The1897 All-America college football team is composed of college football players who were selected asAll-Americans for the1897 college football season, as selected byWalter Camp forHarper's Weekly.Caspar Whitney had selected theHarper's Weekly All-American Team from 1891 to 1896, but Whitney was on a world's sports tour during the 1897 season, and Camp therefore substituted for Whitney.
^"All-America Addendum"(PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. February 2001. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on June 13, 2010. RetrievedMarch 5, 2010.
^"Football Award Winners"(PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. RetrievedOctober 21, 2017.
^"Yale Revives Early Work Preliminary Practice, Discarded Early in October, Again in Evidence".The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 8, 1898.