The 1898 All-America college football team is composed of American football players who were selected as the best players at their positions by various organizations that chose All-America college football teams that season. The organizations that chose the teams included Collier's Weekly selected by Walter Camp and the Syracuse Herald.
The 1898 season marked the first time players from the west were named to the All-American teams. Michigan center William Cunningham and Chicago fullback Clarence Herschberger were the first two western players to receive the recognition. Prior to 1898, all of the prior All-America football teams had been selected from among five Ivy League teams – Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Penn, and Cornell.
Key
WC = Walter Camp for Collier's Weekly CW = Casper Whitney for Harper's Weekly H = Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, NY NYS = New York Sun, selected by Hugh H. Janeway, ex-Princeton player NYET = New York Evening Telegram OUT = Outing Magazine LES = Leslie's Weekly by Charles E. Patterson Bold = Consensus All-American
All-Americans of 1898
Ends Lew Palmer, Princeton (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-1) John Hallowell, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-2) N. T. Folwell, Penn (WC-3; H) Art Poe, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; H; OUT-1; LES-1) Francis Douglas Cochrane, Harvard (WC-2; OUT-1) Walter Smith, Army (WC-3) Chadwell, Williams (LES-2)
Tackles Art Hillebrand, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; H; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-1; LES-1) Burr Chamberlain, Yale (OUT-1; LES-1; WC-1 [g]; CW-1 [g]; H [g]; NYS-1 [g]) Percy Haughton, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-2) Allen Steckle, Michigan (WC-2) Malcolm Donald, Harvard (OUT-2) Edwin Sweetland, Cornell (WC-3) Robert C. Foy, Army (WC-3) S. M. Goodman, Penn (LES-2)
Guards Truxtun Hare, Penn (WC-1 [t]; H [t]; NYS-1 [t]; NYET-1 [t]; OUT-1 [g]; LES-1 [g]) Gordon Brown, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYET-1; LES-1) Walter Boal, Harvard (WC-2; CW-1; OUT-1) Josiah McCracken, Penn (WC-2; H; OUT-2; LES-2) Big Bill Edwards, Princeton (OUT-2) C. A. "Brute" Randolph, Penn State (WC-3) Daniel A. Reed, Cornell (WC-3; LES-2)
Centers Pete Overfield, Penn (WC-1; H; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-1; LES-1) William Cunningham, Michigan (WC-2; CW-1) Percy Malcolm Jaffrey, Harvard (WC-3; OUT-2) Booth, Princeton (LES-2)
Quarterbacks
Charles Dudley Daly, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; H; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-1) Frank Hudson, Carlisle Indians (OUT-1) Walter S. Kennedy, Chicago (WC-2) Leon Kromer, Army (WC-3) Charles Street, Michigan (LES-2)
Halfbacks Benjamin Dibblee, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; H; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-1; LES-1) John H. Outland, Penn (namesake of the Outland Trophy) (WC-1; NYET-1; OUT-1) Malcolm McBride, Yale (CW-1) Leicester Warren, Harvard (WC-2; NYS-1) Willis Richardson, Brown (WC-2; LES-2) Allen E. Whiting, Cornell (OUT-2; LES-2) Alfred H. Durston, Yale (OUT-2) Raymond Benedict, Nebraska (WC-3) Raymond, Wesleyan (WC-3)
Fullbacks Clarence Herschberger, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; H; OUT-1; LES-1) Charles Romeyn, Army (WC-3; CW-1; NYS-1) Bill Reid, Harvard (H; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-1) Pat O'Dea, Wisconsin (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2) Wheeler, Princeton (LES-2)
See also 1898 All-Southern college football team 1898 All-Western college football team
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