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1897 All-America college football team

List created by Harper's Weekly

1897 All-America college football team
Summary

List created by Harper's Weekly

The 1897 All-America college football team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1897 college football season, as selected by Walter Camp for Harper's Weekly. Caspar Whitney had selected the Harper's Weekly All-American Team from 1891 to 1896, but Whitney was on a world's sports tour during the 1897 season, and Camp therefore substituted for Whitney.

All-American selections for 1897

Garrett Cochran of Princeton.

Key

  • WC = Walter Camp for Harper's Weekly
  • OUT = Outing Magazine
  • NYS = New York Sun
  • LES = Leslie's Weekly by 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)
  • Samuel G. 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 the Outland Trophy and 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)
  • W. H. 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)

References

References

  1. (1897-12-08). "Camp's Champion Eleven: Chamberlin, Brown, De Saulles and Hall of Yale All-American Leaders". New Haven Evening Register.
  2. (Jan 1898). "A Brief Review of the Football Season". The Outing Magazine.
  3. (1897-12-15). "An Arduous Task: The Choosing of an All American Representative Football Team". Evening News.
  4. (November 28, 1897). "Summary of Football — How the Big College Elevens Compare in Strength". [[The Sun (New York City).
  5. (February 2001). "All-America Addendum". College Football Historical Society Newsletter.
  6. (2016). "Football Award Winners". National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
  7. (1898-11-08). "Yale Revives Early Work Preliminary Practice, Discarded Early in October, Again in Evidence". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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