1897 College Football All-America Team
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The 1897 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-American
s for the 1897 college football season
, as selected by Walter Camp
for Harper's Weekly
. Casper Whitney had selected the Harper's Weekly All-American Team from 1891-1896, but Whitney was on a world's sports tour during the 1897 season, and Camp therefore substituted for Whitney.
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 1897 college football season
1897 college football season
The 1897 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Penn and Yale as national champions.-Conference standings:The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:...
, as selected by Walter Camp
Walter Camp
Walter Chauncey Camp was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football...
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...
. Casper Whitney had selected the Harper's Weekly All-American Team from 1891-1896, but Whitney was on a world's sports tour during the 1897 season, and Camp therefore substituted for Whitney.
Key
- WC = Walter CampWalter CampWalter Chauncey Camp was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football...
for Harper's Weekly - OUT = Outing Magazine
- NYS = New York Sun
- LES = Leslie's Weekly by W.T. Bull
- Bold = Consensus All-American
Ends
- Garrett CochranGarrett Cochran-External links:...
, Princeton (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-1; LES-1) - John HallJohn HallJohn Hall may refer to:American government:* John Hall , U.S. Representative from New York and former member of the band Orleans...
, Yale (WC-1; OUT-2; NYS-2; LES-2) - S. Boyle, Jr., Penn (WC-2; OUT-1; LES-1)
- McKeever, Cornell (WC-2)
- Moulton, Harvard (WC-3; NYS-1)
- Tracy, Cornell (WC-3)
- Cabot, Harvard (NYS-2; LES-2)
- Craig, Princeton (NYS-2)
- Josiah J. Hazen, Yale (OUT-2)
Tackles
- Burr ChamberlainBurr Chamberlain-External links:...
, Yale (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-1; LES-1) - John Outland, Penn (Namesake of the Outland TrophyOutland TrophyThe Outland Trophy is awarded to the best United States college football interior lineman by the Football Writers Association of America. It is named after John H. Outland. One of only a few players ever to be named All-America at two positions, Outland garnered consensus All-America honors in...
and College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; LES-1) - James O. Rodgers, Yale (WC-2; OUT-1; NYS-2; LES-2)
- Seales, Army (WC-2; NYS-2)
- Art HillebrandArt HillebrandArthur Ralph Thomas "Doc" Hillebrand was an American football player and coach. He played college football as a tackle for Princeton University. He was head coach for the Navy Midshipmen and then back to his alma mater, Princeton...
, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; OUT-2; NYS-1) - Donald, Harvard (WC-3)
- Goodman, Penn (OUT-2)
- Swain, Harvard (LES-2)
Guards
- T. Truxtun Hare, Penn (WC; HW; NYS-1; LES-2)
- Gordon Brown, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC; HW; NYS-2; LES-1)
- Charles ChadwickCharles Chadwick (athlete)Charles Chadwick was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.He was born in Brooklyn and died in Boston, Massachusetts....
, Yale (WC-2; OUT-2; LES-1) - Charles RinehartCharles RinehartCharles Ramsay Rinehart was an American football player, engineer and businessman. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1964....
, Lafayette (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; OUT-1) - George W. Bouve, Harvard (WC-3; OUT-1; NYS-1; LES-2)
- Josiah McCrackenJosiah McCrackenJosiah Calvin McCracken nicknamed Joe, was born into a devout Presbyterian family in Lincoln, Tennessee. His earliest known Ulster-Scots ancestors settled in Pennsylvania before the French & Indian War...
, Penn (WC-3; OUT-2) - Edwards, Princeton (NYS-2)
Centers
- Allan DoucetteAllan DoucetteAllan E. Doucette was an All-American football player. Doucette played at the center position for Harvard University and was selected for the 1897 College Football All-America Team. Doucette graduated from Harvard as an undergraduate in 1895. He spent the next three years at Harvard Law School...
, Harvard (WC-1; OUT-2; NYS-1; LES-2) - George Cadwalader, Yale (WC-2; OUT-1; LES-1)
- Pete OverfieldPete OverfieldPeter Delome "Pete" Overfield was an All-American and professional football player, federal judge and rancher. Overfield played center for the University of Pennsylvania and was a first-team All-American in 1898 and 1899. He served as a federal district judge in Alaska from 1909-1917...
, Penn (WC-3)
Quarterback
- Charles de SaullesCharles de SaullesCharles A. de Saulles was an All-American football player. He played quarterback for Yale University and was selected for the 1897 College Football All-America Team.-All-American football player:...
, Yale (WC-1; NYS-1; LES-1) - Young, Cornell (WC-2; OUT-1)
- Baird, Princeton (WC-3; OUT-2; LES-2)
- Kromer, Army (NYS-2)
- Weeks, Penn (NYS-2)
Halfback
- Benjamin DibbleeBenjamin DibbleeBenjamin Harrison Dibblee was an All-American football player who played halfback for Harvard University. Dibblee attended preparatory school at the Groton School where he played on the football team and took a prominent role in athletics...
, Harvard (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-1; LES-2) - Addison KellyAddison KellyAddison W. Kelly was an American football player and coach who played college football for Princeton University and was the head coach of the University of California college football program in 1900. In 1896, he was selected as one of the backs on the College Football All-America Team.-Head...
, Princeton (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-2; LES-2) - Dave FultzDave FultzDavid Lewis Fultz was a center fielder in Major League Baseball who played in the National League with the Philadelphia Phillies and Baltimore Orioles , and for the Philadelphia Athletics and New York Highlanders of the American League. He batted and threw right-handed...
, Brown (WC-2; OUT-2; NYS-1; LES-1) - Nesbitt, Army (WC-2)
- Bannard, Princeton (WC-3; NYS-2)
- George B. WalbridgeGeorge B. WalbridgeGeorge B. Walbridge was an All-American football player for Lafayette College and a co-founder of Walbridge of Detroit, Michigan, one of the 50 largest construction companies in the United States.-Football career:...
, Lafayette (WC-3) - Charles T. Dudley, Yale (OUT-2; NYS-2)
Fullback
- John MindsJohn MindsJohn Minds was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1962....
, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-2; LES-1) - Malcolm McBrideMalcolm McBride-External links:...
, Yale (WC-2; NYS-2; LES-2) - Wheeler, Princeton (WC-3; LES-1)
- Baird, Princeton (NYS-1)
- Bray, Lafayette (OUT-2)