1912 All-Western college football team

The 1912 All-Western college football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Western teams chosen by various selectors for the 1912 college football season.

All-Western selections

Ends

• Joseph Hoeffel, Wisconsin (Ax, ECP-1, WE-1)
• Miller Pontius, Michigan (Ax, ECP-1, FY [tackle], WE-1)
• Roy Torbet, Michigan (FY)
• John Vruwink, Chicago (FY)
• Harold R. Mulligan, Nebraska (WE-2)
• Andrew N. Johnson, Northwestern (WE-2)

Tackles

• Bob Butler, Wisconsin (Ax, ECP-1, FY, WE-1) (CFHOF)
• Jim Trickey, Iowa (ECP-1, WE-2)
• Donald B. Barricklow, Ohio State (WE-1)
• Halstead Carpenter, Chicago (WE-2)

Guards

• Ray Keeler, Wisconsin (Ax, ECP-1, WE-1)
• Clark Shaughnessy, Minnesota (Ax [tackle], ECP-1) (CFHOF)
• Fred Ebert, Wabash (WE-1)
• Clem Quinn, Michigan (FY)
• Russell J. McCurdy, Michigan Agricultural (FY)
• Henry Hanson, Iowa (WE-2)
• Ernest Allmendinger, Michigan (WE-2)

Centers

• Paul Des Jardien, Chicago (Ax, ECP-1, WE-1) (CFHOF)
• Al Feeney, Notre Dame (WE-2)
• George C. Paterson, Michigan (Ax [guard], FY)

Quarterbacks

• Eddie Gillette, Wisconsin (Ax, ECP-1, FY, WE-1)
• Gus Dorais, Notre Dame (WE-2) (CFHOF)

Halfbacks

• James B. Craig, Michigan (Ax, ECP-1, FY, WE-1)
• John VanRiper, Wisconsin (Ax, ECP-1, WE-1)
• Elmer Oliphant, Purdue (WE-2)
• William McAlmon, Minnesota (FY, WE-2)

Fullbacks

• Ray Eichenlaub, Notre Dame (WE-1) (CFHOF)
• Alvin Tandberg, Wisconsin (Ax, ECP-1, WE-2)
• George C. Thomson, Michigan (FY)

Key

Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors

Ax = George W. Axelson, Chicago football writer^[1]

ECP = E. C. Patterson for Collier's Weekly^[2]

FY = Fielding H. Yost, head football coach at University of Michigan, in the Detroit Free Press^[3][4]

WE = Walter Eckersall for the Chicago Tribune^[5]

CFHOF = College Football Hall of Fame

See also

• 1912 College Football All-America Team