In the issue of Harper's Weekly for Dec. 26, Mr. Casper W. Whitney gives the following as his selection of an All-America Football Eleven for 1896:
Baird (Princeton), full-back. Kelley (Princeton) and Wrightington (Harvard), half-backs. Fincke (Yale), quarter and captain. Gailey (Princeton), centre. Wharton and Woodruff (U. of P.), guards. Church (Princeton) and Murphy (Yale), tackles. Gelbert (U. of P.) and Cabot (Harvard), ends. Substitutes: In the line, Cochrane (Princeton), Rinehart, (Lafayette), F. Shaw and Wheeler (Harvard); behind the line, Smith (Princeton), Minds (U. of P.), Brown and Dunlop (Harvard).
On Mr. Whitney's All-America elevens since 1888, Princeton has had 26 men; Yale, 26; Harvard, 23, Pennsylvania 12, Cornell, 1.
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