The 1963 All-East 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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. The

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was ranked No. 2 in the final AP and UPI polls. Navy's quarterback

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won the 1963

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and was named to the All-Eastern first team by both the AP and the UPI. The 1963 Pittsburgh Panthers football team was ranked No. 3 in the final UPI poll (No. 4 in the AP poll) and placed three players on the first team: halfback Paul Martha; tackle Ernie Borghetti; and guard

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Backs

, Navy (AP-1, UPI-1 b * Paul Martha, Pittsburgh (AP-1, UPI-1 b * Cosmo Iacavazzi, Princeton (AP-1, UPI-1 b * Mike Brown, Delaware (AP-1) * Gary Wood, Cornell (AP-1) * Ken Waldrop, Army (UPI-1) * Jack Concannon, Boston College (AP-2) * Archie Roberts, Columbia (AP-2) * Rick Leeson, Pittsburgh (AP-2) * John Sai, Navy (AP-2) * Jerry Whelchel, Massachusetts (AP-3) * Pete Liske, Penn State (AP-3) * Tom Spangenberg, Dartmouth (AP-3) * Bill Grana, Harvard (AP-3)

Ends

* Jim Whalen, Boston College (AP-1, UPI-1) * John Parry, Brown (AP-1) * Dick Bowers, Syracuse (UPI-1) * Al Grigaliunas, Pittsburgh (AP-2) * Scott Creelman, Dartmouth (AP-2) * Jim Campbell, Navy (AP-3) *

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, Penn State (AP-3)

Tackles

* Ernie Borghetti, Pittsburgh (AP-1, UPI-1) * Jim Freeman, Navy (AP-2, UPI-1) * Gerry Philbin, Buffalo (AP-1) * Al Atkinson, Villanova (AP-2) * Bill Guedel, Princeton (AP-3) * Perry Wickstrom, Yale (AP-3)

Guards

* Dick Nowak, Army (AP-1, UPI-1) * Glenn Ressler, Penn State (AP-1) *

, Pittsburgh (UPI-1) * Bill Budness, Boston University (AP-2) * Fred Marlin, Navy (AP-2) * Bill Thompson, Coast Guard (AP-3) * Dick Cremin, Boston College (AP-3)

Center

* Jon Morris, Holy Cross (AP-1, UPI-1) * Ed Contin, Syracuse (AP-2) * Brad Stephens, Harvard (AP-3)

Key

* AP =

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* UPI =

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References

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