1895 College Football All-America Team

The 1895 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1895 college football season, as selected by Caspar Whitney for Harper's Weekly and the Walter Camp Football Foundation. Whitney began publishing his All-America Team in 1889, and his list, which was considered the official All-America Team, was published in Harper's Weekly from 1891 to 1896.

An All-America Team was also published by New York newspaper The Sun.^[1]

All-American selections for 1895

Key

WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation^[2]
CW = Caspar Whitney, published in Harper's Weekly magazine.
Bold = Consensus All-American^[3]

Ends

Norman Cabot, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1)
Charles Gelbert, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)

Tackles

Langdon Lea, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)
Fred T. Murphy, Yale (WC-1; CW-1)

Guards

Charles Wharton, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)
Dudley Riggs, Princeton (WC-1; CW-1)

Centers

Alfred E. Bull, Penn (WC-1; CW-1)

Quarterback

Clint Wyckoff, Cornell (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)

Halfbacks

Sam Thorne, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)
George H. Brooke, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)

Fullback

Charley Brewer, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1)

References

^ "Football Reflections — Work of the Big College Teams the Past Season". The Sun. December 1, 1895. A Meeting Between Yale and Pennsylvania Would Have Been a Red-letter Event — Make-up of an All-America Team Composed of the Best College Players
^ "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.
^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.

[TheSun1895-1] "Football Reflections — Work of the Big College Teams the Past Season". The Sun. December 1, 1895. A Meeting Between Yale and Pennsylvania Would Have Been a Red-letter Event — Make-up of an All-America Team Composed of the Best College Players

[2] "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.

[AW-3] "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.

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v t e 1895 College Football All-America Team consensus selections
Backfield	QB Clint Wyckoff HB George H. Brooke HB Sam Thorne FB Charley Brewer
Line	E Norman Cabot E Charlie Gelbert T Langdon Lea T Fred T. Murphy G Dudley Riggs G Charles Wharton C Alfred E. Bull