1895 All-America college football team

The 1895 All-America college football team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1895 college football season, as selected by Caspar Whitney for Harper's Weekly and Walter Camp. Whitney began publishing his All-America Team in 1889, and his list, which was considered the official All-America Team, was published in Harper's Weekly from 1891 to 1896.

An All-America team was also published by New York newspaper The Sun . ^[1]

All-American selections for 1895

Key

Charles Gelbert of Penn.

• WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation ^[2]
• CW = Caspar Whitney, published in Harper's Weekly magazine.
• Bold = Consensus All-American ^[3]

Ends

• Norman Cabot , Harvard (WC-1; CW-1)
• Charles Gelbert , Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)

Tackles

• Langdon Lea , Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)
• Fred T. Murphy , Yale (WC-1; CW-1)

Guards

Dudley Riggs of Princeton

• Charles Wharton , Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)
• Dudley Riggs , Princeton (WC-1; CW-1)

Centers

• Alfred E. Bull , Penn (WC-1; CW-1)

Quarterback

• Clint Wyckoff , Cornell (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)

Halfbacks

George H. Brooke of Penn

• Sam Thorne , Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)
• George H. Brooke , Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)

Fullback

• Charley Brewer , Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)

References

1. "Football Reflections — Work of the Big College Teams the Past Season". The Sun . December 1, 1895. A Meeting Between Yale and Pennsylvania Would Have Been a Red-letter Event — Make-up of an All-America Team Composed of the Best College Players
2. "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.
3. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.