1897 College Football All-America Team

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.

1 All-American selections for 1897
2 References

All-American selections for 1897

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)
McKeever, Cornell (WC-2)
John Babcock Moulton, Harvard (WC-3; NYS-1)
Tracy, Cornell (WC-3)
Norman Winslow Cabot, Harvard (NYS-2; LES-2)
Craig, Princeton (NYS-2)
Josiah J. Hazen, Yale (OUT-2)

Tackles

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)
Seales, 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)

Quarterback

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; LES-2)
Walter Kromer, Army (NYS-2)
David Weeks, Penn (NYS-2)

Halfback

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)
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)

Fullback

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)
John Baird, Princeton (NYS-1)
Edward G. Bray, Lafayette (OUT-2)

References

^ "Camp's Champion Eleven: Chamberlin, Brown, De Saulles and Hall of Yale All-American Leaders". New Haven Evening Register. 1897-12-08.
^ "A Brief Review of the Football Season". The Outing Magazine. Jan 1898.
^ "An Arduous Task: The Choosing of an All American Representative Football Team". Evening News (Lincoln, Nebraska). 1897-12-15 – via reprinted from New York Sun.
^ "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.
^ "Yale Revives Early Work Preliminary Practice, Discarded Early in October, Again in Evidence". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1898-11-08.

1897 College Football All-America Team consensus selections

QB Charles de Saulles HB Benjamin Dibblee HB Addison Kelly FB John Minds C Allan Doucette G Gordon Brown G Truxtun Hare T Burr Chamberlain T John H. Outland E Garrett Cochran E John A. Hall

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