1898 All-America college football team
The 1898 All-America college football team is composed of American football players who were selected as the best players at their positions by various organizations that chose All-America college football teams that season. The organizations that chose the teams included Collier's Weekly selected by Walter Camp and the Syracuse Herald.
The 1898 season marked the first time players from the west were named to the All-American teams. Michigan center William Cunningham and Chicago fullback Clarence Herschberger were the first two western players to receive the recognition. Prior to 1898, all of the prior All-America football teams had been selected from among five Ivy League teams – Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Penn, and Cornell.
Key
- WC = Walter Camp for Collier's Weekly
- CW = Casper Whitney for Harper's Weekly
- H = Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, NY
- NYS = New York Sun, selected by Hugh H. Janeway, ex-Princeton player
- NYET = New York Evening Telegram
- OUT = Outing Magazine
- LES = Leslie's Weekly by Charles E. Patterson
All-Americans of 1898
Ends
- Lew Palmer, Princeton
- John Hallowell, Harvard
- N. T. Folwell, Penn
- Art Poe, Princeton
- Francis Douglas Cochrane, Harvard
- Walter Smith, Army
- Chadwell, Williams
Tackles
- Art Hillebrand, Princeton
- Burr Chamberlain, Yale
- Percy Haughton, Harvard
- Allen Steckle, Michigan
- Malcolm Donald, Harvard
- Edwin Sweetland, Cornell
- Robert C. Foy, Army
- S. M. Goodman, Penn
Guards
- Truxtun Hare, Penn
- Gordon Brown, Yale
- Walter Boal, Harvard
- Josiah McCracken, Penn
- Big Bill Edwards, Princeton
- C. A. "Brute" Randolph, Penn State
- Daniel A. Reed, Cornell
Centers
- Pete Overfield, Penn
- William Cunningham, Michigan
- Percy Malcolm Jaffrey, Harvard
- Booth, Princeton
Quarterbacks
- Charles Dudley Daly, Harvard
- Frank Hudson, Carlisle Indians
- Walter S. Kennedy, Chicago
- Leon Kromer, Army
- Charles Street, Michigan
Halfbacks
- Benjamin Dibblee, Harvard
- John H. Outland, Penn
- Malcolm McBride, Yale
- Leicester Warren, Harvard
- Willis Richardson, Brown
- Allen E. Whiting, Cornell
- Alfred H. Durston, Yale
- Raymond Benedict, Nebraska
- Raymond, Wesleyan
Fullbacks
- Clarence Herschberger, Chicago
- Charles Romeyn, Army
- Bill Reid, Harvard
- Pat O'Dea, Wisconsin
- Wheeler, Princeton