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The Top Ranked
College Football Players of the 1890s
Notes: The rankings are based on college stats.
What players did in the pros does not factor into this list.
Ranking Explanations
|
Rnk |
Athlete |
POS |
College |
|
1 |
Frank Hinkey |
E |
Yale |
|
2 |
Marshall Newell |
OL |
Harvard |
|
3 |
Art Wheeler |
OL |
Princeton |
|
4 |
Charles Gelbert |
E |
Penn |
|
5 |
Charley Brewer |
RB |
Harvard |
|
6 |
Langdon Lea |
OL |
Princeton |
|
7 |
Philip King |
QB |
Princeton |
|
8 |
Charles Wharton |
OL |
Penn |
|
9 |
Art Hillebrand |
OL |
Princeton |
|
10 |
Bert Waters |
OL |
Harvard |
|
11 |
Bill Hickock |
OL |
Yale |
|
12 |
Charles Daly |
QB |
Harvard |
|
13 |
Frank Butterworth |
RB |
Yale |
|
14 |
Frank Hallowell |
E |
Harvard |
|
15 |
Fred Murphy |
OL |
Yale |
|
16 |
George Brooke |
RB |
Penn |
|
17 |
Gordon Brown |
OL |
Yale |
|
18 |
Jesse Riggs |
OL |
Princeton |
|
19 |
Lee McClung |
RB |
Yale |
|
20 |
Norman Cabot |
E |
Harvard |
|
21 |
Pete Overfield |
OL |
Penn |
|
22 |
Pudge Heffelfinger |
OL |
Yale |
|
23 |
Sheppard Homans |
RB |
Princeton |
|
24 |
Truxtun Hare |
OL |
Penn |
|
25 |
William Lewis |
OL |
Harvard |
|
26 |
Art Poe |
E |
Princeton |
|
27 |
Burr Chamberlain |
OL |
Yale |
|
28 |
John Hallowell |
E |
Harvard |
|
29 |
Josiah McCracken |
RB |
Penn |
|
30 |
Malcolm McBride |
RB |
Yale |
|
31 |
Lew Palmer |
E |
Princeton |
|
32 |
Addison Kelly |
RB |
Princeton |
|
33 |
Alden Knipe |
RB |
Penn |
|
34 |
Alexander Wallis |
OL |
Yale |
|
35 |
Alfred Bull |
OL |
Penn |
|
36 |
Benjamin Dibblee |
RB |
Harvard |
|
37 |
Clarence Fincke |
QB |
Yale |
|
38 |
Clarence Herschberger |
RB |
Chicago |
|
39 |
Clint Wyckoff |
QB |
Cornell |
|
40 |
Dave Campbell |
E |
Harvard |
|
41 |
Dudley Dean |
QB |
Harvard |
|
42 |
Dudley Riggs |
OL |
Princeton |
|
43 |
Edgar Wrightington |
RB |
Harvard |
|
44 |
Everett Lake |
RB |
Harvard |
|
45 |
Franklin Morse |
RB |
Princeton |
|
46 |
George Adee |
QB |
Yale |
|
47 |
George Stillman |
OL |
Yale |
|
48 |
Harry Thayer |
RB |
Penn |
|
49 |
Isaac Seneca |
RB |
Carlisle Indian |
|
50 |
John Adams |
OL |
Penn |
|
51 |
John Baird |
RB |
Princeton |
|
52 |
John Cranston |
OL |
Harvard |
|
53 |
John Hartwell |
E |
Yale |
|
54 |
John J. Corbett |
RB |
Harvard |
|
55 |
John Outland |
RB |
Penn |
|
56 |
Phillip Stillman |
OL |
Yale |
|
57 |
Ralph Warren |
E |
Princeton |
|
58 |
Robert Gailey |
OL |
Princeton |
|
59 |
Sam Thorne |
RB |
Yale |
|
60 |
Thomas Trenchard |
E |
Princeton |
|
61 |
Vance McCormick |
RB |
Yale |
|
62 |
Wallace Winter |
OL |
Yale |
|
63 |
William Church |
OL |
Princeton |
|
64 |
William Rhodes |
OL |
Yale |
|
65 |
Wylie Woodruff |
OL |
Penn |
|
66 |
Percy Haughton |
OL |
Harvard |
|
67 |
Big Bill Edwards |
OL |
Princeton |
|
68 |
Walter Kennedy |
QB |
Chicago |
|
69 |
