1926 College Football All-America Team
The 1926 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 1926. The six selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1926 season are Collier's Weekly, as selected by Grantland Rice with cooperation from ten coaches, the Associated Press, based on polling of "more than 100 coaches and critics", the United Press, the All-America Board, selected by Knute Rockne, Glenn "Pop" Warner, and Tad Jones, the International News Service, and the Newspaper Enterprise Association.
Other notable selectors included Billy Evans, the Central Press Association, the New York Sun, and Walter Eckersall.
Consensus All-Americans
For the year 1926, the NCAA recognizes six 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.| Name | Position | School | Number | Official | Other |
| Frank Wickhorst | Tackle | Navy | 6/6 | AAB, AP, COL, INS, NEA, UP | BE, CP, CEP, HF, LP, NYS, RG, WC, WE |
| Herb Joesting | Fullback | Minnesota | 5/6 | AAB, AP, COL, INS, NEA | BE, CP, ES, LP, NYS, RG, WC, WE |
| Bud Boeringer | Center | Notre Dame | 5/6 | AAB, AP, COL, INS, NEA | BE, CP, ES, LP, NYS, RG, WC, WE |
| Mort Kaer | Halfback | USC | 5/6 | AAB, AP, COL, INS, NEA | BE, CP, NYS, RG, WC, WE |
| Bernie Shively | Guard | Illinois | 5/6 | AAB, AP, COL, INS, NEA | BE, WC, WE |
| Harry Connaughton | Guard | Georgetown | 4/6 | AP, COL, NEA, UP | BE, CP, ES, HF, LP, NYS, RG, WE |
| Benny Friedman | Quarterback | Michigan | 4/6 | AP, COL, INS, NEA | BE, CP, ES, HF, LP, NYS, RG, WE |
| Bennie Oosterbaan | End | Michigan | 4/6 | AAB, COL, NEA, UP | BE, CEP, ES, WC, WE |
| Vic Hanson | End | Syracuse | 4/6 | AP, COL, INS, UP | ES, HF, LP, NYS, WE |
| Ralph Baker | Halfback | Northwestern | 2/6 | AP, COL | CP, LP, NYS, WE |
| Bud Sprague | Tackle | Army | 1/6 | AP | CP, CEP |
All-American selections for 1926
Ends
- Bennie Oosterbaan, Michigan
- Vic Hanson, Syracuse
- Hal Broda, Brown
- Hoyt Winslett, Alabama
- Ted Shipkey, Stanford
- Carl Bacchus, Missouri
- Cal Hubbard, Geneva
- Ed Lindenmeyer, Missouri
- George Thayer, Penn
- Charles Born, Army
Tackles
- Frank Wickhorst, Navy
- Bud Sprague, Army
- Lloyd Yoder, Carnegie Tech
- Lon Stiner, Nebraska
- Robert Johnson, Northwestern
- Alfred "Al" Lassman, NYU
- Orland Smith, Brown
- Spike Nelson, Iowa
- Theodore "Tiny" Roebuck, Haskell
- Jim Dixon, Oregon State
- D. Thomas Eddy, Navy
- Fred Pickhard, Alabama
- Jesse Hibbs, USC
- Howard D. Cothran, Lafayette
- Leo Raskowski, Ohio State
- Ed Kevorkian, Brown
Guards
- Bernie Shively, Illinois
- Harry Connaughton, Georgetown
- Ed Hess, Ohio State
- Edwin Hayes, Ohio State
- Fred H. Swan, Stanford
- Herbert Sturhahn, Yale
- Ted "Butter" Gorrell, USC
- Emerson Carey, Cornell
- Ernest Schmidt, Army
- Orland Smith, Brown
- Frank Mayer, Notre Dame
- John H. Lovette, Michigan
Centers
- Bud Boeringer, Notre Dame
- John J. Butler, Penn
- Jeff Cravath, USC
- Larry Bettencourt, St. Mary's
- Polly Wallace, Oklahoma
- Alex Klein, Ohio State
- Maurice Daly, Army
- Robert Reitsch, Illinois
- Joseph Truskowski, Michigan
Quarterbacks
- Benny Friedman, Michigan
- Bill Spears, Vanderbilt
- Bill Kelly, Montana
- Roy Randall, Brown
- Butch Meeker, Washington State
- George Guttormsen, Washington
- Gerald Mann, SMU
- Dan Caulkins, Princeton
Halfbacks
- Mort Kaer, USC
- Ralph Baker, Northwestern
- Harry Wilson, Army
- Tom Hamilton, Navy
- Marty Karow, Ohio State
- Frank Kirkleski, Lafayette
- Charles Rogers, Penn
- Chester "Cotton" Wilcox, Purdue
- George Bogue, Stanford
- Christie Flanagan, Notre Dame
- Dave Mishel, Brown
- George Wilson, Lafayette
- Dick Hyland, Stanford
Fullbacks
- Herb Joesting, Minnesota
- Marty Karow, Ohio State
- Bill Amos, Washington & Jefferson
- Mayes McLain, Haskell
- Ty Rauber, Washington & Lee
- Harry O'Boyle, Notre Dame
- Henry H. Caldwell, Navy
- Loren Lewis, Northwestern
Key
- Bold – Used for consensus All-Americans and first-team selections by an official selector
- CFHOF = College Football Hall of Fame inductee
- 1 – First-team selection
- 2 – Second-team selection
- 3 – Third-team selection
Official selectors
- AAB = All-American Board, team selected by three coaches: Knute Rockne, Glenn "Pop" Warner, and Tad Jones
- AP = Associated Press, based on AP polling of "more than 100 coaches and critics"
- UP = United Press
- COL = Collier's Weekly as selected by Grantland Rice with cooperation from ten coaches: Glenn Warner, Robert Zuppke, G.C. Woodruff, Knute Rockne, Wallace Wade, Captain J.J. McEwan, W.A. Alexander, Howard Jones, E.P. Madigan, and Dan McGuigan.
- INS = International News Service, selected by Davis Walsh
- NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association
Other selectors
- BE = Billy Evans
- CP = Central Press Association, based on a poll conducted by Norman Brown of over 400 newspapers, each of which conducted its own election in which fans voted for the All-American team; Central Press reported compiling a million votes.
- CEP = Charles E. Parker for the New York World News Service
- ES = Ed Sullivan
- HF = Henry Farrell of the United Press
- LP = Lawrence Perry
- NYS = New York Sun
- RG = Red Grange
- WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation
- WE = Walter Eckersall