1907 College Football All-Southern Team

The 1907 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1907 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Fielding Yost selected Bob Blake for his All-America first team. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship.

Costen was rated as Barrett's superior but Costen spent a good part of the year injured.[1]

Consensus eleven

The eleven chosen by most selectors includes:

All-Southerns of 1907

Ends

Tackles

Guards

Centers

Quarterbacks

Halfbacks

Fullbacks

Key

Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors

= Unanimous selection

DM = All-SIAA eleven selected by Dan McGugin, coach at Vanderbilt University, for Spalding's Football Guide.[8]

H = selected by John Heisman, coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology.[9]

D = selected by Mike Donahue, coach at Auburn University.[10]

NB = selected by former Tennessee player Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.[11][12]

NY = selected by "a well-known New York authority on sports."[13][14]

See also

References

  1. "Behind the Line". Abilene Daily Reporter. December 14, 1907. p. 6. Retrieved April 12, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  2. Henry Jay Case (1914). "VanderbiltA University of the New South". Outing 64: 320–331.
  3. "All-Time Football Team Lists Greats Of Past, Present". Gadsden Times. July 27, 1969 via Google news.
  4. 1 2 3 ""Honus" Craig, All-Southern Right Halfback---He Talks". Abilene Daily Reporter. April 25, 1909. Retrieved March 8, 2015 via University of North Texas.
  5. Triumph Books. Echoes of Georgia Football: The Greatest Stories Ever Told. p. 35.
  6. Dan McGugin (1907). "Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association Foot Ball". The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide (National Collegiate Athletic Association): 71–75.
  7. "Kentucky State Is Slaughtered". Atlanta Constitution. October 6, 1907. p. 8. Retrieved May 1, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  8. Dan McGugin (1907). "Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association Foot Ball". The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide (National Collegiate Athletic Association): 71–75.
  9. J. W. Heisman (December 1, 1907). "Coach Heisman Selects An All-Southern Eleven". Atlanta Constitution. Retrieved March 3, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  10. Coach M. J. Donahue (December 9, 1907). "All Southern". Orange and Blue: 26. Retrieved March 5, 2015 via archive.org.
  11. "Memphis Commercial Appeal's All-Southern". Atlanta Georgian. December 7, 1907. Retrieved March 5, 2015 via Digital Library of Georgia.
  12. "All Southern Team Pick Leaves Out Louisiana". Times-Picayune. December 15, 1907.
  13. "All-Southern Eleven". Charlotte Observer. December 16, 1907.
  14. "An All-Southern Football Team". New York Tribune. December 8, 1907. Retrieved March 5, 2015 via Chronicling America.
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