1897 All-America college football team

List created by Harper's Weekly August 2023 25em 1897 All-America college football team border-top:#aaa 1px solid border-top:1px #aaa solid All-America college football team 1897 college football season border-top:1px #aaa solid 1895 1896 ← → 1898 1899 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 thumb|right|130px|Garrett Cochran of Princeton. Key WC = Walter Camp for Harper's WeeklyCamp's Champion Eleven: Chamberlin, Brown, De Saulles and Hall of Yale All-American Leaders New Haven Evening Register 1897-12-08 OUT = Outing MagazineA Brief Review of the Football Season The Outing Magazine Jan 1898 http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/Outing/Volume_31/outXXXI04/outXXXI04u.pdf NYS = New York SunAn Arduous Task: The Choosing of an All American Representative Football Team Evening News Lincoln, Nebraska reprinted from New York Sun 1897-12-15 https://www.newspapers.com/article/lincoln-journal-star-1897-new-york-sun-a/161466057/November 28, 1897 Summary of Football — How the Big College Elevens Compare in Strength https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sun-1897-summary-of-college-football/161466038/ The Sun Pennsylvania and Yale as Even Match — Princeton, Harvard, Cornell, and West Point Next in Order LES = Leslie's Weekly by W. T. BullAll-America Addendum College Football Historical Society Newsletter February 2001 http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv14/CFHSNv14n2f.pdf 2010-03-05 2010-06-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20100613011304/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv14/CFHSNv14n2f.pdf dead Bold = Consensus All-AmericanFootball Award Winners National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) 2016 October 21, 2017 6 http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2016/awards.pdf 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 thumb|right|130px|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, YaleYale Revives Early Work Preliminary Practice, Discarded Early in October, Again in Evidence The Philadelphia Inquirer 1898-11-08 (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 2 All-America team Category:All-America college football teams