1909 College Football All-Southern Team

The 1909 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1909 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Sewanee won the SIAA championship. VPI, an independent school, also claims a Southern championship.

Coach Heisman.

Heisman's eleven

The eleven selected by John Heisman included:

All-Southerns of 1909

Ends

  • Silas Williams†, Sewanee (H-1, GR, NB, NTC, NTL, NTM)
  • Ewing Y. Freeland, Vanderbilt (H-1, NB, NTL)
  • Bill Neely, Vanderbilt (GR, NB [as qb], NTC, NTL [as qb], NTM [as qb])
  • Carlton Elliott, Virginia (WG)
  • Joe Luttrell, VPI (WG)
  • Armstrong Hill, Auburn (H-2)
  • Herbert Hatcher, Georgia (H-2)

Tackles

Guards

Centers

Quarterbacks

  • Doc Fenton, LSU (College Football Hall of Fame) (H-1)
  • Chigger Browne, Sewanee (GR, H-2, NTC)
  • S. F. Stevens, North Carolina A&M (WG)

Halfbacks

  • Aubrey Lanier, Sewanee (H-1, GR, NB, NTC, NTL)
  • Ray Morrison, Vanderbilt (College Football Hall of Fame) (H-1, NTL, NTM [as e])
  • Lew Hardage, Auburn (GR, H-2, NB, NTC, NTM)
  • Forest Stanton, Virginia (WG)
  • Tom Moseley, VMI (WG)
  • Del Pratt, Alabama (H-2)

Fullbacks

Key

† = Unanimous selection

Bold = Heisman's pick

H = selected by John Heisman, coach at Georgia Institute of Technology.[6] Dick Jemison picked a second team from the players Heisman left off his first.[7]

GR = selected by Grantland Rice.[8][9]

NB = selected by Nash Buckingham.[10]

NTC = published in the Nashville Tennessean, by a writer from Columbia.[11]

NTL = published in the Nashville Tennessean, by a writer from Lynnville.[12]

NTM = published in the Nashville Tennessean, by a writer from McMinnville.[13]

WG = selected by William C. Gloth, coach at Virginia Military Institute.[14]

See also

References

  1. "Huntsville Football Team History" via ahsfhs.org.
  2. James Gregg (1949). "Sports at Sewanee". Sewanee Alumni News: 5.
  3. "Alpha-Alpha, University of the South". Kappa Alpha Journal. 27 (2): 200.
  4. "Alabama Wins Over Georgia In Hard Game". The Atlanta Constitution. October 31, 1909. p. 3. Retrieved April 14, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Georgia Springs Big Surprise on Jackets". Atlanta Constitution. November 21, 1909. p. 4. Retrieved April 14, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "The All-Southern Eleven Picked By Coach Heisman". Atlanta Constitution. November 28, 1909. p. 3. Retrieved March 4, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Second Choice Eleven Chosen By Dick Jemison". Atlanta Constitution. November 28, 1909. p. 3. Retrieved March 14, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  8. "All-Southern Selection". Charlotte Observer. November 29, 1909.
  9. Cap and Gown. p. 143.
  10. "All-Southern Star Cast Is Selected". The Tennessean. November 28, 1909. p. 9. Retrieved November 14, 2017 via Newspapers.com.
  11. "A Fan's Selection For All-Southern". The Tennessean. December 4, 1909. p. 10. Retrieved November 14, 2017 via Newspapers.com.
  12. "More Selections For All-Southern". The Tennessean. December 8, 1909. p. 10. Retrieved April 24, 2016 via Newspapers.com.
  13. "An All-Southern". The Tennessean. December 14, 1909. p. 6. Retrieved April 24, 2016 via Newspapers.com.
  14. "Mr. Gloth Picks Team". The Cadet. December 14, 1909.
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