1940 All-Pacific Coast football team

The 1940 All-Pacific Coast football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Pacific Coast teams for the 1940 college football season. The organizations selecting teams in 1940 included the Associated Press (AP) and the United Press (UP).^[1][2]

The 1941 Stanford Indians football team compiled an undefeated 10-0 record, were ranked #2 in the final AP Poll, and had six players receiving first-team honors: quarterback Frankie Albert (AP, UP), halfback Pete Kmetovic (AP), fullback Norm Standlee (AP, UP), end Fred Meyer (AP), and tackles Bob Reinhard and Bruno Banducci (UP).^[1][2]

The 1941 Washington Huskies football team finished in second place with a 5-4 record and was represented by four players on either the AP or UP first team: halfback Dean McAdams (AP, UP), end Jay MacDowell (AP, UP), guard Ray Frankowski (AP, UP), and center Rudy Mucha (AP, UP).^[1][2]

No players from teams outside the PCC received first-team honors from the AP or UP.^[1][2]

• Frankie Albert, Stanford (AP-1; UP-1)
• Bobby Robertson, USC (AP-3; UP-2)
• George Peters, Oregon State (AP-2)
• Don Means, Washington (AP-3)

• Dean McAdams, Washington (AP-1; UP-1)
• Pete Kmetovic, Stanford (AP-1; UP-2)
• Bill Sewell, Washington State (AP-2; UP-1)
• Hugh Gallarneau, Stanford (AP-2)
• Jackie Robinson, UCLA (UP-2)
• Orv Hatcher, California (AP-3)

• Norm Standlee, Stanford (AP-1; UP-1)
• Jim Kisselburgh, Oregon State (AP-2; UP-2)
• Jack Stackpool, Washington (AP-3)

• Jay MacDowell, Washington (AP-1; UP-1)
• Fred Meyer, Stanford (AP-1; UP-2)
• Milt Smith, UCLA (AP-2; UP-1)
• Al Krueger, USC (AP-2; UP-2)
• John Leovich, Oregon State (AP-3)
• John Ruskusky, Saint Mary's (AP-3)

• Bob Reinhard, Stanford (AP-1; UP-1)
• Vic Sears, Oregon State (AP-1; UP-2)
• Bruno Banducci, Stanford (AP-2; UP-1)
• Jim Stuart, Oregon (AP-2; UP-2)
• Glen Conley, Washington (AP-3)
• Stan Johnson, Washington State (AP-3)

• Ray Frankowski, Washington (AP-1; UP-1)
• Len Younce, Oregon State (AP-1; UP-1)
• Chuck Taylor, Stanford (AP-2; UP-2)
• Rupe Thornton, Santa Clara (AP-2)
• Ben Sohn, USC (UP-2)
• Dick Palmer, Stanford (AP-3)
• Charles Donohue, California (AP-3)

• Rudy Mucha, Washington (AP-1; UP-1)
• Vic Lindskog, Stanford (AP-2; UP-2)
• Ed Dempsey, USC (AP-3)

AP = Associated Press, selected based on "annual consensus poll of sports writers, officials and coaches"^{[1] [3]}

UP = United Press: "Sports editors of the United Press client newspapers of the Pacific Coast made the selections ..."^{[2] [4]}

Bold = Consensus first-team selection of both the AP and UP

• 1940 College Football All-America Team