Oakland Tribune's 1971 All-Rookie Team

 By John Turney 

Archie Manning and Jim Plunkett

This is the third and final Oakland Tribune All-Rookie team (that we've found). Once again the team is composed of more than 22 players so it's not a tightly defined All-Rookie team but for completeness, we've posted it.

By 1971 United Press International began picking teams once again as well as Football Digest. By 1974 the Pro Football Writers and Newspaper Enterprise Association began choosing teams as well. Pro Football Weekly also was in the mix, but we have not yet compiled those teams but plan to the next time we get to the Hall of Fame library. 

Oakland Tribune's 1970 All-Rookie Team

 By John Turney 

Terry Bradshaw

This is the second of the Oakland Tribune All-Rookie teams that fill in a gap of All-Rookie teams left when United Press International  (or anyone else as far as we know) did not choose them.

This is the 1970 iteration of their selections—

Oakland Tribune's 1969 All-Rookie Team

 By John Turney 

Greg Cook

From 1961-65 and then in 1968 United Press International picked All-rookie teams. They didn't pick them from 1968-70 but did resume in 1971.

However, the Oakland Tribune did pick teams from 1969-71 which are the only All-Rookie teams from 1969 and 1970 that were are aware of. 

They were not exacting in that they did not define First- or Second-teams and picked both from the NFL and AFL but since they are all we have we thought they were worthy of posting. 

Here is the 1969 team—