The 1938 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1938. The nine selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1938 season are (1) Collier's Weekly, as selected by Grantland Rice, (2) the Associated Press, (3) the United Press, (4) the All-America Board, (5) the International News Service (INS), (6) Liberty magazine, (7) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), (8) Newsweek, and (9) the Sporting News. Four players were unanimous All-Americans on all of the major All-American teams: TCU quarterback (and 1938 Heisman Trophy winner) Davey O'Brien, Pittsburgh fullback Marshall Goldberg, Michigan guard Ralph Heikkinen and Notre Dame tackle Ed Beinor. Consensus All-Americans For the year 1938, the NCAA recognizes nine published All-American teams as "official" designations for purposes of its consensus determinations. The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans and displays which first-team designations they received. All-American selections for 1938 Ends Jerome H. Holland, Cornell (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; NEA-2; NW; SN; ID-1) Bowden Wyatt, Tennessee (AAB; AP-2; CO-1; NEA-2; NYS-1) Waddy Young, Oklahoma (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; CP-1; CO-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; WC-1; INS; LIB; NW; ID-1; DT; PW) Earl Brown, Notre Dame (AAB; AP-2; NEA-3; WC-1; LIB; ID-2; DT) Bill Daddio, Pittsburgh (UP-1; SN; AP-3) John Wysocki, Villanova (UP-1; CP-1; NEA-1; ID-2; PW) Howard Weiss, Wisconsin (NEA-2 [fullback]; INS; ID-1 [halfback]) John Shirk, Oklahoma (NEA-3) Sam Boyd, Baylor (AP-3) Tackles Ed Beinor, Notre Dame (AAB; AP-1; UP-1; CP-1; CO-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; WC-1; INS; LIB; NW; SN; ID-1; DT; PW); Alvord Wolff, Santa Clara (AP-1; UP-1; NEA-1; INS; NW; SN; ID-2; PW) William McKeever, Cornell (CO-1; DT; AP-3) A. Sidney Roth, Cornell (AP-2 [guard]; CO-1, (NYS-1) [guard]) I. B. Hale, TCU (AP-2; NEA-2; LIB; ID-1) Bo Russell, Auburn (AP-2) Bob Voigts, Northwestern (AAB; WC-1) Joe Delaney, Holy Cross (NEA-3; NYS-1) Steve Maronic, North Carolina (NEA-2; CP-1; AP-3) Eddie Gatto, LSU (ID-2) Joe Boyd, Texas A&M (NEA-3) Guards Ralph Heikkinen, Michigan (AAB; AP-1; UP-1; CP-1; CO-1; NEA-1; NYS-1; WC-1; INS; LIB; NW; SN; ID-2; DT; PW) Ed Bock, Iowa State (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1; NEA-1; LIB; ID-2) Bob Suffridge, Tennessee (UP-1; NEA-2; AP-3) Frank Twedell, Minnesota (AP-2; NEA-2; INS; SN; ID-1; PW) Harry Smith, USC (AAB; NEA-3; WC-1; NW; DT) Gus Zitrides, Dartmouth (CP-1; ID-1) Matt Landry, Rice (NEA-3) Vaughn Lloyd, BYU (AP-3)