1927 All-Eastern football team explained

The 1927 All-Eastern football team consists of American football players chosen by various selectors as the best players at each position among the Eastern colleges and universities during the 1927 college football season.

Four players received first-team All-Eastern honors and were also consensus first-team All-Americans: halfback Gibby Welch of Pittsburgh; tackle Ed Hake of Penn; guard Bill Webster; and center John Charlesworth of Yale. Sprague was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

All-Eastern selections

Quarterbacks

Jack Connor, NYU (AP-1, UP-1)
Robert B. MacPhail, Dartmouth (AP-2, UP-2)

Halfbacks

Gibby Welch, Pittsburgh (AP-1, UP-1)
Alton Marsters, Dartmouth (AP-1, UP-1)
Eddie Wittmer, Princeton (AP-2, UP-2)
Paul Scull, Penn (AP-2)
Chris Cagle, Army (UP-2)

Fullbacks

Bill Amos, Washington & Jefferson (AP-1, UP-1)
Mike Miles, Princeton (AP-2)
Frank Briante, NYU (UP-2)

Ends

Stewart Scott, Yale (AP-1, UP-1)
George Cole, Dartmouth (AP-1)
Charles F. Born, Army (UP-1)
Charles R. Moeser, Princeton (AP-2)
Delph, Penn State (AP-2)
Joseph Lenzer, Penn (UP-2)
Dwight Fishwick, Yale (UP-2)

Tackles

Bud Sprague, Army (AP-1, UP-1)
Ed Hake, Penn (AP-1, UP-1)
Jim Fitzgerald, Tufts (AP-2, UP-2)
Bill Kern, Pittsburgh (AP-2)
Sidney S. Quarrier, Yale (UP-2)

Guards

Bill Webster, Yale (AP-1, UP-1)
August Cervini, Holy Cross (AP-2, UP-1)
Bruce Dumont, Colgate (AP-1)
Woerner, Navy (AP-2)
Miller, Amherst (UP-2)
Edward Burke, Navy (UP-2)

Centers

Claude Grigsby, Georgetown (AP-1, UP-2)
John Charlesworth, Yale (AP-2, UP-1)

Key

AP = Associated Press, selected from opinions of 56 critics, sport writers, and officials in the East^[1]
UP = United Press^[2]

See also

1927 College Football All-America Team

Notes and References

News: All-Eastern Team Is Selected by Critics, Writers. The Daily Record. November 28, 1927. 10. Newspapers.com.
News: Bruce Caldwell Fails to Get Place on All-Eastern Teams. Buffalo Evening News. November 22, 1927. 29. Newspapers.com.