Tom Fears

Tom Fears played end at Santa Clara (1941–⁠42) and UCLA (1946–⁠47). He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1976.

Honors

Inducted 1976College Football Hall of Fame
1946Second-team All-Pacific Coast
1947First-team All-Pacific Coast

Team titles: Pacific Coast champions, 1946

All-America: INS second team 1947; NEA third team 1947; UP third team 1947; FWAA second team 1947

The teams in those years

1941 Santa Clara6–⁠3Unranked at the end
1942 Santa Clara7–⁠2No. 15 in the final AP poll
1946 UCLA10–⁠1No. 4 in the final AP poll; Pacific Coast champions
1947 UCLA5–⁠4Unranked at the end

Our player records start in 2004; before that they hold the honors, the Heisman vote and the draft (from 1936), with college years from the player’s Wikipedia article where it gives them.

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