1961 All-Southwest Conference football team

The 1961 All-Southwest Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Southwest Conference teams for the 1961 college football season. The selectors for the 1961 season included the Associated Press (AP) and the United Press International (UPI). Players selected as first-team players by both the AP and UPI are designated in bold.

• Jimmy Saxton, Texas (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Mike Cotten, Texas (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Lance Alworth, Arkansas (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Roland Jackson, Rice (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Sonny Gibbs, Texas Christian (AP-2)
• Ronnie Bull, Baylor (AP-2)
• Coolidge Hunt, Texas Tech (AP-2)
• George McKinney, Arkansas (AP-2)

• Bob Moses, Texas (AP-1; UPI-1)
• John Burrell, Rice (AP-1)
• Jim Collier, Arkansas (AP-2; UPI-1)
• Buddy Iles, Texas Christian (AP-2)

• Don Talbert, Texas (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Robert Johnston, Rice (AP-1)
• Bobby Plummer, TCU (AP-2; UPI-1)
• John Childress, Arkansas (AP-2)

• Dean Garrett, Arkansas (AP-1; UPI-1)
• Ray Schoenke, SMU (AP-1)
• Johnny Treadwell, Texas (AP-1)
• Herby Adkins, Baylor (AP-2; UPI-1)
• Wayne Freiling, Texas A&M (AP-2)

• Bill Hicks, Baylor (AP-1)
• David Kristynik, Texas (UPI-1) (brother of Marvin Kristynik)
• Max Christian, SMU (AP-2)

AP = Associated Press^[1]

UPI = United Press International^[2]

Bold = Consensus first-team selection of both the AP and UPI

• 1961 College Football All-America Team