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 â Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Penn, and Cornell.
Key
Bold = Consensus All-American
All-Americans of 1898
Ends
- Lew Palmer, Princeton <small>(WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-1)</small>
- John Hallowell, Harvard <small>(WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-2)</small>
- N. T. Folwell, Penn <small>(WC-3; H)</small>
- Art Poe, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) <small>(WC-2; H; OUT-1; LES-1)</small>
- Francis Douglas Cochrane, Harvard <small>(WC-2; OUT-1)</small>
- Walter Smith, Army <small>(WC-3)</small>
- Chadwell, Williams <small>(LES-2)</small>
Tackles
- Art Hillebrand, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) <small>(WC-1; CW-1; H; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-1; LES-1)</small>
- Burr Chamberlain, Yale <small>(OUT-1; LES-1; WC-1 [g]; CW-1 [g]; H [g]; NYS-1 [g])</small>
- Percy Haughton, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) <small>(WC-2; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-2)</small>
- Allen Steckle, Michigan <small>(WC-2)</small>
- Malcolm Donald, Harvard <small>(OUT-2)</small>
- Edwin Sweetland, Cornell <small>(WC-3)</small>
- Robert C. Foy, Army <small>(WC-3)</small>
- S. M. Goodman, Penn <small>(LES-2)</small>
Guards
- Truxtun Hare, Penn <small>(WC-1 [t]; H [t]; NYS-1 [t]; NYET-1 [t]; OUT-1 [g]; LES-1 [g])</small>
- Gordon Brown, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) <small>(WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYET-1; LES-1)</small>
- Walter Boal, Harvard <small>(WC-2; CW-1; OUT-1)</small>
- Josiah McCracken, Penn <small>(WC-2; H; OUT-2; LES-2)</small>
- Big Bill Edwards, Princeton <small>(OUT-2)</small>
- C. A. "Brute" Randolph, Penn State <small>(WC-3)</small>
- Daniel A. Reed, Cornell <small>(WC-3; LES-2)</small>
Centers
- Pete Overfield, Penn <small>(WC-1; H; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-1; LES-1)</small>
- William Cunningham, Michigan <small>(WC-2; CW-1)</small>
- Percy Malcolm Jaffrey, Harvard <small>(WC-3; OUT-2)</small>
- Booth, Princeton <small>(LES-2)</small>
Quarterbacks
Halfbacks
- Benjamin Dibblee, Harvard <small>(WC-1; CW-1; H; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-1; LES-1)</small>
- John H. Outland, Penn (namesake of the Outland Trophy) <small>(WC-1; NYET-1; OUT-1)</small>
- Malcolm McBride, Yale <small>(CW-1)</small>
- Leicester Warren, Harvard <small>(WC-2; NYS-1)</small>
- Willis Richardson, Brown <small>(WC-2; LES-2)</small>
- Allen E. Whiting, Cornell <small>(OUT-2; LES-2)</small>
- Alfred H. Durston, Yale <small>(OUT-2)</small>
- Raymond Benedict, Nebraska <small>(WC-3)</small>
- Raymond, Wesleyan <small>(WC-3)</small>
Fullbacks
- Clarence Herschberger, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) <small>(WC-1; H; OUT-1; LES-1)</small>
- Charles Romeyn, Army <small>(WC-3; CW-1; NYS-1)</small>
- Bill Reid, Harvard <small>(H; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-1)</small>
- Pat O'Dea, Wisconsin (College Football Hall of Fame) <small>(WC-2)</small>
- Wheeler, Princeton <small>(LES-2)</small>
See also
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