Frank Hudson |
QB |
Carlisle Indian |
|
70 |
William Cunningham |
OL |
Michigan |
|
71 |
Albert Sharpe |
RB |
Yale |
|
72 |
Allen Steckle |
OL |
Michigan |
|
73 |
Anson Beard |
OL |
Yale |
|
74 |
Blondy Wallace |
OL |
Penn |
|
75 |
Bob Wrenn |
QB |
Harvard |
|
76 |
Charles Romeyn |
RB |
Army |
|
77 |
Edward Crowdis |
OL |
Princeton |
|
78 |
F.L. Smith |
QB |
Princeton |
|
79 |
Garrett Cochran |
E |
Princeton |
|
80 |
H. Wheeler |
RB |
Princeton |
|
81 |
Howard Reiter |
RB |
Princeton |
|
82 |
James Rodgers |
OL |
Yale |
|
83 |
John Dunlop |
RB |
Harvard |
|
84 |
John Minds |
RB |
Penn |
|
85 |
Leicester Warren |
RB |
Harvard |
|
86 |
Lyman Bass |
E |
Yale |
|
87 |
N.T. Folwell |
E |
Penn |
|
88 |
Neil Snow |
E |
Michigan |
|
89 |
Richard France |
OL |
Michigan |
|
90 |
Shaw |
OL |
Harvard |
|
91 |
Walter Boal |
OL |
Harvard |
|
92 |
Walter Booth |
OL |
Princeton |
|
93 |
William Bannard |
RB |
Princeton |
|
94 |
William Burden |
OL |
Harvard |
|
95 |
William Mackie |
OL |
Harvard |
|
96 |
Malcolm Donald |
OL |
Harvard |
|
97 |
Allen Whiting |
RB |
Cornell |
|
98 |
Arthur Whittemore |
OL |
Brown |
|
99 |
Bill Reid |
RB |
Harvard |
|
100 |
Chadwell |
E |
Williams |
|
101 |
Daniel Reed |
OL |
Cornell |
|
102 |
Edward Alexander |
OL |
Cornell |
|
103 |
Edward Bray |
RB |
Lafayette |
|
104 |
Edward Wrightington |
RB |
Harvard |
|
105 |
Francis Cochrane |
E |
Harvard |
|
106 |
George Sawin |
RB |
Harvard |
|
107 |
George Yong |
QB |
Cornell |
|
108 |
Harry Trout |
OL |
Lafayette |
|
109 |
Jack Wright |
OL |
Columbia |
|
110 |
John McLean |
RB |
Michigan |
|
111 |
L.J. Uffenheimer |
OL |
Penn |
|
112 |
Louis Hinkey |
E |
Yale |
|
113 |
Martin Wheelock |
OL |
Carlisle Indian |
|
114 |
Percy Jaffrey |
OL |
Harvard |
|
115 |
Richardson |
RB |
Brown |
|
116 |
S.M. Goodman |
OL |
Penn |
|
117 |
Walter Combs |
E |
Penn |
|
118 |
Pat O'Dea |
RB |
Wisconsin |
|
119 |
A.L. Slocum |
E |
Brown |
|
120 |
Alfred Durston |
RB |
Yale |
|
121 |
Bill Morley |
RB |
Columbia |
|
122 |
Booth |
OL |
Princeton |
|
123 |
Brute Randolph |
OL |
Penn St. |
|
124 |
Charles Street |
QB |
Michigan |
|
125 |
Edwin Sweetland |
OL |
Cornell |
|
126 |
Francis Burnett |
OL |
Harvard |
|
127 |
Frank Slaker |
RB |
Chicago |
|
128 |
Frederick Jennings |
RB |
Dartmouth |
|
129 |
George Walbridge |
RB |
Cornell |
|
130 |
Harold Weekes |
RB |
Columbia |
|
131 |
Leon Kromer |
QB |
Army |
|
132 |
Phil Draper |
RB |
Williams |
|
133 |
Ralph Hamill |
E |
Chicago |
|
134 |
Raymond |
RB |
Wesleyan |
|
135 |
Raymond Benedict |
RB |
Nebraska |
|
136 |
Robert Foy |
OL |
Army |
|
137 |
Walter Smith |
E |
Army |
|
138 |
Wheeler |
RB |
Princeton |
|
139 |
William Frincke |
RB |
Yale |
|
140 |
Williamson Pell |
OL |
Princeton |
|
141 |
Willis Richardson |
RB |
Brown |
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