1955 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The consensus 1955 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of six major All-American teams.[1] To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, Look Magazine, The United Press International, the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), Collier's Magazine and the International News Service.
| 1955 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | 1954–55 NCAA men's basketball season |
1955 Consensus All-America team
| Player | Position | Class | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dick Garmaker | G | Senior | Minnesota |
| Tom Gola | F | Senior | La Salle |
| Sihugo Green | G | Junior | Duquesne |
| Dick Ricketts | F/C | Senior | Duquesne |
| Bill Russell | C | Junior | San Francisco |
| Player | Position | Class | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darrell Floyd | G | Junior | Furman |
| Robin Freeman | G | Junior | Ohio State |
| Dickie Hemric | C | Senior | Wake Forest |
| Don Schlundt | C | Senior | Indiana |
| Ronnie Shavlik | F/C | Junior | North Carolina State |
Individual All-America teams
| All-America Team | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First team | Second team | Third team | ||||||
| Player | School | Player | School | Player | School | |||
| Associated Press[2] | Darrell Floyd | Furman | Dick Garmaker | Minnesota | Dick Boushka | Saint Louis | ||
| Robin Freeman | Ohio State | Sihugo Green | Duquesne | Bob Burrow | Kentucky | |||
| Tom Gola | La Salle | Dickie Hemric | Wake Forest | Tom Heinsohn | Holy Cross | |||
| Dick Ricketts | Duquesne | Don Schlundt | Indiana | Maurice Stokes | St. Francis (PA) | |||
| Bill Russell | San Francisco | Ronnie Shavlik | North Carolina State | Buzz Wilkinson | Virginia | |||
| UPI | Dick Garmaker | Minnesota | Darrell Floyd | Furman | Tom Heinsohn | Holy Cross | ||
| Tom Gola | La Salle | Robin Freeman | Ohio State | Johnny Horan | Dayton | |||
| Sihugo Green | Duquesne | Dickie Hemric | Wake Forest | Ken Sears | Santa Clara | |||
| Dick Ricketts | Duquesne | Don Schlundt | Indiana | Jack Stephens | Notre Dame | |||
| Bill Russell | San Francisco | Ronnie Shavlik | North Carolina State | Maurice Stokes | St. Francis (PA) | |||
| Look Magazine[3] | Ed Conlin | Fordham | No second or third teams (10-man first team) | |||||
| Frank Ehmann | Northwestern | |||||||
| Dick Garmaker | Minnesota | |||||||
| Tom Gola | La Salle | |||||||
| Sihugo Green | Duquesne | |||||||
| Dickie Hemric | Wake Forest | |||||||
| Bob Patterson | Tulsa | |||||||
| Dick Ricketts | Duquesne | |||||||
| Bill Russell | San Francisco | |||||||
| Maurice Stokes | St. Francis (PA) | |||||||
| NEA | Dick Garmaker | Minnesota | Ed Conlin | Fordham | Art Bunte | Utah | ||
| Tom Gola | La Salle | Dick Ricketts | Duquesne | Tom Heinsohn | Holy Cross | |||
| Sihugo Green | Duquesne | Ronnie Shavlik | North Carolina State | Bob Patterson | Tulsa | |||
| Dickie Hemric | Wake Forest | Maurice Stokes | St. Francis (PA) | Don Schlundt | Indiana | |||
| Bill Russell | San Francisco | Jack Twyman | Cincinnati | Ken Sears | Santa Clara | |||
| International News Service | Dick Garmaker | Minnesota | Art Bunte | Utah | No third team | |||
| Tom Gola | La Salle | Dickie Hemric | Wake Forest | |||||
| Sihugo Green | Duquesne | Bob McKeen | California | |||||
| Bill Russell | San Francisco | Dick Ricketts | Duquesne | |||||
| Ronnie Shavlik | North Carolina State | Jack Twyman | Cincinnati | |||||
| Collier's | Robin Freeman | Ohio State | Dick Garmaker | Minnesota | Jesse Arnelle | Penn State | ||
| Tom Gola | La Salle | Tom Heinsohn | Holy Cross | Ed Conlin | Fordham | |||
| Sihugo Green | Duquesne | Dickie Hemric | Wake Forest | Darrell Floyd | Furman | |||
| Dick Ricketts | Duquesne | Jack Stephens | Notre Dame | Ronnie Shavlik | North Carolina State | |||
| Don Schlundt | Indiana | Bill Russell | San Francisco | Maurice Stokes | St. Francis (PA) | |||
AP Honorable Mention:[4]
- Jesse Arnelle, Penn State
- Denver Brackeen, Ole Miss
- Art Bunte, Utah
- Carl Cain, Iowa
- Ed Conlin, Fordham
- Walter Devlin, George Washington
- Frank Ehmann, Northwestern
- Bill Evans, Kentucky
- Ed Fleming, Niagara
- Swede Halbrook, Oregon State
- Jerry Harper, Alabama
- Joe Holup, George Washington
- Johnny Horan, Dayton
- Rod Hundley, West Virginia
- Cleo Littleton, Wichita State
- Bob McKeen, California
- Chuck Mencel, Minnesota
- Warren Mills, Richmond
- Johnny Moore, UCLA
- Jerry Mullen, San Francisco
- Dick O'Neal, Texas Christian
- Bob Patterson, Tulsa
- Art Quimby, Connecticut
- Jim Reed, Texas Tech
- Bill Ridley, Illinois
- Ken Sears, Santa Clara
- Jack Stephens, Notre Dame
- Ron Tomsic, Stanford
- Jack Twyman, Cincinnati
- Dick Welsh, Southern California
See also
References
- NCAA Record Book - Award Winners p.137. Accessed 2009-05-05. 2009-05-04.
- AP All-America Teams
- 2005 NCAA Basketball's Finest - All-Americans (UPI, Look, NEA, Collier's & International News Service) p.208
- "Gola All-America Cager for Third Straight Year". St. Petersburg Times'. March 3, 1955. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
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