1896 All-America college football team
The 1896 All-America college football 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. BullBold = Consensus All-American
Ends
Norman Cabot, Harvard Charles Gelbert, Penn- Garrett Cochran, Princeton
- Lyman M. Bass, Yale
- Louis Hinkey, Yale
Tackles
William W. Church, Princeton Fred T. Murphy, Yale- Percy Haughton, Harvard
- James O. Rodgers, Yale
Guards
Charles Wharton, Penn Wylie G. Woodruff, Penn- Shaw, Harvard
- Edward Crowdis, Princeton
- L. J. Uffenheimer, Penn
Centers
Robert Gailey, Princeton- Burr Chamberlain, Yale
Quarterbacks
Clarence Fincke, Yale- F. L. Smith, Princeton
Halfbacks
Edgar Wrightington, Harvard Addison Kelly, Princeton- John William Dunlop, Harvard
- William Bannard, Princeton
Fullbacks
John Baird, Princeton- John Minds, Penn
- Edward Newcomb Wrightington, Harvard