The 1916 College Football All-America team is composed of

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players who were selected as All-Americans for the

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. The only selectors for the 1916 season who have been recognized as "official" by the

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(NCAA) are

Walter Camp Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was an American college football player and coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". Among a long list of inventions, he created the sport's line of scrimmage a ...

, whose selections were published in ''

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'', the

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(INS), a newswire founded by

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, and the Frank Menke Syndicate. Although not recognized by the NCAA, many other sports writers, newspapers, and coaches selected All-America teams in 1916. They include the

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Walter Eckersall Walter Herbert "Eckie" Eckersall (June 17, 1883 – March 24, 1930) was an American college football player, official, and sportswriter for the ''Chicago Tribune''. He played for the Maroons of the University of Chicago, and was elected to the C ...

(for the ''

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Paul Purman Paul R. Purman (April 19, 1886 – April 18, 1937) was an American sportswriter. Purman had a lengthy career in journalism, but he is best known for his work in the years from 1916 to 1918 when his sports column was syndicated in hundreds of news ...

Fielding H. Yost Fielding Harris Yost (; April 30, 1871 – August 20, 1946) was an American college football player, coach and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at: Ohio Wesleyan University, the University of Nebraska, the University ...

, and ''

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''.

All-Americans of 1916

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Bert Baston Albert Preston Baston (December 3, 1894 – November 16, 1979) was an American football end who played for the Cleveland Tigers of the American Professional Football Conference (APFC) for one season. He played college football for the Minneso ...

, Minnesota (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; UP-1; INS-1; WE-1; PP-1; FY-1; BP-1; MS) *

James P. Herron James Patrick Herron (August 12, 1894 – December 21, 1967) was an American football player and coach. He played at End (gridiron football), end for the University of Pittsburgh's Pittsburgh Panthers football, football team from 1913 to 1916. B ...

, Pittsburgh (WC-2; INS-2; WE-1; MS) * Charles Comerford, Yale (INS-1; BP-1) *

George Clark Moseley George Clark Moseley was an American football player. He played at the end position for Yale University and was chosen as a first-team All-American in 1916 by Collier's Weekly, as selected by Walter Camp. During World War I, Moseley served with ...

, Yale (WC-1; WE-2; FY-2) *

Heinie Miller Henry John "Heinie" Miller (January 1, 1893 – June 9, 1964) was an American football player and coach from 1920 to 1942. He played in The National Football League (NFL) for the Buffalo All-Americans and the Milwaukee Badgers. Biography Miller ...

, Penn (WC-2; LP-1; FY-1) *Richard Harte, Harvard (INS-2; MON-1; FY-2) *

Clifford Carlson Henry Clifford "Doc" Carlson (July 4, 1894 – November 1, 1964) was an American basketball coach and football player. He is a Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee as the men's college basketball coach of his alma mater, the University of ...

, Pitt (Basketball Hall of Fame) (PP-2) * Tommy Whelan, Georgetown (PP-2) *Charles Highley, Princeton (UP-2; LP-1) *

Stan Cofall Stanley Bingham Cofall (May 5, 1894 – September 21, 1961) was an American football player and coach. Early life Cofall was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Fred and Ida Bingham Cofall. In 1910 he played football at East Technical High School. He th ...

, Notre Dame (UP-2; MS) * Paul Eckley, Cornell (WE-2) * Bob Higgins, Penn State (College Football Hall of Fame) (MON-1) *Charles Atherton Coolidge, Harvard (WC-3) * Graham Vowell, Tennessee (WC-3)

Tackles

Belford West David Belford West (May 7, 1896 – September 11, 1973) was an American football player. Best known for playing college football for the Colgate Raiders, he was twice a consensus All-America selection and was elected to the College Football Hal ...

, Colgate (WC-1; UP-1; INS-1; WE-1; PP-2; LP-1; BP-1) *

Steamer Horning Clarence Edward "Steamer" Horning (November 15, 1892January 24, 1982) was an American football player in the 1910s and 1920s. He played college football for the Colgate Raiders and was selected in 1916 as a first-team All-American at the tackl ...

, Colgate (WC-1; WE-2; MS) *William Lippard McLean, Princeton (MON-1; FY-1; BP-1) *

Artemus Gates Artemus Lamb Gates (November 3, 1895 – June 14, 1976) was an American businessman, naval aviator, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air in charge of naval aviation efforts in World War II (December 7, 1941 – June 30, 1945). He also was ...

