The 1942 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 1942. The nine selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1942 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) Look magazine, (7) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), (8) Newsweek, and (9) the Sporting News. Two individuals were unanimous selections; they were Georgia halfback (and Heisman Trophy winner) Frank Sinkwich and Wisconsin end Dave Schreiner. Consensus All-Americans For the year 1942, 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 1942 Ends Dave Schreiner, Wisconsin (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-1; CO-1; INS-1; LK-1; NEA-1; NW; SN-1; UP-1; CP-1; NYS-1; WC-1; MS-1; PL) Bob Dove, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; INS-2; NEA-1; NW; SN-1; UP-1; CP-2; NYS-2; WC-1) Don Currivan, Boston College (AP-2; UP-2; INS-1; NEA-3; CO-1; NYS-1) Bob Shaw, Ohio State (AP-1; SN-3; CP-1) George Poschner, Georgia (AP-2; UP-2; SN-2; CP-3; NEA-2; MS-1) Bruce Alford, TCU (AP-3) Al Hust, Tennessee (AP-3; INS-2; NEA-2) Nick Suseoff, Washington State ( NYS-2) James Kelleher, Army (SN-3; NEA-3) Bert Kuczynski, Penn (LK-1) Pete Pihos, Indiana (PL) Bob Gantt, Duke (SN-2) Al Beals, Santa Clara (CP-2) Saxon Judd, Tulsa (CP-3) Tackles Dick Wildung, Minnesota (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-1; CO-1; LK-1; NEA-1; NW; SN-1; UP-1; CP-1; NYS-1; WC-1; MS-1; PL) Al Wistert, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-2; LK-1; NEA-3; NW; SN-2; UP-1; CP-3; NYS-1; WC-1; MS-1; PL) Clyde Johnson, Kentucky (AP-1) Stan Mauldin, Texas (AP-2; CP-1) Don Whitmire, Alabama (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-3; SN-3; NEA-1) Norm Verry, USC (AP-3) Derrell Palmer, TCU (SN-3; INS-1; CP-2) Francis E. Merritt, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (CP-2; NEA-2) Al Klug, Marquette (CP-3) Chuck Csuri, Ohio State (UP-2; SN-2; INS-1; NYS-2) Gil Bouley, Boston College (UP-2; SN-1; CP-2; NEA-3) Robin Olds, Army (CO-1; NYS-2) Lou Rymkus, Notre Dame ( NEA-2) Don McCafferty, Ohio State (INS-2) John Donaldson, Penn (INS-2) Guards Harvey Hardy, Georgia Tech (AP-2; INS-1; NEA-1; NW; UP-1; CP-1; NYS-1) Chuck Taylor, Stanford (College Football Hall of Fame)(AAB; AP-1;