1901 College Football All-Southern Team

The 1901 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in 1901. Vanderbilt won the SIAA championship. Most said Virginia ranked best in the south.[1] Gallaudet, a school for deaf-mutes, also claimed a championship.

All-Southerns of 1901

Ends

Tackles

Guards

  • Buck Harris†, Virginia (WP, O)
  • Branch Johnson, VMI (WP)
  • Alvin Lee Abbott, VPI (O)
  • Joe Lynch, Georgetown (WP-s)
  • Frank Kearns, Georgetown (WP-s)

Centers

  • Percy Given†, Georgetown (WP, O)
  • H. Dorsey Waters, Virginia (WP-s)

Quarterbacks

Robert Coleman.

Halfbacks

Fullbacks

  • Hunter Carpenter†, VPI (College Football Hall of Fame) (WP, O)
  • Albert Carr, North Carolina (WP-s)

Key

Bold = consensus choice by a majority of the selectors

= Unanimous selection

WP = posted by Oscar P. Schmidt in The Washington Post, selected by M. J. Thompson, graduate manager of athletics at Georgetown University and Richard Armstrong, formerly of Yale. It had a second team referred to as substitutes.[2][3]

O = selected by Caspar Whitney in Outing.[4]

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References

  1. e. g. "Champions of the South regardless of conference affiliation".
  2. ""All Southern" Eleven". The State. February 7, 1902.
  3. Oscar P. Schmidt. "Football in the Southern Colleges". The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide: 129.
  4. "Southern Intercollegiate Football". Outing. 37: 726.
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