An All-American "team" is an honorary sports team composed of outstanding amateur players, those considered the best players of a specific season for each team position, who are referred to as All-America or, less precisely, All-American athletes. Sport is an Activity that is governed by a set of rules or Customs and often engaged in competitively An amateur is generally considered a person attached to a particular pursuit study or science without formal training or pay A sportsperson ( British and American English) or athlete (principally American English is any person who participates regularly in a Sport.
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Term usage
Currently, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A team comprises a group of people or Animals linked in a common purpose "Popular press" redirects here note that the University of Wisconsin Press publishes under the imprint "The Popular Press" The term is used primarily with regard to college and, occasionally (and more controversially), to high school players. College ( Latin collegium) is a term most often used today to denote an Educational Institution. High school is the name used in some parts of the world (in particular Scotland, North America and Australia) to describe an institution Outstanding professional players usually are referred to as All-Stars, or, in the case of professional American football, All-Pros (as opposed to Pro Bowlers, who are selected by players, coaches, and fans to compete in Pro Bowl games). This article is about people called professionals For the Movie, see The Professional or Leon. All-star (also allstar or all star) is a term with meanings in both the worlds of Sports and American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive Team sport known for mixing strategy with In professional American football, the Pro Bowl is the All-star game of the National Football League (NFL In professional American football, the Pro Bowl is the All-star game of the National Football League (NFL
Selection to an All-America team for high school and collegiate players, however, is honorary in nature, and All-America "teams" do not typically play any games as a unit, unlike many of the all-star teams. Therefore, to be an All-American does not constitute being on a team.
The original use of the term "All-America" seems to have been in reference to a list of college football players who were regarded by the football pioneer, Walter Camp, as the best at their respective positions. College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, Colleges and military academies Walter Chauncey Camp ( April 7, 1859 &ndash March 14, 1925) was a sports writer and American football coach known as the "Father Camp first compiled this list in the 1890s.
Other uses
The use of the term has been expanded in recent years to honor persons outside of the field of sports, especially informally; for example an individual may be popularly referred to as, an "All-America" level debater, drama coach, or other activity, having nothing to do with athletics.
Additionally, it has been applied to sports in a different way recently in that, Academic All-America teams also are named to honor the academic achievement of student-athletes, whether their sports skills are at an "All-America" level or not. [1]
This concept of team selection is confined largely to the United States because in almost all other countries, national teams that participate in international competitions play a much greater role in sports culture at both adult and age-restricted levels.
In a broader sense, the term all-American is colloquially used to describe stereotypically clean-cut, mainstream/conventional middle-class people, particularly teenagers and young adults, as used for example in the Bobby Bare song All-American Boy. The American middle class is an ambiguously defined Social class in the United States. Bobby Bare (born Robert Joseph Bare on April 7, 1935 in Ironton Ohio) is an American Country music singer and songwriter
Collegiate sports
Each year different sets of All-American teams are recognized toward consensus and unanimous selection recognition. A unanimous selection is a player who is listed as a first team All-American by all recognized lists. A consensus All-American is a player who is listed as a first team All-American by at least half of the recognized lists. Today, the National Collegiate Athletic Association recognizes College Football All-America Teams selected by the Associated Press, American Football Coaches Association, Football Writers Association of America, The Sporting News, and the Walter Camp Football Foundation (WCFF) to determine consensus All-Americans. The National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA, often pronounced "N-C-Double-A" is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions conferences organizations The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best American College football players at their respective positions The Associated Press ( AP) is an American News agency. The AP is a Cooperative owned by its contributing Newspapers radio The American Football Coaches Association is an association of football coaches on all levels and is responsible for the Coaches Poll that determines the national champion each The Football Writers Association of America ( FWAA) is one of the organizations whose College Football All-America Team is recognized by the NCAA Sporting News (previously The Sporting News, and known colloquially as TSN) is an American -based Sports The Walter Camp Football Foundation ( WCFF) is one of the organizations whose College Football All-America Team [2]
Now, there are many All-America teams selected annually in many other major collegiate sports.
High school sports
At the high school level, the most recognized All-America teams are those selected by Parade magazine in football and the McDonald's restaurant chain in basketball. For other uses of the word (with different case see Parade (disambiguation. Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m The McDonald's All-American Team is unlike other All-America awards because it stages an annual game involving these players. The McDonald's All-American Team is named each year for boys' and girls' High school basketball. Since 2001, the United States Army has sponsored its own All-American Bowl for the top eighty high school football players across the nation. The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. The All-American Bowl was an annual post-season College football game played at Legion Field in Birmingham Alabama from 1977 to 1990
In 2005, Offense-Defense Sports began publishing a Top 100 ranking for nation's the top high school football athletes. The rankings have been featured on Rivals, Scout, and most recently Sports Illustrated. Sports Illustrated is an American Sports Magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. The Offense-Defense All-American Bowl is held every January, featuring the top-ranked athletes.
See also
- All-Australian Team
- College Football All-America Team
- 1931 College Football All-America Team
- 1970 College Football All-America Team
- 2004 College Football All-America Team
- 2005 College Football All-America Team
- 2006 College Football All-America Team
- 2007 College Football All-America Team
References
- ^ http://www.cosida.com/allamerica/default.asp - Academic All-America Teams as selected by CoSIDA
- ^ 2002 NCAA Football's Finest Records Book
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