The 1972 Little All-America college football team, also known as the College Division All-America football team, is composed of college football players from small colleges and universities who were selected by the Associated Press (AP) as the best players at each position. For 1972, the AP selected three teams, each team having separate offensive and defensive platoons.[1]
| Position | Player | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Offense | |||
| QB | Bob Biggs | Style = | UC Davis |
| RB | Jimmy Edwards | Style = | Northeast Louisiana |
| Billy "White Shoes" Johnson | Style = | Widener | |
| Mike Deutsch | Style = | North Dakota | |
| WR | Roger Carr | Style = | Louisiana Tech |
| TE | James Moore | Style = | McNeese State |
| T | David Taylor | Style = | Catawba |
| Robert Woods | Style = | Tennessee State | |
| G | Gary Kipling | Style = | South Dakota |
| Curtis Wester | Style = | East Texas State | |
| C | Bob Daigle | Style = | Southwest Texas State |
| Defense | |||
| DE | Joe Carpone | Style = | Delaware |
| Barney Chavous | Style = | South Carolina State | |
| DT | Gary "Big Hands" Johnson | Style = | Grambling |
| Elex Price | Style = | Alcorn A&M | |
| LB | Waymond Bryant | Style = | Tennessee State |
| Stan Cherry | Style = | Morgan State | |
| Brian Kelley | Style = | Cal Lutheran | |
| Jim Youngblood | Style = | Tennessee Tech | |
| DB | Mike Amos | Style = | Cal Poly |
| Steve Dennis | Style = | Grambling | |
| Bruce Polen | Style = | William Penn | |
| Position | Player | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Offense | |||
| QB | Joe Carpone | Style = | Delaware |
| RB | Don Aleksiweicz | Style = | Hobart |
| Johnny Baker | Style = | Ouachita Baptist | |
| Kenneth Parks | Style = | East Texas State | |
| WR | Tim George | Style = | Carson–Newman |
| TE | Ron Mayo | Style = | Morgan State |
| T | Bracey Bonham | Style = | North Carolina Central |
| Paul Krause | Style = | Central Michigan | |
| G | David Nollner | Style = | Western Kentucky |
| Bob Poss | Style = | Indiana State | |
| C | Mark Walsh | Style = | Illinois Benedictine |
| Defense | |||
| DE | Ed "Too Tall" Jones | Style = | Tennessee State |
| Archie Pearmon | Style = | Northeastern Oklahoma State | |
| DT | Dennis Johnson | Style = | Delaware |
| Bill Kollar | Style = | Montana State | |
| LB | Ron Klawitter | Style = | Wittenberg |
| Steve Nelson | Style = | North Dakota State | |
| Larry Rawlinson | Style = | McNeese State | |
| Steve Yates | Style = | Western Carolina | |
| DB | Mike Holmes | Style = | Texas Southern |
| Doug Jones | Style = | Cal State Northridge | |
| Don Walker | Style = | Central State (OH) | |
| Position | Player | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Offense | |||
| QB | Kim McQuilken | Style = | Lehigh |
| RB | Harold Hill | Style = | Glassboro State |
| Chuck Markey | Style = | Central Michigan | |
| Phil Pope | Style = | Middlebury | |
| WR | Chuck Cornell | Style = | Bridgeport |
| TE | Bill Schlegel | Style = | Lehigh |
| T | Stan Durant | Style = | Bucknell |
| Connie Wassink | Style = | Northwestern (IA) | |
| G | Joe Kotval | Style = | Buena Vista |
| Marc Crevier | Style = | Ashland | |
| C | Mike Evanson | Style = | North Dakota State |
| Defense | |||
| DE | Harvey Martin | Style = | East Texas State |
| Tom Ramsey | Style = | Northern Arizona | |
| DT | Fred Dean | Style = | Louisiana Tech |
| Mike Samples | Style = | Drake | |
| LB | Wiley Epps | Style = | Kentucky State |
| Mike Leidy | Style = | Hampden–Sydney | |
| Ken Pettus | Style = | Newberry | |
| Gary Weaver | Style = | Fresno State | |
| DB | Dave Balmeri | Style = | IUP |
| Phil Borlas | Style = | Fresno State | |
| Tom Rezzuti | Style = | Northeastern | |