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

Key

WC = Walter Camp for Harper's Weekly^[1]
OUT = Outing Magazine^[2]
NYS = New York Sun^[3]^[4]
LES = Leslie's Weekly by W. T. Bull^[5]
Bold = Consensus All-American^[6]

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

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^[7] (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

^ "Camp's Champion Eleven: Chamberlin, Brown, De Saulles and Hall of Yale All-American Leaders". New Haven Evening Register. December 8, 1897.
^ "A Brief Review of the Football Season" (PDF). The Outing Magazine. January 1898.
^ "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.
^ "Summary of Football — How the Big College Elevens Compare in Strength". The Sun. November 28, 1897. Pennsylvania and Yale as Even Match — Princeton, Harvard, Cornell, and West Point Next in Order
^ "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
^ "Yale Revives Early Work Preliminary Practice, Discarded Early in October, Again in Evidence". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 8, 1898.

[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.

[TheSun1897-4] "Summary of Football — How the Big College Elevens Compare in Strength". The Sun. November 28, 1897. Pennsylvania and Yale as Even Match — Princeton, Harvard, Cornell, and West Point Next in Order

[CF4-5] "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010. Retrieved March 5, 2010.

[AW-6] "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.

[7] "Yale Revives Early Work Preliminary Practice, Discarded Early in October, Again in Evidence". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 8, 1898.

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