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The Top Ranked
College Football Quarterbacks of the pre-1960s
Notes: Ranking Explanations
|
Rnk |
Athlete |
College |
|
1 |
Angelo Bertelli |
Notre Dame |
|
2 |
Johnny Lujack |
Notre Dame |
|
3 |
Clint Frank |
Yale |
|
4 |
Paul Hornung |
Notre Dame |
|
5 |
Davey O'Brien |
TCU |
|
6 |
Les Horvath |
Ohio St. |
|
7 |
Jack Scarbath |
Maryland |
|
8 |
Paul Governali |
Columbia |
|
9 |
Randy Duncan |
Iowa |
|
10 |
Richie Lucas |
Penn St. |
|
11 |
Frank Carideo |
Notre Dame |
|
12 |
Frankie Albert |
Stanford |
|
13 |
Babe Parilli |
Kentucky |
|
14 |
Bobby Grayson |
Stanford |
|
15 |
Paul Christman |
Missouri |
|
16 |
Don Meredith |
SMU |
|
17 |
Aubrey Devine |
Iowa |
|
18 |
George Pfann |
Cornell |
|
19 |
Gordon Locke |
Iowa |
|
20 |
Harry Newman |
Michigan |
|
21 |
Otto Graham |
Northwestern |
|
22 |
Cotton Warburton |
USC |
|
23 |
Sid Luckman |
Columbia |
|
24 |
George Welsh |
Navy |
|
25 |
Arnold Galiffa |
Army |
|
26 |
Earl Morrall |
Michigan St. |
|
27 |
Ralph Guglielmi |
Notre Dame |
|
28 |
Sammy Baugh |
TCU |
|
29 |
Bernie Faloney |
Maryland |
|
30 |
Charlie Conerly |
Ole Miss |
|
31 |
Bob Williams |
Notre Dame |
|
32 |
Donold Lourie |
Princeton |
|
33 |
Harry Stuhldreher |
Notre Dame |
|
34 |
Morley Drury |
USC |
|
35 |
Bob Garrett |
Stanford |
|
36 |
Paul Larson |
Cal |
|
37 |
Joe Kapp |
Cal |
|
38 |
Tom Forrestal |
Navy |
|
39 |
Stan Heath |
Nevada |
|
40 |
Arnie Tucker |
Army |
|
41 |
Bobby Layne |
Texas |
|
42 |
Frank Dancewicz |
Notre Dame |
|
43 |
Norm Van Brocklin |
Oregon |
|
44 |
Eddie Lebaron |
Pacific |
|
45 |
Bo McMillin |
Centre |
|
46 |
Larry Isbell |
Baylor |
|
47 |
John Brodie |
Stanford |
|
48 |
Dale Hackbart |
Wisconsin |
|
49 |
Benny Friedman |
Michigan |
|
50 |
Barry Wood |
Harvard |
|
51 |
George Shaw |
Oregon |
|
52 |
Doug Kenna |
Army |
|
53 |
Jack Mitchell |
Oklahoma |
|
54 |
Don Heinrich |
Washington |
|
55 |
Howard Harpster |
Carnegie Mellon |
|
56 |
Ken Ploen |
Iowa |
|
57 |
Pete Vann |
Army |
|
58 |
Lamar McHan |
Arkansas |
|
59 |
Bob McNamara |
Minnesota |
|
60 |
Lee Grosscup |
Utah |
|
61 |
Charles Daly |
Army/Harvard |
|
62 |
Philip King |
Princeton |
|
63 |
Walter Eckersall |
Chicago |
|
64 |
Charley Barrett |
Cornell |
|
65 |
Earl Sprackling |
Brown |
|
66 |
Art Howe |
Yale |
|
67 |
Foster Rockwell |
Yale |
|
68 |
Benny Boynton |
Williams |
|
69 |
John McGovern |
Minnesota |
|
70 |
Tad Jones |
Yale |
|
71 |
Vince Stevenson |
Penn |
|
72 |
Walter Steffen |
Chicago |
|
73 |
Bob Schloredt |
Washington |
|
74 |
Clarence Fincke |
Yale |
|
75 |
Clint Wyckoff |
Cornell |
|
76 |
Dudley Dean |
Harvard |
|
77 |
Edgar Allan Poe |
Princeton |
|
78 |
Ellery Huntington |
Colgate |
|
79 |
Frank Murrey |
Princeton |
|
80 |
George Adee |
Yale |
|
81 |
George Crowther |
Brown |
|
82 |
James Johnson |
Carlisle Indian |
|
83 |
Jimmy McFadden |
Clemson |
|
84 |
King Hill |
Rice |
|
85 |
Oscar Anderson |
Colgate |
|
86 |
Riley Smith |
Alabama |
|
87 |
Edward Dillon |
Princeton |
|
88 |
Alton Marsters |
Dartmouth |
