1895 College Football All-America Team
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The 1895 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-American
College Football All-America Team
The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best American college football players at their respective positions. The original usage of the term All-America seems to have been to the 1889 College Football All-America Team selected by Casper Whitney and published in This...

s for the 1895 college football season
1895 college football season
The 1895 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Penn and Yale as national champions....

, as selected by Caspar Whitney
Caspar Whitney
Caspar William Whitney was an American author, editor, explorer, and war correspondent. He originated the concept of the All-American team in college football in 1889 when he worked for Harper's Magazine....

 for Harper's Weekly
Harper's Weekly
Harper's Weekly was an American political magazine based in New York City. Published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916, it featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects, and humor...

and the Walter Camp Football Foundation. 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 1891-1896.

Key

  • WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation
  • CW = Caspar Whitney
    Caspar Whitney
    Caspar William Whitney was an American author, editor, explorer, and war correspondent. He originated the concept of the All-American team in college football in 1889 when he worked for Harper's Magazine....

    , published in Harper's Weekly magazine.
  • Bold = Consensus All-American

Ends

  • Norman Cabot
    Norman Cabot
    Norman W. Cabot was an All-American football player. A native of New York, New York, Cabot was the son of a prominent Brooklyn family said to be "one of the bluest-blooded, old Puritan families of New York," and a descendent of explorer John Cabot. He played for Harvard University from 1894 to...

    , Harvard (WC-1; CW-1)
  • Charles "The Miracle Man" Gelbert, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)

Tackles

  • Langdon Lea
    Langdon Lea
    -See also:* 1893 College Football All-America Team* 1894 College Football All-America Team* 1895 College Football All-America Team*List of Michigan Wolverines head football coaches-External links:*...

    , Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)
  • Fred Murphy
    Fred J. Murphy
    Fred J. Murphy was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He played college football as a tackle at Yale University was selected as an All-American in 1895...

    , Yale (WC-1; CW-1)

Guards

  • Charles Wharton
    Charles Wharton (American football)
    Charles "Buck" Wharton was an American football player. He was selected as an All-American guard in 1896 while playing for the University of Pennsylvania. The Penn teams of 1894 and 1895, with Wharton and fellow Hall of Fame inductee, Charlie Gelbert, as the guards were undefeated both years and...

    , Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)
  • Dudley Riggs
    Dudley Riggs (American football)
    Thomas Dudley Riggs was an All-American football player. He played for Princeton University and was selected as an All-American in 1895.-Early years:...

    , Princeton (WC-1; CW-1)

Quarterback

  • Clint Wyckoff
    Clint Wyckoff
    Clinton Randolph "Clint" Wyckoff was an American football player, and the first Consensus All-American not from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, or Penn. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1970....

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

Halfbacks

  • Sam "Brick" Thorne
    Sam Thorne
    -External links:...

    , 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
    Charley Brewer (fullback)
    Charley Brewer was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971.-See also:* 1895 College Football All-America Team...

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