All-American selections for 1897 1897 College Football All-America Team

1 all-american selections 1897

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 1897

garrett cochran of princeton.


key

wc = walter camp harper s weekly
out = outing magazine
nys = new york sun
les = leslie s weekly w. t. bull
bold = consensus all-american

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)
william mckeever, cornell (wc-2)
john babcock moulton, harvard (wc-3; nys-1)
lyndon s. tracy, cornell (wc-3)
norman cabot, harvard (nys-2; les-2)
craig, princeton (nys-2)
josiah j. hazen, yale (out-2)

tackles

john h. outland of penn.



burr chamberlain, yale (wc-1; out-1; nys-1; les-1)
john h. outland, penn (namesake of outland trophy , college football hall of fame) (wc-1; les-1)
james o. rodgers, yale (wc-2; out-1; nys-2; les-2)
wallace b. scales, 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)

quarterbacks

charles de saulles, yale (wc-1; nys-1; les-1)
george young, cornell (wc-2; out-1)
john baird, princeton (wc-3; out-2; nys-1 [as fb]; les-2)
leon kromer, army (nys-2)
david weeks, penn (nys-2)

halfbacks

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)
william f. 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)

fullbacks

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)
edward g. bray, lafayette (out-2)




^ camp s champion eleven: chamberlin, brown, de saulles , hall of yale all-american leaders . new haven evening register. 1897-12-08. 
^ brief review of football season (pdf). outing magazine. jan 1898. 
^ arduous task: choosing of american representative football team . evening news. lincoln, nebraska. 1897-12-15 – via reprinted new york sun. 
^ 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. 
^ yale revives work preliminary practice, discarded in october, again in evidence . philadelphia inquirer. 1898-11-08.