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1925 All-Pro Team

official list of the best NFL players in 1925

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ25350071
Source-derived summary

The 1925 All-Pro Team consists of American football players chosen by various selectors as the best players at their positions for the All-Pro team of the National Football League (NFL) for the 1925 NFL season.

Selectors and key

For the 1925 season, there are four known selectors of All-Pro Teams. They are:

GB = A poll conducted by the Green Bay Press-Gazette identified first and second teams. The selections were based on polling of sports editors at a dozen newspapers in the NFL area.

CE = Selected by E.G. Brands, a correspondent for Collyer's Eye, a sports journal published in Chicago.

JC = Joseph Carr, NFL Commissioner (1921–1939)

OSJ = Ohio State Journal, including first and second teams and honorable mentions.

Players selected by multiple selectors as first-team All-Pros are displayed in bold typeface. Players who have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are designated with a "†" next to their names.

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“1925 All-Pro Team” enters the record as official list of the best NFL players in 1925. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what All-Pro, Team and official can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1925, 1921, 1939—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around All-Pro, Team and official.
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This entry incorporates text from 1925 All-Pro Team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.