Walter Camp's "official" Selections
The only individual who has been recognized as an "official" selector by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for the 1910 season is Walter Camp. Accordingly, the NCAA's official listing of "Consensus All-America Selections" mirrors Camp's first-team picks. Eight of Camp's first-team All-Americans in 1910 played on teams from the Ivy League. The only players recognized by Camp from outside the Ivy League were Albert Benbrook and Stanfield Wells from Michigan and James Walker of Minnesota.
Camp's first-team selections for 1910 were:
- Albert Benbrook, guard from Michigan. Benbrook was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971. He weighed over 200 pounds, was considered "huge for his time," and was known as a "dominating force" due to his "exceptional quickness."
- Ernest Cozens, center from Penn. Cozens was "one of the first of the roving centers." In the 1910 game between Penn and the Haskell Indian School, Cozens intercepted a pass and returned it 80 yards for a touchdown. He was also the catcher for the Penn baseball team. After graduating from Penn, Cozens was a football coach at Carnegie Tech.
- Bob Fisher, guard from Harvard. Fisher later coached Harvard from 1910 to 1925 and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1973.
- John "Kil" Kilpatrick. Kilpatrick played at the end position for Yale. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955. He later ran Madison Square Garden for more than 25 years and oversaw the operations of the New York Rangers from 1934 to 1960. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1960.
- Robert McKay, tackle for Harvard. McKay later served as the commander of the 305th Infantry Machine Gun Division, known as "Death", during World War I.
- Leroy Mercer, fullback for Penn, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955.
- Talbot Pendleton, halfback from Princeton. Talbot was also a sprinter for Princeton's track team.
- Earl Sprackling, quarterback from Brown. Sprackling was inducted into the College Football of Fame in 1964.
- James Walker, tackle from Minnesota. Walker later became an orthopedic surgeon.
- Stanfield Wells, end from Michigan. Though known principally as an end, Wells was Michigan's first forward passer of note. He threw two passes to help Michigan win the Western Conference championship against Minnesota in 1910. He later played professional football.
- Percy Wendell, halfback from Harvard. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972. He later coached football at Boston University, Williams College, and Lehigh.
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