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-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{{cite news|title=Camp's Champion Eleven: Chamberlin, Brown, De Saulles and Hall of Yale All-American Leaders|work=New Haven Evening Register|date=1897-12-08}}
- OUT = Outing Magazine{{cite news|title=A Brief Review of the Football Season|work=The Outing Magazine|date=Jan 1898|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/Outing/Volume_31/outXXXI04/outXXXI04u.pdf}}
- NYS = New York Sun{{cite news |title=An Arduous Task: The Choosing of an All American Representative Football Team |work=Evening News |location=Lincoln, Nebraska |via=reprinted from New York Sun |date=1897-12-15 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/lincoln-journal-star-1897-new-york-sun-a/161466057/}}{{cite news |date=November 28, 1897 |title=Summary of Football — How the Big College Elevens Compare in Strength |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sun-1897-summary-of-college-football/161466038/ |work=The Sun |quote=Pennsylvania and Yale as Even Match — Princeton, Harvard, Cornell, and West Point Next in Order}}
- LES = Leslie's Weekly by W. T. Bull{{cite web|title=All-America Addendum|publisher=College Football Historical Society Newsletter|date=February 2001|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv14/CFHSNv14n2f.pdf|access-date=2010-03-05|archive-date=2010-06-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613011304/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv14/CFHSNv14n2f.pdf|url-status=dead}}
- Bold = Consensus All-American{{cite web|title=Football Award Winners|publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)|year=2016|access-date=October 21, 2017|page=6|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2016/awards.pdf}}
=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{{cite news|title=Yale Revives Early Work Preliminary Practice, Discarded Early in October, Again in Evidence|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=1898-11-08}} (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
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{{1897 College Football Consensus All-Americans}}
{{College Football All-America Teams}}