1899 College Football All-America Team
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The 1899 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Team
s for the 1899 college football season
. The organizations that chose the teams included Walter Camp
for Collier's Weekly
and Casper Whitney for Outing Magazine.
College Football All-America Team
The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best American college football players at their respective positions. The original usage of the term All-America seems to have been to the 1889 College Football All-America Team selected by Casper Whitney and published in This...
s for the 1899 college football season
1899 college football season
The 1899 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Harvard and Princeton as national champions....
. The organizations that chose the teams included Walter Camp
Walter Camp
Walter Chauncey Camp was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football...
for Collier's Weekly
Collier's Weekly
Collier's Weekly was an American magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957. With the passage of decades, the title was shortened to Collier's....
and Casper Whitney for Outing Magazine.
Key
- COL = Collier's WeeklyCollier's WeeklyCollier's Weekly was an American magazine founded by Peter Fenelon Collier and published from 1888 to 1957. With the passage of decades, the title was shortened to Collier's....
as selected by Walter CampWalter CampWalter Chauncey Camp was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football... - CW = Casper Whitney
- OUT = Outing Magazine
- PI = Philadelphhia Inquirer
- NYT = New York Tribune
- NYS = New York Sun
- CEP = Charles E. PattersonCharles E. PattersonCharles Edward Patterson was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the son of Dr. James Hervey Patterson, was educated at Castleton Seminary in Castleton, Vermont and Cambridge Academy in Cambridge, New York, and graduated from Union College in 1860...
in Leslie's Weekly
- Bold = Consensus All-American
Ends
- Art PoeArt PoeArthur "Art" Poe was an American football player and businessman, and one of six celebrated Poe brothers - second cousins, twice removed of American author Edgar Allan Poe - to play football at Princeton in the late 19th and early 20th century...
, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; OUT-1; NYT-1; NYS-1; CEP-1) - Dave Campbell, Harvard (WC-1; OUT-1; PI-1; NYT-1; NYS-1; CEP-1)
- Neil SnowNeil SnowNeil Worthington Snow gained renown as an all-around athlete at the University of Michigan from 1898–1902, where he competed in American football, baseball, track and field, and tennis. He was an All-American player in 1901, and was the Most Valuable player in the 1902 Rose Bowl, where he...
, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (PI-1) - John Hallowell, Harvard (NYT-2)
- Walter Coombs, Penn (NYT-2)
- Hallowell, Harvard (OUT-2; CEP-2)
- Palmer, Princeton (OUT-2)
- Slocum, Brown (CEP-2)
Tackles
- Art HillebrandArt HillebrandArthur Ralph Thomas "Doc" Hillebrand was an American football player and coach. He played college football as a tackle for Princeton University. He was head coach for the Navy Midshipmen and then back to his alma mater, Princeton...
, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; OUT-1; NYT-1; NYS-1; CEP-1) - George S. StillmanGeorge S. Stillman-External links:...
, Yale (WC-1; NYT-2; CEP-1) - Richard FranceRichard FranceRichard Roy France was an American football guard who played for the University of Michigan in 1898 and 1899.France was born in Decatur, Indiana, in 1879. He was the son of John T. France, a lawyer, and Belle France....
, Michigan (PI-1) - C.E. Wallace, Penn (NYT-1; CEP-2)
- Martin WheelockMartin WheelockMartin Frederick Wheelock was a member of the Oneida tribe of American Indians. He played American football for the Carlisle Indian School from 1894-1902.-Carlisle Indian School:...
, Carlisle (OUT-2; NYS-1) - Alexander, Cornell (NYT-2; CEP-2)
- Donald, Harvard (OUT-1)
- Pell, Princeton (OUT-2)
Guards
- Gordon Brown, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-2; NYT-1; NYS-1; PI-1 [t]; CEP-1)
- T. Truxton HareTruxton HareThomas Truxtun Hare was an American track and field athlete who competed in the hammer throw and All rounder events. He was also an American football player for the University of Pennsylvania from 1897 to 1900. Hare is one of only a handful of men to earn All-American honors during all four years...
