1896 College Football All-America Team

The 1896 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1896 college football season, as selected by Caspar Whitney for Harper's Weekly and the Walter Camp Football Foundation.

All-American selections for 1896

Norman Cabot, Harvard (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
Charles Gelbert, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; PI-1; LES-1 [back])
Garrett Cochran, Princeton (NYW-1; LES-2)
Lyman M. Bass, Yale (LES-1)
Louis Hinkey, Yale (LES-2)

^ "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.
^ "The Inquirer's All-American Team: This Organization is a Hard One to Pick, but Here is the Best". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 29, 1896.
^ "Sunday World's All-America Football Team". The World. November 29, 1896.
^ "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010. Retrieved March 5, 2010.
^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
^ There were two players on the 1896 Harvard team with the surname Shaw: Francis George Shaw, '97, and James Ebenezer Norton Shaw, '98.
^ "Princeton May Play Crowdis". The Boston Daily Globe. October 30, 1855.