|
89 |
Bill Spears |
Vanderbilt |
|
90 |
Chuck Ortmann |
Michigan |
|
91 |
Bill Ingram |
Navy |
|
92 |
Cliff Montgomery |
Columbia |
|
93 |
Walter Kennedy |
Chicago |
|
94 |
Fritz Shiverick |
Cornell |
|
95 |
Frank Hudson |
Carlisle Indian |
|
96 |
Arleigh Williams |
Cal |
|
97 |
Ben Raimondi |
Indiana |
|
98 |
Bob Celeri |
Cal |
|
99 |
Bob Wrenn |
Harvard |
|
100 |
Bobby Dodd |
Tennessee |
|
101 |
Boss Weeks |
Michigan |
|
102 |
Charles Buell |
Harvard |
|
103 |
Dutch Clark |
Colorado College |
|
104 |
Ed Lange |
Navy |
|
105 |
Ed Mioduszewski |
William & Mary |
|
106 |
Eddie Dooley |
Dartmouth |
|
107 |
Ernie Case |
UCLA |
|
108 |
F.L. Smith |
Princeton |
|
109 |
Fran Murray |
Penn |
|
110 |
George Pease |
Columbia |
|
111 |
Gus Dorais |
Notre Dame |
|
112 |
Guy Hutchinson |
Yale |
|
113 |
Guy Williamson |
Pitt |
|
114 |
John de Saulles |
Yale |
|
115 |
John McCauley |
Rice |
|
116 |
John Strubing |
Princeton |
|
117 |
Lyle Richeson |
Yale |
|
118 |
Milt Ghee |
Dartmouth |
|
119 |
Myron Witham |
Dartmouth |
|
120 |
Pat Pazetti |
Lehigh |
|
121 |
Paul Johnson |
Army |
|
122 |
Willard Ackley |
Syracuse |
|
123 |
William Frincke |
Yale |
|
124 |
William Morton |
Dartmouth |
|
125 |
Arnold Tucker |
Army |
|
126 |
Hoge Workman |
Ohio St. |
|
127 |
Charles Darling |
Boston College |
|
128 |
Ed Goddard |
Washington St. |
|
129 |
Alfred Brewster |
Cornell |
|
130 |
Bill Kelly |
Montana |
|
131 |
Bill Sewell |
Washington St. |
|
132 |
Don Scott |
Ohio St. |
|
133 |
Irwin Uteritz |
Michigan |
|
134 |
Len Dawson |
Purdue |
|
135 |
Sigmund Harris |
Minnesota |
|
136 |
Tommy Hughitt |
Michigan |
|
137 |
Vernon Prichard |
Army |
|
138 |
Allie Miller |
Penn |
|
139 |
Bill Wade |
Vanderbilt |
|
140 |
Carl Cramer |
Ohio St. |
|
141 |
Clyde Williams |
Iowa |
|
142 |
Donald Watson |
Harvard |
|
143 |
Everett Bacon |
Wesleyan |
|
144 |
Felix Vidal |
Army |
|
145 |
George Yong |
Cornell |
|
146 |
Glen Harmeson |
Purdue |
|
147 |
Harold Almquist |
Minnesota |
|
148 |
Howard Maple |
Oregon St. |
|
149 |
Jackie Parker |
Mississippi St. |
|
150 |
Jesse Freitas |
Santa Clara |
|
151 |
Keckie Moll |
Wisconsin |
|
152 |
Kenny Hyde |
Colorado St. |
|
153 |
Marshall Duffield |
USC |
|
154 |
Miller Munjas |
Pitt |
|
155 |
Ockie Anderson |
Colgate |
|
156 |
Harry Costello |
Georgetown |
|
157 |
Herb Covington |
Centre |
|
158 |
Shorty Miller |
Penn St. |
|
159 |
Alexander Wilson |
Yale |
|
160 |
Bob Monnett |
Michigan St. |
|
161 |
Claude Benham |
Columbia |
|
162 |
George Guttormsen |
Washington |
|
163 |
Gerald Mann |
SMU |
|
164 |
Irby Curry |
Vanderbilt |
|
165 |
James Dean |
Wisconsin |
|
166 |
Paul Russell |
Chicago |
|
167 |
Thomas Gill |
Indiana |
|
168 |
Al Bloodgood |
Nebraska |
|
169 |
Al Dorow |
Michigan St. |
|
170 |
Albert Hill |
Georgia Tech |
|
171 |
Albie Booth |
Yale |
|
172 |
Andy Puplis |
Notre Dame |
|
173 |
Archie Weston |
Michigan |
|
174 |
Ashel Cunningham |
Indiana |
|
175 |
Austin Downes |
Georgia |
|
176 |
Bill Beasley |
St. Mary's |
|
177 |
Bill Morton |
Dartmouth |
|
178 |
