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1895 All-America college football team

List of the best college football players of 1895

1895 All-America college football team
Summary

List of the best college football players of 1895

The 1895 All-America college football 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 Walter Camp. 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.

An All-America team was also published by New York newspaper The Sun.

All-American selections for 1895

Key

Charles Gelbert of Penn.
  • WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation
  • CW = Caspar Whitney, published in Harper's Weekly magazine.
  • Bold = Consensus All-American

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

Dudley Riggs]] of Princeton
  • 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

George H. Brooke of Penn
  • 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)

References

References

  1. (December 1, 1895). "Football Reflections — Work of the Big College Teams the Past Season". [[The Sun (New York City).
  2. "Walter Camp Football Foundation".
  3. (2016). "Football Award Winners". National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
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