1912 College Football All-Southern Team

Innis Brown as a player.

The 1912 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1912 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Lew Hardage was selected for Walter Camp's third-team All-American. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship. Georgetown won the SAIAA championship.

Innis Brown, a referee throughout the south, and captain of Vanderbilt's 1905 championship team, was hired to select the team of the Atlanta Constitution. The Constitution's editor Dick Jemison also selected a team. Former Georgia player and captain and then assistant Harold Ketron selected a team. Georgia Tech head coach John Heisman as usual picked one also. Former Mississippi head coach Nathan Stauffer selected an All-Southern team for Collier's Weekly.

Composite eleven

The composite All-Southern eleven formed by "consolidated pick" of ten sporting writers culled by the Atlanta Constitution editor Dick Jemison included:

Composite overview

Lew Hardage, Bob McWhorter, and Hugh Morgan were unanimous All-Southern selections.

Name Position School First-team selections
Lew Hardage Halfback Vanderbilt 10
Bob McWhorter Halfback Georgia 10
Hugh Morgan Center Vanderbilt 10
Enoch Brown End Vanderbilt 8
Tom Brown Tackle Vanderbilt 8
Ammie Sikes Fullback Vanderbilt 8
B. J. Lamb Tackle Auburn 8
Jenks Gillem End Sewanee 7
Hargrove Van de Graaff End Alabama 6
Rube Barker Tackle Ole Miss 6
David Peacock Guard Georgia 6
Lee Tolley Quarterback Sewanee 4
Big Thigpen Guard Auburn 2
Jim Stoney Guard Sewanee 2
F. C. Burns Guard Auburn 2
John Henderson Guard Georgia 2
Guts Meadows Guard Auburn 2
Kirk Newell Halfback Auburn 2
Paul A. Reule Fullback Mississippi A & M 2
R. N. MacCallum Guard Sewanee 1
Herman Daves Guard Vanderbilt 1
Rip Major Quarterback Auburn 1
Alf McDonaldQuarterbackGeorgia Tech1
Ralph FletcherQuarterbackOle Miss1

All-Southerns of 1912

Ends

Tackles

Guards

Centers

Quarterbacks

Halfbacks

Fullbacks

Key

Bold = Composite selection

= Unanimous selection

C = received votes for a composite All-Southern eleven from one of ten sports writers compiled by Dick Jemison of the Atlanta Constitution, called the "consolidated pick." The ten came from Innis Brown, John Heisman, Jemison, Julian Murphey, Harold Ketron, The Birmingham Age-Herald, Atticus Mullin, The Montgomery Advertiser, the Memphis Commercial-Appeal and the Nashville Democrat. Votes for multiple positions are combined. Most chose Rube Barker as a guard in this composite.[11]

IB = selected by Innis Brown, captain of 1905 Vanderbilt football team and referee throughout the South.[4]

NS = selected by Nathan P. Stauffer of Collier's Weekly.[12][13][14] It had a first and second team, denoted by the numbers 1 or 2.

SS = selected by Sam Sarokin, sporting editor for the New Orleans Item.[12]

H = selected by John Heisman, coach at the Georgia Institute of Technology, as published in Fuzzy Woodruff's A History of Southern Football 1890-1928.

HK = selected by Harold Ketron.[15]

BAH = selected by the Birmingham Age-Herald.[16]

NT = posted in the Nashville Tennessean.[17]

AT = an All-Southern team which played against an All-Texas squad.[18]

See also

References

  1. Lawrence Wells (1980). Ole Miss Football. p. 14.
  2. Henry Jay Case. "VanderbiltA University of the New South". Outing. 64: 327. Retrieved March 5, 2015 via Google books.
  3. "In Memoriam, Dr. Thomas H. Brown". The Toledo Rotary Spoke. September 15, 1972.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Innis Brown's All-Southern". Atlanta Constitution. December 1, 1912. Retrieved March 4, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  5. 1 2 "All-Time Football Team Lists Greats Of Past, Present". Gadsden Times. July 27, 1969.
  6. "On the Gridiron and Diamond". The Kappa Alpha Journal. 30 (2): 211. Retrieved March 5, 2015 via Google books.
  7. "New Book On Auburn Is Most Informative". Gadsden Times. August 25, 1973.
  8. Patrick Garbin. "Bob McWhorter: "Everybody's All-American"". p. 6.
  9. "Hon. Roscoe Peacock, "Vice President of Senate"". Weekly Banner. June 29, 1917. p. 1. Retrieved March 5, 2015 via Digital Library of Georgia.
  10. "Deaths". Sewanee News: 14. 1973.
  11. "Consolidated All-Southern Chosen by Ten Scribes; Eleven Like Innis Brown's". Atlanta Constitution. December 3, 1912. p. 10. Retrieved March 4, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  12. 1 2 Spalding's Football Guide. 1913. pp. 25, 65. Retrieved March 5, 2015 via archive.org.
  13. https://books.google.com/books?id=hXcjAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA12-PA13&lpg#v=onepage&q&f=false
  14. Nathan P. Stauffer. "Collier's All-Southern Football Team". Collier's Weekly. 50: 13. Retrieved March 5, 2015 via Google books.
  15. "How All-Southern Team Looks to Coach Ketron". The Washington Times. December 4, 1912. p. 13. Retrieved March 3, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  16. "Birmingham Man Has All-Southern Eleven". The Washington Times. December 4, 1912. p. 13. Retrieved March 10, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  17. Spick Hall (December 8, 1912). "All-Southern Football Team Selected For 1912". The Tennessean. p. 13. Retrieved September 21, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  18. "Texans Should Win Out". The Houston Post. December 29, 1912. p. 18. Retrieved May 14, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
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