1898 College Football All-America Team

1898 College Football All-America Team
College Football All-America Team
1898 college football season
1896 1897 ← → 1899 1900

The 1898 College Football All-America team is composed of American football players who were selected as the best players at their positions by various organizations that chose College Football All-America 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.^[1]

Key

WC = Walter Camp for Collier's Weekly^[2]
CW = Casper Whitney for Harper's Weekly^[3]
H = Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, NY^[4]
NYS = New York Sun, selected by Hugh H. Janeway, ex-Princeton player^[5]
NYET = New York Evening Telegram^[6]
OUT = Outing Magazine^[7]
LES = Leslie's Weekly by Charles E. Patterson^[8]

Bold = Consensus All-American^[1]

All-Americans of 1898

Ends

Lew Palmer, Princeton (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-1)
John Hallowell, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-2)
N. T. Folwell, Penn (WC-3; H)
Art Poe, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; H; OUT-1; LES-1)
Francis Douglas Cochrane, Harvard (WC-2; OUT-1)
Walter Smith, Army (WC-3)
Chadwell, Williams (LES-2)

Tackles

Art Hillebrand, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; H; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-1; LES-1)
Burr Chamberlain, Yale (OUT-1; LES-1; WC-1 [g]; CW-1 [g]; H [g]; NYS-1 [g])
Percy Haughton, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-2)
Allen Steckle, Michigan (WC-2)
Malcolm Donald, Harvard (OUT-2)
Edwin Sweetland, Cornell (WC-3)
Robert C. Foy, Army (WC-3)
S. M. Goodman, Penn (LES-2)

Guards

Truxtun Hare, Penn (WC-1 [t]; H [t]; NYS-1 [t]; NYET-1 [t]; OUT-1 [g]; LES-1 [g])
Gordon Brown, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYET-1; LES-1)
Walter Boal, Harvard (WC-2; CW-1; OUT-1)
Josiah McCracken, Penn (WC-2; H; OUT-2; LES-2)
Big Bill Edwards, Princeton (OUT-2)
C. A. "Brute" Randolph, Penn State (WC-3)
Daniel A. Reed, Cornell (WC-3; LES-2)

Centers

Pete Overfield, Penn (WC-1; H; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-1; LES-1)
William Cunningham, Michigan (WC-2; CW-1)
Percy Malcolm Jaffrey, Harvard (WC-3; OUT-2)
Booth, Princeton (LES-2)

Quarterbacks

Charles Dudley Daly, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; H; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-1)
Frank Hudson, Carlisle Indians (OUT-1)
Walter S. Kennedy, Chicago (WC-2)
Leon Kromer, Army (WC-3)
Charles Street, Michigan (LES-2)

Halfbacks

Benjamin Dibblee, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; H; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-1; LES-1)
John H. Outland, Penn (namesake of the Outland Trophy) (WC-1; NYET-1; OUT-1)
Malcolm McBride, Yale (CW-1)
Leicester Warren, Harvard (WC-2; NYS-1)
Willis Richardson, Brown (WC-2; LES-2)
Allen E. Whiting, Cornell (OUT-2; LES-2)
Alfred H. Durston, Yale (OUT-2)
Raymond Benedict, Nebraska (WC-3)
Raymond, Wesleyan (WC-3)

Fullbacks

Clarence Herschberger, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; H; OUT-1; LES-1)
Charles Romeyn, Army (WC-3; CW-1; NYS-1)
Bill Reid, Harvard (H; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-1)
Pat O'Dea, Wisconsin (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2)
Wheeler, Princeton (LES-2)

References

^ ^a ^b "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
^ "Camp's 1898 All-America Teams". Evening Independent. November 21, 1930.
^ "All-American Eleven of 1898". Harper's Weekly. 1898.
^ "All-American Eleven". Sunday Herald. November 27, 1898.
^ "All American Team What Janeway of Princeton Thinks of This Year's Football Players". New Haven Evening Register. November 24, 1898.
^ "Another All-American Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 29, 1898.
^ "Football" (PDF). The Outing Magazine. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2012. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
^ "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010. Retrieved March 5, 2010.

1898 College Football All-America Team consensus selections

Backfield

Line

E John Hallowell
E Lew Palmer
T Burr Chamberlain
T Art Hillebrand
G Walter Boal
G Gordon Brown
G Truxtun Hare
C William Cunningham
C Pete Overfield

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