The 1891 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected by Caspar Whitney as the best players at their positions for the 1891 college football season. Whitney began publishing his All-America Team in 1889, and 1891 was the first year Whitney's list was published in Harper's Weekly.
All-American selections for 1891 edit
Key edit
- CW = Caspar Whitney, published in Harper's Weekly magazine.
- Bold = Consensus All-American[1]
Ends edit
- Frank Hinkey, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (CW)
- John A. Hartwell, Yale (CW)
Tackles edit
- Wallace Winter, Yale (CW)
- Marshall Newell, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (CW)
Guards edit
- Pudge Heffelfinger, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (CW)
- Jesse Riggs, Princeton (CW)
Center edit
- John Adams, Penn (CW)
Quarterback edit
- Philip King, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (CW)
Halfbacks edit
- Everett J. Lake, Harvard (later Governor of Connecticut) (CW)
- Lee McClung, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (CW)
Fullback edit
- Sheppard Homans, Jr., Princeton (CW)
Notes edit
- ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.