Consensus All-Americans
With the proliferation of All-American selectors, the Romelke Press Clipping Bureau assembled a consensus All-American team based on its compilation of the votes of "nearly every important pressman who has picked an All-American team." In addition to naming players to five All-American teams based on the consensus voting, Romelke also compiled the total number of votes compiled by each school and ranked how the schools ranked in the voting. The team statistics compiled by Romelke showed the following schools receiving the highest vote count.
| School | Votes | Members | Names of members |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 385 | 7 | Harry Kipke (99), Paul Goebel (67), Bernard Kirk (66), Stanley Muirhead (51), Irwin Uteritz (30), Oliver Aas (29), Franklin Cappon (23) |
| Iowa | 345 | 5 | Gordon Locke (111), Paul Minnick (93), John Heldt (69), Thompson (39), Max Kadesky (33) |
| Chicago | 268 | 4 | McMillen (83), King (66), John Webster Thomas (65), Fletcher (64) |
| Princeton | 259 | 4 | Herb Treat (96), Gray (93), Baker (38), Dickinson (25) |
| Army | 254 | 5 | Edgar Garbisch (78), Fritz Breidster (76), Smythe (48), Mulligan (31), Wood (23) |
| Cornell | 239 | 3 | Eddie Kaw (122), Hanson (64), George Pfann (33) |
| Harvard | 227 | 3 | George Owen (113), Charles C. Buell (58), Charles Hubbard (54) |
| Wisconsin | 211 | 4 | Marty Below (57), Barr (55), Gus Tebell (51), Williams (47) |
| Lafayette | 133 | 2 | Frank Schwab (94), Brunner (30) |
| Brown | 97 | 1 | Mike Gulian (97) |
Several major teams finished the season with undefeated records, including Cornell (8-0-0), Princeton (8-0-0), California (9-0-0), Iowa (7-0), West Virginia (10-0-1), Vanderbilt (8-0-1), Michigan (6-0-1), and Army (8-0-2). Each of these teams was well represented on the All-American teams for 1922.
Michigan back and punter Harry Kipke was selected by some as the best football player of the 1922 season, and was named a first-team All-American by six of the nine major selectors. Kipke is considered one of Michigan's all-time great athletes, having lettered nine times in football, basketball, and baseball. Kipke also went on to coach Michigan to two national championships in the 1930s.
Iowa quarterback Gordon Locke was the only player chosen as a first-team All-American by all nine major selectors. Locke led the undefeated 1922 Iowa Hawkeyes to a 6-0 win over Yale, which had never before lost to a team from the "West". After returning by train from Yale, Locke scored Iowa's only touchdown in an 8-7 win over Illinois.
Cornell back Eddie Kaw was chosen as a first-team All-American by eight of the nine major selectors, and Princeton tackle Herb Treat and California end Harold "Brick" Muller were selected by six of the nine. Kaw and Muller were both inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, and Muller also won acclaim as the silver medalist in the high jump at the 1920 Summer Olympics. Treat suffered a head injury when he was struck by a car in 1943 and died when he plunged nine stories from a Kansas City hotel in 1947.
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