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^[1]
UP = United Press^[2]
INS = International News Service^[3]
WE = Walter Eckersall, of the Chicago Tribune^[4]
FM = Frank G. Menke, Sporting Editor of the I.N.S.
MON = Monty, noted New York sports writer^[5]
PP = Paul Purman, noted sports writer whose All-American team was syndicated in newspapers across the United States^[6]
LP = Lawrence Perry of the New York Evening Post^[7]
FY = Fielding H. Yost^[8]
BP = Boston Post, selected by Charles E. Parker, football expert of the Boston Post^[9]
MS = Frank Menke Syndicate^[10]
Bold - Consensus All-American^[11]
1 - First Team Selection
2 - Second Team Selection
3 - Third Team Selection

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

↑ "Three Colgate Men Picked By Camp for All-American Team". The Syracuse Herald. 1916-12-26.
↑ H.C. Hamilton (1916-12-03). "West Men on United Press All-American". Des Moines Daily News.
↑ Jack Velock, INS sports editor (1916-12-04). "Have Hard Job Selecting All-American Team". Lima Times Democrat.
↑ "Four Westerners On All-American: 1916 Selection Made by W. Eckersall". Daily Review (Decatur, IL). 1916-12-11.
↑ Monty (1916-11-25). "All American is Selected by Monty: Talent Stands Out". Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
↑ Paul Purman (1916-12-02). "The News' Own All-American 1916 Football Team". Des Moines Daily News.
↑ "Lawrence Perry Picks All Stars". The Day. December 7, 1916. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Wv0gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=onUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3930,3875926&dq=lawrence-perry&hl=en.
↑ "Yost's 1916 All American". Mansfield News. 1916-12-27.
↑ "Here's All-American Eleven for 1916". The Times (Hammond, IN). 1916-12-05.
↑ ESPN CollegeFootball Encyclopedia, p. 1152
↑ Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners

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