1896 College Football All-America Team

List of the best college football players of 1896

1896 College Football All-America Team
College Football All-America Team
1896 college football season
1894 1895 ← → 1897 1898

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 Caspar Whitney for Harper's Weekly and the Walter Camp Football Foundation.

All-American selections for 1896

Key

WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation^[1]
CW = Caspar 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 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 W. Church, Princeton (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
Fred T. 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 Wharton, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; PI-1)
Wylie G. Woodruff, Penn (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
Shaw,^[6] Harvard (LES-2; NYW-1)
Edward Crowdis, Princeton (LES-1)^[7]
L. J. Uffenheimer, Penn (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)
F. L. 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)
John William Dunlop, Harvard (LES-1)
William Bannard, Princeton (LES-2)

Fullbacks

John Baird, Princeton (WC-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
John Minds, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (PI-1)
Edward Newcomb Wrightington, Harvard (LES-2)

References

^ "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.
^ "The Inquirer's All-American Team: This Organization is a Hard One to Pick, but Here is the Best". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 29, 1896.
^ "Sunday World's All-America Football Team". The World. November 29, 1896.
^ "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
^ There were two players on the 1896 Harvard team with the surname Shaw: Francis George Shaw, '97, and James Ebenezer Norton Shaw, '98.
^ "Princeton May Play Crowdis". The Boston Daily Globe. October 30, 1855.

1896 College Football All-America Team consensus selections

Backfield

Line

E Norman Cabot
E Charlie Gelbert
T William W. Church
T Fred T. Murphy
G Charles Wharton
G Wylie G. Woodruff
C Robert Gailey

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