, Yale (WC-2; UP-2; INS-2) *DeVitalis, Brown (UP-1; PP-1) *

George Hauser George Wesley Hauser (February 24, 1893 – November 8, 1968) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Colgate University from 1926 until 1927 and at the University of Minnesota from 1942 to 1944, ...

, Minnesota (INS-1) * Mark Farnum, Brown (INS-2; MON-1) *

Fred Becker Fred H. Becker (November 6, 1895 – July 18, 1918) was a college football player for the University of Iowa. He was a first team All-American in 1916, the first Hawkeye in any sport to earn first team All-American honors. He died at age 22 figh ...

, Iowa (WE-1) * Louis Seagrave, Washington (WC-3 PP-1) *

Fred Gillies Frederick Montague Gillies (December 9, 1895 – May 8, 1974) was an American football player and coach for the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He graduated from Cornell University in 1918 and was a member of the Quil ...

, Cornell (FY-1) * Bob Karch, Ohio State (FM) *Walter Herber Wheeler, Harvard (UP-2; LP-1; FY-2) *Clarence Ward, Navy (WC-2) *Earl Beacham, Tufts (PP-2) *Lewis Little, Penn (FY-2) * Frank A. R. Mayer, Minnesota (WE-2) * John Beckett, Oregon (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3) *Bob Ignico, Washington & Lee (WC-3)

Guards

* Clinton Black, Yale (WC-1; UP-1; INS-1; WE-1; MON-1; PP-1; LP-1; FY-1; BP-1; MS) * Harrie Dadmun, Harvard (WC-1; UP-2; INS-2; WE-1; FY-1) * Frank T. Hogg, Princeton (WC-2; PP-1; MS) *Lawrence Fox, Yale (UP-1) * Claude E. Thornhill, Pitt (INS-1) *Charles Henning, Penn (FY-2; BP-1) * Christopher Schlachter, Syracuse (MON-1) *

Charlie Bachman Charles William Bachman Jr. (December 1, 1892 – December 14, 1985) was an American college football player and coach. Bachman was an Illinois native and an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame, where he played football. He served as the head ...

, Notre Dame (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; LP-1) *Robert Lee Nourse, Princeton (WE-2; PP-2) *Sinclair, Minnesota (PP-2) *Monroe Good, Colgate (UP-2) *Mason Barton, Colgate (INS-2) *Arnold McInerney, Notre Dame (WE-2) * Budge Garrett, Rutgers (WC-3)

Centers

Bob Peck Robert Peck (23 August 1945 – 4 April 1999) was an English actor who played Ronald Craven in the television serial ''Edge of Darkness'', for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor. He ...

, Pittsburgh (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; UP-1; INS-1; WE-1; MON-1; PP-1; BP-1; MS) *

John McEwan John James "Cap" McEwan (February 18, 1893 – August 9, 1970) was an American football player and coach. He played and coached at the United States Military Academy and was the head coach at the University of Oregon and College of the Holy Cros ...

, Army (WC-2; UP-2; INS-2; WE-2; PP-2) * Alfred Gennert, Princeton (LP-1; FY-1) *Fred Becker, Iowa (FY-2) * Pup Phillips, Georgia Tech (WC-3)

Quarterbacks

* Oscar Anderson, Colgate (WC-1; UP-2; INS-1; BP-1; LP-1) * Fritz Shiverick, Cornell (UP-1; INS-2; PP-1; FY-2) *

Bart Macomber Franklin Bart Macomber (September 4, 1894 – December 19, 1971) was an American football player. He played halfback and quarterback for the University of Illinois from 1914 to 1916 and helped the school to its first national football champion ...

, Illinois (College Football Hall of Fame) (WE-2; PP-2; FY-1) * Cliff Sparks, Michigan (MON-1) *

James DeHart James DeHart (August 25, 1893 – March 4, 1935) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Washington and Lee University from 1922 to 1925 and again from 1931 to 1932 and at Duke University from 1926 to 1930, compi ...

, Pitt (WE-1) *Clair Purdy, Brown (WC-2) *

Irby Curry Irby Rice "Rabbit" Curry (August 4, 1894 – August 10, 1918) was an American football quarterback for Vanderbilt University from 1914 to 1916. He was selected as a first-team All-Southern player in 1915 and 1916 and a third-team All-American in ...

