| 1963 College Football All-America Team |
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| College Football All-America Team |
| 1963 NCAA University Division football season |
| 1961 1962 ← → 1964 1965 |
The 1963 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1963. The seven selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1963 season are (1) the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), (2) the Associated Press (AP),[1] (3) the Central Press Association (CP), (4) the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), (5) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), (6) the Sporting News, and (7) the United Press International (UPI).
For the year 1963, the NCAA recognizes seven published All-American teams as "official" designations for purposes of its consensus determinations.[2] Four players were unanimously chosen as first-team All-Americans by all seven official selectors. They were: (1) Navy quarterback Roger Staubach, who was awarded the 1963 Heisman Trophy; (2) Illinois center/linebacker Dick Butkus, won the 1963 Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Big Ten Conference's Most Valuable Player; (3) tackle Scott Appleton who won the Outland Trophy and led the 1963 Texas Longhorns football team to a national championship; and (4) Nebraska guard Bob "The Boomer" Brown, who was the second player chosen in the 1964 NFL Draft. Staubach, Butkus and Brown were each subsequently inducted into both the College and Pro Football Hall of Fames. The consensus All-American team also included College and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees Gale Sayers (running back, Kansas) and Carl Eller (tackle, Minnesota).
The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans and displays which first-team designations they received.
| Name | Position | School | Number | Official | Other |
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| Scott Appleton | Tackle | Texas | 7/7 | AFCA, AP, CP, FWAA, NEA, SN, UPI | FN, Time, WC |
| Bob Brown | Guard | Nebraska | 7/7 | AFCA, AP, CP, FWAA, NEA, SN, UPI | FN, Time, WC |
| Dick Butkus | Center | Illinois | 7/7 | AFCA, AP, CP, FWAA, NEA, SN, UPI | FN, Time, WC |
| Roger Staubach | Quarterback | Navy | 7/7 | AFCA, AP, CP, FWAA, NEA, SN, UPI | FN, Time, WC |
| Rick Redman | Guard | Washington | 6/7 | AFCA, CP, FWAA, NEA, SN, UPI | FN, WC |
| Carl Eller | Tackle | Minnesota | 5/7 | AFCA, AP, CP, FWAA, UPI | FN, Time, WC |
| Gale Sayers | Halfback | Kansas | 5/7 | AFCA, FWAA, NEA, SN, UPI | FN, WC |
| Vern Burke | End | Oregon State | 4/7 | AFCA, CP, FWAA, UPI | FN, WC |
| Larry Elkins | End | Baylor | 3/7 | CP, NEA, SN | FN, WC |
| Sherman Lewis | Halfback | Michigan State | 3/7 | AP, CP, UPI | FN, WC |
| Jim Grisham | Fullback | Oklahoma | 3/7 | CP, NEA, SN | FN |
| Paul Martha | Back-Safety | Pittsburgh | 3/7 | CP, NEA, SN | FN |
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1963 College Football All-America Team consensus selections
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