1913 College Football All-America Team

Consensus All-Americans

• Charles Brickley, fullback for Harvard. Brickley later became a player and coach in the early years of professional football. He was the coach of the New York Brickley Giants in the first year of play in the National Football League. In 1928, he was convicted on four counts of larceny and bucketing orders from customers of his stock brokerage firm.
• John "Babe" Brown, guard for Navy. Brown was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 as part of the first group of inductees. During World War II, Admiral John Brown oversaw submarine operations in the South Pacific. He later served as athletic director and Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy.
• James Craig, halfback for Michigan. Craig was also one of the best hurdlers in the country, breaking the world indoor record in the high hurdles in 1911 and winning the intercollegiate championship in the low hurdles in 1912. His older brother, Ralph Craig, won gold medals in the 100 and 200-meter events at the 1912 Olympics.
• Paul Des Jardien, center for Chicago. At six feet, five inches in height, but weighing only 190 pounds, Des Jardien was nicknamed "Shorty." He led the 1913 Chicago Maroons football team to an undefeated 7–0 record and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955. Des Jardien was a multi-sport star who also briefly played professional baseball as a pitcher for the Cleveland Indians in 1916.
• Robert Hogsett, end for Dartmouth. Hogsett was the captain of the 1913 Dartmouth Big Green football team that compiled a 7–1–0 record and outscored opponents 218 to 79, including victories over Princeton and Penn.
• Eddie Mahan, halfback for Harvard. Mahan was selected as a first-team All-American three consecutive years from 1913 to 1915. He was widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the first 50 years of the sport and was named by Jim Thorpe as the greatest football player of all time. In 1951, Mahan was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame as part of the first group of inductees.
• Louis A. Merrilat, end for Army. Merrilat was a first-team All-American in both 1913 and 1914. He was severely wounded by airplane machine gun fire during World War I, but went on to play in the NFL as a 33-year-old rookie in 1925. He later became a soldier of fortune, training Iran's Persian Guard, working with the Chinese Army in the 1930s, and serving in the French Foreign Legion.

  All-Americans of 1913

Ends

• Robert Hogsett, Dartmouth
• Louis A. Merrilat, Army
• W. H. Fritz, Cornell
• Huntington Hardwick, Harvard
• Lorin Solon, Minnesota
• Knute Rockne, Notre Dame
• Huntington, Chicago
• Benjamin F. Avery, Yale
• Hube Wagner, Pitt
• Francis Joseph O'Brien, Harvard
• K. P. Gilchrist, Navy

  Tackles

• Miller Pontius, Michigan
• Harold Ballin, Princeton
• Bud Talbott, Yale
• Harvey Hitchcock, Harvard
• Bob Butler, Wisconsin
• Alex Weyand, Army
• Vic Halligan, Nebraska
• Robert Treat Paine Storer, Harvard

  Guards

• John Brown, Navy
• Stan Pennock, Harvard
• Ray Keeler, Wisconsin
• Elmer Busch, Carlisle
• Hank Ketcham, Yale
• Howard Parker Talman, Rutgers
• Alex Weyand, Army
• John S. Pendleton, Yale
• Jimmie Munns, Cornell
• Albert Journeay, Penn

  Centers

• Paul Des Jardien, Chicago
• William Marting, Yale
• George C. Paterson, Michigan
• Pete Garlow, Carlisle
• Walter Simpson, Penn
• Hank Ketcham, Yale

  Quarterbacks

• Ellery Huntington, Jr., Colgate
• Gus Dorais, Notre Dame
• Tommy Hughitt, Michigan
• Alexander D. Wilson, Yale
• Shorty Miller, Penn State
• Paul Russell, Chicago
• Vernon Prichard, Army

  Halfbacks

• James B. Craig, Michigan
• Eddie Mahan, Harvard
• Johnny Spiegel, Washington & Jefferson
• Joe Guyon, Carlisle
• Hobey Baker, Princeton
• Nelson Norgren, Chicago
• Bob McWhorter, Georgia
• Elmer Oliphant, Purdue

  Fullbacks

• Charles Brickley, Harvard
• Ray Eichenlaub, Notre Dame
• Lawrence Whitney, Dartmouth
• George E. Julian, Michigan State

  Key

• WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter Camp
• INS = Frank G. Menke, sporting editor of the International News Service

• HW = Harper's Weekly, as selected by football critic Herman Reed
• MFP = Milwaukee Free Press
• FY = Fielding H. Yost, head coach at the University of Michigan
• PHD = Parke H. Davis, Princeton's representative on the football rules committee, in the New York Herald
• TT = Tom Thorp, former captain of Columbia football team and head football coach at Fordham University
• SBH = S. B. Hunt in the Newark Sunday Call
• TET = Trenton Evening-Times, selected by a "well known gridiron critic whose name is withheld by special request"

• 1 – First-team selection
• 2 – Second-team selection
• 3 – Third-team selection