, Vanderbilt (WC-3)

Halfbacks

Chic Harley Charles Wesley "Chic" Harley (September 15, 1895 – April 21, 1974) was an American football player and athlete, often credited with bringing Ohio State University's football program to national attention. Harley was Ohio State's first consens ...

, Ohio State (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; UP-1; INS-1; WE-1; PP-1; FY-1; BP-1) *

Fritz Pollard Frederick Douglass "Fritz" Pollard (January 27, 1894 – May 11, 1986) was an American professional football player and coach. In 1921, he became the first African-American head coach in the National Football League (NFL). Pollard and Bobby Mar ...

, Brown (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; UP-2; INS-2; WE-2; MON-1; PP-2; LP-1; BP-1; MS) * Andy Hastings, Pittsburgh (UP-1; INS-1) *

Eddie Casey Edward Lawrence Casey (May 16, 1894 – July 26, 1966) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Harvard University and was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1968. Casey was MVP of the 1920 Rose Bow ...

, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; WE-2; PP-1; FY-2) *

Everett Strupper George Everett Strupper Jr. (July 26, 1896 – February 4, 1950), known variously as "Ev" or "Strup" or "Stroop" was an American football player. He played halfback for Georgia Tech from 1915 to 1917. Strupper overcame deafness resulting from ...

, Georgia Tech (College Football Hall of Fame) (PP-1 *

John Maulbetsch John Frederick Maulbetsch (June 20, 1890 – September 14, 1950) was an All-American football halfback at Adrian College in 1911 and for the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1914 to 1916. He is also a member of the College Football Hall ...

, Michigan (College Football Hall of Fame) (FY-1) *

Harry LeGore Harry William LeGore (August 1, 1894 – June 7, 1956) was an American football and baseball player, Maryland state legislator and businessman. Biography Early years LeGore was born in Frederick County, Maryland. He was a son of the James Will ...

, Yale (WC-2; INS-2; WE-2 b PP-2; LP-1 b FY-2) * Claire Long, Minnesota (FM) *

Paddy Driscoll John Leo "Paddy" Driscoll (January 11, 1895 – June 29, 1968) was an American professional football and baseball player and football coach. A triple-threat man in football, he was regarded as the best drop kicker and one of the best overall ...

, Northwestern (College and Pro Football Hall of Fame) (WC-3; UP-2) *

Johnny Gilroy John Roland Gilroy (March 5, 1896 – July 20, 1952), also known as "the Great Gilroy", was an All-American American football, football Halfback (American football), halfback for Georgetown University and a professional football player for the Ca ...

, Georgetown (WC-3)

Fullbacks

Elmer Oliphant Elmer Quillen Oliphant (July 9, 1892 – July 3, 1975), nicknamed "Catchy''" or "''Ollie''", was an American football, basketball and track and field, track player and coach. He is one of the great scorers in college football history, credited wi ...

, Army (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; UP-1; PP-1; INS-1; MON-1; LP-1 b BP-1; MS) * Joe Berry, Penn (WC-2; UP-1 INS-2; WE-1 b MON-1; FY-1) *

Pudge Wyman Arnold Douglas "Pudge" Wyman (August 20, 1895 – March 4, 1961) was an American football player. He was an All-American fullback for the University of Minnesota from 1915 to 1916 and halfback for the Rock Island Independents in the first sea ...

, Minnesota (UP-2; WE-1; FY-2) *

Arnold Horween Arnold Horween (originally Arnold Horwitz; also known as A. McMahon; July 7, 1898 – August 5, 1985) was an American football player and coach. He played and coached both collegiately for Harvard University and professionally in the National ...

, Harvard (PP-2) *McReaghy, Washington & Jefferson (WC-3)

Key

NCAA recognized selectors for 1916 * WC = ''

'' as selected by

* INS =

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* MS = Frank Menke Syndicate Other selectors * UP =

* WE =

, of the ''

'' * FM = Frank G. Menke, former sporting editor of the

International News Service The International News Service (INS) was a U.S.-based news agency (newswire) founded by newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1909.

(INS) * MON = Monty, noted New York sports writer * PP =

, noted sports writer whose All-American team was syndicated in newspapers across the United States * LP = Lawrence Perry, sporting editor of the ''

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'' * FY =

* BP = ''

'', selected by Charles E. Parker, football expert of ''The Boston Post'' Bold = Consensus All-American * 1 – First-team selection * 2 – Second-team selection * 3 – Third-team selection

References

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