1896 College Football All America Team

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The 1896 College Football All-America 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.

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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)

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

1896 College Football All-America Team Wikipedia

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