The Maryland Terrapins football team was founded in 1892 to represent the University of Maryland in intercollegiate competition and has participated in the sport all but one season since its inception. Over the course of the team's history, the Terrapins' performance has run the gamut from national championships to winless seasons."All-Time Honors", 2007 Maryland Football Media Guide, p. 160, University of Maryland, 2007."National Poll Champions", 2007 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF), p. 77, National Collegiate Athletic Association, 2007.

During periods of both ascendancy and mediocrity, individual Maryland players of exceptional ability have received various accolades. In total, Terrapins have been named to an All-America team 58 times, an All-Atlantic Coast Conference team 196 times, an All-Big Ten Conference team 7 times, and an All-Southern Conference team 14 times. Of the All-America selections, twenty-three players received first-team honors a total of twenty-eight times. Eleven players were named consensus first-team All-Americans a total of twelve times, and five players were named first-team All-Americans by unanimous consensus.

Terrapins have won several nationally recognized individual awards, including the Chuck Bednarik Award, the Dick Butkus Award, the Lombardi Award, and the Outland Trophy, each of which recognizes the best player at a particular position in a given season. The College Football Hall of Fame has inducted six former Maryland players, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame has enshrined two. Four former Maryland head coaches have also been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. The University of Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame has inducted sixty-two former football lettermen and two former head coaches who were not alumni.

All-Americans Each year, numerous publications and organizations release lists of All-America teams, hypothetical rosters of players considered the best in the nation at their respective positions.All-American , Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Info Please Database, 1997, retrieved June 17, 2009. Some selecting organizations choose more than one roster of All-Americans, in which case they use the terms "first team", "second team", and "third team" as appropriate.Ted Gangi, FW All-America since 1944 (PDF), Football Writers Association of America, retrieved January 9, 2008. Some selectors also award honorable mentions to outstanding players who did not make any of their teams.SI.com's 2008 College Football All-Americans , Sports Illustrated, December 15, 2008, retrieved June 17, 2009.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), a college sports governing body, uses officially recognized All-America selectors to determine the "consensus" selections. These are based on a point system in which a player is awarded three points for every selector that names him to the first team, two points for the second team, and one point for the third team. The individual who receives the most points at his position is called a consensus All-American.2008-09 NCAA Statistics Policies (PDF), National Collegiate Athletic Association, February 10, 2009. Over time, the sources used to determine the consensus selections have changed,"All-America Selections", 2007 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF), p. 216, National Collegiate Athletic Association, 2007. and since 2002, the NCAA has used these five selectors to determine consensus All-Americans: the Associated Press (AP), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), The Sporting News (TSN), and the Walter Camp Football Foundation (WCFF).Award Winners and All-Americans (PDF), 2008 Division I Football Records Book, National Collegiate Athletic Association, 2008.

In 1923, end Bill Supplee was selected to the Associated Press second team, which made him the first Maryland player to be named an All-American.David Ungrady, Tales from the Maryland Terrapins, p. 26, Sports Publishing LLC, 2003, . Guard Bob Ward became the first Terrapin named to a first team when he received that honor from AP and the Football Writers Association of America in 1950. The following year, Ward became Maryland's first consensus All-American when he was unanimously chosen by every NCAA-recognized selector. Five other Terrapins have earned consensus All-America honors: Jack Scarbath in 1952, Stan Jones in 1953, Bob Pellegrini in 1955, Randy White in 1974, and linebacker E. J. Henderson in 2001. Henderson was also named a consensus All-American in 2002, which made him the first, and thus far only, Maryland player to receive the honor twice."Consensus All-America Selections: Maryland", 2007 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF), p. 226, National Collegiate Athletic Association, 2007. Key First-team selection * Second-team selection † Third-team selection ‡ For a guide to the abbreviations used, see the glossary. Year Player Position First team Second team Third team Remarks 1923 Bill Supplee† E — AP — — 1928 Gerald Snyder† FB — AP — — 1949 Ray Krouse† T — AP — — 1950 Bob Ward* G AP, FWAA UPI — — 1951 Bob Ward* G AFCA, AP, FWAA, INS, TSN, UPI, WCFF — — unanimous 1951 Dick Modzelewski† T — AP — — 1951 Ed Modzelewski† FB — AP, UPI — — 1952 Dick Modzelewski* T AP, INS, TSN, UPI, WCFF — — consensus 1952 Jack Scarbath* QB AP, INS, Look,[ Jack Scarbath], College Football Hall of Fame, National Football Foundation, retrieved June 16, 2009. TSN, UPI, WCFF — — unanimous 1952 Tom Cosgrove† C — INS, NEA — — 1953 Bernie Faloney* QB INS, TSN AP, UPI — — 1953 Stan Jones* T AP, INS, TSN, UPI — — unanimous 1953 Chet Hanulak† RB — INS — — 1954 Bill Walker† E — AP — — 1955 Bob Pellegrini* C AP, INS, TSN, UPI, WCFF — — unanimous 1955 Mike Sandusky* T TSN UPI — — 1955 Ed Vereb† RB — INS — — 1955 Bill Walker† E — UPI — — 1956 Mike Sandusky* T CSW — — — 1961 Gary Collins* E AFCA, FWAA, WCFF AP, UPI — consensus 1973 Paul Vellano* G AFCA UPI — — 1973 Randy White* DT AP — — — 1974 Steve Mike-Mayer* K TSN, Time — — — 1974 Randy White* DT AFCA, AP, FN, FWAA, Time, TSN, UPI — — unanimous 1974 Louis Carter† HB — FN — 1976 Joe Campbell* DT AFCA, TSN, FWAA AP, UPI FN consensus 1978 Steve Atkins‡ RB — — FN — 1978 Charles Johnson‡ DL — — FN — 1979 Dale Castro* K FWAA, TSN, UPI, WCFF FN — consensus 1983 Boomer Esiason† QB — TSN — — 1983 Ron Solt† OG — TSN — — 1984 Kevin Glover* C TSN — — — 1984 Eric Wilson* LB FN AP — — 1985 J. D. Maarleveld* OT AFCA, UPI TSN — consensus 1985 Al Covington‡ DB — — FN — 1987 Ferrell Edmunds‡ TE — — AP — 1994 Steve Ingram† OT — FN — — 1999 LaMont Jordan† RB — FN TSN — 1999 Lewis Sanders‡ DB — — TSN — 2001 E. J. Henderson* LB AP, CBS, CNN, FN, FWAA, TSN, WCFF — — consensus 2001 Daryl Whitmer* C ESPN — — — 2001 Brooks Barnard† P — FN CBS — 2001 Melvin Fowler‡ C — — FN — 2002 E. J. Henderson* LB AFCA, AP, CBS, CFN, CNN, ESPN, FWAA, WCFF TSN — consensus 2002 Todd Wike* C ESPN CFN — — 2002 Steve Suter† RS — CNN, TSN — — 2002 Madieu Williams‡ DB — — TSN — 2002 Matt Crawford‡ OT — — TSN — 2003 Randy Starks† DT — TSN — — 2003 C. J. Brooks‡ OG — — CFN — 2004 D'Qwell Jackson* LB CFN — — — 2004 Domonique Foxworth† DB — TSN — — 2005 Vernon Davis* TE AFCA, AP, CFN CNN — — 2005 D'Qwell Jackson* LB AFCA, AP, CFN CNN, TSN — — 2007 Andrew Crummey† OG — TSN AP — 2014 Brad Craddock*Matt Zenitz, Maryland kicker Brad Craddock named second-team AP All-American , The Baltimore Sun, December 16, 2014, retrieved December 15, 2018.Mike Casazza, Maryland's Craddock takes unique road to college football's top kicker, Charleston Gazette-Mail, September 22, 2015, retrieved December 15, 2018. K FWAA AP, WCFF — — 2015 William Likely*Maryland cornerback Will Likely out for the season , NBC Sports, October 21, 2016, retrieved December 15, 2018.Watson Named FWAA Second Team All-American , University of Maryland, December 10, 2018, retrieved December 15, 2018. RS FWAA USAT — — 2018 Tre Watson† LB — FWAA — — References:;ACC All-Americans (PDF), 2007 Atlantic Coast Conference Media Guide, Atlantic Coast Conference, 2007. Key: * First team; † Second team; ‡ Third team. For expansions of abbreviations see the glossary.

