1896 All-America college football team
List of the best college football players of 1896
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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 Foundation[1]
- CW = Caspar Whitney, published in Harper's Weekly magazine.
- PI = Philadelphia Inquirer[2]
- NYW = The World of New York selected by Harry Beecher[3]
- LES = Leslie's Weekly by W. T. Bull[4]
- Bold = Consensus All-American[5]
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,[6] Harvard (LES-2; NYW-1)
- Edward Crowdis, Princeton (LES-1)[7]
- 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)