1895 College Football All-America Team Explained

The 1895 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1895 college football season, as selected by Caspar Whitney for Harper's Weekly and the Walter Camp Football Foundation. Whitney began publishing his All-America Team in 1889, and his list, which was considered the official All-America Team, was published in Harper's Weekly from 1891 to 1896.

All-American selections for 1895

Key

• WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation^[1]
• CW = Caspar Whitney, published in Harper's Weekly magazine.
• Bold = Consensus All-American^[2]

Ends

• Norman Cabot, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1)
• Charles Gelbert, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)

Tackles

• Langdon Lea, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)
• Fred T. Murphy, Yale (WC-1; CW-1)

Guards

• Charles Wharton, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)
• Dudley Riggs, Princeton (WC-1; CW-1)

Centers

• Alfred E. Bull, Penn (WC-1; CW-1)

Quarterback

• Clint Wyckoff, Cornell (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)

Halfbacks

• Sam Thorne, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)
• George H. Brooke, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)

Fullback

• Charley Brewer, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Walter Camp Football Foundation . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090330065940/http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards . 2009-03-30 .
2. Web site: Football Award Winners. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. October 21, 2017. 6.