1891 college football season
The 1891 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Yale as having been selected national champions.[2]
Conference and program changes
Awards and honors
All-Americans
The consensus All-America team included:
| Position |
Name |
Height |
Weight (lbs.) |
Class |
Hometown |
Team |
| QB |
Philip King |
5'6" |
154 |
So. |
Washington, D. C. |
Princeton |
| HB |
Everett J. Lake |
|
|
Sr. |
Woodstock, Connecticut |
Harvard |
| HB |
Bum McClung |
5'10" |
165 |
Sr. |
Knoxville, Tennessee |
Yale |
| FB |
Sheppard Homans, Jr. |
|
|
Sr. |
Englewood, New Jersey |
Princeton |
| E |
Frank Hinkey |
5'9" |
150 |
Fr. |
Tonawanda, New York |
Yale |
| T |
Wallace Winter |
|
|
Jr. |
Hudson, Wisconsin |
Yale |
| G |
Pudge Heffelfinger |
6'4" |
178 |
Sr. |
Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Yale |
| C |
John Adams |
|
|
Sr. |
|
Penn |
| G |
Jesse Riggs |
|
|
Sr. |
Baltimore, Maryland |
Princeton |
| T |
Marshall Newell |
5'7" |
168 |
So. |
Great Barrington, Massachusetts |
Harvard |
| E |
John A. Hartwell |
|
|
Sr. |
Sussex, New Jersey |
Yale |
Statistical leaders
References