1897 College Football All-America Team

The 1897 College Football All-America 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.

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)