1963 College Football All-America Team

The 1963 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 1963. The seven selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1963 season are (1) the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), (2) the Associated Press (AP),^[1] (3) the Central Press Association (CP), (4) the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), (5) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), (6) the Sporting News, and (7) the United Press International (UPI).

Consensus All-Americans

For the year 1963, the NCAA recognizes seven published All-American teams as "official" designations for purposes of its consensus determinations.^[2] Four players were unanimously chosen as first-team All-Americans by all seven official selectors. They were: (1) Navy quarterback Roger Staubach, who was awarded the 1963 Heisman Trophy; (2) Illinois center/linebacker Dick Butkus, won the 1963 Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Big Ten Conference's Most Valuable Player; (3) tackle Scott Appleton who won the Outland Trophy and led the 1963 Texas Longhorns football team to a national championship; and (4) Nebraska guard Bob "The Boomer" Brown, who was the second player chosen in the 1964 NFL draft. Staubach, Butkus and Brown were each subsequently inducted into both the College and Pro Football Hall of Fames. The consensus All-American team also included College and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees Gale Sayers (running back, Kansas) and Carl Eller (tackle, Minnesota).

The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans and displays which first-team designations they received.

Name	Position	School	Number	Official	Other
Scott Appleton	Tackle	Texas	7/7	AFCA, AP, CP, FWAA, NEA, SN, UPI	FN, Time, WC
Bob Brown	Guard	Nebraska	7/7	AFCA, AP, CP, FWAA, NEA, SN, UPI	FN, Time, WC
Dick Butkus	Center	Illinois	7/7	AFCA, AP, CP, FWAA, NEA, SN, UPI	FN, Time, WC
Roger Staubach	Quarterback	Navy	7/7	AFCA, AP, CP, FWAA, NEA, SN, UPI	FN, Time, WC
Rick Redman	Guard	Washington	6/7	AFCA, CP, FWAA, NEA, SN, UPI	FN, WC
Carl Eller	Tackle	Minnesota	5/7	AFCA, AP, CP, FWAA, UPI	FN, Time, WC
Gale Sayers	Halfback	Kansas	5/7	AFCA, FWAA, NEA, SN, UPI	FN, WC
Vern Burke	End	Oregon State	4/7	AFCA, CP, FWAA, UPI	FN, WC
Larry Elkins	End	Baylor	3/7	CP, NEA, SN	FN, WC
Sherman Lewis	Halfback	Michigan State	3/7	AP, CP, UPI	FN, WC
Jim Grisham	Fullback	Oklahoma	3/7	CP, NEA, SN	FN
Paul Martha	Back-Safety	Pittsburgh	3/7	CP, NEA, SN	FN

Scott Appleton, Texas (AFCA-1, AP-1, FWAA, NEA-1, SN, UPI-1, CP, WC, FN, Time)
Carl Eller, Minnesota (AFCA-1, AP-1, FWAA, NEA-3, UPI-1, CP, WC, FN, Time)
Ernie Borghetti, Pittsburgh (AP-2, FWAA, NEA-3, FN)
Harry Schuh, Memphis State (NEA-1)
Ken Kortas, Louisville (FWAA)
Whaley Hall, Ole Miss (AFCA-2, UPI-2)
Ralph Neely, Oklahoma (AFCA-2, AP-2, UPI-2, FN)
Archie Sutton, Illinois (NEA-2, UPI-3)
Jim Freeman, Navy (NEA-2, FN)
Al Hillebrand, Stanford (FN)

Bob Brown, Nebraska (AFCA-1, AP-1, FWAA, NEA-1, SN, UPI-1, CP, WC, FN, Time)
Rick Redman, Washington (AFCA-1, FWAA, NEA-1, SN, UPI-1, CP, FN, WC)
Herschel Turner, Kentucky (SN, UPI-3 [tackle], Time)
Damon Bame, USC (AP-1, NEA-3, UPI-2)
Steve DeLong, Tennessee (AFCA-2, FWAA, UPI-3, FN)
Mike Reilly, Iowa (AP-2, FWAA)
Dick Nowak, Army (AFCA-2, UPI-2, FN)
Bob Lehman, Notre Dame (AP-2)
Ed Adamchik, Pittsburgh (NEA-2)
Bill Budness, Boston Univ. (NEA-2)
Don Croftcheck, Indiana (NEA-3)
Earl Lattimer, Michigan State (UPI-3, FN)
Robbie Hucklebridge, LSU (FN)

Dick Butkus, Illinois (AFCA-1, AP-1, FWAA, NEA-1, SN, UPI-1, CP, WC, FN, Time)
Kenny Dill, Mississippi (AP-2, FWAA, FN)
Ronnie Caveness, Arkansas (FN)
Malcolm Walker, Rice (NEA-2, UPI-3)
Ray Kubala, Texas A&M (AFCA-2)
Pat Watson, Mississippi State (UPI-2)
Orville Hudson, East Texas St. (NEA-3)

Roger Staubach, Navy (AFCA-1, AP-1, FWAA, NEA-1, SN, UPI-1, CP, WC, FN, Time)
Billy Lothridge, Georgia Tech (AP-1, FWAA, UPI-2, FN [halfback])
Don Trull, Baylor (AFCA-2, AP-2, FWAA, NEA-2, UPI-2, FN)
George Mira, Miami (AP-2)
Gary Wood, Cornell (NEA-2)
Bob Schweickert, Virginia Tech, (AP-3)^[3]

FN = The Football News, consisting of 33 selected by The Football News selection panel^[10]
Time = Time, the U.S. news magazine^[11]
WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation^[12]

^ "Schweickert named to third A-A team". The World-News. December 6, 1963. p. 20. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 9. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
^ "Schweickert named to third A-A team". The World-News. December 6, 1963. p. 20. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
^ "Coaches Association Says Jay Wilkinson All-American". Star News, Wilmington, N.C. November 26, 1963. p. 11.
^ Bob Hoobing (December 6, 1963). "Staubach, Sidle, Lewis, Lothridge On All-America". The Morning Record, Meriden, Conn. p. 4.
^ Ted Gangi (ed.). "FWAA All-America Since 1944: The All-Time Team" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 12, 2015. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
^ "Staubach Leads Youthful NEA All-Americans". Evening Independent, St. Petersburg, FL. December 2, 1963. p. 14A.
^ ESPN College Football Encyclopedia. ESPN Books. 2005. p. 1269. ISBN 1401337031.
^ "Wilkinson Named To UPI All-American Team". The Times-News, Hendersonville, N.C. December 5, 1963. p. 7.
^ Roger Stanton, ed. (November 30, 1963). "All-America Selected". The Football News. pp. 1, 3.
^ "Where the Money Will Go". Time. November 27, 1963. Archived from the original on July 27, 2009.
^ "Walter Camp Football Foundation All-American Selections". Walter Camp Football Foundation. Archived from the original on December 18, 2007. Retrieved April 5, 2009.