Dickinson, Penn (AP-2; CP-2)
Jim Lecture, Northwestern (AP-3; CP-3)
John Green, Army (CP-3; NEA-1; YA)
Arthur Gerometta, Army (NEA-1)
Hills, Georgia Tech (NL)
Vaughn Mancha, Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; COL-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; SN; UP-1; YA; CNS-1; CP-1; NYS; OF-1)
Dick Scott, Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AFCA; AP-2; FWAA-2; INS-2; LK; UP-2; CNS-2; CP-2; NL; WC-1)
Ralph Jenkins, Clemson (AP-3)
Harold Watts, Michigan (CP-3)
Herschel Fuson, Army (NEA-1)
Harry Gilmer, Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; COL-1; INS-2; LK; UP-2; FWAA-2; SN; UP-2; CNS-1; CP-2; NL; NYS; OF-1 [qb])
Frank Dancewicz, Notre Dame (AP-2; FWAA-2; UP-2; CNS-2; CP-1)
Arnold Tucker, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (CP-3; INS-2; NEA-1)
Gene Rossides, Columbia (CP-3)
Glenn Davis, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AFCA; AP-1; COL-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; LK; NEA-1; SN; UP-1; YA; CNS-1; CP-1; NL; NYS; OF-1; WC-1)
Herman Wedemeyer, St. Mary's (Calif.) (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AFCA; AP-1; COL-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; LK; SN; UP-1; CNS-1; CP-1; NL; OF-1; WC-1)
Bob Fenimore, Oklahoma State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AFCA; AP-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; SN; UP-1; CP-2; CNS-2; WC-1)
Jake Leicht, Oregon (YA; NYS)
George Taliaferro, Indiana (AP-3; INS-2; CP-3; CNS-2)
Clyde Scott, Navy (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; UP-2)
Stan Kozlowski, Holy Cross (AP-3; CP-2)
Robert Evans, Penn (AP-3)
Thomas McWilliam, Army (NEA-1)
Doc Blanchard, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AFCA; AP-1; COL-1; FWAA-1; INS-1; LK; NEA-1; SN; UP-1; YA; CNS-1; CP-1; NL; NYS; OF-1; WC-1)
Pete Pihos, Indiana (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2; FWAA-2; UP-2; CNS-2; CP-2; YA)
Ollie Cline, Ohio State (AP-2; FWAA-2)
Walt Schlinkman, Texas Tech (INS-2)
Ed Cody, Purdue (CP-3)
Bold – Consensus All-American
-1 – First-team selection
-2 – Second-team selection
-3 – Third-team selection
AAB = All-America Board
AFCA = American Football Coaches Association
AP = Associated Press
COL = Collier's Weekly as selected by Grantland Rice
FWAA = Football Writers Association of America
INS = International News Service, "selected on the basis of ballots and information gathered from International News Service sports writers and football authorities all over the nation"
LK = Look magazine
NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association. In a departure from normal practice, the NEA named the starters from the Army football team, which had won 17 straight games, as its All-American team for 1945I
SN = Sporting News, selected by a poll of 163 sports writers and sportscasters
UP = United Press
CNS = Consensus All-American team picked based on assigning points to players selected as All-Americans by Oscar Fraley, Christy Walsh, United Press, Look, New York Sun, New York News, International News, Associated Press, Sporting News, and Collier's-Rice
CP = Central Press Association, selected for the 15th straight year with the aid of the captains of the leading college teams
NL = Navy Log
NYS = New York Sun
OF = Oscar Fraley, United Press sports writer
WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation
YA = Yank, the Army Weekly, based on a poll of 25 of the country's most widely known college football coaches
