The 1940 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 1940. The nine selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1940 season are (1) Collier's Weekly, as selected by Grantland Rice, (2) the Associated Press (AP), (3) the United Press (UP), (4) the All-America Board (AAB), (5) the International News Service (INS), (6) Liberty magazine, (7) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), (8) Newsweek, and (9) the Sporting News (SN). Michigan halfback (and Heisman Trophy winner) Tom Harmon, Texas A&M fullback John Kimbrough, and Tennessee guard Bob Suffridge were the only three unanimous first-team All-Americans chosen by all nine official selectors. Consensus All-Americans For the year 1940, 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 1940 Ends Gene Goodreault, Boston College (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; CO-1; INS-1; NW; SN; UP-1; CP-1; DH; FD-1; WC-1; NEA-2) David Rankin, Purdue (AAB; AP-2; CO-1; INS-2; SN; UP-1; CP-2; FD-2; WC-1) Paul Severin, North Carolina (AP-1; INS-2; NEA-1; NW; UP-2; CP-2; DH; FD-1) Buddy Elrod, Mississippi State (AP-1; LIB; CP-1; NYS-1; NEA-3) Ed Frutig, Michigan (AP-3; INS-1; LIB; UP-3; CP-3) Jay MacDowell, Washington (NEA-1; CP-4; NYS-1) Joe Blalock, Clemson (UP-2) Loren MacKinney, Harvard (AP-2) William Jennings, Oklahoma (AP-3) Bob Ison, Georgia Tech (UP-3) Roland Goss, SMU (CP-3) Smith, UCLA (FD-2) Holt Rast, Alabama (NEA-2; CP-4) Jack Russell, Baylor (NEA-3) Tackles Alf Bauman, Northwestern (AAB; AP-3; CO-1; INS-2; UP-1; CP-3; FD-2; NYS-1; WC-1; NEA-3) Nick Drahos, Cornell (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-1; INS-1; LIB; NEA-1; NW; SN; UP-1; INS-1; CP-1; DH; FD-1; WC-1) Urban Odson, Minnesota (INS-1; LIB; NW; UP-2; CP-1; FD-2) Bob Reinhard, California (AP-1; CO-1; INS-2; CP-2; NEA-2) Forrest Behm, Nebraska (NEA-1) Tony Ruffa, Duke (AP-2; UP-3; CP-2; NEA-2) Fred Hartman, Rice (AP-2; CP-4) Vic Sears, Oregon State (CP-4; NYS-1) Joe Ungerer, Fordham (AP-3) Mike Enich, Iowa (UP-2; SN; DH; FD-1) Chip Routt, Texas A&M (UP-3) William Collins, Lafayette () Abe Shires, Tennessee (CP-3; NEA-3) Guards Bob Suffridge, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AAB; AP-1; INS-1; CO-1; LIB; NEA-1; NW; SN; UP-1; CP-1; NYS-1; DH; FD-1; WC-1) Marshall Robnett, Texas A&M (AAB; AP-2; INS-2; NW; UP-1; CP-1; DH; FD-1; WC-1; NEA-3) Warren