1899 College Football All-Southern Team

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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]

Contents

All-Southerns of 1899

Ends

Tackles

Guards

Wild Bill Claiborne. Wsclaiborne.jpg
Wild Bill Claiborne.

Centers

Quarterbacks

Halfbacks

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Henry Seibels.
Ormond Simkins. Ormond Simkins.png
Ormond Simkins.

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