1898 College Football All-America Team
The 1898 College Football All-America team is composed of American football players who were selected as the best players at their positions by various organizations that chose College Football All-America Teams that season. The organizations that chose the teams included Collier's Weekly selected by Walter Camp and the Syracuse Herald.
Penn guard Truxtun Hare also won the silver medal in the hammer throw in the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Michigan's William Cunningham (pictured) and Chicago's Clarence Herschberger were the first two players from western schools to be named to the All-America team.
Gordon "Skim" Brown of Yale captained the 1900 Yale football team which was referred to as the "Team of the Century".
Harvard quarterback Charles Dudley Daly later served as Boston's Fire Commissioner.
William Cunningham (American football)
William Ralph Cunningham was an American football center for the University of Michigan, and the first All-American selection for the Michigan Wolverines football program.
William Cunningham (American football)