1896 College Football All-America Team Explained

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, 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)

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. News: 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. News: Sunday World's All-America Football Team. The World. 1896-11-29.
4. Web site: All-America Addendum. College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001. 2010-03-05. 2010-06-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20100613011304/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv14/CFHSNv14n2f.pdf. dead.
5. Web site: Football Award Winners. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. October 21, 2017. 6.
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. News: Princeton May Play Crowdis. The Boston Daily Globe. October 30, 1855.