1900 College Football All-America Team
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The 1900 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 1900 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 1900 college football season
1900 college football season
The 1900 college football season had a clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Yale 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
- WC = 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...
published in 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.... - CW = Casper Whitney for Outing magazine.
- GO = George W. Orton
- CS = Charles Sargent in Leslie's Weekly
- Bold = Consensus All-American
Ends
- John Hallowell, Harvard (WC-1; GO-1; CS)
- Dave Campbell, Harvard (WC-1; CS)
- William Smith, Army
- Sherman L. Coy, Yale (WC-2; GO-1)
- Charles Gould, Yale (WC-2)
- Smith, Army (WC-3)
- Henry van Hoevenberg, Jr., Columbia (WC-3)
Tackles
- George S. StillmanGeorge S. Stillman-External links:...
, Yale (WC-1; CS) - James Bloomer, Yale (WC-1; GO-1; CS)
- Wallace, Penn (WC-2; GO-1)
- Lawrence, Harvard (WC-2)
- Alexander, Cornell (WC-3)
- Edward Farnsworth, Army (WC-3)
Guards
- Gordon Brown, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; GO-1; CS)
- 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; GO-1; CS) - C. A. Wright, Columbia (WC-2; CS [c])
- Dick Sheldon, Yale (WC-2)
- Teas, Penn (WC-3)
- Belknap, Navy (WC-3)
Centers
- Herman OlcottHerman OlcottHerman Parker "Bo" Olcott was an American football player and coach. In 1900, he was an All-American center for Yale. From 1902 to 1903, he served as the head football coach at North Carolina, where he compiled an 11–4–3 record. From 1907 to 1912, he coached at New York, where he...
, Yale (WC-1; GO-1) - Walter E. BachmanWalter E. BachmanWalter Ellsworth Bachman, Sr. was a college football player and coach. A player at Lafayette College from 1899 until 1901, Bachman developed the "roving center" position for college football. He is regarded as one of the best offensive linemen in Lafayette history...
, Lafayette - Sargent, Harvard (WC-2)
- Page, Minnesota (WC-3)
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-2; GO-1; CS) - William M. Fincke, Yale (WC-1)
- Williams, Iowa (WC-3)
Halfbacks
- 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 (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CS) - George B. ChadwickGeorge B. ChadwickGeorge Brewster Chadwick was an All-American football player and coach. He played college football for Yale University from 1899 to 1902 and was the head coach of the 1903 Yale football team...
, Yale (WC-1) - William Finck, Yale
- Raymond StarbuckRaymond StarbuckRaymond D. Starbuck was an American football player and coach and railroad executive.Born in Fort Ann, New York, and raised in Glen Falls, New York, Starbuck attended Cornell University. He played fullback on the varsity football team in 1899 and 1900. He was captain of the football team in 1899...
, Cornell - Sarwin, Harvard (WC-2; GO-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 (WC-3; GO-1) - Harold WeekesHarold WeekesHarold Weekes was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954....
, Columbia (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; CS) - Howard R. ReiterHoward R. ReiterHoward Roland "Bosey" Reiter was an All-American football player, coach and athletic director. He was selected for the 1899 College Football All-America Team and played professional football as a player coach for the Philadelphia Athletics of the first National Football League in 1902...
, Princeton (WC-3)
Fullbacks
- Perry HalePerry Hale-Bibliography:***-External links:...
, Yale (WC-1; CS) - 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-3; GO-1) - Cure, Lafayette (WC-2)
- Drufrense, Ronald