1896 All-America college football team

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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.

Contents

All-American selections for 1896

Key

Ends

Tackles

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William W. Church of Princeton

Guards

Centers

Quarterbacks

Halfbacks

Fullbacks

References

  1. "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.
  2. "The Inquirer's All-American Team: This Organization is a Hard One to Pick, but Here is the Best". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 29, 1896.
  3. "Sunday World's All-America Football Team". The World. November 29, 1896.
  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. There were two players on the 1896 Harvard team with the surname Shaw: Francis George Shaw, '97, and James Ebenezer Norton Shaw, '98.
  7. "Princeton May Play Crowdis". The Boston Daily Globe. October 30, 1855.