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

Ends

Tackles

  • 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

Centers

  • Carlos A. Long, Georgetown (O)
  • William Poole, Sewanee (HMS)
  • Edward Overshiner, Texas (HMS-s)

Quarterbacks

Halfbacks

  • 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

Key

= 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.

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References

  1. "Which?". The Daily Tar Heel. February 21, 1900.
  2. "All-Southern Football Team". Outing. Outing Publishing Company. 35: 533. 1900. Retrieved March 5, 2015 via Google books.
  3. "[1]". The Daily Tar Heel. January 31, 1900. p. 2. Retrieved April 10, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "An All-Southern College Eleven". Orange and Blue. March 28, 1900. Retrieved March 5, 2015 via archive.org.
  5. "South's Football Players Analyzed". Times-Picayune. February 11, 1900. p. 8. Retrieved March 8, 2015 via Newspapers.com.
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