The 1896 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1896 college football season, as selected by Casper Whitney for Harper's Weekly and the Walter Camp Football Foundation.
All-American selections for 1896[]
Key[]
- WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation[1]
- CW = Casper Whitney, published in Harper's Weekly magazine.
- PI = Philadelphia Inquirer[2]
- NYW = The World of New York selected by Harry Beecher[3]
- LES = Leslie's Weekly by W.T. Bull[4]
- Bold = Consensus All-American[5]
Ends[]
- Norman Cabot, Harvard (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
- Charles "The Miracle Man" Gelbert, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; PI-1; LES-1 [back])
- Garrett Cochran, Princeton (NYW-1; LES-2)
- Lyman M. Bass, Yale (LES-1)
- Louis Hinkey, Yale (LES-2)
Tackles[]
- William Church, Princeton (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
- Fred Murphy, Yale (WC-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
- Percy Haughton, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (PI-1; LES-2)
- James O. Rodgers, Yale (LES-2)
Guards[]
- Charles "Buck" Wharton, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; PI-1)
- Wylie G. Woodruff, Penn (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
- Shaw, Harvard (NYW-1)
- Crowdis, Princeton (LES-1)
- Uffenheimer, Penn (LES-2)
- N. Shaw, Harvard (LES-2)
Centers[]
- Robert Gailey, Princeton (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-2)
- Burr Chamberlain, Yale (LES-1)
Quarterbacks[]
- Clarence Fincke, Yale (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
- Smith, Princeton (LES-2)
Halfbacks[]
- Edgar Wrightington, Harvard (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1)
- Addison Kelly, Princeton (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-2)
- Dunlop, Harvard (LES-1)
- Bannard, Princeton (LES-2)
Fullbacks[]
- John Baird, Princeton (WC-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
- John Minds, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (PI-1)
- Wrightington, Harvard (LES-2)
Notes[]
- ↑ "Walter Camp Football Foundation". http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards//.
- ↑ "The Inquirer's All-American Team: This Organization is a Hard One to Pick, but Here is the Best". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1896-11-29.
- ↑ "Sunday World's All-America Football Team". The World. 1896-11-29.
- ↑ "All-America Addendum". College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001. http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv14/CFHSNv14n2f.pdf.
- ↑ Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners
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