1916 College Football All-America Team

The 1916 College Football All-America team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-America Teams selected by various organizations in 1916. The organizations that chose the teams included Collier's Weekly selected by Walter Camp.

Key

 * WC = Collier's Weekly as selected by Walter Camp
 * UP = United Press
 * INS = International News Service
 * WE = Walter Eckersall, of the Chicago Tribune
 * FM = Frank G. Menke, Sporting Editor of the I.N.S.
 * MON = Monty, noted New York sports writer
 * PP = Paul Purman, noted sports writer whose All-American team was syndicated in newspapers across the United States
 * LP = Lawrence Perry of the New York Evening Post
 * FY = Fielding H. Yost
 * BP = Boston Post, selected by Charles E. Parker, football expert of the Boston Post
 * MS = Frank Menke Syndicate
 * Bold - Consensus All-American
 * 1 - First Team Selection
 * 2 - Second Team Selection
 * 3 - Third Team Selection

Ends

 * Bert Baston, Minnesota (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; UP-1; INS-1; WE-1; PP-1; FY-1; BP-1; MS)
 * James Pat Herron, Pittsburgh (WC-2; INS-2; WE-1; MS)
 * Charles Comerford, Yale (INS-1; BP-1)
 * George Moseley, Yale (WC-1; WE-2; FY-2)
 * Henry Miller, Penn (WC-2; LP-1; FY-1)
 * Richard Harte, Harvard (INS-2; MON-1; FY-2)
 * Clifford Carlson, Pitt (Basketball Hall of Fame) (PP-2)
 * Tommy Whelan, Georgetown (PP-2)
 * Highley, Princeton (UP-2; LP-1)
 * Stan Cofall, Notre Dame (UP-2; MS)
 * Paul Eckley, Cornell (WE-2)
 * Bob Higgins, Penn State (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (MON-1)
 * Coolidge, Harvard (WC-3)
 * Morris Vowell, Tennessee (WC-3)

Tackles

 * Belford West, Colgate (WC-1; UP-1; INS-1; WE-1; PP-2; LP-1; BP-1)
 * Clarence Horning, Colgate (WC-1; WE-2; MS)
 * McLean, Princeton (MON-1; FY-1; BP-1)
 * Artemus Gates, Yale (WC-2; UP-2; INS-2)
 * DeVitalis, Brown (UP-1; PP-1)
 * George Hauser, Minnesota (INS-1)
 * Mark Farnum, Brown (INS-2; MON-1)
 * Fred Becker, Iowa (WE-1)
 * Louis Seagrave, Washington (WC-3 [g]; PP-1)
 * Fred Gillies, Cornell (FY-1)
 * Bob Karch, Ohio State (FM)
 * Wheeler, Harvard (UP-2; LP-1; FY-2)
 * Ward, Navy (WC-2)
 * Beacham, Tufts (PP-2)
 * Little, Penn (FY-2)
 * Mayer, Minnesota (WE-2)
 * Beckett, Oregon (WC-3)
 * __nico, Washington & Lee (WC-3)

Guards

 * Clinton Black, Yale (WC-1; UP-1; INS-1; WE-1; MON-1; PP-1; LP-1; FY-1; BP-1; MS)
 * Harrie Dadmun, Harvard (WC-1; UP-2; INS-2; WE-1; FY-1)
 * Frank T. Hogg, Princeton (WC-2; PP-1; MS)
 * Fox, Yale (UP-1)
 * Thornhill, Pitt (INS-1)
 * Henning, Penn (FY-2; BP-1)
 * Christopher Schlachter, Syracuse (MON-1)
 * Charlie Bachman, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; LP-1)
 * Nourse, Princeton (WE-2; PP-2)
 * Sinclair, Minnesota (PP-2)
 * Good, Colgate (UP-2)
 * Barton, Colgate (INS-2)
 * Arnold McInerney, Notre Dame (WE-2)
 * Garrett, Rutgers (WC-3)

Centers

 * Bob Peck, Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; UP-1; INS-1; WE-1; MON-1; PP-1; BP-1; MS)
 * John McEwan, Army (WC-2; UP-2; INS-2; WE-2; PP-2)
 * Alfred Gennert, Princeton (LP-1; FY-1)
 * Becket, Iowa (FY-2)
 * George Phillips, Georgia Tech (WC-3)

Quarterbacks

 * Oscar Anderson, Colgate (WC-1; UP-2; INS-1; BP-1; LP-1)
 * Fritz Shiverick, Cornell (UP-1; INS-2; PP-1; FY-2)
 * Bart Macomber, Illinois (College Football Hall of Fame) (WE-2; PP-2; FY-1)
 * Cliff Sparks, Michigan (MON-1)
 * James DeHart, Pitt (WE-1)
 * Clair Purdy, Brown (WC-2)
 * Irby "Rabbit" Curry, Vanderbilt (WC-3)

Halfbacks

 * Chic Harley, Ohio State (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; UP-1; INS-1; WE-1; PP-1; FY-1; BP-1)
 * Everett Strupper, Georgia Tech (College Football Hall of Fame) (PP-1 [e])
 * Fritz Pollard, Brown (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; UP-2; INS-2; WE-2; MON-1; PP-2; LP-1; BP-1; MS)
 * Andy Hastings, Pittsburgh (UP-1; INS-1)
 * Eddie Casey, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; WE-2; PP-1; FY-2)
 * John Maulbetsch, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (FY-1)
 * Harry LeGore, Yale (WC-2; INS-2; WE-2 [fb]; PP-2; LP-1 [fb]; FY-2)
 * Claire Long, Minnesota (FM)
 * Paddy "The Wasp" Driscoll, Northwestern (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; UP-2)
 * Johnny "The Great" Gilroy, Georgetown (WC-3)

Fullbacks

 * Elmer Oliphant, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; UP-1; PP-1; INS-1; MON-1; LP-1 [hb]; BP-1; MS)
 * Joseph Howard Berry, Jr., Pennsylvania (WC-2; UP-1 [e]; INS-2; WE-1 [hb]; MON-1; FY-1)
 * Arnold "Pudge" Wyman, Minnesota (UP-2; WE-1; FY-2)
 * Arnold Horween, Harvard (PP-2)
 * McReaghy, Washington & Jefferson (WC-3)