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.

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 of Princeton

• 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

1. "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on 2009-03-30.
2. "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.
3. "Sunday World's All-America Football Team". The World. 1896-11-29.
4. "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001.
5. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
6. There were two players on the 1896 Harvard team with the surname Shaw: Francis George Shaw, '97, and James Ebenezer Norton Shaw, '98.
7. "Princeton May Play Crowdis". The Boston Daily Globe. October 30, 1855.