1899 College Football All-Southern Team

The 1899 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in 1899. The "Iron Men" of Sewanee won the SIAA championship. The Vanderbilt Hustler remarked on Suter's selection of 9 of his own players, "Only nine! He surely must have been thinking of a baseball team."^[1]

All-Southerns of 1899

Ends

• B. U. Sims, Sewanee (O, HMS-s)
• Herman Koehler, North Carolina (O)
• Walter Schreiner, Texas (HMS)
• Walter Simmons, Vanderbilt (HMS)
• John F. H. Barbee, Vanderbilt (HMS-s)

Tackles

• W. Hamilton†, Georgia (O, HMS [as g])
• John Loyd, Virginia (O)
• Deacon Jones, Sewanee (HMS)
• Richard Bolling, Sewanee (HMS)
• Andrew Ritchie, Georgia (HMS-s)
• James Hart, Texas (HMS-s)

Guards

Wild Bill Claiborne.

• William Choice, VPI (O)
• Wild Bill Claiborne, Sewanee (HMS)
• Wallace Crutchfield, Vanderbilt (O)
• William H. Newman, Tennessee (HMS-s)

Centers

• Carlos Long, Georgetown (O)
• William Poole, Sewanee (HMS)
• Edward Overshiner, Texas (HMS-s)

Quarterbacks

• Warbler Wilson†, Sewanee (O, HMS)
• Semp Russ, Texas (HMS-s)
• Ed Huguley, Auburn (HMS-s)

Halfbacks

Henry Seibels.

Ormond Simkins.

• Arthur Feagin, Auburn (O, HMS-s)
• Henry Seibels, Sewanee (College Football Hall of Fame) (HMS)
• Harry Gerstle, Virginia (O)
• Rex Kilpatrick, Sewanee (HMS)
• Orvill Burke, Vanderbilt (HMS-s)
• Lawrence Levert, Tulane (HMS-s)
• C. Q. Gray, Sewanee (HMS-s)
• Franklin Bivings, Auburn (HMS-s)

Fullbacks

• Ormond Simkins, Sewanee (HMS)
• Robert M. Coleman, Virginia (O)
• John McIntosh, Georgia (HMS-s)
• Raymond Keller, Texas (HMS-s)
• Charles L. Eshleman, Tulane (HMS-s)

Key

† = Unanimous selection

O = selected by W. A. Lambeth in Outing.^[2][3]

HMS = selected by H. M. Suter, head coach at Sewanee: The University of the South.^[4][5] It had substitutes, denoted by a small S.

References

1. "Which?". The Daily Tar Heel. February 21, 1900.
2. "All-Southern Football Team". Outing (Outing Publishing Company) 35: 533. 1900. Retrieved March 5, 2015 – via Google books.
3. "[1]". The Daily Tar Heel. January 31, 1900. p. 2. Retrieved April 10, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
4. "An All-Southern College Eleven". Orange and Blue. March 28, 1900. Retrieved March 5, 2015 – via archive.org.
5. "South's Football Players Analyzed". Times-Picayune. February 11, 1900. p. 8. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.