| 1891 College Football All-America Team |
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| College Football All-America Team |
| 1891 college football season |
| 1889 1890 ← → 1892 1893 |
The 1891 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected by Caspar Whitney as the best players at their positions for the 1891 college football season. Whitney began publishing his All-America Team in 1889, and 1891 was the first year Whitney's list was published in Harper's Weekly.
All-American selections for 1891
Key
- CW = Caspar Whitney, published in Harper's Weekly magazine.
- Bold = Consensus All-American
Ends
- Frank Hinkey, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (CW)
- John A. Hartwell, Yale (CW)
Tackles
- Wallace Winter, Yale (CW)
- Marshall Newell, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (CW)
Guards
- Pudge Heffelfinger, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (CW)
- Jesse Riggs, Princeton (CW)
Center
- John Adams, Penn (CW)
Quarterback
- Philip King, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (CW)
Halfbacks
- Everett J. Lake, Harvard (later Governor of Connecticut) (CW)
- Lee McClung, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (CW)
Fullback
- Sheppard Homans, Jr., Princeton (CW)
Notes
- "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
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