All-Americans

 The below  Bettendorf players have earned All-American honors while as Bulldogs or beyond.

Please note that there are many entities that  bestow All-American honors such as Parade Magazine, ESPN Magazine, Wigwam Wisemen,  the Associated Press, USA Today, and various Coaches Polls.     

 Information about the  history of High School All-American Squads 

 In 1947 John Clark  "Mose" Simms,  the athletic director of Oklahoma City  University, took a leave-of-absence to organize a high school football  game between  the best players east and west of the Mississippi River.  To choose the  players, he wrote to 134 sports editors and writers for nominations.   After evaluating the submissions and visiting some of the high schools of  nominated players, he chose 44 to play in that game and be designated as the  first high school All-American team.

From 1947 through the early 60’s an  organization headed by Simms known as the  Wigwam Wisemen  annually picked an All-American team and published the results in the national  sports weekly The Sporting News.  From the original four-deep teams, the list was  eventually expanded to seven teams of thirteen players.

In most of those years the nominations exceeded 5,000 players. Some that  didn't make one of the squads were designated as Honorable Mention  Wigwam Wisemen All-Americans. Those  honorable  mention lists, for the most part, are lost in time.  However, the  greatest honor a high school football player could receive during the  years of the Wigwam Wisemen was to be named to  their team. 

In 1951  Scholastic Magazine published their  first High School All-American Team.  They selected a group of approximately 85  players per year concluding with the 1972 team.  In 1957,  Teen Magazine began publishing an  All-American High School Football Team while in 1973 Parade Magazine began publishing their  version of a High School All-American Team.