1897 College Football All-America Team

List created by Harper's Weekly

1897 College Football All-America Team
College Football All-America Team
1897 college football season
1895 1896 ← → 1898 1899

The 1897 College Football All-America 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

Garrett Cochran of Princeton.

Key

  • WC = Walter Camp for Harper's Weekly[1]
  • OUT = Outing Magazine[2]
  • NYS = New York Sun[3]
  • LES = Leslie's Weekly by W. T. Bull[4]
  • Bold = Consensus All-American[5]

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

John H. Outland of Penn.
  • 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

Quarterbacks

  • Charles de Saulles, Yale[6] (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

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)

References

  1. ^ "Camp's Champion Eleven: Chamberlin, Brown, De Saulles and Hall of Yale All-American Leaders". New Haven Evening Register. December 8, 1897.
  2. ^ "A Brief Review of the Football Season" (PDF). The Outing Magazine. January 1898.
  3. ^ "An Arduous Task: The Choosing of an All American Representative Football Team". Evening News. Lincoln, Nebraska. December 15, 1897 – via reprinted from New York Sun.
  4. ^ "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
  5. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  6. ^ "Yale Revives Early Work Preliminary Practice, Discarded Early in October, Again in Evidence". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 8, 1898.
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