1898 College Football All-America Team

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

Michigan's William Cunningham (pictured) and Chicago's Clarence Herschberger were the first two players from western schools to be named to the All-America team.

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)

Gordon "Skim" Brown of Yale captained the 1900 Yale football team which was referred to as the "Team of the Century".

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

Harvard quarterback Charles Dudley Daly later served as Boston's Fire Commissioner.

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)

Clarence Herschberger of Chicago.

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.

[AW-1] "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.

[2] "Camp's 1898 All-America Teams". Evening Independent. November 21, 1930.

[3] "All-American Eleven of 1898". Harper's Weekly. 1898.

[4] "All-American Eleven". Sunday Herald. November 27, 1898.

[5] "All American Team What Janeway of Princeton Thinks of This Year's Football Players". New Haven Evening Register. November 24, 1898.

[6] "Another All-American Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 29, 1898.

[7] "Football" (PDF). The Outing Magazine. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2012. Retrieved February 20, 2010.

[CF4-8] "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010. Retrieved March 5, 2010.

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