All-conference honorees

Just as the media recognizes the nation's best players with All-America lists, individual athletic conferences honor their best players with "all-conference" selections. In 1921, Maryland joined the Southern Conference (SoCon). Thirteen years later, Norwood Sothoron became the first Terrapin named to an All-Southern Conference team. Maryland was a member of the league from 1921 to 1952, and twelve Terrapins received All-Southern Conference honors a total of fourteen times.SoCon Records (PDF), 2007 Southern Conference Football Media Guide, pp. 141–147, Southern Conference, 2007.

After the 1952 season, Maryland and six other schools left the Southern Conference to form the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).K. Adam Powell and Woody Durham, Border Wars: The First Fifty Years of Atlantic Coast Conference Football, p. xvi, Scarecrow Press, 2004, . The following year, the conference honored its inaugural season's best players with an All-ACC team. In that initial class, five Terrapins were selected to the first team and two to the second team. From 1953 to 2013, Maryland players received first-team All-ACC honors a total of 134 times. Terrapins were named to All-ACC second or third teams an additional 62 times, although those teams were not published continuously and there was not always a third team. Since Maryland moved to the Big Ten Conference in 2014,Stewart Mandel, The real reason the Big Ten added Maryland and Rutgers – survival, Sports Illustrated, June 18, 2004, retrieved December 15, 2018. five Terrapins have been named to All-Big Ten first teams, and two have earned second-team honors.

When the NCAA abolished the one-platoon system in 1965,Douglas S. Looney, One Is More Like It , Sports Illustrated, September 3, 1990, retrieved June 17, 2009.Robert C. Gallagher, The Express: The Ernie Davis Story, p. 63, Random House, 2008, . the ACC began naming separate all-conference offensive and defensive teams. In 1974, Maryland won its first ACC championship since 1955, and a school record six Terrapins were named to the conference's first team. Maryland secured the title again in 1975 and 1976, and surpassed the previous mark when seven Terrapins were named first-team All-ACC for each of those seasons.ACC Year-by-Year (PDF), 2007 Atlantic Coast Conference Football Media Guide, 2007, retrieved January 14, 2008.All-Time Honors (PDF), 2001 Maryland Football Media Guide, CBS Sports, 2001. The 2001 squad set a new benchmark when eight players made the first team, and the 2002 Terrapins equaled that feat.

In 2003, the Atlantic Coast Conference published the "ACC 50th Anniversary Football Team", a list of the league's fifty best players from its first half-century as chosen by a 120-member committee.Section 8 (PDF), ACC Record Book, p. 177, Atlantic Coast Conference, 2007. Four former Terrapins were included on the list: Boomer Esiason, a Maryland quarterback from 1981 to 1983; Stan Jones, a tackle from 1951 to 1953; Bob Pellegrini, a guard from 1953 to 1955; and Randy White, a defensive tackle from 1972 to 1974.ACC 50th Anniversary Football Team Announced , Atlantic Coast Conference, July 23, 2002.

Key First-team selection * Second-team selection † Third-team selection ‡ For a guide to the abbreviations used, see the glossary.