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.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
- 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