Bob Newman |
Washington St. |
|
179 |
Brennan |
Fordham |
|
180 |
Buddy Leake |
Oklahoma |
|
181 |
Butch Meeker |
Washington St. |
|
182 |
Charles O'Hearn |
Yale |
|
183 |
Charles Soleau |
Colgate |
|
184 |
Charles Street |
Michigan |
|
185 |
Clair Purdy |
Brown |
|
186 |
Cliff Sparks |
Michigan |
|
187 |
Dan Caulkins |
Princeton |
|
188 |
Darrell Royal |
Oklahoma |
|
189 |
David Paddock |
Georgia |
|
190 |
Deke Brackett |
Tennessee |
|
191 |
Dillwyn Starr |
Harvard |
|
192 |
Dominic Engbrth |
Texas |
|
193 |
Don Williams |
USC |
|
194 |
Earl Graham |
Fordham |
|
195 |
Eddie Baker |
Pitt |
|
196 |
Eddie Gillette |
Wisconsin |
|
197 |
Edgar Jones |
Florida |
|
198 |
Elmore Hackney |
Duke |
|
199 |
Everett Kischer |
Iowa St. |
|
200 |
Forest Evashevski |
Michigan |
|
201 |
Frank Broyles |
Georgia Tech |
|
202 |
Frank Glick |
Princeton |
|
203 |
Frank Mount Pleasant |
Carlisle Indian |
|
204 |
Frederick Ellis |
Tufts |
|
205 |
Frederick Hovde |
Minnesota |
|
206 |
G.H. Fletcher |
Purdue |
|
207 |
Gary Kerkorian |
Stanford |
|
208 |
Gene Newton |
Tulane |
|
209 |
Gene Rossides |
Columbia |
|
210 |
George Smythe |
Army |
|
211 |
Harold Chapman |
Oregon |
|
212 |
Henry Gardner |
Harvard |
|
213 |
Henry Toczylowski |
Boston College |
|
214 |
Homer Norton |
Navy |
|
215 |
Huntley |
NYU |
|
216 |
Jack Connor |
NYU |
|
217 |
James Bradshaw |
Nevada |
|
218 |
James DeHart |
Pitt |
|
219 |
James Scott |
Penn |
|
220 |
Jim Hardy |
USC |
|
221 |
Jim Lalanne |
North Carolina |
|
222 |
Jim Van Pelt |
Michigan |
|
223 |
Jimmy Johnson |
Carlisle Indian |
|
224 |
Jimmy Robertson |
Carnegie Mellon |
|
225 |
Joe Laws |
Iowa |
|
226 |
John Ingersoll |
Dartmouth |
|
227 |
Johnny Cutler |
Harvard |
|
228 |
Kenneth Sandbach |
Princeton |
|
229 |
Leland Parkin |
Iowa |
|
230 |
Leon Kromer |
Army |
|
231 |
Lester Lautenschlaeger |
Tulane |
|
232 |
Louis Pickerel |
Ohio St. |
|
233 |
Malcolm Logan |
Harvard |
|
234 |
Manning Smith |
Centenary |
|
235 |
Matty Brennan |
Lafayette |
|
236 |
Micke McCardle |
USC |
|
237 |
Mike Murphy |
Yale |
|
238 |
Miller |
Columbia |
|
239 |
Milt Romney |
Chicago |
|
240 |
Oliver Kuhn |
Vanderbilt |
|
241 |
Pete Russell |
Chicago |
|
242 |
Potsy Clark |
Illinois |
|
243 |
Preston Fogg |
Syracuse |
|
244 |
Ralph Capron |
Minnesota |
|
245 |
Ray Morrison |
Vanderbilt |
|
246 |
Razor Watkins |
Colgate |
|
247 |
Red Dunn |
Marquette |
|
248 |
Robb |
Cal |
|
249 |
Robert Gooch |
Virginia |
|
250 |
Robert Ramsay |
Brown |
|
251 |
Roy Randall |
Brown |
|
252 |
Sammy Gross |
Iowa |
|
253 |
Saunders |
USC |
|
254 |
Schef |
Illinois |
|
255 |
Shorty Barr |
Wisconsin |
|
256 |
Skippy Stivers |
Idaho |
|
257 |
Snuffy Stirnweiss |
North Carolina |
|
258 |
Tod Rockwell |
Michigan |
|
259 |
Tom Greene |
Holy Cross |
|
260 |
V. Ballou |
Princeton |
|
261 |
Walter Matuszczak |
Cornell |
|
262 |
Wilbur Hightower |
Northwestern |
|
263 |
William Tow |
Amherst |
|
264 |
Wilmer Crowell |
Swarthmore |
|
265 |
Zeke Bratkowski |
Georgia |
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