1897 College Football All-America Team

1897 College Football All-America Team
College Football All-America Team
1897 college football season
1895 1896 ← → 1898 1899

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
• 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 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 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

• 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 Winthrop 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)

Quarterbacks

• Charles de Saulles, Yale (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)