1897 College Football All-America Team

The 1897 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1897 college football season, as selected by Walter Camp for Harper's Weekly. Casper Whitney had selected the Harper's Weekly All-American Team from 1891-1896, but Whitney was on a world's sports tour during the 1897 season, and Camp therefore substituted for Whitney.

Key

 * WC = Walter Camp for Harper's Weekly
 * OUT = Outing Magazine
 * NYS = New York Sun
 * LES = Leslie's Weekly by W.T. Bull
 * Bold = Consensus All-American

Ends

 * Garrett Cochran, Princeton (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-1; LES-1)
 * John Hall, Yale (WC-1; OUT-2; NYS-2; LES-2)
 * S. Boyle, Jr., Penn (WC-2; OUT-1; LES-1)
 * McKeever, Cornell (WC-2)
 * Moulton, Harvard (WC-3; NYS-1)
 * Tracy, Cornell (WC-3)
 * Cabot, Harvard (NYS-2; LES-2)
 * Craig, Princeton (NYS-2)
 * Josiah J. Hazen, Yale (OUT-2)

Tackles

 * Burr Chamberlain, Yale (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-1; LES-1)
 * John Outland, Penn (Namesake of the Outland Trophy and College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; LES-1)
 * James O. Rodgers, Yale (WC-2; OUT-1; NYS-2; LES-2)
 * Seales, Army (WC-2; NYS-2)
 * Art Hillebrand, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; OUT-2; NYS-1)
 * Donald, Harvard (WC-3)
 * Goodman, Penn (OUT-2)
 * Swain, Harvard (LES-2)

Guards

 * T. Truxtun Hare, Penn (WC; HW; NYS-1; LES-2)
 * Gordon Brown, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC; HW; NYS-2; LES-1)
 * Charles Chadwick, Yale (WC-2; OUT-2; LES-1)
 * Charles Rinehart, Lafayette (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; OUT-1)
 * George W. Bouve, Harvard (WC-3; OUT-1; NYS-1; LES-2)
 * Josiah McCracken, Penn (WC-3; OUT-2)
 * Edwards, Princeton (NYS-2)

Centers

 * Allan Doucette, Harvard (WC-1; OUT-2; NYS-1; LES-2)
 * George Cadwalader, Yale (WC-2; OUT-1; LES-1)
 * Pete Overfield, Penn (WC-3)

Quarterback

 * Charles de Saulles, Yale (WC-1; NYS-1; LES-1)
 * Young, Cornell (WC-2; OUT-1)
 * Baird, Princeton (WC-3; OUT-2; LES-2)
 * Kromer, Army (NYS-2)
 * Weeks, Penn (NYS-2)

Halfback

 * Benjamin Dibblee, Harvard (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-1; LES-2)
 * Addison Kelly, Princeton (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-2; LES-2)
 * Dave Fultz, Brown (WC-2; OUT-2; NYS-1; LES-1)
 * Nesbitt, Army (WC-2)
 * Bannard, Princeton (WC-3; NYS-2)
 * George B. Walbridge, Lafayette (WC-3)
 * Charles T. Dudley, Yale (OUT-2; NYS-2)

Fullback

 * John Minds, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-2; LES-1)
 * Malcolm McBride, Yale (WC-2; NYS-2; LES-2)
 * Wheeler, Princeton (WC-3; LES-1)
 * Baird, Princeton (NYS-1)
 * Bray, Lafayette (OUT-2)