1897 College Football All-America Team

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

• Allan Doucette, Harvard (WC-1; OUT-2; NYS-1; LES-2)
• George Cadwalader, Yale (WC-2; OUT-1; LES-1)
• Pete Overfield, Penn (WC-3)

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

• Benjamin Dibblee, Harvard (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-1; LES-2)
• Addison Kelly, Princeton (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-2; LES-2)
• Dave Fultz, Brown (WC-2; OUT-2; NYS-1; LES-1)
• William F. Nesbitt, Army (WC-2)
• W. H. Bannard, Princeton (WC-3; NYS-2)
• George B. Walbridge, Lafayette (WC-3)
• Charles T. Dudley, Yale (OUT-2; NYS-2)

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. (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.