1915 College Football All-Southern Team

The 1915 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in 1915. Josh Cody and Baby Taylor were selected third-team All-Americans by Walter Camp, and Bully Van de Graaff was selected for his second-team. Van de Graaff was Alabama's first ever All-American. Buck Mayer of the 81 Virginia Cavaliers was the south's first consensus All-American, selected first-team All-American by Frank G. Menke and Parke H. Davis. The "point-a-minute" Vanderbilt Commodores won the SIAA.

Composite eleven

The composite All-Southern team selected by ten sports writers and coaches included:

Composite overview

Bully Van de Graaff, Baby Taylor, and Rabbit Curry were unanimous selections.

Name Position School First-team selections
Bully Van de Graaff Tackle Alabama10
Baby Taylor Guard Auburn 10
Rabbit Curry Quarterback Vanderbilt 10
Josh Cody Tackle Vanderbilt 8
David Paddock Quarterback Georgia 7
John Henderson Center Georgia 6
Charlie Thompson End Georgia 4
Russ Cohen End Vanderbilt 4
Neil Edmond End Sewanee 3
Jim Senter End Georgia Tech 3
Bob Lang Guard Georgia Tech 3
Bob Taylor Dobbins Guard Sewanee 3
Wooch Fielder Halfback Georgia Tech 3
Froggie Morrison Halfback Georgia Tech 3
Walter Neville Fullback Georgia 3
Yank Tandy Center North Carolina 2
Everett Strupper Halfback Georgia Tech 2
Paul Squibb Halfback Chattanooga 2
Roy Homewood End North Carolina 1
Phillip Cooper Tackle LSU 1
Ted Shultz Tackle Washington & Lee 1
Tom Thrash Tackle Georgia 1
Pryor WilliamsGuard Vanderbilt 1
C. M. Hamilton Guard Vanderbilt 1
George Steed Guard Auburn 1
Carey Robinson Center Auburn 1
R. McArthur Center Mississippi A & M 1
Johnny Barrett Halfback Washington & Lee 1
Buck Mayer Halfback Virginia 1
Homer Prendergast Halfback Auburn 1
Charles C. Schrader Fullback Kentucky 1
Hal Hunter Fullback Translyvania 1
Pete Mailhes Fullback Tulane 1
Bedie BidezFullback Auburn 1

All-Southerns of 1915

Ends

Tackles

Guards

Centers

Quarterbacks

Halfbacks

Fullbacks

Key

Bold = Composite selection

* = Consensus All-American

= Unanimous selection

C = received votes for a composite All-Southern eleven selected by ten sports writers and coaches, including those from Memphis, Nashville, Atlanta, Birmingham, Chattanooga, and New Orleans.[6] Votes for multiple positions are combined.

TC = Another composite, using eleven sportswriters, published by the Tennessean.[7]

H = selected by John Heisman, published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football.

DJ = selected by Dick Jemison in the Atlanta Constitution.[8]

NT = selected by the Nashville Tennessean.[9]

SP = selected by the Sewanee student newspaper, the Sewanee Purple.[10]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "All-Time Football Team Lists Greats Of Past, Present". Gadsden Times. July 27, 1969.
  2. Edwin Mims (1946). History of Vanderbilt University. p. 285.
  3. Alabama vs. Tulane (PDF). November 6, 1937. pp. 5; 11.
  4. "A Lip-Reading Football Star". The Volta Review (Volta Bureau): 102–105. 1925.
  5. Jeremy Henderson (May 21, 2014). "To the eternal glory of Miss Virginia Gilmer, maybe the biggest Auburn fan ever".
  6. Dick Jemison (November 30, 1915). "Composite All-Southern Of Ten Of The Dopesters". Atlanta Constitution. p. 10. Retrieved March 5, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  7. Blinkey Horn. "Composite All-Southern Shows Wide Range of Opinion and Place". The Tennessean. p. 10. Retrieved September 21, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  8. Dick Jemison (November 21, 1915). "All-Southern Pick". Atlanta Constitution. Retrieved March 4, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  9. Blinkey Horn (November 28, 1915). "Three Commodores Are Given Places On All-Southern". The Tennessean. p. 42. Retrieved September 21, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  10. "The Purple's Pick For An All-Southern Team". The Sewanee Purple. December 2, 1915.
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