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
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edit- 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
edit- 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
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- 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
edit- 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
edit- Robert Gailey, Princeton (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-2)
- Burr Chamberlain, Yale (LES-1)
Quarterbacks
edit- Clarence Fincke, Yale (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
- F. L. Smith, Princeton (LES-2)
Halfbacks
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- ^ "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.