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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 Casper Whitney for Harper's Weekly and the Walter Camp Football Foundation.

Contents

All-American selections for 1896 [edit]

Key [edit]

  • WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation[1]
  • CW = Casper 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 [edit]

Tackles [edit]

Guards [edit]

  • Charles "Buck" 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)
  • Crowdis, Princeton (LES-1)
  • L. J. Uffenheimer, Penn (LES-2)

Centers [edit]

Quarterbacks [edit]

  • Clarence Fincke, Yale (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
  • Smith, Princeton (LES-2)

Halfbacks [edit]

  • 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)
  • Bannard, Princeton (LES-2)

Fullbacks [edit]

  • 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 [edit]

  1. ^ "Walter Camp Football Foundation". 
  2. ^ "The Inquirer's All-American Team: This Organization is a Hard One to Pick, but Here is the Best". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1896-11-29. 
  3. ^ "Sunday World's All-America Football Team". The World. 1896-11-29. 
  4. ^ "All-America Addendum". College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001. 
  5. ^ Consensus All-American designations based on the NCAA guide to football award winners
  6. ^ There were two players on the 1896 Harvard team with the surname Shaw: Francis George Shaw, '97, and James Ebenezer Norton Shaw, '98.

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