1896 College Football All-America Team

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.

1 All-American selections for 1896
2 References

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)
Crowdis, Princeton (LES-1)
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)
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".
^ "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.
^ "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections". National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 4. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
^ There were two players on the 1896 Harvard team with the surname Shaw: Francis George Shaw, '97, and James Ebenezer Norton Shaw, '98.

1896 College Football All-America Team consensus selections

QB Clarence Fincke HB Addison Kelly HB Edgar Wrightington FB John Baird C Robert Gailey G Charles Wharton G Wylie G. Woodruff T William W. Church T Fred T. Murphy E Norman Cabot E Charlie Gelbert

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