# List of North Carolina Tar Heels football All-Americans

The North Carolina Tar Heels college football team competes as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), and represents the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). 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 1888, North Carolina has had 68 players honored a total of 85 times as an All-American for their performance on the field of play. Included in these selections are fourteen consensus selections, three of which were unanimous selections. The most recent All-Americans from North Carolina a came after the 2013 season, when Eric Ebron and Ryan Switzer were each named First Team All-America by various selectors.

## Key

| $^†$ | Consensus selection | Consensus selection | Consensus selection | Consensus selection | Consensus selection |
| $^‡$ | Unanimous selection | Unanimous selection | Unanimous selection | Unanimous selection | Unanimous selection |
| B | Back | K | Kicker | NT | Nose tackle |
| C | Center | LB | Linebacker | FB | Fullback |
| DB | Defensive back | P | Punter | HB | Halfback |
| DE | Defensive end | QB | Quarterback | WR | Wide receiver |
| DT | Defensive tackle | RB | Running back | G | Guard |
| E | End | T | Tackle | TE | Tight end |
| PR | Punt Returner | NG | Nose Guard | FS | Free Safety |
| TB | Tailback |

### Selectors

| AAB | All-America Board | AFCA | American Football Coaches Association | AP | Associated Press | APT | All-Players Team |
| AR | Albert Richard | ATH | Athlon | BCT | Bill Cunningham Team | BST | Bill Stern Team |
| BOS | Boston Record | CBS | CBSSports.com | CD | Collegiate Digest | CF | Complete Football |
| CFI | College Football Illustrated (Sports Review) | CH | College Humor | CHPT | Charles Parker Team | CNB | Collyer’s News Bureau |
| CPFN | College and Pro Football Newsweekly | CNNSI | CNN/Sports Illustrated | CP | Central Press Association | CS | College Sports |
| CSW | College Sports Writers | DBT | Dr. L.H. Baker Team | DHT | Deke Houlgate Team | EDT | Eddie Dooley Team |
| FC | Football Coaches | FD | Football Digest | FN | Football News | FWAA | Football Writers Association of America |
| GR | Gridiron Record | GRCE | Grantland Rice | GW | Gridiron Weekly | HLMS | Helms |
| HST | Hearst | INS | International News Service | JCT | Jim Crowley Team | JB | Joel Buschbaum |
| LLT | Lou Little Team | ILA | Illustrated Football Annual | MZLU | Mizlou | NEA | Newspaper Enterprise Association |
| NSWK | Newsweek | NYN | New York News | NYS | New York Sun | NYWT | New York World-Telegram |
| PFW | Pro Football Weekly | PG | Police Gazette | PIC | PIC Scouts | PMT | Paramount |
| PW | Pop Warner | RGT | Red Grange Team | RST | Ray Scott Team | RVLS | Rivals.com |
| SCT | Scout.com | SH | Scripps-Howard | SLGD | St. Louis Globe-Democrat | SR | Sports Review |
| SW | Sports Week | Time | Time Magazine | TSN | The Sporting News | TTT | Tom Thorp Team |
| USA | USA Today | UP | United Press | UPI | United Press International | WC | Walter Camp |
| WILL | Paul Williamson | WWF | What’s What in Football |

