1896 All-America college football team

List of the best college football players of 1896 August 2023 25em 1896 All-America college football team border-top:#aaa 1px solid border-top:1px #aaa solid All-America college football team 1896 college football season border-top:1px #aaa solid 1894 1895 ← → 1897 1898 The 1896 All-America college football 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 FoundationWalter Camp Football Foundation http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards// dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090330065940/http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards 2009-03-30 CW = Caspar Whitney, published in Harper's Weekly magazine. PI = Philadelphia InquirerThe Inquirer's All-American Team: This Organization is a Hard One to Pick, but Here is the Best The Philadelphia Inquirer 1896-11-29 NYW = The World of New York selected by Harry BeecherSunday World's All-America Football Team The World 1896-11-29 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 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 thumb|right|130px|William W. Church of Princeton 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,There were two players on the 1896 Harvard team with the surname Shaw: Francis George Shaw, '97, and James Ebenezer Norton Shaw, '98. Harvard (LES-2; NYW-1) Edward Crowdis, Princeton (LES-1)Princeton May Play Crowdis The Boston Daily Globe October 30, 1855 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 2 All-America team Category:All-America college football teams