The 1897 All-America college football team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1897 college football season, as selected by Walter Camp for Harper's Weekly. Caspar Whitney had selected the Harper's Weekly All-American Team from 1891 to 1896, but Whitney was on a world's sports tour during the 1897 season, and Camp therefore substituted for Whitney.
All-American selections for 1897
Key WC = Walter Camp for Harper's Weekly OUT = Outing Magazine NYS = New York Sun LES = Leslie's Weekly by W. T. Bull Bold = Consensus All-American
Ends Garrett Cochran, Princeton (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-1; LES-1) John A. Hall, Yale (WC-1; OUT-2; NYS-2; LES-2) Sam Boyle, Penn (WC-2; OUT-1; LES-1) William McKeever, Cornell (WC-2) John Babcock Moulton, Harvard (WC-3; NYS-1) Lyndon S. Tracy, Cornell (WC-3) Norman Cabot, Harvard (NYS-2; LES-2) Samuel G. Craig, Princeton (NYS-2) Josiah J. Hazen, Yale (OUT-2)
Tackles
Burr Chamberlain, Yale (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-1; LES-1) John H. Outland, Penn (Namesake of the Outland Trophy and College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; LES-1) James O. Rodgers, Yale (WC-2; OUT-1; NYS-2; LES-2) Wallace B. Scales, Army (WC-2; NYS-2) Art Hillebrand, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; OUT-2; NYS-1) Malcolm Donald, Harvard (WC-3) S. M. Goodman, Penn (OUT-2) Chester Odiorne Swain, Harvard (LES-2)
Guards Truxtun Hare, Penn (WC; HW; NYS-1; LES-2) Gordon Brown, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC; HW; NYS-2; LES-1) Charles Chadwick, Yale (WC-2; OUT-2; LES-1) Charles Rinehart, Lafayette (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; OUT-1) George Winthrop Bouve, Harvard (WC-3; OUT-1; NYS-1; LES-2) Josiah McCracken, Penn (WC-3; OUT-2) Edwards, Princeton (NYS-2)
Centers Allan Doucette, Harvard (WC-1; OUT-2; NYS-1; LES-2) George Cadwalader, Yale (WC-2; OUT-1; LES-1) Pete Overfield, Penn (WC-3)
Quarterbacks Charles de Saulles, Yale (WC-1; NYS-1; LES-1) George Young, Cornell (WC-2; OUT-1) John Baird, Princeton (WC-3; OUT-2; NYS-1 [as fb]; LES-2) Leon Kromer, Army (NYS-2) David Weeks, Penn (NYS-2)
Halfbacks Benjamin Dibblee, Harvard (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-1; LES-2) Addison Kelly, Princeton (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-2; LES-2) Dave Fultz, Brown (WC-2; OUT-2; NYS-1; LES-1) William F. Nesbitt, Army (WC-2) W. H. Bannard, Princeton (WC-3; NYS-2) George B. Walbridge, Lafayette (WC-3) Charles T. Dudley, Yale (OUT-2; NYS-2)
Fullbacks John Minds, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; OUT-1; NYS-2; LES-1) Malcolm McBride, Yale (WC-2; NYS-2; LES-2) Powell Wheeler, Princeton (WC-3; LES-1) Edward G. Bray, Lafayette (OUT-2)
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