The 1898 College Football All-America team is composed of

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players who were selected as the best players at their positions by various organizations that chose

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and the '' Syracuse Herald''. The 1898 season marked the first time players from the west were named to the All-American teams.

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were the first two western players to receive the recognition. Prior to 1898, all of the prior All-America football teams had been selected from among five Ivy League teams – Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Penn, and Cornell.

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Bold = Consensus All-American

All-Americans of 1898

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Lew Palmer Lew Russell Palmer (February 11, 1875 – March 24, 1945) was an American football player and expert on industrial safety and accident prevention. He played for the Princeton Tigers football team and was selected as the consensus first-team end ...

, Princeton (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-1) *

John Hallowell John White Hallowell (December 24, 1878 – January 5, 1927) was a prominent American businessman and American football, football player. He played college football at Harvard University and was a consensus All-American at the End (American footb ...

, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-2) *N. T. Folwell, Penn (WC-3; H) *

Art Poe Arthur Poe (March 22, 1879 – April 15, 1951) was an American football player and businessman, and one of six celebrated Poe brothers—second cousins, twice removed, of American author Edgar Allan Poe—to play football at Princeton in the lat ...

, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; H; OUT-1; LES-1) *Francis Douglas Cochrane, Harvard (WC-2; OUT-1) *

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, Army (WC-3) *Chadwell, Williams (LES-2)

Tackles

Art Hillebrand Arthur Ralph Thomas "Doc" Hillebrand (March 9, 1876 – December 14, 1941) was an American football and baseball player and coach. He played college football as a tackle for Princeton University. Hillebrand served as head football coach at the ...

, Princeton (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; H; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-1; LES-1) *

Burr Chamberlain Burr Clark "B. C." Chamberlain (August 21, 1877 – November 11, 1933) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Yale University from 1896 to 1898 at the center and tackle positions. Three times he was an All-Ame ...

, Yale (OUT-1; LES-1; WC-1 CW-1 H NYS-1 *

Percy Haughton Percy Duncan Haughton (July 11, 1876 – October 27, 1924) was an American football and baseball player and coach. He served as head football coach at Cornell University from 1899 to 1900, at Harvard University from 1908 to 1916, and at Columbia ...

, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-2) * Allen Steckle, Michigan (WC-2) *

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, Harvard (OUT-2) *

Edwin Sweetland Edwin Regur Sweetland (January 10, 1875 – October 21, 1950) was a coach, trainer, and athletic administrator at several American universities. During his coaching career he was head coach of many sports including basketball, track and field and c ...

, Cornell (WC-3) *Robert C. Foy, Army (WC-3) *S. M. Goodman, Penn (LES-2)

Guards

Truxtun Hare Thomas Truxtun Hare (October 12, 1878 – February 2, 1956) was an American Olympic medalist who competed in track and field and the hammer throw. He also played football with the University of Pennsylvania and was selected first-team All- ...

, Penn (WC-1 H NYS-1 NYET-1 OUT-1 LES-1 *

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, Yale (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; NYS-1; NYET-1; LES-1) * Walter Boal, Harvard (WC-2; CW-1; OUT-1) *

Josiah McCracken Josiah Calvin McCracken (March 30, 1874 – February 15, 1962) was an American football player and track and field athlete. Early life: football and track achievements McCracken, nicknamed Joe, was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee. His earlie ...

, Penn (WC-2; H; OUT-2; LES-2) * Big Bill Edwards, Princeton (OUT-2) *C. A. "Brute" Randolph, Penn State (WC-3) * Daniel A. Reed, Cornell (WC-3; LES-2)

Centers

Pete Overfield Peter Delome Overfield (April 12, 1874 – July 1, 1959) was an All-American and professional football player, federal judge and rancher. Overfield played center for the University of Pennsylvania and was a first-team All-American in 1898 and 18 ...

, Penn (WC-1; H; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-1; LES-1) * William Cunningham, Michigan (WC-2; CW-1) *Percy Malcolm Jaffrey, Harvard (WC-3; OUT-2) *Booth, Princeton (LES-2)

Quarterbacks

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* Charles Dudley Daly, Harvard (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; CW-1; H; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-1) * Frank Hudson, Carlisle Indians (OUT-1) * Walter S. Kennedy, Chicago (WC-2) *

Leon Kromer Leon Benjamin Kromer (June 25, 1876 – September 6, 1966) was a United States Army officer and American football coach. From 1934 to 1938, Major General Kromer was the Chief of U. S. Cavalry. He served as the head football coach at the Unite ...

, Army (WC-3) * Charles Street, Michigan (LES-2)

Halfbacks

Benjamin Dibblee Benjamin Harrison Dibblee (July 8, 1876 – November 11, 1945) was an American college football player and coach. He played halfback for Harvard University from 1896 to 1898, and was a consensus All-American in 1897 and 1898. Dibblee served as ...

, Harvard (WC-1; CW-1; H; NYS-1; NYET-1; OUT-1; LES-1) *

John H. Outland John Henry Outland (March 17, 1871 – March 24, 1947) was an American football player and coach. He played football at Penn College in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the University of Kansas, and the University of Pennsylvania. He was twice named an All-Ame ...

, Penn (namesake of the

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) (WC-1; NYET-1; OUT-1) *

Malcolm McBride Malcolm Lee McBride (August 22, 1878 – December 21, 1941) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Yale University as a halfback and fullback, and was selected as an All-American in 1898 and 1899. McBrid ...

, Yale (CW-1) *Leicester Warren, Harvard (WC-2; NYS-1) *Richardson, Brown (WC-2; LES-2) *Allen E. Whiting, Cornell (OUT-2; LES-2) *Alfred H. Durston, Yale (OUT-2) *Raymond Benedict, Nebraska (WC-3) *Raymond, Wesleyan (WC-3) Clarence_Herschberger

Fullbacks

, Chicago (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-1; H; OUT-1; LES-1) * Charles Romeyn, Army (WC-3; CW-1; NYS-1) *

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, Harvard (H; NYET-1; OUT-2; LES-1) *

Pat O'Dea Patrick John "Kangaroo Kicker" O'Dea (17 March 1872 – 5 April 1962) was an Australian rules and American football player and coach. An Australian by birth, O'Dea played Australian rules football for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victoria ...

, Wisconsin (College Football Hall of Fame) (WC-2) *Wheeler, Princeton (LES-2)

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