1896 All-America college football team

All-American selections for 1896

Key

• WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation
• CW = Caspar Whitney, published in Harper's Weekly magazine.
• PI = Philadelphia Inquirer
• NYW = The World of New York selected by Harry Beecher
• LES = Leslie's Weekly by 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, 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)
• Edward 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)

References

References

1. "Walter Camp Football Foundation".
2. (1896-11-29). "The Inquirer's All-American Team: This Organization is a Hard One to Pick, but Here is the Best". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
3. (1896-11-29). "Sunday World's All-America Football Team". The World.
4. (February 2001). "All-America Addendum". College Football Historical Society Newsletter.
5. (2016). "Football Award Winners". National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
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. (October 30, 1855). "Princeton May Play Crowdis". The Boston Daily Globe.