1901 College Football All-Southern Team
The 1901 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in 1901. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship. Most said Virginia ranked best in the south.[1] Gallaudet, a school for deaf-mutes, also claimed a championship.
All-Southerns of 1901
Ends
- Joe Ware†, VPI (WP, O)
- Gilbert O. Erickson, Gallaudet (WP, O)
- Alexis Hobson, Virginia (WP-s)
- Sam Edmonston, Georgetown (WP-s)
- Frank M. Ridley, Georgia
Tackles
- W. Christie Benet†, Virginia (Later Senator for South Carolina) (WP, O)
- Hub McCormick, VPI (WP-s, O)
- Lew Drill, Georgetown (WP)
- Bradley Walker, Virginia (WP-s)
Guards
- Buck Harris†, Virginia (WP, O)
- Branch Johnson, VMI (WP)
- Alvin Lee Abbott, VPI (O)
- Joe Lynch, Georgetown (WP-s)
- Frank Kearns, Georgetown (WP-s)
Centers
- Percy Given†, Georgetown (WP, O)
- H. Dorsey Waters, Virginia (WP-s)
Robert Coleman.
Quarterbacks
- Ed Tutwiler†, Virginia (WP, O)
- Kit DeCamps, VPI (WP-s)
Halfbacks
- Robert M. Coleman†, Virginia (WP, O)
- Ormond Simkins, Sewanee (WP-s, O)
- Hub Hart, Georgetown (WP)
- John Counselman, VPI (WP-s)
Fullbacks
- Hunter Carpenter†, VPI (College Football Hall of Fame) (WP, O)
- Albert Carr, North Carolina (WP-s)
Key
Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors
† = Unanimous selection
WP = posted by Oscar P. Schmidt in the Washington Post, selected by M. J. Thompson, graduate manager of athletics at Georgetown University and Richard Armstrong, formerly of Yale. It had a second team referred to as substitutes.[2][3]
O = selected by Caspar Whitney in Outing.[4]
References
- ↑ e. g. "Champions of the South regardless of conference affiliation".
- ↑ ""All Southern" Eleven". The State. February 7, 1902.
- ↑ Oscar P. Schmidt. "Football in the Southern Colleges". The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide: 129.
- ↑ "Southern Intercollegiate Football". Outing. 37: 726.
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