1919 College Football All-Southern Team

Josh Cody of Vanderbilt was a near unanimous selection.

The 1919 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1919 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season.

Auburn won the SIAA championship. Even though Centre went undefeated, there were questions over professionalism.

Composite eleven

Buck Flowers of Georgia Tech.
Bo McMillin of Centre College.

The composite eleven posted by H. J. Stegeman, coach at the University of Georgia, for Spalding's Football Guide included:

All-Southerns of 1919

Ends

Bill Fincher of Georgia Tech.

Tackles

Pete Bonner of Auburn.

Guards

Centers

Bum Day of Georgia while at Georgia Tech.

Quarterbacks

Halfbacks

Mullie Lenoir

Fullbacks

Key

Bold = Composite selection

* = Consensus All-American

S = composite eleven posted by H. J. Stegeman, coach at University of Georgia, for Spalding's Football Guide.[3]

NYS = All-SIAA consensus of various Southern newspapers, published in the New York Sun.[3]

CR = selected by Charles A. Reinhart, sporting editor for the Louisville Courier-Journal.[3]

H = selected by John Heisman, coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology.[3]

MB = selected by Morgan Blake, sporting editor Atlanta Journal.[3]

NT = selected by the writers of the Nashville Tennessean.[4]

JLR = selected by J. L. Ray, sporting editor for the Tennessean.[3]

ST = selected by Stuart Towe, of the Knoxville Journal and Tribune.[3]

D = selected by Mike Donahue, coach at Auburn University.[3]

WGF = selected by W. G. Foster, sporting editor for the Chattanooga Times.[3]

ZN = selected by Zipp Newman of the Birmingham News.[3]

LR = selected by Les Raislinas of the Atlanta Constitution.[3]

FA = selected by Frank Anderson, coach at Oglethorpe University.[3]

BR = selected by Bill Raftery, coach at Washington and Lee University.[3]

X = selected by Xen C. Scott, coach at University of Alabama.[3]

MJ = selected by the Montgomery Journal.[3]

BD = selected by Bruce Dudley, sporting editor of the Louisville Herald.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "All-Time Football Team Lists Greats Of Past, Present". Gadsden Times. July 27, 1969.
  2. 1 2 Lynn Hogan (1973). "They Walked Away Into Legend...". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine. 51 (4): 15–19.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "All-Southern Elevens". Spalding Football Guide. 1920. pp. 41, 69; 27, 67.
  4. Fenner Heathcock (November 30, 1919). "All-Southern Eleven No Easy Job This Year". The Tennessean. p. 35. Retrieved September 21, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
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