1905 College Football All-Southern Team

The 1905 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1905 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship. Virginia Tech, an independent school, lost only to Navy and claims a southern championship for 1905.[1]

Consensus eleven

The All-Southern eleven representing the consensus of newspapers as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928 included:

All-Southerns of 1905

Ends

Tackles

Guards

Centers

Quarterbacks

Halfbacks

Fullbacks

Key

Bold = Consensus selection

† = Unanimous selection

C = consensus of newspapers published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928.

WRT = selected by W. Reynolds Tichenor of Auburn, published in the Atlanta Journal.[5] He had a first and second team.

H = selected John Heisman. It had a second and third team.[6]

BW = selected by Bradley Walker, celebrated southern official.[5] He had a first and second team.

HY = selected by coach H. C. Hyatt of the University of the South.[5]

AL = selected by coach Jack Leavenworth of the University of Alabama.[5]

NE = selected by a "Nashville Expert."[5]

AJ = An attempt at a composite by the Journal, "players most favored by experts"[5]

JLD = selected by John Longer Desaulles.[7]

WMR = selected by professor W. M. Riggs of Clemson University.[8]

NB = selected by former Tennessee player Nash Buckingham in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.[9] He picked Vanderbilt's whole eleven.

RR = selected by coach R. R. Brown of Washington and Lee University.[10]

See also

References

  1. "1905 V.P.I. Football team.". Retrieved February 11, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Henry Jay Case. "VanderbiltA University of the New South". Outing. 64: 327 via Google books.
  3. 1 2 "U-T Greats On All-Time Southeast Team". Kingsport Post. July 31, 1969.
  4. 1 2 3 ""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.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 W. R. Tichenor (December 3, 1905). "Football Experts Give Their Selections For An All-Southern Team". The Atlanta Constitution. Retrieved March 5, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  6. John Heisman (December 10, 1905). "Heisman's Selection of All-Southern Team". Atlanta Constitution. p. 1.
  7. Official Foot Ball Rules. p. 45.
  8. "Prof Riggs' All-Southern Team". The State. December 15, 1905.
  9. "Some Past All-Southerns". Atlanta Georgian. December 9, 1907. p. 12. Retrieved March 5, 2015 via Digital Library of Georgia.
  10. "Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Football". The Washington Post. February 18, 1906. p. 13. Retrieved March 3, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
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