Honus Craig

The 1907 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1907 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Fielding Yost selected Bob Blake for his All-America first team. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship.

Consensus eleven

The eleven chosen by most selectors includes:

All-Southerns of 1907

Ends

Bob Blake.

Tackles

Guards

Centers

Stein Stone

Quarterbacks

Halfbacks

Fullbacks

Key

Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors

† = Unanimous selection

C = selected by a consensus of newspapers, as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football

DM = All-SIAA eleven selected by Dan McGugin, coach at Vanderbilt University, for Spalding's Football Guide.[6]

H = selected by John Heisman, coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology.[8]

D = selected by Mike Donahue, coach at Auburn University.[9]

NB = selected by former Tennessee player Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.[10][11]

NY = selected by "a well-known New York authority on sports."[12][13]

See also

References

  1. ^ Henry Jay Case (1914). "Vanderbilt–A University of the New South". Outing. 64: 320–331.
  2. ^ "All-Time Football Team Lists Greats Of Past, Present". Gadsden Times. July 27, 1969 – via Google news. Open access icon
  3. ^ "Behind the Line". Abilene Daily Reporter. December 14, 1907. p. 6. Retrieved April 12, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. ^ a b c ""Honus" Craig, All-Southern Right Halfback---He Talks". Abilene Daily Reporter. April 25, 1909. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via University of North Texas. Open access icon
  5. ^ Triumph Books (September 2006). Echoes of Georgia Football: The Greatest Stories Ever Told. p. 35. ISBN 9781617490484.
  6. ^ a b Dan McGugin (1907). "Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association Foot Ball". The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide. National Collegiate Athletic Association: 71–75.
  7. ^ "Kentucky State Is Slaughtered". Atlanta Constitution. October 6, 1907. p. 8. Retrieved May 1, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  8. ^ J. W. Heisman (December 1, 1907). "Coach Heisman Selects An All-Southern Eleven". Atlanta Constitution. Retrieved March 3, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  9. ^ Coach M. J. Donahue (December 9, 1907). "All Southern". Orange and Blue: 26. Retrieved March 5, 2015 – via archive.org. Open access icon
  10. ^ "Memphis Commercial Appeal's All-Southern". Atlanta Georgian. December 7, 1907. Retrieved March 5, 2015 – via Digital Library of Georgia. Open access icon
  11. ^ "All Southern Team Pick Leaves Out Louisiana". Times-Picayune. December 15, 1907.
  12. ^ "All-Southern Eleven". Charlotte Observer. December 16, 1907.
  13. ^ "An All-Southern Football Team". New York Tribune. December 8, 1907. Retrieved March 5, 2015 – via Chronicling America. Open access icon