1906 College Football All-Southern Team

The 1906 Vanderbilt Commodores.

The 1906 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1906 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. For some, the SIAA champion 1906 Vanderbilt Commodores football team made up the entire team.^[1] It would produce 8 of the composite 11. Owsley Manier was selected by Walter Camp third-team All-American. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship.

Consensus eleven

Bob Blake.

Dan Blake.

The All-Southern eleven representing the consensus of newspapers as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928 included:

• Bob Blake, end for Vanderbilt, unanimous selection, was a lawyer and Rhodes Scholar.^[2] Blake made the drop kick to beat Carlisle, "the crowning feat of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association season."^[3][4] He was selected for the Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era.^[5]
• Dan Blake, halfback for Vanderbilt, unanimous selection, brother of Bob. He later coached.
• Lob Brown, end for Georgia Tech, captain-elect who helped Tech to its first defeat over Auburn.^[6]
• Walter K. Chorn, guard for Vanderbilt, was a lawyer and one time insurance superintendent of Missouri.^[7]
• Clyde R. Conner, guard for Mississippi, was a prominent lawyer of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and once United States Commissioner.^[8]
• Sam Costen, quarterback for Vanderbilt who once coached The Citadel Bulldogs. He was also an attorney.^[9]
• Honus Craig, halfback for Vanderbilt, Dan McGugin once called him the South's greatest athlete and Vanderbilt's greatest halfback.^[4] One report says "When Craig was confronted with the above formidable title yesterday by a reporter whose business it is to know such things, he blushed like a girl and tried to show why Dan McGugin's judgment is not always to be trusted."^[4] In Craig's opinion, Bob Blake was the South's greatest player.^[4]
• Owsley Manier, fullback for Vanderbilt, unanimous selection, a "great plunging back,"^[2] selected third-team All-America by Walter Camp. Manier scored five touchdowns against Alabama in a 78-0 victory and again ran for five touchdowns over Georgia Tech (37-6) in Atlanta.^[10] Manier was later an assistant coach and practicing physician.
• Joe Pritchard, tackle for Vanderbilt, unanimous selection, coached one year at LSU and was a Presbyterian dental missionary at Luebo in the Congo.^[11]
• Lex Stone, tackle for Sewanee, coached football and basketball at the University of Tennessee. He was the school's first basketball coach.
• Stein Stone, center for Vanderbilt, an all-time great at Vanderbilt who coached football one year at Clemson. He was an engineer.

All-Southerns of 1906

Ends

Lob Brown.

• Bob Blake†, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, WP, MT, MCA, PW, DM)
• Lob Brown, Georgia Tech (C, AWL, MT, PW)
• Charlie Bagley, Washington & Lee (WP)
• Arthur Wilson, North Carolina A&M (WP [as t])
• Frank Shipp, Sewanee (DM)
• Hope Sadler, Clemson (F)

Tackles

• Joe Pritchard†, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, WP, MT, MCA, PW, DM)
• Lex Stone, Sewanee (C, MCA [as e], PW, DM)
• Edwin Noel, Vanderbilt (AWL, MT)

Guards

• Walter K. Chorn, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, MT, MCA, PW, DM)
• Clyde Conner, Mississippi (C, MCA [as c], PW)
• Fatty McLain, Vanderbilt (AWL, MT)
• George Watkins, Sewanee (WP)
• Hoss Hodgson, Georgetown (WP)
• James C. Elmer, Mississippi (MCA)
• O. L. Derrick, Clemson (DM, F)

Centers

Stein Stone.

• Stein Stone, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, WP, MCA [as t], PW, DM)
• Grover Ketron, Georgia (MT, F)

Quarterbacks

• Sam Costen, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, MT, MCA, PW, DM)
• Oscar Randolph, Virginia (WP)

Halfbacks

Owsley Manier.

• Dan Blake†, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, MT, MCA, PW, DM)
• Honus Craig, Vanderbilt (C, MCA, PW, DM)
• Hammond Johnson, Virginia (WP, MT)
• Fritz Furtick, Clemson (AWL)
• Speedy Kerr, Georgetown (WP)

Fullbacks

• Owsley Manier†, Vanderbilt (C, AWL, WP, MT, MCA, PW, DM)
• Hogan Yancey, Transylania (F)

Key

Bold = Consensus selection

† = Unanimous selection

C = selected by consensus of newspapers, as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928.^[12]

AWL = selected by A. W. Lynn, sporting editor for the Atlanta Constitution.^[13]

WP = selected by The Washington Post.^[14]

MT = selected by the Macon Telegraph^[15]

MCA = selected by former Tennessee player Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.^[16][17]

PW = selected by Percy Whiting of Illustrated Outdoor News.^[3]

DM = selected by Dan McGugin head coach at Vanderbilt University, with information from Bradley Walker, southern official.^[3]

F = selected by Jack Forsythe for a game in Savannah on Christmas.^[18]

See also

• 1906 College Football All-America Team

References

1. "Daniel Earle McGugin". Coach & Athlete 28: 42. 1965 – via Google books.
2. Henry Jay Case. "Vanderbilt–A University of the New South". Outing 64: 327 – via Google books.
3. National Collegiate Athletic Association (1907). The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide. pp. 27, 49 – via Google books.
4. ""Honus" Craig, All-Southern Right Halfback---He Talks". Abilene Daily Reporter. April 25, 1909. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via University of North Texas.
5. "All-Time Football Team Lists Greats Of Past, Present". Gadsden Times. July 27, 1969 – via Google news.
6. Wiley Lee Umphlett (1992). Creating the Big Game: John W. Heisman and the Invention of American Football. p. 92.
7. "Chorn is Head of the Missouri State". The National Underwriter 22. March 7, 1918. p. 9 – via Google books.
8. Kappa Alpha Order. "Clyde R. Conner, Mississippi". The Kappa Alpha Journal 35 (3): 381. Retrieved March 5, 2015 – via Google books.
9. Citadel Coaching Records
10. Bill Traughber (September 8, 2005). "Vandy All-Americans".
11. Vanderbilt University (1915). "Faculty-Senior Dinner, Maxwell House, April 16, 1915". Vanderbilt University Quarterly 15: 108–112 – via Google books.
12. Fuzzy Woodruff. A History of Southern Football l890-1928. p. 283.
13. "Surprises The Rule During Past Season". The Atlanta Constitution. December 2, 1906. Retrieved March 4, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
14. "Local Players Named". The Washington Post. December 7, 1906. p. 2. Retrieved March 3, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
15. "All Southern Football Teams". Macon Telegraph. December 2, 1906.
16. "An All Southern Eleven Picked". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. December 23, 1906.
17. "Some Past All-Southerns". Atlanta Georgian. December 9, 1907. p. 12. Retrieved March 5, 2015 – via Digital Library of Georgia.
18. "Forsythe's "All Stars" Training In Charleston". Atlanta Georgian. December 22, 1906. p. 20 – via Digital Library of Georgia.