1895 All-America college football team
List of the best college football players of 1895
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The 1895 All-America college football team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1895 college football season, as selected by Caspar Whitney for Harper's Weekly and Walter Camp. Whitney began publishing his All-America Team in 1889, and his list, which was considered the official All-America Team, was published in Harper's Weekly from 1891 to 1896.
An All-America team was also published by New York newspaper The Sun.[1]
All-American selections for 1895
Key
- WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation[2]
- CW = Caspar Whitney, published in Harper's Weekly magazine.
- Bold = Consensus All-American[3]
Ends
- Norman Cabot, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1)
- Charles Gelbert, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)
Tackles
- Langdon Lea, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)
- Fred T. Murphy, Yale (WC-1; CW-1)
Guards
- Charles Wharton, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)
- Dudley Riggs, Princeton (WC-1; CW-1)
Centers
- Alfred E. Bull, Penn (WC-1; CW-1)
Quarterback
- Clint Wyckoff, Cornell (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)
Halfbacks
- Sam Thorne, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)
- George H. Brooke, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)
Fullback
- Charley Brewer, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)