| 1917 College Football All-America Team |
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| College Football All-America Team |
| 1917 college football season |
| 1915 1916 ← → 1918 1919 |
The 1917 College Football All-America team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-America Teams selected by various organizations in 1917. The selections were affected by the First World War. The Walter Camp Football Foundation lists no team in 1917.[1] Camp posted an All-Service team in Collier's Weekly, and other organizations posted All-American teams. Walter Eckersall accidentally picked two players from Tech High School in an attempt to give credence to the first consensus national champion from the south, Georgia Tech.[2] Walker Carpenter and Everett Strupper were the first two players from the Deep South ever selected All-American.[3]
- ^ Walter Camp Football Foundation Archived 2014-12-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Walter Eckersall's Famous 'Merkle'". The Miami News. January 6, 1942.
- ^ Wiley Lee Umphlett (1992). Creating the Big Game: John W. Heisman and the Invention of American Football. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 142. ISBN 9780313284045.