The 1937 All-Eastern football team consists of

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players chosen by various selectors as the best players at each position among the Eastern colleges and universities during the

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All-Eastern selections

Quarterbacks

* Clint Frank, Yale (AP-1, NEA-1 AK, PW b * Dick Riffle, Albright (AP-2, NEA-3) *

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, West Virginia (NEA-2)

Halfbacks

* Marshall Goldberg, Pittsburgh (AP-1, NEA-1 AK, PW) *

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, Columbia (AP-1, NEA-1 AK, PW) * Harold Stebbins, Pittsburgh (AP-2) * Bob MacLeod, Dartmouth (AP-2, NEA-2) * Renzo, Villanova (NEA-2) * Ingram, Navy (NEA-3) * Bill Hutchinson, Dartmouth (NEA-3)

Fullbacks

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, Holy Cross (AP-1, NEA-1 AK) * Dave Colwell, Yale (PW, NEA-3) * Vernon Struck, Harvard (AP-2, NEA-2)

Ends

* Jerome H. Holland, Cornell (AP-1, NEA-2, AK, PW) * John Wysocki, Villanova (AP-1, NEA-1) * Merrill Davis, Dartmouth (AP-2, NEA-1) * Frank Souchak, Pittsburgh (AP-2, NEA-2, AK, PW) * Hoxton, Yale (NEA-3) * Jack Daly, Manhattan (NEA-3)

Tackles

* Tony Matisi, Pittsburgh (AP-1, NEA-1, AK, PW) * Al Babartsky, Fordham (AP-2, AK, PW) * Ed Franco, Fordham (AP-1, NEA-1, AK PW * John Mellus, Villanova (AP-2) * Alex Kevorkian, Harvard (NEA-2) * Francis Schildgen, Dartmouth (NEA-2) * Red Chesbro, Colgate (NEA-3) * Charles Toll, Princeton (NEA-3)

Guards

* Albin Lezouski, Pittsburgh (AP-1, NEA-3) * Gus Zitrides, Dartmouth (AP-1) * Elliot Hooper, Cornell (NEA-1) * Ray DuBois, Navy (NEA-1) * Bob McNamara, Penn (AP-2, NEA-2, AK) * Johnny Nee, Harvard (PW) * Sid Roth, Cornell (AP-2) * John Economos, Penn State (NEA-2) * Carr, Holy Cross (NEA-3)

Centers

* Alex Wojciechowicz, Fordham (AP-1, NEA-1, AK, PW) * Franklin Hartline, Army (AP-2) * Jim Gallagher, Yale (NEA-2) * John Quigg, Lafayette (NEA-3)

Key

* AP =

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* NEA =

Newspaper Enterprise Association The Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) is an editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States and established in 1902. The oldest syndicate still in operation, the NEA was originally a secondary new ...

* AK =

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* PW =

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References

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