The 1955 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 1955. The eight selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1955 season are (1) the All-America Board (AAB), (2) the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), (3) the Associated Press, (4) the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), (5) the International News Service (INS), (6) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), (7) the Sporting News (SN), and (8) the United Press (UP).
Consensus All-Americans
For the year 1955, the NCAA recognizes eight 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 1955
Ends
Ron Beagle, Navy
Ron Kramer, Michigan
Howard Schnellenberger, Kentucky
Joe Walton, Pittsburgh
Rommie Loudd, UCLA
Harold Burnine, Missouri
Tom Maentz, Michigan
John Paluck, Pittsburgh
Bill Walker, Maryland
Joe Tuminello, LSU
Jim Katcavage, Dayton
Dave Howard, Wisconsin
Henry Gremminger, Baylor
Menan Schriewer, Texas
Tackles
Norm Masters, Michigan State
Bruce Bosley, West Virginia
Sam Huff, West Virginia
John Witte, Oregon State
Frank D'Agostino, Auburn
Mike Sandusky, Maryland
Paul Wiggin, Stanford
Herb Gray, Texas
Phil Tarasovic, Yale
Francis Machinsky, Ohio State
Carl Vereen, Georgia Tech
Roger Siesel, Miami (Ohio) Fred Robinson, Washington John Jankins, Arizona State
Guards
Bo Bolinger, Oklahoma
Cal Jones, Iowa (Outland Trophy and College Football Hall of Fame) Hardiman Cureton, UCLA Jim Parker, Ohio State Tony Sardisco, Tulane Pat Bisceglia, Notre Dame Scott Suber, Mississippi State James D. Brown, UCLA Orlando Ferrante, USC Buck Nystrom, Michigan State Jim Buonopane, Holy Cross William Meigs, Harvard Franklin Brooks, Georgia Tech Bryan Burnthorne, Tulane
Centers
Bob Pellegrini, Maryland
Hugh Pitts, Texas Christian
Jerry Tubbs, Oklahoma (College Football Hall of Fame) Ken Vargo, Ohio State Steve DeLatorre, Florida
Quarterbacks
Earl Morrall, Michigan State
George Welsh, Navy
Claude Benham, Columbia
Halfbacks
Howard Cassady, Ohio State
Paul Hornung, Notre Dame
Jim Swink, TCU
Jon Arnett, Southern California
Tommy McDonald, Oklahoma
Art Davis, Mississippi State
Ed Vereb, Maryland
Jim Brown, Syracuse
Gary Glick, Colorado A&M
Sam Brown, UCLA
Charley Horton, Vanderbilt
Fob James, Auburn
Lenny Moore, Penn State (Pro Football Hall of Fame) Charley Sticka, Trinity Paige Cothren, Mississippi Bob Pascal, Duke
Fullbacks
Don Schaefer, Notre Dame
Joe Childress, Auburn
Bob Davenport, UCLA
Jerry Planutis, Michigan State
Key
Bold – Consensus All-American
-1 – First-team selection
-2 – Second-team selection
-3 – Third-team selection
Official selectors
AAB = All-America Board
AFCA = American Football Coaches Association, for Collier's Weekly magazine
AP = Associated Press
FWAA = Football Writers Association of America
INS = International News Service: selected based on "recommendations of INS football experts from coast-to-coast with the assistance of coaches, scouts, broadcasters and newspaper sports editors." NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association: All-Americans selected by the NEA received "solid gold Longines-Wittnauer watches, handsome and specially designed certificates and, perhaps best of all, testimonial dinners in their old home towns." SN = Sporting News UP = United Press
Other selectors
CP = Central Press Association
Jet - Jet magazine
NBC - National Broadcasting Co. WC - Walter Camp Football Foundation