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. Bull
- Bold = Consensus All-American
Ends
- Norman Cabot, Harvard <small>(WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)</small>
- Charles Gelbert, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) <small>(WC-1; PI-1; LES-1 [back])</small>
- Garrett Cochran, Princeton <small>(NYW-1; LES-2)</small>
- Lyman M. Bass, Yale <small>(LES-1)</small>
- Louis Hinkey, Yale <small>(LES-2)</small>
Tackles
Guards
- Charles Wharton, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) <small>(WC-1; PI-1)</small>
- Wylie G. Woodruff, Penn <small>(WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)</small>
- Shaw, Harvard <small>(LES-2; NYW-1)</small>
- Edward Crowdis, Princeton <small>(LES-1)</small>
- L. J. Uffenheimer, Penn <small>(LES-2)</small>
Centers
Quarterbacks
- Clarence Fincke, Yale <small>(WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)</small>
- F. L. Smith, Princeton <small>(LES-2)</small>
Halfbacks
Fullbacks
- John Baird, Princeton <small>(WC-1; NYW-1; LES-1)</small>
- John Minds, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) <small>(PI-1)</small>
- Edward Newcomb Wrightington, Harvard <small>(LES-2)</small>
References