{"id":165787,"date":"2025-06-28T17:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T17:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/165787\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T17:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T17:49:15","slug":"all-america-team-college-football-ncaa-selection-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/165787\/","title":{"rendered":"All-America team | College Football, NCAA, Selection Process"},"content":{"rendered":"

All-America team, honorific title given to outstanding U.S. athletes in a specific sport in a given year competing at the collegiate<\/a> and secondary school levels. Originally the term referred to a select group of college gridiron football<\/a> players. Athletes selected to an All-America team are known as All-Americans.<\/p>\n

The first All-America team comprised<\/a> football<\/a> players, picked by Caspar Whitney<\/a> and Walter Camp<\/a> in 1889 for a magazine called The Week\u2019s Sport. Whitney and Camp continued to collaborate<\/a> in selecting All-America teams, working for The Week\u2019s Sport again in 1890 and then for Harper\u2019s Weekly from 1891 through 1897. Camp made his own selections for Collier\u2019s<\/a> magazine from 1898 through 1924. Camp\u2019s reputation as football player, coach, and rules maker made his selections generally accepted. When Camp died in 1925, Collier\u2019s engaged Grantland Rice<\/a>, the era\u2019s most prominent sportswriter, to continue the annual selection.<\/p>\n

Even before 1900, other football devotees had begun making their own All-America choices. The number of these selections increased as the popularity of football grew; major newspapers, news services, feature syndicates, and eventually magazines (most notably Look) picked annual teams. Rice and Collier\u2019s began the practice of compiling<\/a> their selections from the findings of a nationwide board of the American Football Coaches Association, which continues to select an All-America team. The major American news services, Associated Press and United Press International<\/a>, also use the findings of representatives scattered throughout the country to choose All-America teams, as does the Football Writers Association of America.<\/p>\n

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All-America teams are now also chosen in such sports<\/a> as baseball<\/a>, basketball<\/a>, swimming<\/a>, and track and field<\/a> and consist of athletes from colleges, high schools, and prep schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-America team, honorific title given to outstanding U.S. athletes in a specific sport in a given year competing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[37064,1101,10278,10277,10276,7,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-165787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-all-america-team","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-britannica","11":"tag-encyclopeadia","12":"tag-encyclopedia","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114762257004963516","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}