1897 All-America college football team
List created by Harper's Weekly
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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
Key
- WC = Walter Camp for Harper's Weekly[1]
- OUT = Outing Magazine[2]
- NYS = New York Sun[3][4]
- LES = Leslie's Weekly by W. T. Bull[5]
- Bold = Consensus All-American[6]
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
- 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, Yale[7] (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)