1896 College Football All-America Team

The 1896 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1896 college football season, as selected by Caspar Whitney for Harper's Weekly and the Walter Camp Football Foundation.

All-American selections for 1896

Key

• WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation
• CW = Caspar Whitney, published in Harper's Weekly magazine.
• PI = Philadelphia Inquirer
• NYW = The World of New York selected by Harry Beecher
• LES = Leslie's Weekly by W. T. Bull
• Bold = Consensus All-American

Ends

• Norman Cabot, Harvard (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
• Charles Gelbert, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; PI-1; LES-1 [back])
• Garrett Cochran, Princeton (NYW-1; LES-2)
• Lyman M. Bass, Yale (LES-1)
• Louis Hinkey, Yale (LES-2)

Tackles

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William W. Church of Princeton

• William W. Church, Princeton (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
• Fred T. Murphy, Yale (WC-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
• Percy Haughton, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (PI-1; LES-2)
• James O. Rodgers, Yale (LES-2)

Guards

• Charles Wharton, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; PI-1)
• Wylie G. Woodruff, Penn (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
• Shaw, Harvard (LES-2; NYW-1)
• Crowdis, Princeton (LES-1)
• L. J. Uffenheimer, Penn (LES-2)

Centers

• Robert Gailey, Princeton (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-2)
• Burr Chamberlain, Yale (LES-1)

Quarterbacks

• Clarence Fincke, Yale (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
• F. L. Smith, Princeton (LES-2)

Halfbacks

• Edgar Wrightington, Harvard (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1)
• Addison Kelly, Princeton (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-2)
• John William Dunlop, Harvard (LES-1)
• William Bannard, Princeton (LES-2)

Fullbacks

• John Baird, Princeton (WC-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
• John Minds, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (PI-1)
• Edward Newcomb Wrightington, Harvard (LES-2)