# List of Iowa State Cyclones football All-Americans

The Iowa State Cyclones college football team competes as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), and represents the Iowa State University in the Big 12 Conference (Big 12). All-America selections are individual player recognitions made after each season when numerous publications release lists of their ideal team. The NCAA recognizes five All-America lists: the Associated Press (AP), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), Sporting News (TSN), and the Walter Camp Football Foundation (WC). In order for an honoree to earn a "consensus" selection, he must be selected as first team in three of the five lists recognized by the NCAA, and "unanimous" selections must be selected as first team in all five lists.
Since the establishment of the team in 1892, Iowa State has had 16 players honored a total of 24 times as First Team All-America for their performance on the field of play. Included in these selections are 4 consensus selections, 2 of which were unanimous selections. The most significant and recent All-American from Iowa State came after the 2020 season, when Breece Hall was named a unanimous First Team All-America, the first in Iowa State Cyclone history. Hall was also selected along with 2020 teammates Charlie Kolar, Mike Rose, and JaQuan Bailey.

## Key

| $^†$ | Consensus selection | Consensus selection | Consensus selection | Consensus selection | Consensus selection |
| $^‡$ | Unanimous selection | Unanimous selection | Unanimous selection | Unanimous selection | Unanimous selection |

### Selectors

| AAB | All-America Board | AFCA | American Football Coaches of America | AP | Associated Press | The Atlantic | The Atlantic |
| CT | Chicago Tribune | CO | Collier's Weekly | SI | Sports Illustrated | CP | Central Press Association |
| CSW | College Sports Writers | DW | Davis J. Walsh | ES | Ed Sullivan | ESPN | ESPN |
| FN | The Football News | FWAA | Football Writers Association of America | INS | International News Service | KCS | Kansas City Star |
| LAT | Los Angeles Times | LIB | Liberty Magazine | LK | Look magazine | NANA | North American Newspaper Alliance |
| NB | Norman E. Brown | NEA | Newspaper Editors Association | NL | Navy Log | NYEP | New York Evening Post |
| NYS | New York Sun | OF | Oscar Fraley | PD | Parke H. Davis | SH | Scripps-Howard |
| Time | Time Magazine | TSN | The Sporting News | UP | United Press | UPI | United Press International |
| USAT | USA Today | WC | Walter Camp | WD | Walter Dobbins | | |

## Selections

List of All-Americans showing the year won, player, position and selectors :
| Year | Player name | Position | Selector(s) |
| 1919 | Dick Barker | G | CT-1 |
| 1920 | Polly Wallace | C | CT-1; AP-3 |
| 1934 | Fred Poole | P | AP-1 |
| 1935 | Ike Hayes | G | NEA-2 |
| 1938 | Everett Kischer | QB | NEA-3 |
| 1938 | Ed Bock† | G | AP-1; LIB-1; NEA-1 |
| 1944 | Jack Fathauer | G | LK-2 |
| 1950 | Jim Doran | WR | INS-1; AP-2 |
| 1959 | Dwight Nichols | RB | FWAA-1; NEA-2; AP-3; UPI-3 |
| 1960 | Tom Watkins | FB | AFCA-2 |
| 1961 | Dave Hoppmann | RB | AP-3; UPI-3 |
| 1962 | Dave Hoppmann | RB | FWAA-1; AP-3 |
| 1963 | Tom Vaughn | FB | FWAA-1; AFCA-2 |
| 1964 | John Van Sicklen | T | AP-1 |
| 1966 | Eppie Barney | WR | AP-2 |
| 1972 | George Amundson | QB | NEA-2 |
| 1972 | Merv Krakau | DE | AP-3 |
| 1972 | Geary Murdock | G | FN-1 |
| 1973 | Matt Blair | LB | AFCA-1 |
| 1974 | Barry Hill | S | UPI-2; AP-3 |
| 1976 | Luther Blue | WR | FWAA-1; AP-3 |
| 1977 | Ron McFarland | NT | FN-2 |
| 1978 | Mike Stensrud | DT | AP-2 |
| 1980 | Dwayne Crutchfield | RB | UPI-2 |
| 1982 | Karl Nelson | T | NEA-1 |
| 1983 | Tracy Henderson | WR | AP-3 |
| 1984 | Tracy Henderson | WR | FN-1; AP-2; NEA-2 |
| 1989 | Mike Busch† | TE | UPI-1; AFCA-1; WC-1 |
| 1989 | Blaise Bryant | RB | AP-3 |
| 1993 | Doug Skartvedt | T | AP-3 |
| 1995 | Troy Davis† | RB | AP-1; AFCA-1; WC-1; TSN-1 |
| 1996 | Troy Davis† | RB | AP-1; FWAA-1; WC-1; TSN-1 |
| 2000 | Ben Bruns | C | FN-3 |
| 2011 | Kelechi Osemele | T | SI-1 |
| 2017 | Joel Lanning | LB | FWAA-1; SI-2 |
| 2019 | Charlie Kolar | TE | AP-3; FWAA-2 |
| 2020 | Breece Hall‡ | RB | AP-1; AFCA-1; Athletic-1; CBS-1; ESPN-1; FWAA-1; TSN-1; USAT-1; WC-1; |
| 2020 | Mike Rose | LB | AP-2; ESPN-2; USAT-1; Athletic-1; TSN-2 |
| 2020 | Charlie Kolar | TE | AP-3; ESPN-3; USAT-2; WC-2 |
| 2020 | JaQuan Bailey | DE | AP-3; ESPN-3; FWAA-1 |