1899 College Football All-Southern Team
The 1899 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in 1899. The "Iron Men" of Sewanee won the SIAA championship. The Vanderbilt Hustler remarked on Suter's selection of 9 of his own players, "Only nine! He surely must have been thinking of a baseball team."[1]
All-Southerns of 1899
[edit]Ends
[edit]- Bart Sims, Sewanee (O, HMS-s)
- Herman Koehler, North Carolina (O)
- Walter Schreiner, Texas (HMS)
- Walter Simmons, Vanderbilt (HMS)
- John F. H. Barbee, Vanderbilt (HMS-s)
Tackles
[edit]- W. Hamilton†, Georgia (O, HMS [as g])
- John Loyd, Virginia (O)
- Deacon Jones, Sewanee (HMS)
- Richard Bolling, Sewanee (HMS)
- Andrew Ritchie, Georgia (HMS-s)
- James Hart, Texas (HMS-s)
Guards
[edit]
- William Choice, VPI (O)
- Wild Bill Claiborne, Sewanee (HMS)
- Wallace Crutchfield, Vanderbilt (O)
- William H. Newman, Tennessee (HMS-s)
Centers
[edit]- Carlos A. Long, Georgetown (O)
- William Poole, Sewanee (HMS)
- Edward Overshiner, Texas (HMS-s)
Quarterbacks
[edit]- Warbler Wilson†, Sewanee (O, HMS)
- Semp Russ, Texas (HMS-s)
- Ed Huguley, Auburn (HMS-s)
Halfbacks
[edit]
- Arthur Feagin, Auburn (O, HMS-s)
- Henry Seibels, Sewanee (College Football Hall of Fame) (HMS)
- Harry Gerstle, Virginia (O)
- Rex Kilpatrick, Sewanee (HMS)
- Orvill Burke, Vanderbilt (HMS-s)
- Lawrence Levert, Tulane (HMS-s)
- Quintard Gray, Sewanee (HMS-s)
- Franklin Bivings, Auburn (HMS-s)
Fullbacks
[edit]- Ormond Simkins, Sewanee (HMS)
- Robert M. Coleman, Virginia (O)
- John H. McIntosh, Georgia (HMS-s)
- Raymond Keller, Texas (HMS-s)
- Charles L. Eshleman, Tulane (HMS-s)
Key
[edit]† = Unanimous selection
O = selected by W. A. Lambeth in Outing.[2][3]
HMS = selected by H. M. Suter, head coach at Sewanee: The University of the South.[4][5] It had substitutes, denoted by a small S.
References
[edit]- ^ "Which?". The Daily Tar Heel. February 21, 1900.
- ^ "All-Southern Football Team". Outing. 35. Outing Publishing Company: 533. 1900. Retrieved March 5, 2015 – via Google books.
- ^ "[1]". The Daily Tar Heel. January 31, 1900. p. 2. Retrieved April 10, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "An All-Southern College Eleven". Orange and Blue. March 28, 1900. Retrieved March 5, 2015 – via archive.org.
- ^ "South's Football Players Analyzed". Times-Picayune. February 11, 1900. p. 8. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
