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 CW = Caspar Whitney, published in Harper's Weekly magazine. PI = Philadelphia Inquirer NYW = The World of New York selected by Harry Beecher LES = Leslie's Weekly by W. T. Bull Bold = Consensus All-American
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,There were two players on the 1896 Harvard team with the surname Shaw: Francis George Shaw, '97, and James Ebenezer Norton Shaw, '98. Harvard (LES-2; NYW-1) Edward Crowdis, Princeton (LES-1) 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)
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