, Penn (WC-1; OUT-1; PI-1; NYT-1; NYS-1; CEP-1) - Josiah McCrackenJosiah McCrackenJosiah Calvin McCracken nicknamed Joe, was born into a devout Presbyterian family in Lincoln, Tennessee. His earliest known Ulster-Scots ancestors settled in Pennsylvania before the French & Indian War...
, Penn (PI-1) - Big Bill EdwardsBig Bill EdwardsWilliam Hanford "Big Bill" Edwards was an American football player who played guard at the Princeton University from 1896 to 1899...
, Princeton (OUT-1; NYT-2; CEP-2) - Burden, Harvard (OUT-2; NYT-2)
- Whittemore, Brown (CEP-2)
Centers
- Pete OverfieldPete OverfieldPeter Delome "Pete" Overfield was an All-American and professional football player, federal judge and rancher. Overfield played center for the University of Pennsylvania and was a first-team All-American in 1898 and 1899. He served as a federal district judge in Alaska from 1909-1917...
, Penn (WC-1; OUT-1; PI-1; CEP-1) - Booth, Princeton (NYT-1)
- Wright, Columbia (NYS-1)
- Burnett, Harvard (OUT-2; NYT-2)
Quarterbacks
- Charles Dudley DalyCharles Dudley DalyCharles Dudley "Charlie" Daly was an American football player and coach, an author, and served in the United States Army during World War I...
, Harvard (WC-1; NYT-1; NYS-1; CEP-1) - Walter S. KennedyWalter S. KennedyWalter Scott Kennedy was an American football player and coach and newspaper publisher. He was an All-American quarterback for the University of Chicago and captain of the 1898 and 1899 Chicago Maroons football teams. He later moved to Albion, Michigan where he was the publisher of the Albion...
, Chicago (PI-1) - Young, Cornell (OUT-2; NYT-2)
- Hudson, Carlisle (OUT-1)
Halfbacks
- Josiah McCrackenJosiah McCrackenJosiah Calvin McCracken nicknamed Joe, was born into a devout Presbyterian family in Lincoln, Tennessee. His earliest known Ulster-Scots ancestors settled in Pennsylvania before the French & Indian War...
, Penn (WC-1) - Albert SharpeAlbert Sharpe (American football)Dr. Albert Hayes Sharpe was an All-American football player, coach and athletic director and medical doctor. He played football for Yale University and was selected as a halfback for the 1899 College Football All-America Team. Sharpe was also a star basketball player in the early years of the...
, Yale (NYT-1; OUT-1) - Howard Reiter, Princeton (OUT-1; PI-1; NYT-2; CEP-1)
- John McLean, Michigan (PI-1)
- Sawin, Harvard (NYT-1; NYS-1)
- Richardson, Brown (NYT-2; CEP-1)
- Bill MorleyBill MorleyWilliam Raymond "Bill" Morley, Jr. was an American football player and coach and cattle and sheep rancher. Born in New Mexico, he played college football for the University of Michigan and Columbia University and was selected as an All-American in 1900 and 1901. Morley served as the head coach...
, Columbia (OUT-2) - Walbridge, Cornell (OUT-2)
- William M. Fincke, Yale (CEP-2)
- Frederick E. JenningsFrederick E. JenningsFrederick Everett Jennings was an American lawyer, banker, and college football coach. He served as the head coach at Dartmouth College in 1900 and amassed a record of 2–4–2....
, Dartmouth (CEP-2) - Draper, Williams (CEP-2)
Fullbacks
- Malcolm McBrideMalcolm McBride-External links:...
, Yale (WC-1; OUT-1; NYT-1; CEP-2) - Isaac SenecaIsaac SenecaIsaac Seneca, Jr. was an All-American football player for the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. He was selected as an All-American halfback on the 1899 College Football All-America Team...
, Carlisle (WC-1; NYS-1) - Wheeler, Princeton (PI-1; NYT-2)
- Bray, Lafayette (OUT-2; CEP-1)