All-American selections for 1896 1896 College Football All-America Team

1 all-american selections 1896

1.1 key
1.2 ends
1.3 tackles
1.4 guards
1.5 centers
1.6 quarterbacks
1.7 halfbacks
1.8 fullbacks

all-american selections 1896
key

wc = walter camp football foundation
cw = caspar whitney, published in harper s weekly magazine.
pi = philadelphia inquirer
nyw = world of new york selected harry beecher
les = leslie s weekly w. t. bull
bold = consensus all-american

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, 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)
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)




^ walter camp football foundation . archived original on 2009-03-30. 
^ inquirer s all-american team: organization hard 1 pick, here best . philadelphia inquirer. 1896-11-29. 
^ sunday world s all-america football team . world. 1896-11-29. 
^ all-america addendum (pdf). college football historical society newsletter. february 2001. 
^ football award winners (pdf). national collegiate athletic association (ncaa). 2016. p. 6. retrieved october 21, 2017. 
^ there 2 players on 1896 harvard team surname shaw: francis george shaw, 97, , james ebenezer norton shaw, 98.