## Selections

List of All-Americans showing the year won, player, position and selectors :
| Year | Player name | Position | Selector(s) |
| 1929 | Ray Farris | G | NEA-2; AP-3 |
| 1933 | George Barclay | G | AP-3; CP-3 |
| 1934 | George Barclay | G | AP-1; CP-2; NEA-1; NANA-1; WC-1; CSW-2; GR-1; AAB-1; NYWT-1; CD-2; AR-1; ILA-1 HST-1; LLT-1; WILL-1; NYS-1; CHPT-2; UP-2; TTT-2; APT-2; RGT-2; BCT-2 |
| 1934 | Jim Hutchins | B | AAB-HM |
| 1935 | Donald Jackson | B | AP-2; CP-2; NEA-2 |
| 1936 | Andy Bershak | E | AP-2; |
| 1937 | Andy Bershak† | E | AP-3; UP-2; COL-1; INS-3; NEA-1; CP-1; CE-1 |
| 1938 | Steve Maronic | T | CP-1; UP-2; NEA-2; AP-3. EDT-1; NSWK-2; WWF-2; CH-3 |
| 1939 | George Stirnweiss | B | CP-2; NEA-3; BCT-3 |
| 1939 | Jim Lalanne | B | BST-2; INS-2; NEA-3; HST-3; WILL-3 |
| 1939 | Paul Severin | E | AP-1; WILL-1; NEA-2; DBT-3; UP-3; WWF-3 |
| 1940 | Paul Severin | E | AP-1; WILL-1; NEA-1; DBT-1; UP-2; WWF-2; NYN-1; BOS-1; NSWK-1; CNB-1; BST-2; CSW-2 CP-2; INS-2; NYS-2; BCT-2; JCT-2 |
| 1943 | Ray Poole | E | BST-3 |
| 1946 | Charlie Justice | TB | AP-3; UP-2; NEA-2; FC-3; SW-3; GW-2; PIC-2 |
| 1947 | Charlie Justice | TB | AP-2; NEA-2; INS-3; CP-3; |
| 1947 | Walt Pupa | FB | APT-3 |
| 1948 | Charlie Justice† | TB | AP-1; UP-2; NEA-1; FC-1; SW-1; INS-1; CP-1; AAB-1; WILL-1; APT-1; TSN-1; PMT-1 BST-1; PG-1; FD-1; BOS-1; CFI-1; NYN-1; CF-1; DHT-1; FWAA-2 |
| 1948 | Len Szafaryn | T | FWAA-2 |
| 1948 | Art Weiner | E | FWAA-1; NYS-1; TSN-2; APT-2; CP-3; NEA-2 |
| 1949 | Charlie Justice | TB | AP-1; UP-2; FC-1; INS-1; CP-1; AAB-1; WILL-1; APT-1; TSN-1; PMT-1; PG-1; FD-1 CFI-1; FWAA-3 |
| 1949 | Ken Powell | E | NEA-1 |
| 1949 | Art Weiner | E | FWAA-2; UP-1; TSN-1; NYN-1; SR-1; SLGD-1; DHT-1; APT-2; CP-2; NEA-3; INS-2; FD-2 PG-2 |
| 1950 | Irv Holdash | C, LB | AP-1; NEA-1; APT-1; AAB-1; FD-1; BST-1; BOS-1; GR-1; PG-1; HLMS-1; UP-2; CP-2 TSN-2 |
| 1958 | Phil Blazer | T | FD-2; CP-3 |
| 1958 | Al Goldstein | B | FWAA-1; NEA-1 |
| 1961 | Jim Lecompte | G | NEA-3 |
| 1963 | Bob Lacey | E | AP-1; FWAA-1; NEA-2 |
| 1964 | Ken Willard | FB | FC-2 |
| 1969 | Ed Chalupka | G | AP-3 |
| 1970 | Don McCauley† | TB | AP-1; FWAA-1; FC-1; CP-1; WC-1; FN-1; UP-2 |
| 1972 | Ron Rusnak | G | AP-1; UP-2; FWAA-2; FC-1; FN-2 |
| 1972 | Jerry Sain | T | FN-2 |
| 1974 | Ken Huff† | G | AP-1; FC-1; NEA-1; TSN-1; WC-1; Time-1; PW-1; FN-2; UP-2 |
| 1974 | Charles Waddell | TE | TSN-1 |
| 1976 | Mark Cantrell | C | FN-2 |
| 1976 | Mike Voight | TB | AP-2; UPI-2 |
| 1977 | Dee Hardison† | DT | AP-1; FWAA-1; FC-1; UP-2; NEA-2; CPFN-2 |
