1928 College Football All-Southern Team
The Associated Press composite selection pictured.
The 1928 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in 1928. Georgia Tech won the Southern and national championship.
All-Southerns of 1928
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Ends
- Dale Van Sickel, Florida (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, UP-1, NH-1, WNT)
- Dick Abernathy, Vanderbilt (AP-1, NH-1, WNT)
- Frank Waddey, Georgia Tech (AP-2, UP-1)
- Tom Jones, Georgia Tech (AP-2, UP-3)
- Dick Abernathy, Vanderbilt (UP-2)
- Paul Hug, Tennessee (NH-2)
- Dennis Stanley, Florida (NH-2)
- E. H. Alley, Tennessee (UP-2)
- Harrison Flippin, Virginia (UP-3)
Tackles
- Frank Speer, Georgia Tech (AP-1, UP-1, NH-2)
- Jess Tinsley, LSU (AP-1, UP-2)
- Glenn Lautzenhiser, Georgia (AP-2, UP-3, NH-1)
- Vance Maree, Georgia Tech (AP-2, NH-1)
- Lehman Lusky, Vanderbilt (UP-2)
- Harry Thayer, Tennessee (NH-2)
- Bill Drury, Kentucky (UP-3)
- Gordon Brown, Texas (WNT)
- Jake Williams, TCU (WNT)
Guards
- Fred Vaughan, North Carolina State (AP-1, UP-3, NH-1)
- Raleigh Drennon, Georgia Tech (AP-1, UP-2, NH-2)
- Bull Brown, Vanderbilt (AP-2, UP-1)
- Ellis Hagler, Alabama (AP-2, UP-1 [as T])
- Jimmy Steele, Florida (UP-1, NH-1)
- Arthur Tripp, Tennessee (UP-2, WNT)
- R. M. Hall, Clemson (NH-2)
- Johnson, Tennessee (UP-3)
- Choc Sanders, SMU (WNT)
Centers
- Peter Pund*, Georgia Tech (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, UP-1, NH-2, WNT)
- Harry Schwartz, North Carolina (AP-2, UP-3)
- O. K. Pressley, Clemson (UP-2, NH-1)
Quarterbacks
- Clyde "Cannonball" Crabtree, Florida (AP-1, UP-1, NH-1, WNT)
- Jimmy Armistead, Vanderbilt (AP-2, UP-3, NH-2 [as hb])
- Roy Witt, Tennessee (UP-2, NH-2)
Halfbacks
- Warner Mizell, Georgia Tech (AP-1, UP-1, NH-1, WNT)
- Billy Banker, Tulane (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, UP-1, NH-1, WNT)
- Gene McEver, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2, UP-1 [as fb], NH-2)
- Frank Peake, Virginia Tech (AP-2, UP-3)
- Red Bethea, Florida (NH-2)
- Stumpy Thomason, Georgia Tech (NH-2)
- Buddy Hackman, Tennessee (UP-3)
Fullbacks
- Gerald Snyder, Maryland (AP-1, UP-2 [as hb])
- Tony Holm, Alabama (AP-2, UP-2 [as hb])
- Roy Lumpkin, Georgia Tech (UP-2, NH-1)
- White, Washington & Lee (NH-2)
- Will Covington, Kentucky (UP-3)
- Herschel Burgess, Texas A&M (WNT)
Key
Bold = Composite selection
* = Consensus All-American
AP = composite selection of more than one hundred sports writers and coaches compiled by Associated Press. It had a first and second team.[1]
UP = composite selection compiled by the United Press.[2] It had a first, second and third team.
NH = selected by Nash Higgins, chief football scout and assistant coach for the University of Florida.[3] It had a first and second team. Higgins also coached track and field.
WNT = posted in the Waco News Tribune.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ "All Southern Selections". The Kingsport Times. December 7, 1928.
- ↑ George Kirksey (December 10, 1928). "United Press Selects All-Southern Elevens". Dunkirk Evening Observer. p. 16. Retrieved March 4, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Vaughn Chosen On All-Southern Team By Florida U. Scout". The Technician. December 1, 1928.
- ↑ Jinx Tucker. "Sport Hotshots". The Waco News-Tribune. p. 8. Retrieved March 14, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
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