Talk:1988 College Football All-America Team

Scripps Howard patrial

Running back Barry Sanders is Scripps Howard's football player of the year. The Oklahoma State junior, favorite to win the Heisman Trophy, got the most votes from the national panel of sports writers who rate the top 20 football teams each week for Scripps Howard News Service.In the all-America backfield with Sanders are Southern Cal quarterback Rodney Peete and Georgia tailback Tim Worley. Wide receivers are Hart Lee Dykes of Oklahoma State and Jason Phillips of Houston. The all-America defense is led by Auburn defensive tackle Tracy Rocker. Florida State defensive back Deion Sanders ran a close second in the voting. Brigham Young University's Pat Thompson was named to the team as the punter. 1988 Rick Phillips, offensive tackle Mike Utley, Washington State's 6-foot-6, 290-pound senior guard from Kennedy High School in Burien, has been named first-team all-America by the Scripps-Howard Newspapers.

West Virginia's Don Nehlen is the Scripps Howard coach of the year----------cannot find full teamBigmaninthebox (talk) 00:52, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned references in 1988 College Football All-America Team

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of 1988 College Football All-America Team's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "GNS":

• From 1985 College Football All-America Team: "Running backs, tackles take center stage". The Journal News (White Plains, NY). December 3, 1985. p. C3.
• From 1981 College Football All-America Team: "McMahon rates with the best". Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY). December 8, 1981. pp. 1D, 4D – via Newspapers.com.
• From 1982 College Football All-America Team: Joel Buchsbaum (November 25, 1982). "Elway, Walker head Gannett all-star squad". Poughkeepsie (NY) Journal. p. 50 – via Newspapers.com.
• From 1983 College Football All-America Team: "All-America Gannett News Service". The Tennessean. November 29, 1983. p. 4C – via Newspapers.com.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 22:57, 28 June 2016 (UTC)