| 1977 | Mike Salzano | G | FN-3 |
| 1979 | Ricky Barden | DB | RST-1; FN-2 |
| 1979 | Ron Wooten | G | FN-2 |
| 1980 | Rick Donnalley | C | AP-2; FN-3 |
| 1980 | Amos Lawrence | TB | FN-3; CPFN-3 |
| 1980 | Lawrence Taylor‡ | LB | AP-1; UP-1; FC-1; FWAA-1; TSN-1; FN-1; CPFN-1; NEA-2 |
| 1980 | Donnell Thompson | DT | FN-3 |
| 1980 | Ron Wooten | G | FN-1; WC-1; NEA-1; MZLU-1; UP-2; CPFN-2; AP-3 |
| 1981 | David Drechsler | G | FWAA-1; FN-2 |
| 1981 | Greg Poole | DB | FN-3 |
| 1982 | David Drechsler | G | FWAA-1; FN-1; WC-1; MZLU-1; AP-2; UP-2; NEA-2; CPFN-2 |
| 1982 | William Fuller | DT | FWAA-1; FN-1; CPFN-1; AP-2 |
| 1983 | Brian Blados | T | AP-1; NEA-1; UP-2; CPFN-2; FN-3 |
| 1983 | William Fuller† | DT | FN-1; CPFN-1; FC-1; WC-1; TSN-1; AP-2; UP-2; NEA-2 |
| 1983 | Ethan Horton | TB | FN-3 |
| 1984 | Ethan Horton | TB | AP-3; UPI-2 |
| 1986 | Harris Barton | T | AP-1; NEA-1; ATH-1; JB-1; TSN-2; FN-3 |
| 1986 | Derrick Fenner | RB | CPFN-3 |
| 1987 | Carlton Bailey | NG | NEA-2 |
| 1988 | Jeff Garnica | C | AP-3 |
| 1989 | Pat Crowley | G | MZLU-1; FN-3 |
| 1990 | Kevin Donnalley | T | CPFN-3 |
| 1992 | Natrone Means | TB | FN-3 |
| 1992 | Randall Parsons | C | AP-3 |
| 1993 | Bracy Walker | FS | FC-1; FWAA-1; SH-1; AP-2; UP-2; TSN-2; FN-3 |
| 1994 | Marcus Jones | DE, DT | AP-3 |
| 1995 | Marcus Jones† | DE, DT | AP-1; FC-1; WC-1; UP-1; CS-1; TSN-2 |
| 1996 | Freddie Jones | TE | FN-3 |
| 1996 | Dré Bly† | CB | AP-1; WC-1; FWAA-1; TSN-1; FN-2 |
| 1996 | Greg Ellis | DE | TSN-2; AP-3; FN-3 |
| 1996 | Brian Simmons | LB | AP-2; TSN-2 |
| 1997 | Dré Bly† | CB | AP-1; WC-1; FWAA-1; FN-1; TSN-3 |
| 1997 | Greg Ellis† | DE | AP-1; WC-1; FC-1; FN-1; TSN-2 |
| 1997 | Kivuusama Mays | LB | AP-3 |
| 1997 | Brian Simmons† | LB | AP-1; WC-1; FN-1; TSN-3 |
| 1998 | Dré Bly | CB | WC-1; FN-3 |
| 1999 | Brian Schmitz | P | TSN-1 |
| 2000 | Julius Peppers | DE | AP-2; WC-2; FN-2; CNNSI-1 |
| 2001 | Ryan Sims | DT | AP-3 |
| 2001 | Julius Peppers‡ | DE | AP-1; WC-1; FN-1; TSN-1; FWAA-1; FC-1; CNNSI-1 |
| 2004 | Jason Brown | C | PFW-1 |
| 2008 | Trimane Goddard | DB | AP-2; WC-2; RVLS-3 |
| 2010 | Quinton Coples | DE | SCT-2 |
| 2012 | Giovani Bernard | RB | AP-3 |
| 2012 | Jonathan Cooper‡ | G | AP-1; WC-1; FWAA-1; AFCA-1; TSN-1; PFW-1 |
| 2012 | Sylvester Williams | DT | PFW-1 |
| 2013 | Eric Ebron | TE | ESPN-1; AP-2; ATH-2; CBS-2; CNNSI-2; USA-2; WC-2 |
| 2013 | Ryan Switzer | WR, PR | FWAA-1; ESPN-1; ATH-1; CBS-2; USA-2 |
| 2015 | Landon Turner | G | AP-1; ATH-1; FWAA-2; CBS-2 |
| 2015 | Ryan Switzer | APB | AFCA-1 |