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.

Key

 * WC = Walter Camp Football Foundation
 * CW = Caspar Whitney, published in Harper's Weekly magazine.
 * PI = Philadelphia Inquirer
 * NYW = The World of New York selected by Harry Beecher
 * LES = Leslie's Weekly by W. T. Bull
 * Bold = Consensus All-American

Ends

 * 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)

Tackles

 * William W. Church, Princeton (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
 * Fred T. Murphy, Yale (WC-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
 * Percy Haughton, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (PI-1; LES-2)
 * James O. Rodgers, Yale (LES-2)

Guards

 * Charles Wharton, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; PI-1)
 * Wylie G. Woodruff, Penn (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
 * Shaw, Harvard (LES-2; NYW-1)
 * Edward Crowdis, Princeton (LES-1)
 * L. J. Uffenheimer, Penn (LES-2)

Centers

 * Robert Gailey, Princeton (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-2)
 * Burr Chamberlain, Yale (LES-1)

Quarterbacks

 * Clarence Fincke, Yale (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
 * F. L. Smith, Princeton (LES-2)

Halfbacks

 * Edgar Wrightington, Harvard (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1)
 * Addison Kelly, Princeton (WC-1; PI-1; NYW-1; LES-2)
 * John William Dunlop, Harvard (LES-1)
 * William Bannard, Princeton (LES-2)

Fullbacks

 * John Baird, Princeton (WC-1; NYW-1; LES-1)
 * John Minds, Penn (College Football Hall of Fame) (PI-1)
 * Edward Newcomb Wrightington, Harvard (LES-2)