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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. Caspar Whitney had selected the Harper's Weekly All-American Team from 1891 to 1896, but Whitney was on a world's sports tour during the 1897 season, and Camp therefore substituted for Whitney.

All-American selections for 1897[]

File:Garrett Cochran.jpg

Garrett Cochran of Princeton.

Key[]

  • WC = Walter Camp for Harper's Weekly[1]
  • OUT = Outing Magazine[2]
  • NYS = New York Sun[3]
  • LES = Leslie's Weekly by W. T. Bull[4]
  • Bold = Consensus All-American[5]

Ends[]

  • Garrett Cochran, Princeton (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-1; LES-1)
  • John A. Hall, Yale (WC-1; OUT-2; NYS-2; LES-2)
  • Sam Boyle, Penn (WC-2; OUT-1; LES-1)
  • William McKeever, Cornell (WC-2)
  • John Babcock Moulton, Harvard (WC-3; NYS-1)
  • Lyndon S. Tracy, Cornell (WC-3)
  • Norman Cabot, Harvard (NYS-2; LES-2)
  • Craig, Princeton (NYS-2)
  • Josiah J. Hazen, Yale (OUT-2)

Tackles[]

John Outland

John H. Outland of Penn.

  • Burr Chamberlain, Yale (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-1; LES-1)
  • John H. 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)
  • Wallace B. Scales, Army (WC-2; NYS-2)
  • Art Hillebrand, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; OUT-2; NYS-1)
  • Malcolm Donald, Harvard (WC-3)
  • S. M. Goodman, Penn (OUT-2)
  • Chester Odiorne Swain, Harvard (LES-2)

Guards[]

Centers[]

Quarterbacks[]

  • Charles de Saulles, Yale[6] (WC-1; NYS-1; LES-1)
  • George Young, Cornell (WC-2; OUT-1)
  • John Baird, Princeton (WC-3; OUT-2; NYS-1 [as fb]; LES-2)
  • Leon Kromer, Army (NYS-2)
  • David Weeks, Penn (NYS-2)

Halfbacks[]

  • 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)
  • William F. Nesbitt, Army (WC-2)
  • William Bannard, Princeton (WC-3; NYS-2)
  • George B. Walbridge, Lafayette (WC-3)
  • Charles T. Dudley, Yale (OUT-2; NYS-2)

Fullbacks[]

  • 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)
  • Powell Wheeler, Princeton (WC-3; LES-1)
  • Edward G. Bray, Lafayette (OUT-2)

References[]

  1. "Camp's Champion Eleven: Chamberlin, Brown, De Saulles and Hall of Yale All-American Leaders". New Haven Evening Register. 1897-12-08.
  2. "A Brief Review of the Football Season". The Outing Magazine. Jan 1898. http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/Outing/Volume_31/outXXXI04/outXXXI04u.pdf.
  3. "An Arduous Task: The Choosing of an All American Representative Football Team". Evening News (Lincoln, Nebraska). 1897-12-15.
  4. "All-America Addendum". College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001. http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv14/CFHSNv14n2f.pdf.
  5. "Football Award Winners". National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2016/awards.pdf. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  6. "Yale Revives Early Work Preliminary Practice, Discarded Early in October, Again in Evidence". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1898-11-08.
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