1916 All-Pacific Coast football team

The 1916 All-Pacific Coast football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Pacific Coast teams for the 1916 college football season.

The Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) was founded on December 2, 1915, at a meeting at the Imperial Hotel in Portland, Oregon.[1] Charter members were the University of California (now University of California, Berkeley), the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University). The conference began play in 1916, and the 1916 All-Pacific Coast football team was the first all-conference team selected from players within the conference.

All-Pacific Coast selections

Quarterback

• Charles A. Huntington, Oregon (AS-1; GV-1; ODJ; PS-1)
• Johnson, Washington (GV-2)

Halfbacks

• Fred T. Brooks, California (AS-1; GV-1; ODJ [tie]; PS-1)
• Elmer Noble, Washington (AS-1; ODJ [tie]; GV-2)
• Johnny Parsons, Oregon (PS-1)
• Orville Monteith, Oregon (GV-2)

Fullback

• Leroy B. Sharp, California (AS-1 [fullback]; GV-1 [halfback]; ODJ [tie-fullback])
• Ernest Murphy, Washington (GV-1; ODJ [tie]; PS-1)
• Newman, Oregon Agricultural (GV-2)

Ends

• Willis Montgomery, California (AS-1; GV-1; ODJ; PS-1)
• Brick Mitchell, Oregon (AS-1; GV-1; ODJ; PS-1)
• R. L. Tegart, Oregon (GV-2)
• Bissett, Oregon Agricultural (GV-2)

Tackles

• John Beckett, Oregon (AS-1; GV-1; ODJ; PS-1)
• Claude Monlux, California (AS-1; GV-1)
• William Grimm, Washington (AS-1; ODJ; PS-1; GV-2)
• Ken Bartlett, Oregon (GV-2)

Guards

• Elmer Snyder, Oregon (GV-1; ODJ; PS-1)
• Louis Seagrave, Washington (AS-1 [guard]; GV-1; ODJ; PS-1)
• Morrison, Washington (GV-2)
• McNeil, Oregon Agricultural (GV-2)

Centers

• Jake Risley, Oregon (AS-1; GV-1; ODJ)
• William Russell, California (PS-1; GV-2)

Key

AS = Andy Smith, head coach of the University of California football team from 1916 to 1925[2]

GV = George Varnell, Pacific Coast Conference referee residing in Spokane, who selected all-conference teams for both the Pacific Coast Conference and the Northwest Conference.[3][4]

ODJ = Oregon Daily Journal, based on compiling the All-Pacific Conference teams selected by George Varnell, Spokane; Plowden Stott, L. M. Kennedy, Roscoe Fawcett, and R.A. Cronin of Portland; Andy Smith, California coach, and the Seattle Times[5]

PS = Plowden Stott, "who officiated as umpire in a majority of the important clashes in the coast and pacific northwest circles"[6]

See also

• 1916 College Football All-America Team

References

1. (Portland) Oregon Daily Journal, December 3, 1915. "Four Colleges Form Coast Conference at Very Secret Session"
2. "California Coach Names Team". The Oregon Daily Journal (Portland, Oregon). December 3, 1916. p. 18.
3. "Varnell Selects Players of Northwest". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. December 14, 1916. p. 12.
4. Varnell, George M. (December 2, 1916). "Picks Two All-Star Elevens — Best of Northwest and Pacific Coast Conference Football Players Grouped Respectively Into First and Second Elevens". Spokane Daily Chronicle. p. 12.
5. "Two Oregon and One Washington Man Unanimous". The Oregon Daily Journal. December 5, 1916. p. 15.
6. "Plowden Stott Gives Places to Sextet of Lemon-Yellow Team". The Oregon Daily Journal. December 3, 1916. p. 18.